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Poll: MP3 player king of commuter gadgets

News The latest silicon.com poll found 31 per cent of respondents feel listening to their music MP3s is the best way to get though the journey to work. Less surprisingly was that 18 per cent of people said they use their mobile phone on the commute...

Tags: gadget, mp3, mobile, pdas

[08 Feb 2008]

Dell sees the future - and it's mini!

News You also have the iPod, which is primarily for music, whereas a notebook can run your Windows applications, connect to the internet and it's a pretty efficient tool. Dell recently quashed rumours it would buy mobile company Motorola and make a move...

Tags: dell, mobile, smart phone, screen

[08 Feb 2008]

Photos: Centro smart phone in Europe's Palm

Photo The Centro has Microsoft Direct Push Technology for Outlook email, along with a 1.3 megapixel camera, music player functionality and web browsing. Roy Bedlow, European VP of Palm, said slimmed down handsets are helping to persuade traditional...

Tags: smart phone, palm, credit, phone

[07 Feb 2008]

Apple fattens its Touch and iPhone dials in more gigs

News And the iPod Touch can also store more music and videos now, with 32GB of capacity for $499. The release of that software really changed the iPod Touch into a new type of device, Joswiak said, and Apple is now playing up the iPod Touch as a "wi-fi...

Tags: apple, touch, ipod, iphone

[05 Feb 2008]

Photos of the month - January 2008

Photo Some of the other highlights of Macworld included Belkin using live samba music to demonstrate its portable iPod tuner (above). Picture credit: T-Mobile And finally, T-Mobile launched its MDA Touch Plus - a rebranded HTV Touch Dual smart phone...

Tags: speech, picture, credit, history

[30 Jan 2008]

Mac sales set Apple 'on fire'

News The company thinks the iPod Touch really belongs in a different category than the broader music player market, saying the iPod Touch has a chance to "become the first mainstream mobile wi-fi platform".

Tags: apple, steve jobs, ipod, mac

[23 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08

Round-Up From music to politics. Cue Debbie Gibson music, excessive sweating and whooping. The great man is seen interacting with fellow executives as well as celebrities from music, entertainment, movies and politics.

Tags: ces, bill gates, microsoft, surface

[11 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'

Comment Apple is ahead in music devices. Do we have to continue to work on our advertising scale and our search and some usability things in our music products? Bill Gates: I'd say the most important step is that you use the cloud so that if you have...

Tags: bill gates, ces, vista, entertainment

[08 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News In the more near-term realm, Microsoft said Samsung will start offering an adapter that lets its flatscreen TVs act as Media Center extenders, which lets the TVs show videos, pictures, and music stored on a Vista PC in another room.

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

2008: The year of mobile handset evolution?

News With the splash created by the iPhone, analyst house MultiMedia Intelligence says the industry is witnessing the evolution of mobile handsets - as they move from basic voice devices to multi-tooled, multimedia gadgets that are "application-centric...

Tags: video, iphone, handsets, platforms

[03 Jan 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment A month or so later, in a move that Jobs described as the "next big step forward in the digital music revolution", EMI and Apple made a joint announcement that the label would start selling DRM-free tracks on the iTunes Store.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

Nortel Network Case Study: O2 UK

whitepaper It is the leader in both voice and non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music and video, as well as data connections via GPRS, 3G and WLAN. O2 UK is a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK.

Tags: wireless lan

[18 Dec 2007]

Mobile WiMax must grab YouTube generation

News That could include social networking, it could include YouTube-type services, it could include music MP3-based services, maybe the ability to download direct to an MP3 player rather than via a PC. Fledgling technology mobile WiMax could rack up 80...

Tags: mobile wimax, 3g, hspa, age

[11 Dec 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Encryption

Cheat Sheet Another modern day example of where you can see encryption at work is on the likes of DRM protection for music, where the music is coded so it cannot be played on unauthorised machines. In the US, the majority of states have notification...

Tags: encryption, cheat sheet, age, authority

[28 Nov 2007]

iPhone too pricey for Brits?

News Consumers also strongly associate the device with music and email and web surfing.   The rise of the luxury mobile  Steve Jobs and the UK iPhone launch In Germany, mobile operator Vodafone recently won a court injunction forcing Apple...

Tags: mobile, apple, iphone, consumers

[26 Nov 2007]

Femtocells to cure 3G headaches?

News While this might sound like music to the ears of mobile operators there is a snag - and an expensive one at that. The mobile phone is coming home.   The rise of the luxury mobile  Steve Jobs and the UK iPhone launch

Tags: 3g, mobile, femtocell, base

[26 Nov 2007]

BlackBerry maker not fazed by newbies

News But RIM will continue to learn lessons from the consumer space, with the Apple iPhone giving the BlackBerry makers food for thought according to Balsillie, who said: "Apple has made it clear that music is an appliance [and] that is a direction we...

Tags: blackberry, gphone, iphone, rim

[01 Nov 2007]

Photos of the month - October 2007

Photo More news from Microsoft this month as the company announced an overhaul of its Zune digital music player. Christmas is just around the corner and mobile makers are not about to miss out on the annual festive spending spree - so many manufacturers...

Tags: photos, zune, virtual worlds, games

[31 Oct 2007]

Steve Jobs

AS Profile But it's not just gleaming hardware that swayed the panel - Jobs' ambition extends far further than that, stretching into content in the form of music and film on iTunes. As one member of the panel said: "I think it's incredible that Jobs has made...

[12 Oct 2007]

Photos: The rise of the luxury mobile

Photo Music can also be enjoyed less conspicuously via the dedicated stereo earphones, or the phone can be connected up to a home hi-fi system. Designer brands are falling over themselves to carve a niche in the mobile world - especially in the run-up to...

Tags: mp3 player, camera phone, touchscreen, iphone

[10 Oct 2007]

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