Technology

Twitter Shows Off New Mobile Web Interface

New web client set to roll out soon

Twitter, as you might have heard, is massively, world-conqueringly popular. One thing that must really get on the company’s nerves, however, (apart form its inability to turn any serious profit from the thing) is that the vast majority of people who access it via mobile do so using third party apps.

To combat this, Twitter has just announced an updated look to its mobile web interface, in the hope that users will switch over to their mobile’s standard web browser to better view the site – More »

Vodafone Increase mobile broadband speeds

Mobile broadband users rejoice! Well, Vodafone mobile broadband users anyway, with the top speed now doubled from a decent 7.2mbps to a very tasty 14.4mbps. Is there a catch? Of course there is. More »

Street Corners, Internal Organs, Watery Depths: Google Is Watching

Now you and your friends can play “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?” with Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG)  new mobile technology called “Latitude,” but you, or they — all of you, as a matter of fact — can be Carmen. More »

Google Opens New Chapter With iPhone, Android Book Search

Can the wide-open vistas of the imagination that were unlocked by famed authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens really be enjoyed on a 3.5-inch smartphone screen? Will the wit of Mark Twain’s Roughing It or the subtle comedy of manners found in Jane Austen’s Emma come across well when the device you’re reading those books on interrupts you for a phone call? More »