You can’t fail to have seen the coverage Spinvox has been getting recently. Following articles from PaidContent and the BBC covering allegations of financial difficulties and that the transcription is entirely performed by call-centres there’s been much debate over whether the claimed technology works, the business is sustainable and the security of customers’ data. Further [...]
One of most impressive things I saw at TED Global 2009 last week was a live demonstration of mobile or ‘wireless’ electricity. It sounds incredible, and quite frankly, it was. After some insight into the core components of how and why, Eric Giler – CEO of WiTricity – used his company’s system to turn on an [...]
Exclusive: It looks like ’social mobile’ firm INQ’s Battersea offices have been overrun with excited staffers trying out the firm’s latest handset this week, as the previously-confirmed new handsets near launch. Presumably the much anticipated Twitter Phone, has arrived in the office ahead of their official announcement…. While official sources are staying tight-lipped (although that’s probably [...]
Dan reviews the Aiptek Pocket Cinema V10, a £299 portable projector from FireBox featuring a built-in media player, 1GB of storage, an SD-HDC card slot and a composite video-in port.
Two Google Latitude stories in one day? It’s a blogger’s dream… Brace yourselves…. The occasionally-controversial social location sharing service is now available on two new handsets – one by design and the other… Well, read on. The big Latitude news today is that Google’s added support for the iPhone… it’s horribly crippled by the need to [...]
Unusually interesting news in from the people at Orange, France Telecom’s hard-to-love network (at least in the UK) which hasn’t been the source of much excitement for some time… As part of their ‘Orange Travel‘ initiative they’re now offering a range of bundles that allow multi-national corporations to provide ‘no roaming cost’ international data for users [...]
Greetings from Wyoming! I’m currently on part two of the five part Lucozade Energy Challenge social media gig and as you might’ve guessed from my last post, I’m having an awesome time. On the way here I had to fly via Chicago; an amazing city (from what I saw of it coming into land) and one that [...]