Category: Technology

If you’re familiar with the alphabet, you’ll appreciate that any list of names sorted in alphabetical order that includes mine, will place me somewhere near the top. Indeed, unless you have friends named Aaron, Abraham, Abel or Abi, I’m quite possibly heading your list. Now think about your mobile phone contact list, and you’ll appreciate…

Technology Guardian has a front page piece on proposals to extend the lifespan of copyright on music, from 50 years to 95 years. Why 95 years? Well because that’s what it is in America. Actually, the real rush is because music recorded in the 1950s is now coming out of copyright and in 2012, in…

The BBC has released some news “vodcasts” of things like Newsnight and the News at Ten. Except that these are weekly highlights packages rather than full nightly editions. Still better than nothing. But I wish I could get them to work on my PSP. I don’t have a video iPod (or a normal one for…

Orange just sent me an email promoting their usual stuff – films, music, downloads etc. I was curious about what they were doing with V for Vendetta, so I followed the link. There I learnt I could download various media… except that I can’t. Each time the 247 code that I should text to receive…

For the last twelve weeks, the Ricky Gervais podcast has been at the top of the iTunes chart in both Britain and the US. Indeed it even got awarded a Guinees Book of Records award as the most listened to podcast (albeit that there are other podcasts out there, distriubtedly significantly beyond iTunes, that may…

Virgin Mobile has announced the launch of their mobile with TV service. Conspicuously absent from the press release are: the cost of the service to consumers what the TV channel package actually consists of and when it’ll be available from. So, just the salient points then.

Nokia are making phones with wi-fi that’ll enable them to make VoIP calls. (They’re not the first, incidentally). I’m guessing that Orange, and some of the other networks, won’t be offering these phones in a hurry to their customers. The networks are desperate enough for revenues as it stands. They certainly don’t want us making…

Emily Bell in today’s Mediaguardian: Watching television on your mobile is a stupid idea. Nobody will do it for any length of time at any sustained cost. But obviously the expansion of what is considered to be a mobile – size of a matchbox or size of a front door – will expand and so…

I noticed the handsets for Tesco’s VOIP service at the weekend. They come in at a very reasonable £19.97 (whats with the .97 price point?). But I don’t want to use Tesco’s service particularly. So can I use the handsets with Skype? Sadly, plenty of Googling reveals nothing obvious.

If you want to see film trailers, the best place to visit is, of course, Apple’s Quicktime Trailer site. Indeed the main reason to continually upgrade your version of Quicktime is so that you can see things like the latest V for Vendetta trailer in all their glory. Unsurprisingly video iPod downloads are available for…

Today’s Letter’s and blogs section of Technology Guardian’s worth reading!