Links 2007-04-24
Linux-based Palm Treo available at the end of this year. The new OS will provide “faster UI responsiveness, multitasking, simultaneous voice and data usage, better battery life and even (finally) WiFi...
View ArticleNokia N95 – some issues
Last year, I mentioned that I’d be looking for a new phone, and listed some desirable features. Nokia’s N95 looks and feels less attractive than I’d expected, but is novel at the moment in being...
View ArticleLinks 2007-04-26
GPS chip on a SIM card [via Mobile Weblog and Navigadget]. 2.7Bn mobile phone subscriptions at y/e 2006. 2.1Bn unique users [via Communities Dominate Brands]. Should Mozilla focus more on its XUL...
View ArticleLinks 2007-05-03
Map of online communities [via Jason Kottke and Tom Coates]. 11 Great Colour Legends (US-centric) [via Jason Kottke]. People walk 10% more quickly than a decade ago [via Jason Kottke]. Tip : Page up...
View ArticleLinks 2007-05-04
POSH : Semantic HTML gets a marketing-friendly acronym [via Molly Holzschlag]. Yahoo! to shut down (larger) Yahoo Photos and keep (faster growing) Flickr [TechCrunch]. Microsoft pursues Yahoo!...
View ArticleBroadband problems
Finally got home DSL service again, after more than 3 weeks, now that my ISP’s fixed the fault (or, rather, taken more than 2 weeks to ask BT to fix it). D’you think that’s a long time? I think it’s a...
View ArticleClimbing Works Bristol
“The World’s biggest and best dedicated bouldering centre” : Opening at the start of November 2007 in Bedminster, Bristol, UK. [webpage]["before" picture][UKC forum comments] Whatever grade you climb...
View ArticleBristol baseball
Heard today that a baseball team has started practicing on the Downs – 1pm, Sundays, by the Water Tower – and hoping to get a proper pitch and games. No website that I know of, and no mention on...
View ArticleOpenMoko
Today saw a publicity launch for the first device from the open source mobile handset project, OpenMoko. It’ll first be targeted at developers, with a mass market version (including Wifi and 3D...
View ArticleOpen Rights Group : 2 years on
Today, ORG published a review of activities since it ‘began’ in July 2005. Linked from the ORG site, it’s also covered by Danny O’Brien and Suw Charman on their blogs, and Becky Hogge on the Guardian’s...
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