Category: Technology

This last week or so has seen the results of two separate trials of consumer reaction to getting mobile television services to watch on their phone. Arqiva (formerly NTL Broadcast) has just released the findings of its experiment in Oxford with Nokia which saw 375 O2 users receiving 16 digital television channels. This trial used…

Sky has busily been announcing new services over the past couple of days. But there are a couple of issues with some of their new services. The big new service today is the availability of some of their films to be downloaded to PCs owned by subscribers. The only problem there is that it’s seemingly…

OK, so the Google presentation didn’t exactly live up to all the expectations (or hopes) about $200 thin clients or whatever. But I’ve just been reading about the Sony Reader, their new ebook machine, and there are couple of interesting aspects that are worth commenting on. The first is that the memory is pretty tiny.…

This article leads you to at first think that content producers are failing to actually copyright their product – perhaps allowing it to slip into public domain or something. Actually, it seems to be Macrovision touting for business. They obviously don’t think that they’re getting their wretched technology onto enough CDs and DVDs. If a…

Yes – everyone who cares knows by now that Apple’s launched the new iPod Nano. Looks lovely and everything, although I’m not sure about value for money since at £139 for the 2GB model, it’s half the size of the equivalent iPod Mini it’s replacing. But what I do appreciate about Apple is that Steve…

I spent a bit of time deciding whether or not I’d install the new PSP update that takes the firmware to 2.0. It adds a proper browser, but takes away all the homebrew stuff that’s possible at the moment. In the end I had to bite the bullet and download it – every game from…

I was pretty rubbish on Saturday, and only made this event by the skin of my teeth – not an easy achievement given the state of London transport in the aftermath of recent events. Anyway, it was well worth going to, and there was the usual problem of deciding which events to see – the…

“Moblogging” – another horrible word. But I do love the underlying technology. So now, using my new Flickr account which gives me an email address that I can email photos from my phone to. Of course, I also spent an age getting my moderately new Orange SPV to email via Gmail. I’m still a little…

The other day I was in Borders in Oxford Street having a bit of a wander after work looking at books and so on, when I had a look at my mobile phone and realised that I’d been sent a midi file of Krafty by New Order. I’m on a few junk text message lists,…

All the phone companies are pushing this at the moment, and Orange is among them. Somehow, I haven’t yet felt compelled to upgrade, or be lured by the prospect of perhaps seeing who I’m calling (but probably not, since they won’t have a phone. And in any case, isn’t one of the best things about…

I can’t claim ownership of this but it makes me chuckle. Next time a friend or colleague is wowing you with their new state of the art mobile phone fresh from the box, pick it up, weigh it in your hand and comment on how light it is. But then add sagely, that of course…

The news was abuzz was the story that Dixons is no longer going to be selling VCRs once its current stock has run out. This strikes me as a very suspicious move on their part, and I’m not sure what to make of it. A couple of things spring to mind. 1) The margin on…