Listen to the complete Brian Eno / David Byrne Album online

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Now that’s what I call a new approach to music distribution. David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) and Brian Eno (of Brian Eno fame) worked together on a new music album and are offering it for free in an online streaming format. Anyone can embed the album in his website with some [...]

Shipping the Nokia N96

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Nokia yesterday announced it has started shipping the Nokia N96, which means it will become available, SIM-free, in shops over the next few weeks. Availability via operators will take a little longer; the UK launch on the 3 network is scheduled for October 1st. The N96 is a high-end Nseries [...]

What TV should look like in 2015

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I totally agree with Michael Arrington on this one: if creating applications for set-top boxes was more like creating applications for the Web, we’d be able to do a lot more things with our TVs—especially if those set-top boxes were also connected to the Web. Want instant messaging and caller ID on [...]

iPhone 2.0 stores GPS location data in photos

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I made a small discovery in the new iPhone 2.0 firmware. When you take a photo, the iPhone stores the latitude and longitude (your location on the planet) in the photo itself. Geotagging.

JPEG files have meta-data information, the so called EXIF data. These may contain items such as the exposure, the date and [...]

Jamba will be dead. CEO left because of big losses?

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One of my biggest irritations are the in-the-face agressive adverts for ringtones by the German company Jamba (known as Jamster in the States). Stupid, shouting, silly adverts for low quality mobile content, targeted towards children and teens. So I was happy to find this in the annual report of Verisign (who acquired Jamba [...]

Crash Test Zombies

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Did you know dead people drive Saabs? Vägverket, the Swedish Road Administration, is reporting that General Motors used ten human cadavers for crash research. While it isn’t clear which GM vehicle hosted the corpses on their one-way trip into a wall, a spokesman for Vägverket said it was most likely the Saab brand. [...]

What’s new in Zemanta

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What’s new in Zemanta 0.2? I’m checking as I type….
From their blog: Many of you have written to us asking for more images and articles. With today’s update we bring you exactly that. Now every ’suggestions refresh’ brings you more images and articles, together with history of suggestions throughout the post. Moreover when [...]

Location troubles

Image from WikipediaOm Malik writes: Nokia’s $8.1 billion takeover of Chicago-based digital mapping company, Navteq has hit a snag. The European Union is going to conduct an in-depth investigation into the deal, reports The Wall Street Journal. The rationale behind the investigation, according to WSJ is that the “proposed merger raises serious doubts with regards [...]

Image from WikipediaNokia’s WiMAX-enabled N810 Internet Tablet has surfaced at CTIA 2008, and yep, this critter is destined to go on sale in the US of A this summer. Beyond that, you’ll notice the familiar 4.13-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard and even a built-in webcam for video calls, Mozilla-powered browser, integrated GPS / media player, [...]

Nokia E71 tomorrow at CTIA

Image from WikipediaFrom the rumor mill: Nokia will announce the E71 messaging phone tomorrow at the wireless show CTIA in the US. The successor to the E61. It’s a qwerty keypad phone, now with added GPS and a smaller, sleeker formfactor. It’s Nokia’s answer to the Blackberry 8300-series. There are also some N-series phone announcements [...]