From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Nokia, bioplastics and the big green responsibility debate

by Vikki Chowney 30th June 2009

Some of you may or may not know that on my personal blog, I cover green and social change issues. This week I’ve been talking about manufacturer’s attempts to make their phones ‘greener’, looking specifically at Nokia, bioplastics and extended producer responsibility.

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Evernote: My Favourite App

by Ben Smith 29th June 2009

If you haven’t heard of Evernote, you’ve probably been living under a rock for the last year or so… What started out as a ‘just’ note-taking application grew in June 2008 into a cloud-syncing application with Windows, Mac and Web interfaces, enhanced by ‘clipping’ tools on all three platforms and text-recognition of any any images [...]

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Enterprise mobile VoIP from Agito Networks

by Jonathan Jensen 26th June 2009

Last week I had a chat with the guys at Agito Networks. Agito has developed a mobile VoIP solution for enterprises that deals with the issues of poor in-building coverage, ever increasing mobile costs, enterprise integration and the complex user experience of juggling multiple devices. Agito’s RoamAnywhere product uses the available wireless coverage at any [...]

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Samsung Innovation Quest goes for widgets

by Martyn Davies 23rd June 2009

The Samsung i8910 is Samsung’s HD-video enabled handset based on Symbian S60.  Visitors to the Samsung stand at the Mobile World Congress back in February would have seen a video wall of these units showing off their vivid screen colours via the AMOLED display. By way of celebrating the i8910, Samsung are launching a new [...]

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Nokia N97: The Definitive Verdict (maybe)

by Ben Smith 22nd June 2009

On the week of launch with UK network operators the team give you their verdict on Nokia’s new flagship N-series device the N97. Should you buy it?

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Week of Win: Winners and Entries

by Ben Smith 21st June 2009

Here they are…. Many thanks to all the entries for our ‘Week of Win’ give-away here are the winners: Nokia N97: David Carrington’s stop-motion video Sony Ericsson W705 with Zeemote Bluetooth joystick: Jim Wild’s cartoons 1 2 3 LG Arena: Mac Morrison’s video SIM4Travel SIM cards: Chris Stobbs’ videos 1 / 2 and ‘Everyday’ Poem [...]

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Week of Win: Winners

by Ben Smith 19th June 2009

Thanks to all our awesome ‘Week of Win‘ competition entrants – the standard was amazing and we’ve really enjoyed reviewing them…  You lot can haz skillz (I think that’s how the young people put it. So, the winners? Listen on the AudioBoo site (mobile friendly) [ MP3 download ] Links for all the entries coming [...]

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Reflections on mobile stuff in Amsterdam

by Jonathan Jensen 19th June 2009

Last week I spent a few days at the BSS Summit in Amsterdam and just wanted to share some thoughts on the ‘roaming experience’. The Vodafone Passport promotion whereby calls and SMS come out of your regular price plan bundle is excellent. For the first time you can use your mobile abroad just as you [...]

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