Archive for February, 2010

iPhone and iPad software to reach ‘new platforms’

Apple has a new job listing on their employment website that specifies that the company wants to bring someone in to manage porting over the iPhone OS to other ‘new platforms’.
The section of the listing that relates to this says that Apple “is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused [...]

Is it a projector or is it a phone? The Samsung Beam

The Samsung Halo has been an eagerly awaited little device indeed. It has had the usual rigmarole of rumours and hype, but it has now finally been officially unveiled by Samsung.
The device itself is a smartphone that runs on the Android OS software platform and the name itself it turns out was just a codename [...]

Own your own mech walker – The LANDWALKER

The Landwalker is a real life, working mechwalker, similar to the ED-209 ‘chicken walker’ from Robocop. This mechanical behemoth stands at 11ft tall and weighs in at 1,000 kg.
You can get your hands on this beauty at www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp, but as you can guess the website is in Japanese. I have listed a run down of [...]

Virgin Media to offer free landline to mobile calls

Virgin Media, the television, phone and broadband provider, is to offer free calls for people using their landline service to Virgin Mobile phones.
For customers who get free calls on their Virgin Media phone tariff, these free calls will include calls made to Virgin Mobile customers from April 1st 2010.
The same free call ‘rules’ apply, where [...]