Believe it or not, there are some pretty smart people over at Google HQ. And in between bouncing around their cubicles on inflatable yoga balls and sliding down gargantuan metal slides for no reason whatsoever, they’ve just released an initiative that they believe will help the world hurtle towards mass mobile standardisation. They’ve called it GoMo, because it helps people and. Read more...
BlackBerry has blacked out again, just hours after fixing a major outage that affected millions of users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The downtime has seen BlackBerry owners unable to access their phones’ most crucial services: email and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). What’s worse is that the problem is spreading, with reports coming in from users in India and Latin. Read more...
If you grew up in the eighties and nineties, Sierra games like Police Quest, Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry were a staple part of any 286/386 PC owner’s gaming diet. My favourite, by far, was always good ol’ Larry. The crappy graphics, cheesy catchy Soundblaster tunes, naughty jokes and tons of adventure waiting around every corner – nothing could beat it. And funnily. Read more...
Apple co-founder and ex-CEO Steve Jobs has died aged 56, after a long struggle with cancer. Quite simply, he changed the world of computing and technology forever. Just by stringing a few of his products together in a single sentence, we instantly appreciate the major shifts in human tech history brought about by the impact of this one man: Apple II, Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. No. Read more...
4 October 2011. The big day has finally arrived. By this time tomorrow, Apple will have concluded their top secret “Let’s talk iPhone” event and left the world daydreaming about yet another gorgeous Apple gadget that they just have to have (but don’t need, obviously). Besides satisfying the world’s collective hunger for a new iPhone, this event will also introduce. Read more...
While the world’s Apple fans are stocking up on blood pressure medication in preparation for tomorrow’s iPhone 5 announcement, a company in Denmark has instead focused their efforts on creating an anti-smartphone, built out of surgical steel and available in a gold-plated model, that will ‘last forever’. Danish manufacturer Æsir (Aesir) has bucked the trend of mobile. Read more...
For years the buzz in industry circles has been ‘mobile is coming’. In 2011, mobile has arrived. It’s here. We’re living it. But monetising mobile is something many businesses are still trying to figure out, from the smallest startups right through to the multibillion dollar social networking behemoth, Facebook. At Facebook’s f8 developer conference this year,. Read more...
If you’re like any other poor, helpless, unsuspecting mobile user, you’ve been inundated by your fair share of mobile spam. The best of the bunch include an option to opt out of their string of mindless marketing messages, but that doesn’t reduce the pain of receiving their untargeted phone ads at all hours of the day (and night). India has had enough of scam artists jumping. Read more...
What is it with this kid? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg clearly can’t come up with his own ideas, so he depends on either screwing his partners over, or stealing an entire company’s raison d’etre to get ahead. It’s daylight robbery. Again. His latest act of concept larceny involves a company called Memolane and a little thing Facebook has just launched called Timeline.. Read more...
Australia-based Lonely Planet, the world’s largest publisher of print and web travel guides, has announced that they’ve created a new startup (based in San Francisco) that will create social travel guides for mobile by bringing together the best team available through an unusual collaboration between Lonely Planet and their competitors in the industry. The management team chose. Read more...
