Author: Katherine Hannaford
Qik and Flixwagon both testing live video streaming on the iPhone
The iPhone 3G may’ve lacked a video-conferencing feature so desperately craved by users, however this week both Qik and Flixwagon have announced they’re bringing their mobile video streaming service to the iPhone. You may be wondering how that’s possible with the iPhone lacking in, err, video capabilities, however both companies have worked around that obvious flaw by the sounds of things.
Flixwagon has developed software for jailbroken iPhones allowing for video to be streamed to the Flixwagon site live, or post-stream as it even stores footage for you. The news will only appeal to those who’ve actually hacked their iPhones of course, although the company claims they’re working on a legal version that’ll launch in the App store at a later date…
Qtrax redeems itself with a June 18th relaunch date for Universal and EMI downloads
After the initial controversy surrounding Qtrax, they’ve managed to improve upon their image and actually become a fairly legitimate download service. Having signed up their second major record label, they’ve now announced that June 18th will be the relaunch date for the beta version of the service.
Currently you’d be hard pressed to actually find a song that’s worth downloading on Qtrax – if you can find any that actually will download – however in just five days songs from Universal Music Group and EMI will be available to download, although it’s still unclear whether EMI songs…
Not long to wait for ASUS' Eee 901 and 1000 sub-notebooks, July 1st apparently
Great news for those who’ve been holding out on buying a sub-notebook until the Eee 901 and 1000 launch – they’ve just been given UK release dates of the 1st of July.
With 8.9-inch and 10-inch screens between them, the main advantage with these two models is that they’re running on 1.6GHz Intel Atom processors, making for a better computing experience. They’ll run quietly, and be more energy-efficient. Better battery life is of course another benefit, particularly…
Shiny Video Review: Fujifilm FinePix S8100fd digital camera
With 10-megapixels and an 18x optical zoom, this S800fd snapper from Fujifilm will certainly improve the quality of your Flickr stream. But does…
Shiny Video Review: Trekstor iBeat Sonix MP3 player
Lucy loves her garage music (which makes for some interesting sessions in the office when she puts her CDs on), so she was the perfect person to review this iBeat Sonix MP3 player from Trekstor…
Facebook set to become the UK's most popular website of all
The number crunchers over at Nielsen Online are claiming that if we don’t all do something about it quickly, Facebook will overtake Windows Live Messenger as the most popular website in the UK.
Currently 2.4 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each month, with growth in the area of 20% each year. Surprisingly, Google is only at number four on Nielsen’s charts, with just 900 million minutes given to the search engine a month. The decline of MSN and other IM programs has been,…
External hard drive planned for Nintendo Wii, or so the latest rumours go
Could Nintendo be answering many fanboys’ prayers message board tantrums, and be developing an external hard drive?
If an employment advertisement posted by Nintendo of America is anything to go by, then yes, yes they are. The job noticed called for developers to design a “test plan for Wii’s USB devices”, once again stoking the fire of external hard drive rumours.
Sadly the Nintendo of Europe head honcho, Laurent Fischer, claimed…
Firefox 3 given June 17th launch date from Mozilla – whoo!
Firefox 3 has been given an official launch date after they teased everyone last week with news they were attempting to break the Guinness Book of World Records for most downloads in one day.
June 17th – next Tuesday – is the day we can all get our paws on the new browser, which Andy detailed in full over here. They’ve already received over a…
Price of unsubsidised iPhone 3G in Italy to be a low 499€, or £394
Up until now, we’ve had no clue as to how much an unsubsidised iPhone 3G will set back the countries lucky enough to buy an iPhone out-of-contract.
Vodafone Italy has confirmed that the price for the 8GB iPhone will be 499€, and the 16GB model will be 569€, converting to roughly £394 and £450. Considering the phone has 3G data speeds, I’d say…
Motorola formally introduces MOTO ROKR E8 music mobile phone to the masses
Last night at an exclusive London event, Motorola launched the MOTO ROKR E8 handset, which is aimed at music aficionados.
Featuring ModeShift technology, it turns from a music player back to a phone with the touch of one button, and has FastScroll navigation for rolling through your songs – you can store 3,000 of them due to the 2GB of storage – and locate the one you want easily. Unfortunately you have to use Windows Media Player 11 to transfer those tunes, however.
Specs-wise, there’s Bluetooth, a full HTML web browser, haptics, a 2.0-megapixel camera, and microSD card slot. Sadly…
