Archive | February, 2009
Creator of UKTrains site is MIR’s very own Ben Smith — UPDATED

Creator of UKTrains site is MIR’s very own Ben Smith — UPDATED

Our very own Ben Smith is being hunted by the BBC this afternoon. All things being equal I think he’ll be on BBC Radio 4 later today. They’re after him because of of his brilliant creation: UKTrains. Here’s the service overview: Inspired by this tweet from MP Tom Watson and enabled by the excellent BBC [...]

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HTC Footprint leaves stamp on other handsets

HTC Footprint leaves stamp on other handsets

Those ever so inventive guys over at Xda-developers.com have just walked out the door a ROM with features to be seen in the upcoming HTC Cruise. Coming to our attention via a wmpoweruser.com post, is a not-so-legal update to the original HTC Touch with the new Footprints technology hopefully appearing in an O2 Xda handset [...]

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MIR Developer’s Event – update

MIR Developer’s Event – update

Just an update on the content from the MIR Developer’s event last week. The videos of each attending company will be published this week — the first one is due to go live later today. Standby!

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#uksnow yet another demonstration of time wasting rubbish

#uksnow yet another demonstration of time wasting rubbish

Yesterday whilst I was sat at the top of some monument in Rome, having taken a break from filming the MIR Show with Dan and Ben, we all sat back and checked-in. For me this meant having a look at the mail, scanning the Twitterific traffic and so on. I didn’t get far until I [...]

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3 inches of snow brings UK to halt thanks to mobile networks

3 inches of snow brings UK to halt thanks to mobile networks

That headline above is not a quote from The Onion. I know most of the Americans and Canadians reading — and we do have a lot reading — simply don’t believe this happens. Here’s today’s headline from The London Telegraph Well it does. Do you remember the video I showed you recently? (“How bad are [...]

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RumourMill: DELL’s Smartphone

Sources at various titles have picked up news that DELL is on the brink of announcing a Smartphone, most likely at Mobile World Congress. The Wall Street Journal has it the PC maker has been designing a prototype of an iPhone and BlackBerry ilk, for over a year now. They even have news that it [...]

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Nokia updates classic phone

That Phinnish Phone Purveyor has just made a good thing better, by announcing the replacement to its 6300 – the 6700 Classic. Apparently this phone is the ‘much anticipated successor’ to that best selling mobile of 2006, which is marketing talk for ‘much delayed’ or ‘we’re not sure why this took so long, but it’s [...]

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