Lost In Cyberspace

Archive for October, 2009

• Google search to get speed boost – a good reason to use full text feeds

October 30, 2009
• Stealth startup Zkatter plans real-time live broadcasts

October 30, 2009
• More on the DROID: thoughts from the rest of Engadget

October 30, 2009
• Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com

October 30, 2009
• There's a List for That

October 30, 2009
• AIR 2.0 Coming Soon: Multitouch, Audio Recording, Less Memory

October 30, 2009
• List-en very carefully, here's what's new with us

October 30, 2009
• Turbo Charge Your New XBMC Installation [Winter Upgrades]

October 30, 2009
• Nokia announces the end of its N-Gage gaming service

October 30, 2009
• 10 Twitter Lists You Should Follow

October 30, 2009
• Brizzly Updates with Facebook Support, We've Got Invites [Twitter]

October 30, 2009
• Facebook Platform Live Status Now Up And Running

October 30, 2009
• Should Microsoft be thinking about making their own PCs?

October 30, 2009
• Hulu May Not Be Going Pay-Only Just Yet [Television]

October 30, 2009
• Google’s Walled Garden

October 29, 2009
• Google Now Scanning RSS, Atom Feeds, May Experiment with Real-Time Protocols in Future

October 30, 2009
• Pirate Bay founders told hands off the site

October 29, 2009
• My Times editorial on British plan to cut relatives of accused infringers off from the net

October 30, 2009

• Will Microsoft Buy Ask.com?

October 29, 2009
• The Two Faces of Facebook

October 29, 2009
• LG launches official site for GW620 Android phone, sort of

October 29, 2009
• August Coppola, father of Nicolas Cage, dead at 75

October 29, 2009
• Verizon Droid: First Impressions

October 29, 2009
• Amazon Speeds Checkout with New PayPhrase Technology

October 29, 2009
• Pirate Bay Founders Banned From Running The Site

October 29, 2009
• BlinkBox goes all arty, signs deal with British Film Institute

October 29, 2009
• Voddler, the Spotify-for-movies, partners with Paramount and Disney

October 29, 2009
• The Google Story in Two Minutes

October 29, 2009
• Google Music Search Consolidates Cloud Music

October 29, 2009
• Twitter Officially Rolls Out Lists [Communication]

October 29, 2009
• UK ISP TalkTalk threatens lawsuit over 3-strikes disconnection proposal

October 29, 2009
• Build a Silent, Standalone XBMC Media Center On the Cheap [Winter Upgrades]

October 29, 2009
• Netlog gets a major makeover, now growing at 500,000 users a week

October 29, 2009
• Turn Your Windows 7 Computer Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes, Free & No Hardware

October 29, 2009
• Google Music Search Launches Complete with Georetardation

October 28, 2009
• Excl: Ridley Scott Talks Alien Prequel

October 29, 2009

• Our response to the FCC on Google Voice

October 28, 2009
• Making search more musical

October 28, 2009
• First Screenshots of Facebook Platform Changes

October 28, 2009
• StumbleUpon Gets a Facelift: Nips, Tucks, and a Streamlined UI

October 28, 2009
• YouTube Phasing Out Accounts, Google Login Will Be Required [Updated]

October 28, 2009
• Brizzly Adds Facebook - Aims to be The Blogger.com of Social Media (2000 Invites Below!)

October 28, 2009
• Mozilla SeaMonkey Updated to 2.0 [Updates]

October 28, 2009
• Google launches Android app, trashes competitor’s stock value

October 28, 2009
• Council bans parents from play areas

October 28, 2009
• stephen wiltshire draws manhattan skyline from memory

October 27, 2009
• What Comes After the Real Time Web

October 28, 2009
• Motorola DROID first hands-on! (update: video, impressions, more pics)

October 28, 2009
• Astonishing X-Men: Gifted episode 1 out now on iTunes.

October 28, 2009
• Firefox 3.5.4 Security Update Available for Download [Updates]

October 28, 2009
• Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers' families with Internet disconnection by 2011

October 28, 2009
• Makers, my new novel: free downloads, donate to libraries and colleges, signings and tours

October 28, 2009
• Google Maps Navigation Brings Slick Turn-by-Turn GPS to Android [Directions]

October 28, 2009
• Trick Out Google Apps for Your Domain [Google Apps]

October 28, 2009
• Google Groups, Killed by Spam?

October 27, 2009
• UK launch for Google Powermeter via AlertMe – but please don’t tweet your light switch

October 28, 2009

• Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too

October 27, 2009
• Last.fm moving into television with Last.tv

October 27, 2009
• Ask.com For Sale – But Who Wants It?

