LloydsTSB Mobile Banking Mini Review (80%)

LloydsTSB Mobile Banking Mini Review Many financial institutions have long promised the ability to bank via your mobile, well now it’s a reality, at least for LloydsTSB customers (so presumably also for HBOS customers soon following their recent acquisition).

The mobile banking app is a Java application that should run on most mobile phone, well ones that support Java.

The application isn’t very exciting, it’s just a series of menus and each menu give access to a variety of sub menus and eventually your banking details.

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Sony VAIO TT 11.1″ Notebook – World’s Lightest Blu-Ray Laptop

Sony VAIO TT 11.1Woooargh! Look at this beauty!

This laptop has such mean, bad boy looks that it could probably take out Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Yul Bryner in WestWorld in a single flip of its foxy carbon black lid.

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MBW-200: Sony Bluetooth Watches For Women

Sony introduce Bluetooth watches for womenSony have introduced Bluetooth watches for women that have control over mobile phones.

We all know that lots of women keep their mobile phones in the handbags rather than stuff them in the back pockets like men do and most of them don’t clutch them in their mits a-la Paris Hilton.

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Sigma DP2 14 Megapixel Digital Camera Announced

Sigma DP2 14 Megapixel Digital Camera AnnouncedSigma’s first stab at producing a high end, pro-luring digital compact failed to feel the love of the photo cognoscenti despite the big juicy dSLR sensor lurking inside, so the company have tried again with their updated version 2.

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Google Fanboys At G1 Launch

Google Fanboys At G1 LaunchDid you see the Google fanboys at the G1 mobile launch yesterday?

When ‘surprise guests,’ Google head honchoes Larry Page and Sergey Brin came on stage there’s was mass rush for anything that can take a photo, to snap pictures of these strange stars.

Video camera, still camera and mobile phones were grabbed and raised aloft in an effort to capture the moment when the assembled were breathing the same air as these hallowed beings.

As a remote observer, it felt like this was a story that those there would be dinnig out on the story and eventually be telling their grand children about in the future.

We found it pretty bizzare.

T-Mobile G1 Android Handset Offers Access To 6 million DRM-free songs on Amazon Music

T-Mobile G1 Android Handset Offers Access To 6 million DRM-free songs on Amazon MusicJust ahead of the eagerly anticipated launch of the T-Mobile G1, the first phone running Google’s Android mobile operating system, Amazon has just announced that its MP3 music store will be pre-loaded as an application on the handset.

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Brando Super Tiny Keyboard Lives Up To Its Name

Brando Super Tiny Keyboard Lives Up To Its NameIf you’ve never got on with fold-out portable keyboards, weird rubbery roll-out things and hi-tech but ultimately useless virtual laser keyboards, then perhaps the latest teensy weensy creation from gizmo overlords Brando might delight yer digits.

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Panasonic LUMIX G HD Micro Four Thirds Camera Announced

Panasonic LUMIX G HD Micro Four Thirds Camera AnnouncedWe were mighty excited by the recent announcement of Panasonic’s world-first Micro Four Thirds system camera, the Lumix DMC-G1, and our interest has peaked even higher with the news of their forthcoming Panasonic LUMIX G digicam which adds high definition video to the mix.

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Carphone Warehouse To Become UK’s #1 ISP?

Carphone Warehouse To Become UK's #1 ISP?Carphone Warehouse looks on track to becomes the UK’s #1 ISP if their new bid for the UK arm of rival Internet service provider Tiscali proves successful.

The Warehouse gang have been waving a sizeable wad of used fivers adding up to a cool £450m in the direction of Tiscali – a company which has been up for sale since the beginning of this year.

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