Month: August 2005
Orange gets pushy – take two
Push to talk, the system which lets mobile phone users chat away walkie talkie style, was big news last summer. However only one network, Orange, launched a service and that turned out to be a fairly low key roll…
Amazon offering online short stories
Amazon is taking another stab at the digital content side of the market by launching a service were you can download short stories in digital form. The stories cost 49 cents each to download and you can expect names such…
Google gets into VoIP
Google's launching stuff on all fronts with the beta launch of Googletalk, downloadable here. This new release which could best be described as a mixture of MSN and Skype will let users log on with a gmail account (which is…
Doctor Who and Red Dwarf coming to mobile
Good news for Red Dwarf and Doctor Who fanatics: the BBC has agreed with Mobile Media Player company Rok (that we took a look at earlier on Tech Digest) to licence full episodes of both series for show on mobile…
Tech Digest plays with a PSP
As you probably know, Sony's new wunderkind is due to be making a long overdue appearance on our shores on the 1st of September. At Tech Digest, we've been lucky enough to get our hands on one, and we've been…
Today's top tech stories from the US
Dedicated to finding the greatest gadgets on websites across the seas. Samsung throws down grand 71-inch DLP TV (Engadget): Sweet heavens, is that a big telly… Tchibo Floor Cleaning Robot Review (I4U): And the verdict is: Coffee chain shoukd stick…
Mobile Manga
In a move aimed at putting Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. at the top of the growing mobile comic market, the company has announced plans to roughly triple the amount of comics made available for Japanese viewers. Mobile Manga has been…
More goodies from Iriver
Iriver, one of my personal favourite MP3 player and PMP manufacturers has, come up with the goods once again with news of the N11. This successor to the N10 pendant MP3 player, already available in this country, is ideally…
Playan-micro for Game Boy Micro
The original Playan was a great little MPEG4/MP3 player with a built in SD card slot that turned a standard GBA or SP into a great little portable media device, presumably to just to give Sony a run for…
Sky Soldier Airplane
For many of us, realising man's dream of flight extends only as far as miniature bags of peanuts and complementary booze, but at lest there are a wide variety of gadgets that will bring the joy of soaring the…
