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The UK's National Trust is looking for armchair farmers to farm for real with MyFarm. For a £30 annual subscription, 10,000 desktop farmers will take control of the farm on the Wimpole Estate in Cambridgeshire, England and work with farm manager Richard Morris to decide how it should be run. The subscription also pays for a family ticket to visit
As the world is gripped by Royal Wedding fever (yawn), mobile phone operator O2 have blogged about their preparations from the big day. As you might expect, there will be a few more mobile phones, texts and picture messages sent from heart of London than you'd get on an average Friday in April but what might surprise you is how
In a press release today, Virgin Media announced that it was trialling 1.5Gb/s cable broadband connections with four media companies in London. Offering 1.5 Gb/s down and 150 Mb/s up, if successful it would be the world's fastest cable broadband and about 240 times faster than the UK average connection speed. The technology will use the same infrastructure as delivered
Courtesy of the BBC, a very British comedic take on the latest technology....
The UK's Guardian newspaper published a very interesting article on Monday about the iPad and media publishing. In short, the iPad is not generating the revenues that it was expected to and subscriptions are slumping. However, many publishers are hopeful for the long-term. The story quotes figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which particularly cites Condé Nast's Wired. On
This week, it's the turn of Nokia's N97 mini to come under the harsh glare of the GNC spotlight. Now over a year old, the smartphone market has changed significantly in the last 12 months, so how does the N97 mini stack up against the current offerings from Android, Apple and Palm? As the name suggests, this is smaller version
The Nokia E5 is a non-touchscreen smartphone with a split personality, bringing business features to the social networking crowd. It's an interesting idea but are the features let down by lack of touch? Let's find out. The E5 is a candy-bar phones with a 320 x 240 2.4" screen above an alphanumeric keyboard. Separating the two is Nokia's trademark arrangement of