Good news for mobile phone users in EU countries – a voluntary agreement by the major mobile phone manufacturers came into force in the EU on January 1 where all new phones announced for sale in the EU in the coming years must have a standard micro-USB socket for charging the device. GHacks.net reports that [...]
Hardware
Here’s a product where the ’2.0′ moniker could be very apt indeed – bank cards, those rectangular pieces of plastic you get from your bank or credit card company that are essential requirements today for completing purchases online and offline. A US company, Dynamics Inc, is developing a new generation of bank cards – ‘bank [...]
"Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? An iPad killer? Or what?" These are the questions that stood out to me in much of the online commentary about the Dell Streak, the new mobile device launched by Dell a few months ago. And many people answer such questions by describing it as a smartphone. [...]
The influential US consumer advocacy magazine Consumer Reports released a report about the new iPhone 4 yesterday with the bottom-line conclusion: “We can’t recommend the iPhone 4.” The magazine, which has more than 7 million subscribers and an annual testing budget of about $21 million, tested the iPhone 4 to see whether reports of poor [...]
A name synonymous with personal computers and sound is Creative Technology, the Singapore-based company founded in 1981 that helped kick-start the era of digital multimedia with its Sound Blaster sound cards. More recently, Creative has become well known for its range of portable digital audio players under the Zen brand. Today, Creative is driving its [...]
I love the iPhone. Everyone I know who has one loves theirs, too. I differ from most people I know, though, in that I rarely use it as a phone: for me, it’s an app platform exclusively, not a phone at all (you can see me waxing uber-lyrical about the iPhone and apps elsewhere in [...]
For the past few months, I’ve been using a new laptop computer on my travels and when working away from the desktop computer in my home office. The new laptop is a Dell Latitude Z and comes courtesy of Dell as part of a promotional programme they’re running called Latitude Z Global Ambassadors. The Ambassadors [...]
The share of web traffic from mobile devices increased by 110 percent in North America over the past year and 148 percent globally, according to a new study by Quantcast as reported by MediaPost News. […] While still only a small fraction of overall Web traffic, the Internet analytics and advertising firm says accelerating development [...]
One mobile device that ought to be added to any list of gadgets that epitomizes the Naughties (and there are lots of lists) is the portable satellite navigation device, or sat nav for short. I first used a portable sat nav in 2005 with a rental car in Amsterdam, then bought my own in 2007 [...]
Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance). The first thing you do when doing anything to your net connection is to try and find out how fast it is. [...]
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