The 3rd Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category was Architecture and was chosen by forum member Bassey (Who Won 2nd Contest). You now have 6 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered. *View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
The 2nd Photo Contest has now come to the Voting stage. The category is Colour and was chosen by forum member Pasa. You now have 14 photos with which to pick you favourite. Good Luck to all who entered.*View Photos Here**Vote by Clicking Here*
For no discernable reason, Friday is Wi-Fi day over at Mobitopia - they've got a bundle of articles on Wi-Fi throughout the day, so kep that bookmark handy.
AllAboutSymbian Gallery now has a Regular Photo Contest. Each fortnight a category will be selected and you upload photos from your phone to the Gallery. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and selects next category.
Oh, the good old days, when arcade games beeped and graphics looked like things made out of toilet rolls on Blue Peter... kids today will never appreciate the purity of the games we played when we were growing up. Electronic Gaming Monthly decided to find out what the modern twelve year old makes of the classics... Read on...
So who else was with Rafe at Mobius? A rather, ehrm, one-sided review of the attendees and their websites can be found at MS-Mobiles. Should we be happy that "This website never publishes reports from the conference and is always spreading hostile anti-Microsoft propaganda. Besides this it is a low traffic website" or worried that the editor hasn't looked here, here or here?
There's been speculation for some time and now it's official, Psion has finally put Windows onto the Psion Netbook. Is this suicide? Is Psion desperate to take it's own hardware and posess it with the Demon of Blue Screen Hell? While some respectable technology news sites give an open picture, others say that this is a nail in Symbian's coffin and confirmation that Symbian is dead. Is it?
According to this Inquirer article Sendo has won two victories in its case against Microsoft. OK they're minor the first was to refuse to dismiss that case. The second was to keep the trial in Texas rather than move it to Delaware as Microsoft wanted.
This article from The Register gives a report from the Intel developer forum and the new Intel processor that will enable "Xbox in a phone"....could this be Microsofts answer to the N-Gage or Sony's eagerly awaited PSP?
In an effort to encourage more cross-platform intercommunication and support third party developers to innovate using readily available standards for the internet (NOT), Microsoft has decided to restrict non-Microsoft software from being able to use its Messenger service, as reported on Infoworld. Sean Sundwall, a Microsoft spokesman said; "We are very interested in interoperating with all third parties, there just needs to be a formal agreement". What this does mean is that on October 15, Instant Messenger solutions on the Symbian platform (and third party solutions on other PC platforms such as Jabber) will cease to work; ""It is our expectation that those who use our service with unlicensed or unauthorized third-party clients will likely not be able to log on after Oct. 15".
This is only vaguely relevant, an article discussing the entertainment focus of the upcoming CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment 2003 conference. However, it does contain this paragraph:
A fascinating article on the BBC Website looks at whether fathers are struggling to keep up with their kids' technological gadgetry. I remember when I was a kid, my dad was well into his stuff; he had a reel-to-reel tape recorder, he enjoyed playing with my Commodore 16 as much as I did and was the first to be able to program our first ever family VCR.
