Author: Stuart Dredge
UK iPhone fans warned off unlocked French handsets
Lots of talk in today’s papers about the prospect of hordes of Brits travelling to France to try and pick up an unlocked iPhone in the near future. It’s all because of French law, which apparently requires all phones to be offered in unlocked versions, even if the manufacturers have signed an exclusive deal with an operator (Orange, in the iPhone’s case).
eBay clamps down on UK iPhone auctions
It’s iPhone launch day here in the UK, although scandalously, we’re having to wait until 6.02pm this evening to get our hands on Apple’s handset, whereas German consumers could buy theirs this morning. Grr. Anyway, as you’d expect, eBay is roaring with iPhone-related auctions…
Opinion: YouTube isn’t turning kids into killers
My heart sank when I saw the front page of The Times yesterday. The lead story was the dreadful high-school shootings in Jokela, Finland, and the headline was ‘THE YOUTUBE KILLER’. The games industry can breathe a sigh of relief: it seems Google’s video-sharing site is the new Root Of All Evil in the eyes of Fleet Street.
Conservatives launch Friction.tv video channel… but what about Webcameron?
The Conservative Party has launched a branded channel on video debating site Friction.tv, in what it says is an attempt to engage with the public about key issues.
Giant 3D pixel-bloke will pwn your Lego men
I have a horrible feeling that this Low-Res Man sculpture is going to haunt my dreams tonight. It’s the lack of a face that spooks me, and raises visions of an army of the buggers stomping towards me… But enough of my paranoia.
Make mealtimes less messy with the Squirt baby food spoon
Parents, listen up. Doing that silly aeroplane noise won’t cut it in the ‘making your baby eat its dinner’ stakes nowadays. No. What you need is a Zeppelin-shaped gun thing to squirt mushy food into their mouth.
Sanyo Yuka Shita robot will inspect your foundations (while you laugh at its name)
Yuka Shita? Sanyo clearly had one eye on titillating juvenile Western tech bloggers when it named its new robot. If only it was a cookingbot, I could spend the next few paragraphs being rude about it. Ah well.
Orange UK reveals impressive mobile music growth
The iPhone launches tomorrow on O2 here in the UK, but the other operators aren’t about to skulk in the shadows. Orange has come out swinging, giving figures on exactly how well its mobile music service is going. And bear in mind most operators hate giving out actual figures on this kind of thing.
Sony Ericsson K660: HSDPA mobile with landscape web browsing
The final phone announced tonight by Sony Ericsson is the K660, which is an HSDPA handset aimed at heavy mobile internet users.
Sony Ericsson W960 iPhone-killer to go on sale this month
The gloves are well and truly off in the battle for mobile music supremacy this Christmas, with Apple’s iPhone squaring off against Nokia’s N81 in the 8GB handset wars. Now Sony Ericsson has reminded us that its own contender, the Walkman W960, will go on sale this month.
