Day: 7 September 2010

Nokia N8 gives you a chance to be a movie star

Nokia are to make short film with Pamela Anderson to promote the forthcoming Nokia N8. If you’re lucky/unlucky and free on the 20 September you could feature in a film alongside popular, Pro-PETA, pert Playboy, panto star Pamela Anderson.* The short film is produced by the McHenry brothers (a quick look on IMDB reveals they’re…

Android web consumption rises off the back of Droid devices

More Android users are getting onto the mobile web bandwagon according to the latest traffic stats from Quancast, which show Google’s OS catching up with Apple’s iOS. Apple’s iOS platform is still a way ahead of Android in web browsing terms according to Quancast’s stats, but Android is rapidly gaining ground on its rival. In…

Android tablet for under £130 launched

’70s retro label Binatone are to launch two, sub two hundred pound Android tablet devices. When we were young Binatone was the label that signified cheap and cheerful audio goods, from hi-fi’s to alarm clock radios. Over the intervening years it’s changed and is now concentrating on the portable electronics market, and it’s recently done…

Viewsonic unveils iPad rivals

Details for two new iPad competitors hit our desk this week, the dual-boot Android/Windows ViewSonic ViewPad 100 and the ViewPad 7. Of the two the ViewPad’s the 100 is aimed firmly at the iPad market, where as the 7 could be a cut-down iPad competitor. The ViewPad 7 is described by ViewSonic as the “world’s…

Gig tickets? there’s an app for that

O2 have launched a new iPhone app called Priority, which ties into its Priority Tickets service. The app, which is free, lets people buy tickets to gigs and events at over 1,500 venues around the UK up to 48 hours before general release. If you’re a non-iPhone owners then you’ll have to wait a bit.…

Businesses set to spend £1.17 billion on location based ads by 2015

Location-based advertising is still in its infancy, but according to a new study from ABI Research, businesses are primed to spend $1.8 billion (£1.17 billion) on it in 2015 as part of their overall mobile marketing budgets. “It’s still early days and there’s no single ‘right’ approach to location-based advertising,” says practice director Neil Strother.…

New BT Wifi finding app for iPhone and Android

BT have launched a package of new free smartphone apps to help users find and connect to its Wifi hotspots. The new apps available for both iPhone and Android based devices allow users to search for nearby hotspots including BT Openzone and BT FON and if users are BT customers, they can connect automatically. The…