Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Future looks bright for video ads
Continuing in the online video theme, The Register has a story about video ads:
Future looks bright for video ads
The article talks about ad-funded online video, and video ads in web pages. Both of these are relevant to me at work.
Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta
Saw this on mocoNews.net this morning: Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta
Looks interesting, even with the number of operators making video available on mobile, this allows an individual get the video content that they have available, in their home or office, delivered to their phone.
So, while they’re on a train, or waiting in an airport, etc. they can get the news, the latest soap, or the view from the security cameras at home/office. This is obviously subject to bandwidth availability and cost. (uploading from home and downloading to phone).
Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007
Saw this on LifeHacker, it’s a fun video from the onion about the Internet crashing:
Today’s word from Dictionary.com: triskaidekaphobia
Today’s word in the dictionary.com word a day feed is “triskaidekaphobia”
Nice one guys.
RTÉ entertainment goes mobile – ireland.com – Breaking News – Tue, May 22, 2007
Interesting news about RTÉ programmes on 3’s mobile network. ireland.com – Breaking News – Tue, May 22, 2007 – RTÉ entertainment goes mobile
50 cent a day doesn’t sound to bad for the amount of data. Let’s hope other data rates come down also.
(I wonder if you need a “televison reception aparatus” licence for your phone also
Although, I don’t know how well a fashion program would work on such a small screen.
YouTube – Microsoft oPhone
Very funny video: YouTube – Microsoft oPhone
[link via Furrygoat]
Brilliant!
Scott Adams strikes again:
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070418.html
Software Development Process
I link this Lisp comic strip
Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.
I’m not entirely sure about the iPhone, seems to be quite big for a phone. However this is a really good idea:
Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.
Thanks to the folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the link.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited
A 2000 year old computer looks interesting BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited
I must keep a lookout for the radio program on Dec 12th