People are already checking in and broadcasting their lives through the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Many of these check ins are at business locations such as restaurants and shops. Currently the vast majority of this activity goes unrewarded, with the most users can hope to gain is a foursquare badge or recently perhaps [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘iphone’
June 7, 2010
Toshiba take the touch screen to the next level
Since the arrival of the iPhone the touchscreen phone has gone from strength to strength. However, many people still don’t like the idea of pressing buttons that they can’t actually feel. The latest technology from Toshiba not only hopes to satisfy peoples’ desire to feel buttons, but hopes to take touch screen experiences to a [...]
February 16, 2010
Samsung Projector Phone: Do we really need projectors on our mobiles?
Here’s the latest in mobile phone technology, the Samsung projector phone. It’s impressive enough that they have made a projector so small, but they’ve also managed to get a fully functional phone in there as well. It certainly gives you something that you won’t find on your current iPhone or Blackberry, but although impressive do [...]
October 31, 2009
Japan: As mobile obsessed as I hoped
It has been widely reported that QR codes are common place in Japan. In my short time in the country so far I can confirm this to be true. In fact I got one put in my passport as soon as arrived. Since then I’ve seen them all over the place, from hotel information posters [...]
October 21, 2009
New technology: New expectations
The latest technology has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and in turn these possibilities have brought with them new expectations. It doesn’t take us long to adjust to the benefits of new technology, and what starts out as a luxury or perhaps novelty can soon become a necessity. Not many of us [...]
August 26, 2009
10 ways musicians are embracing digital
Whether record companies like it or not the music industry is changing. They can try and ignore it, perhaps even directly fight the change, or maybe they can embrace it and actually benefit from the changes brought about by our new digital age. Currently much of the music industries’ efforts have focused on the option [...]
