Archive for December, 2010

Amazon enables Kindle e-book lending

It was something that was promised early in the Kindle lifecycle, but I’d never really believed that with all the lockdown and DRM love that big media put on electronic files that it would ever happen. However, Amazon has today announced that certain Kindle ebooks can now be loaned to another Kindle user for a [...]

Skype Update brings Video calling to iPhone

Skype today announced the new version of its iPhone application that allows iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and fourth-generation iPod touch users to share real-time video with other Skype clients on iOS devices or the PC/Mac clients. The service will work over 3G or WiFi (subject to bandwidth) although iPhone 3GS users will only have a [...]

Windows Phone 7 Facebook App Updated

The Facebook App for Windows Phone 7 has been updated and is now available in the Market or as an automatic App update. The new version adds support for the Facebook location based service called Places, and also the ability to tag your friends in photos all from your phone.

Kindle 3 is officially Amazon’s best selling product ever

Amazon.com today announced that the third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling product in Amazon’s history, eclipsing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” “We’re grateful to the millions of customers who have made the all-new Kindle the bestselling product in the history of Amazon — surpassing Harry Potter 7,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder [...]

Virgin Media unveils New Year handset lineup

Virgin Media has announced its New Year handset line-up, and there’s some great ones in there. Virgin are including virtually all the best phones recently made available in 2010 and really giving a big boost to their smartphone lineup. Included is their first Windows Phone 7 device the Samsung Omnia 7 along with Android and [...]

Facebook Scam Warning: Do not click “This American guy must be stoned….”

Yet another Facebook Scam is doing the rounds, and yet again this one is gaining enough traction that we feel the need to warn you about it. If you see a post, link or video entitled “This american guy must be stoned to death for doing this to a girl” then ignore it, close your [...]

New Sony Ericsson Playstation Phone to be called XperiaPlay?

Jung Relations, a PR firm operating on behalf of Sony Ericsson have registered various domains containing the phrase ‘XperiaPlay’ and while this is by no means definitive it’s certainly a logical choice for the name, and matches the EU trademark recently found. Source: xperiax10.net