October 27, 2009
• Best Portable Application Suite: PortableApps [Hive Five Followup]

October 27, 2009
• EFF launches Hall of Shame for copyright abusers

October 27, 2009
• Apple Fan Fires Back With ‘iDon’t’ Spoof

October 27, 2009
• StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging

October 27, 2009
• DIYer concocts homegrown View-Master, relies on HTC Magic and Google Street View (video)

October 27, 2009
• Gizmodo duped by scammers, publishes malware-laced ads

October 27, 2009
• Microsoft’s Outlook Opens Up to an Uncertain Future

October 27, 2009
• Spotify’s playlist doesn’t include its CTO, who tweets his departure

October 27, 2009
• Terrified London cops spending millions gathering useless intelligence on peaceful protestors

October 27, 2009

So while I was working in town today I thought I would pop in to my local Vodafone shop and ask when the new BlackBerry Storm2 would be available, and was surprised by their answer that it was already in stock! Not one to waste an opportunity I asked to take a look at it (even though my earliest chance to own one will be in about six months time ;-) ). And a mighty fine beast it was too, at least once they managed to work out how to turn it on. It felt great in the hand, the UI was very similar to the original Storm but much smoother and the app transitions looked great. The changes to the shape and screen are definitely an improvement, especially moving the speaker from the rear of the unit to the bottom edge. The best new feature in my opinion though is the adding of Wi-Fi. The OS version for release is v5.0.0.306, though Vodafone have not yet officially released this for use on the Storm 1, lets hope that gets sorted soon! What I was most surprised about though was that it seems to of arrived with such a lack of fanfare, no window displays in the Vodafone shop and no major press releases I have come across, I didn't even see a mention of it over at www.crackberry.com which is my main source of news for all things BlackBerry, though on the way home from town I did notice a bus stop ad for it. The Vodafone site has the full specs available, and the pricing plan looks reasonable at free on £35 and £40 monthly plans for two years with the £40 package giving you unlimited texts, land line minutes and mobile Internet along with your 900 cross network mobile minutes. While in-store I also noticed an 18 month contract available at £40 with the phone still free but the mobile minutes at 600, which would be enough for me. Anyone else out there had a chance to play with this baby? Let me know what you think in the comments.

• What can Facebook learn from Friendfeed?

October 26, 2009
• Cinch Puts Simple Podcasts In Your Pocket

October 26, 2009
• Google Search Gets Personal: Social Search Launches in Google Labs

October 26, 2009
• No You Aren’t Hallucinating, The Facebook Live Feed Is Real-Time

October 26, 2009
• Google Social Search launches in Google Labs

October 26, 2009
• Google Launches Social Search Experiment to Search What Your Friends Are Posting [Search Engines]

October 26, 2009
• Google Asks “What Should Blogger Do?”

October 26, 2009
• Facebook Launches Live Counts & Stats for Sharing Widget

October 26, 2009
• Android app tidal wave coming, says Flurry

October 26, 2009
• The Problem With iPhone Killers…

October 26, 2009
• What are Hulu's Mysterious Plans?

October 26, 2009
• uTorrent Portable Puts BitTorrent on a USB Drive [Downloads]

October 26, 2009
• The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts [Windows 7]

October 26, 2009
• Spotify U-turns on its ‘no marketing’ policy with first ever TV ad

October 26, 2009
• Facebook Settlement Gets Judge's OK

October 26, 2009
• Verizon Officially Announces the BlackBerry Storm2!

October 26, 2009
• A Very Wordpress World

October 26, 2009
• Anonymous Mobile Browsing: Tor for Android

October 25, 2009
• HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!)

October 26, 2009
• Audioboo gets further cash from 4iP

October 26, 2009

• The power of two

October 24, 2009
• Classic Cinema Online Streams Free Classic Films [Movies]

October 25, 2009
• NASA iPhone App Ready For Free Download

October 25, 2009
• Google – the new playground of malware scum

October 25, 2009
• Infographic of the Day: It's a Small World, Afterall

October 23, 2009
• Chrome Nears 5% Market Share

October 25, 2009
• An important lesson in business success: Use your product

October 25, 2009
• Amazon Begins “International Kindle” Hype Machine, Ready To Square Off Against Barnes And Noble “Nook” Ereader

October 25, 2009
• Five Best Portable Apps Suites [Hive Five]

October 25, 2009
• Dries Buytaert: Whitehouse.gov using Drupal

October 24, 2009
• NFL to hold more games in Great Britian

October 25, 2009
• Goodbye GeoCities

October 25, 2009

• Twitter Finally Removing Deleted Tweets From Search Results

October 24, 2009
• Google Wave: The Emperor’s New Clothes?

October 24, 2009
• Poles, Politeness and Politics in the age of Twitter

October 24, 2009 - splendid essay
• BlackBerry Storm update landing tomorrow, bringing lots of good stuff (update: now with changelog!)

October 24, 2009
• 27 Takes on Windows 7 [Roundups]

October 22, 2009
• Top 10 Windows 7 Booster Apps [Lifehacker Top 10]

October 24, 2009
• Minimal Black and White

October 24, 2009
• Google’s Blogger Experiences Crash

October 24, 2009
• "Droid" May Be A Series, Not Just A Phone As Revealed By HTC Droid Desire Specs [Cellphones]

October 23, 2009
• Could our feed readers be morphed into next-gen information managers?

October 23, 2009
• The Weirdest Clouds that You’ll Ever See

October 23, 2009
• 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera

October 23, 2009