If you thought that the countless fart apps available in the App Store were disgusting, I’d advice you to stay away from Zit Picker. This app not only plays with with the audio, but the app’s visuals will make you cringe in your seats. This one’s so crazy, my 6-year-old niece ran off the moment [...]
Archive | January, 2009
MIR Show – jMac talks to James Whatley on mobile
In Jonathan MacDonald’s (“jMac”) next episode of his mobile advertising series here on Mobile Industry Review, he talks with James Whatley (of SpinVox and Whatleydude.com). The discussion takes place around mobile advertising and in particular mobile privacy. One of my favourite points in today’s video is where James points out that he WANTS to me [...]
Nokia HS-43 headphones are machine washable*
* According to our very own James Whatley. He mistakenly put them into the washing machine last night. He reckons they’re still working perfectly. Useful to know, eh? You can pick up a pair here.
Give Yahoo some friggin’ breathing room
Carol Bartz has taken the helm at the once-great Yahoo. Described as a long time ‘senior player’ in Silicon Valley, she is apparently made of stern stuff. So much so that Mike Harvey of The Times Tech column was rather impressed. I wonder if it’s the fact that she, “dodged questions about what happens next [...]
Twitter: Big theme for NHS in 2009
Thanks to reader Matt who came across Sandra Hempel’s eHealthInsider post where she asked fifteen politicians, vendors, policy makers and NHS IT managers about their big themes for 2009 in the context of the development of the NHS. Here’s what Paul Jones, the CTO of NHS Connecting for Health had to say. The interesting bit [...]
ShoZu Photo Of The Day
Mobile Industry Review reader David Carrington lucked out when he won the Vodafone Netbook in the MIR Christmas Presents draw last month — thanks to your support we raised £2,059.96 for our two charities. Vodafone’s Find Live Guy campaign donated the netbook — thank you Vodafone (more details here). Well, today’s ShoZu Photo Of The [...]
INQ1 phone to leave the 3 network
Hutchinson Whampoa’s Facebook mobile is set to spread its wings and fly the coup, according to a report on the news website Mobile Today. They sat down of late with the supreme emperor of INQ, namely one Frank Meehan. He passed along the details they’re in talks with at least two major operators to carry [...]
Vodafone trials 16mbps HSPA+ mobile broadband
Pretty soon you could be surfing the urban jungle via a 16mbps data connection according to the chaps at Vodafone. During some HSPA+ 64QAM technology trials, the Vodafone chaps in Spain managed to achieve 16mbps. But it gets better. They’re planning to trial 21mbsp this quarter using HSPA+ MIMO. Vodafone experts estimate that the technology [...]
New Firmware for Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic shows up on the Updater
If you’re a 5800 owner who’s just woken up to a brand new day, sipping onto some steaming hot beverage or browsing through your RSS feeds, hear this one. The folks over at Nokia have dropped an update to the Firmware of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. The update bumps up your phone to Firmware v11.0.008 from [...]
Jonathan Jensen on Thursday – Mobile as a landline minutes stealer
When I was talking to Truphone CEO Geraldine Wilson recently, she made the comment that Truphone expects an increasing proportion of its business to come from landline minutes substitution, rather than the big mobile operators. Mobile calls as a substitute for landline calls fall into two categories. The increasing size of mobile call bundles means [...]
RumourMill: Eee PC Android phone on the horizon
The latest news of a Google OS based mobile comes along in the form of Asus are now working on an Android phone. A piece in the New York Times this week mentioned, in only what could be described as an afterthought, that ASUSTek is said to be producing a low-cost Eee phone. They carried [...]
New Card format holds 2TB
The SD Association released the specification for a new format SD card known as SDXC which can hold up to 2TB of information. They will also support read/write speeds of up to 104MB/s – though assuming the cards can sustain that speed, it will still take 20,000 seconds to fill a card (about 5 1/2 [...]
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