Month: June 2006
Coming Soon – the robot World Cup
What do you get if you mix a love of technology with a love of the beautiful game? the robot World Cup of course – or RoboCup, to give it the proper name. It's being eagerly anticipated by the…
O2 brings BlackBerry 7130 to the UK
O2 has announced it is the first operator to bring BlackBerry 7130 series to the UK market. The 7130g features a 312MHz Intel processor, with 64MB of flash memory and 16MB of SRAM. It has the 'two letter, one…
Freeware PC Presentation Tool
Propellerhead has been testing a brilliant little utility for anyone that uses a Windows PC for presentations or display. Zoomit sits quietly in the system tray but when you press the keyboard shortcut (Alt + 1) by default, Zoomit…
No Plans for Google Browser
Contrary to recent speculation Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has denied that the company has plans to launch its own web browser. According to the Reuters report, Schmidt, in a conference call with a Wall Street Analyst, said there were…
Logitech Harmony 885 – the lazy person's universal remote
Billed as the "ultimate lazy-boy gadget for the fanatical World Cup fan" (but not fanatical enough to go to Germany), the Logitech Harmony 885 Advanced Universal Remote is an all-in-one remote that lets you control all of your home…
One for All wireless audio sender – transmit your music round the house
For anyone with a large collection of music stuck on your PC (or with a subscription to a streaming music service) and with a desire to listen to it round the house, the SV1740 Wireless Digital Audio Sender from…
BBC to show World Cup matches online
Good news for the office bound and the mobile – all of the BBC's 2006 World Cup matches will also be broadcast exclusively live to UK viewers via the BBC Sport website, with four-minute highlight packages from every single…
Cancer charity turns to text
There are very few things you can't do on a mobile these days, and thanks to mobile marketing agency Incentivated, donating to charity has just joined the list of things you can. Mobile Marketing Magazine reports that the company has…
Mobile usage shock: women are emotional, men are egotistical
At last, an answer to why so many men's phones are stuffed with photos of their ex-girlfriends. One of the more entertaining sessions at today's MEX conference came from Tracy Ross from the University of Loughborough, who revealed a bunch…
Intrusive mobile advertising won't work, say experts
Does anyone really want to get advertising on their mobile phones? The mobile industry certainly hopes so, and is banking on ads as a big source of revenue in the years to come. Trouble is, mobiles are such personal devices,…
