End Your Battery Panic By PrintingEnd Your Battery Panic By Printing A new innovation from Japan that might just catch on is the portable Rolto printer. It was launched there last week. Its sole purpose is to do screen prints from iPhones. We carry, look up, send and receive a lot if information on our phones these days. There are…
READ MORE... Turning Your Car Into A Wi-Fi HotspotTurning Your Car Into A Wi-Fi Hotspot Here is a new product that might take off. This is the Buzzard, from mobile Operator EE. It turns your car into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. The idea is to provide connectivity for all passengers at once, especially the kids in the back, on a journey. It works…
READ MORE... Mobile Debate Is Up In The AirMobile Debate Is Up In The Air Hot debate continues to boil over the use of electronic devices, particularly mobile phones, on aircraft. Most flights of course, require these to be set to ‘Flight Mode’ then only used at cruising altitude. However, some carriers, for example Emirates, BA, Virgin, Lufthansa, have facilities for mobile devices…
READ MORE... Maps Change Way We See WorldMaps Change Way We See World I have just returned from a fortnight in southern Europe and Google Maps was a faithful companion throughout. It Helped get between towns, villages and resorts by car and around them on foot, and found places to visit and eat, without costing me a euro. By pre-planning each trip…
READ MORE... Signs Of The Times: Bombarded With Email DisclaimersSigns Of The Times: Bombarded With Email Disclaimers What is it with these interminable corporate email signatures? It just irritates me when a simple one-line mail saying something banal like ‘Wotcher, mate, fancy a curry on Friday?’ is accompanied by a whole nine yards of ‘Twitter, Facebook, don’t print, save the planet, Disclaimer, confidentiality, Data…
READ MORE... DuckDuckGo Asks Searching QuestionDuckDuckGo Asks Searching Question GOOGLE has been taking a pasting recently about privacy. There are concerns it is tracking our search interests and using the information to support revenue-earning advert placement, deducing our preferences for clothing, holiday destinations, even our charitable interests, and making that information available for sale. Google is so widely used for…
READ MORE... PM Gets The Message On 4G ServicePM Gets The Message On 4G Service AS THE holiday season gathers pace, David Cameron put the spotlight onto mobile phone coverage in the UK’s vacation hotspots and other remote areas. He revealed that he returned to London early from Cornwall in two of the last three years because mobile phone coverage was too grim…
READ MORE... Blackphone May Attract InterestBlackphone May Attract Interest A NEW breed of phone is due to start shipping against its pre-orders at the end of this month. This is the Blackphone. The name suggests a deliberate attempt to strike a chord with those who were once in love with that other ebony branded handheld, the Blackberry. That used to be…
READ MORE... Block Party!Block Party! REMAINING D-Day veterans were done proud by the commemorations on June 6, seventy years on from the game changing invasion of Normandy. Another anniversary on the very same day passed almost without notice. This one changed the history of games. It was 30 years since the first release of Tetris. The game was invented…
READ MORE... Uber means it’s a black day for London cabbiesUber means it’s a black day for London cabbies London Cabbies are not renowned for their cheerful disposition and now they feel they are having a bumpy ride and are threatening to bring the capital to a standstill. It may be best to avoid London next Wednesday, June 11. The black cab drivers are planning…
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