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Mobile workers of the world unite? With Worksnug there is an app for that!
Mobile workers of the world can finally unite, as the neat augmented reality application Worksnug has just been approved by Apple for the iPhone. And you know what? Two days after its approval it is already a hit. Not only has Stephen Fry twittered about it, but it went straight in at number fi...
Monday, Nov 16
Yule tube
The first official Christmas channel is launched today on YouTube by ITN On, the multimedia arm of ITN Such are the issues being tackled by what is billed as the first official Christmas channel on YouTube, launched today by ITN On, the multimedia arm of ITN, producer of ITV News and Channe...
Thursday, Nov 12
Breakfast briefing: Google is becoming a phone company, and other stories
I assume this is a reference to the Verizon advert, There's A Map For That, which takes off Apple's iPhone ads. AT&T's argument is that it has an Edge (2.5G) service in places where Verizon's 3G map implies no service. (For an independent and unofficial "advert" at YouTube, see AT&T —...
Tuesday, Nov 3
Opinion: Apple rejects iPhone app for containing "iPhone" in title
Tales from the Twilight Zone of the iPhone App Store, pt 946: Apple has rejected an ebook submitted by Macworld because it contains the word "iPhone". Yes. It's true. Even though there is another ebook called "iPhone: The Missing Manual". And that if you do a search in the iTunes App Store on "iP...
Want to use your Orange iPhone? There's a cap for that
That list of non-Orange streaming services would be pretty long, including music services like Spotify, voice applications like Skype, instant messaging systems like AIM, and video streams like YouTube (aside from, one assumes, the built-in iPhone app). And that's just the tip of the...
Monday, Nov 2
Buddy, can you spare 84p? That's your best saving on Orange's iPhone contract
Compare the prices all you like: you won't find even a pound of difference over two years between Orange and O2's iPhone contracts. Why not? Now you can argue that this is because Apple charges particular prices for the iPhone. Or you could argue that it's because of the horrendous cost of the...
Wednesday, Oct 28
Breakfast briefing: Google offers music, Yahoo hasn't signed with Microsoft, and Verizon has unveiled the Droid
It runs the latest Android 2.0 and promises: "High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country." Engadget has hands-on videos.
Podcast: Tech Weekly: A history of Windows and Windows 7
Plus, there's this week's news including Orange announcing the date they will start selling the iPhone, Nokia suing Apple for alleged breaches of patents, the hacking of the Guardian jobs website, and Barnes and Noble's new Nook ebook reader.
Wednesday, Sep 30
Which would you pay for on the iPhone: apps or content?
She added that getting apps into the app store is an "unpredictable business", quite reasonably making a launch date difficult to give; The Spectator's paid-for iPhone app took three months to get clearance from Apple. So which is really worth paying for? The software that provides the f...
Monday, Sep 28
Will Orange spark an iPhone price war?
In other countries where Apple has released the iPhone to more than one network, its partners have not had to sign away some of the ongoing revenues they make from customers so it is unlikely that O2 is being kept to its original terms. Part of the reason for the change in tack at the California...
Friday, Sep 25
O2 denies delaying 0870 app for the iPhone - so was it Apple?
Did Apple hold up the appearance of the 0870 application for the iPhone in the iTunes App Store because of lobbying by O2 and BT - which wanted to protect the lucrative income they could get from the higher-rate calls rather than landline calls?
Wednesday, Aug 5
Tech Weekly podcast: Eric Schmidt leaves Apple's board
Charles also talks to Sonos CEO John MacFarlane as they unveil their new audio controller. Their hardware streams music around your house, and the new controller is lighter, with a better screen – almost like a tablet computer. Charles asks why many devices are now going the way of the table...
Wednesday, Jul 29
Tech Weekly podcast: Interviews with Flip Video and Atomic Floyd
In this podcast, Charles meets Ray Sangster, the Europe, Middle East and Africa chief of Flip Video – the company that makes the iPod-sized video cameras. Ray discusses why Cisco Systems wanted to buy the company, and the competition Flip has from video-enabled mobile phones such as the i...
Tuesday, Jun 9
Tech Weekly podcast: Palm Pre and the iPhone 3GS, Fake Steve Jobs
We'll also be peeking at the diary of Steve Jobs, well, the Fake Steve Jobs, that is. Our correspondent Kevin Anderson tracked writer Daniel Lyons down and asked him what was so funny about impersonating one of the most revered tech geeks in the world.
Tuesday, Apr 28
Tech Weekly podcast: Facebook's effects on your brain, developing a Top 10 app
David Hamilton, Managing Director of Dundee-based games developers Digital Goldfish is on the line to discuss how to become a top 10 iPhone app store developer. In a matter of days his application rocketed up the chart, so we get some tips, and Twitter followers who got our Monday afternoo...
