Month: January 2010
iPhone comes to Vodafone: more minutes, but the 3G internet is capped
It's the iPhone !!! Yes, okay, you've heard of it. The iPhone has been around for a while so this ain't exactly ground-breaking, but the handset is now officially available on Vodafone as well as three other networks in Britain - O2, Tescos and Orange. Yes, it is exactly the same phone so the only…
Barcode reader makes diet app Quickka Calorie more fun and more accurate
We've covered a few iPhone apps that help you lose weight before, but this one is a little smarter than others. It aims to get between you and the chocolate gateau at the purchase point instead of later when it's sitting in your fridge, looking at you. App Quickka Calories incorporates a bar code reader…
Guardian iPhone app shifts 70k downloads in first month
Good news for British newspaper the Guardian whose foray into app territory seems to have paid off. In the month since releasing the Guardian iPhone app, it has been downloaded almost 70,000 times. Since it retails at £2.39, the 70,000 sales should have brought in approximately £167,000 for the newspaper. A bit of a win.…
Portable turntable from Crosley lets you mix on the move
A gadget that we didn't notice at CES - but should have cos it's really cool - is Crosley's portable turntable, letting you mix on the move. The Revolution runs on batteries, has a 3.5mm headphone jack and a USB out and is pretty small - well, we can't tell how small exactly, all we've…
Facebook game Pet Society shifts over virtual 4m Xmas trees: FB apps raking in micro-payments
While over 6million Christmas trees were sold in the UK in December '09, there was a roaring trade in virtual Christmas trees being done as well... Facebook game Pet Society, created by Playfish, sold 4.2million Christmas trees to Pet Society members. In the game players create, train and care for a pet and they can…
Five things Facebook knows that you would probably rather it didn't
An interview with an anonymous Facebook employee on blogsite The Rumpus confirms that yes, Facebook knows exactly who you are stalking and when where you're clicking and yes it does store all that information. Permanently. It's a good read but sobering to know for definite just how much Facebooks knows and stores. The full interview…
51% use mobile phone in shops to check products before buying
Over 50% of customers in shops at Xmas 09 used their mobile in store to check up on the products they were buying. Customers would use their phone to compare prices, call up online coupons or check online reviews before making a purchase, according to a survey across 11 countries by Motorola. The actual percentage…
Ten TV programmes that we're looking forward to in 3D
While films like Avatar show how 3D effects can bring floating mountains, jungles and chasms to startling life, the 3D magic will be coming soon to the small screen and to decidedly less glamorous footage. Television sets that show normal TV broadcasts in three-dimensons have just been unveiled at CES, and this opens up a…
Simply a netbook? Marks&Spencers launches its own branded netbook but why?
Jam, pre-cooked noodles and nice reliable heels are one thing - PCs are another. But British supermarket stalwart Marks & Spencers are forging where no other supermarkets have gone before and offering own-branded computer netbooks. Manufactured by British PC-makers Elonex, the M&S netbooks look decent, but fairly standard: the MSNB-2009 is a 10-inch, Intel Atom…
The green Nokia phone that runs on sugary drinks
Couldn't let this one go without comment - it's a sugar-powered phone, from a collaboration between Nokia and Chinese designer Daizi Zheng. Just pour in some glucose solution - or any sugary drink, Coke for example, and the phone runs for several hours - up to three or four times longer than a lithium battery…
