Gossip

What are "geek purses" and what do they have to do with mobile phones?

A nice little co-operative email - we get these a lot - from a blog sharing syndicate... offering to give NewsWireless "useful publicity" if we link to them. Normally, these offers land on the spike. But this one spoke of "Geek Purses."[more...]

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 27 January 2009

Intel and Celeron: not exactly Formula 1, is it?

At Intel's recent announcement of its Celeron 2 chip family for mobile apps, it was noticeable that there was a preponderance of Boy Racer types.[more...]

by Sniffer | posted on 17 July 2008

Upcoming Sony Ericsson announcement! Extreme rush! Ooops!

I probably shouldn't tell you this, but on July 22, Sony Ericsson is planning Big New. Not big news, big new.[more...]

by Sniffer | posted on 16 July 2008

Goma passes off as TV correspondent?

The boss may have to sue YouTube. An "entertaining video" appeared, featuring the kitten pictured [above, right] beating the crap out of a domestic implement.[more...]

by Sniffer | posted on 20 May 2008

That T-mobile "no data" 3G story and a successful splog

Splogs are spam blogs. You take a legit RSS news feed, feed it into a bit of software which posts it on your blog. Normally, you get ignored. But in the case of one splog, Gizmo News, it seems, you hit the big time...[more...]

by Sniffer | posted on 01 May 2008

Did Irish technologists lead the world on pre-WiMAX?

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists
found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the
conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more
than 100 years ago.[more...]

by Sniffer | posted on 23 April 2008