Chinwag blogs: mobile

Qeep hits the ground running with 100,000 users in 3 months

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:19 +0100

Qeep is a mobile social network operating out of Cologne, Germany. I’ve been to Cologne once — I stayed in a rather wicked hotel that was constructed out of an old water tower. Qeep is growing at a rate of around 1,500-2,000 users a day and is centred around an application installed on [...]

Stupid workaround for Nokia’s stupid XP compatibility stupid issue

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:09:17 +0100

Thanks to Steve Rowlands over at S60blogger.com, who, points out a work around for anyone really stupid keen to update their stupid Nokia firmware. Nokia took the decision, last week, to disable firmware updates for 80 million Windows Vista users. Highlighting just how piss poor poor their strategy is compared to the likes [...]

Texting is more expensive than the Hubble … NEXT

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:09:17 +0100

Every now and again, some bright spark, somewhere, mentions that it’s cheaper to get data from the Hubble Space Telescope than it is to send 160 characters via a text message charged at 5p/text. Here’s a story from Yahoo, via TechDigest, via The Register: Even getting information from the Hubble Space Telescope only costs a maximum [...]

My first text spam for ages from: YesLoansUK

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:09:17 +0100

Joy. I got my first text spam from YesLoansUK (see above image). I also get mail spam from them. Somewhere along the lines, I must have mistakenly ticked the box that says ‘from other carefully selected people who want to knock you over rubbish’. What’s fascinating is that I just changed my [...]

ClearBoost - iPhone antenna case

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:05:27 +0100

The Girffin Technology case conceals a built-in booster antenna that captures more of the available wireless signal and sends it to the internal antenna of your iPhone.

[via Popgadget]

Blabnote readies voice activated social networking

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:04:49 +0100

Voice activated social networking? Yes! Blabnote’s going to be hitting the web shortly and it promises to be an interesting diversion from the usual poking and status updates. You ‘work’ Blabnote by simply phoning the service’s number and chatting. If you’d like to create a group of friends, you can do [...]

Rob Lowe’s Orange Film Funding pitch

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:04:48 +0100

If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look. Orange’s agency — Mother, I think it is — does a brilliant job with these ads in the cinemas across the UK. They appear just before the main feature begins. It’s just a shame Orange appears to have lost its way amongst the innovation [...]

Shape buys application developer, Warelex

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:04:48 +0100

Congratulations to Shape Services — they’ve just bought out US multimedia applications developer, Warelex. Warelex LLC is a mobile application development company, best known for its Mobiola product line of unique multimedia applications for mobile handheld and professional services creating VoIP, speech recognition, multimodal interfaces, mobile security and multimedia services and solutions. By uniting the [...]

Treo-iPhone concept

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:54:44 +0100

Spotted on Yanko Design a Treo-iPhone concept by RKS Design.

iPone cases and covers

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:54:44 +0100

Some great iPhone cases and covers from cases.com.

[via Geek Sugar]