Mobile Broadband half price offer

Between now and August the 4th, you can pick up an o2 Mobile Broadband USB dongle for half-price.

Pick up the o2 Mobile Broadband dongle for just £14.67. Unlike some other mobile broadband services we could mention, o2 lets you pay for a day or week's usage as you need it using a credit card, which makes this a good deal.

We've reviewed the o2 mobile dongle on our o2 Mobile Broadband page, and until the 4th August 09, you can get it half-price at broadband.o2.co.uk/mobile

One-for-all phone charger on the way

Finally.

It looks like an agreement has been made between 10 of the leading mobile phone makers to come up with a one-for-all charger. No more scronging an obscure Motorola charger, and a lot less waste. Manufacturers signed up include these scheme Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Apple, Motorola and RIM.

We should start seeing common connectors, based on the micro USB, from next year

Save 10% on a Sony Reader

Thinking of making the leap to electronic ink? Waterstones is offering £20 off the popular Sony Reader with a special voucher code, for a limited time.

To get £20 off a Sony Reader, go to the Sony Reader Product Page at Waterstones and enter the voucher code R27736.

You can find our review of the Sony Reader at www.filesaveas.com/sonyreader.html

TrueCall - as seen on Dragon's Den

If you were watching Dragon's Den on BBC2 last night, you may have seen "TrueCall". This is an ingenious tool to stop those annoying unwanted calls on your home phone.

The Truecall unit is about the size of a paperback, and can effectively filter nuisance calls. It works by having a has a Star list (of your friends numbers) and a Zap list, for people you don't want to speak to. It can also handle "number withheld" by asking the caller for their name before the call is put through. There's an optional phone call recorder too.

The product is now available, and we've found it listed at Dabs.com for under £80 (RRP quoted on BBC Dragon's Den was £99).

We hope to be adding a review to our new TrueCall page shortly.

BT ditches controversial Phorm

According to a report on the Guardian website, BT has relented and announced that it's scrapping plans to use the controversial web monitoring service offered by US-firm Phorm.

The deal between BT and Phorm would have meant that user's surfing habits would be passed to Phorm to allow the ads that users's see to be more closely targeted to what a user's doing online. The service, to be known as Webwise, has already been trialed in secret.

Many didn't much care for the idea of browsing habits being captured and passed on, despite assurances that the data would be used wisely. Nice one BT. That now leaves Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk as the two names in the frame to use Phorm.

More on Phorm: The Fuss About Phorm

o2 Joggler Power Supply Recall

Here at FileSaveAs, we received an odd call from a chap claiming to be from o2, warning of a problem with our o2 Joggler. The caller was unable to tell me anything about my o2 account, or confirm anything other than my first name. He was after my home address so that a replacement product could be sent out. Being natually cautious about such things, I don't give out my address to strangers. The caller suggested I check out the o2 site for details of the recall, but I could see nothing there about the problem.

We've called o2 Customer Services to investigate, and it seems that this is a genuine recall.

There is a known problem with the power supply that's supplied with the o2 Joggler that could cause the user to experience a "mild electric shock", and so the power supplies are being recalled. DHL will courier a replacement (next day), and provide a pre-paid envelope to allow o2 to safely dispose of the faulty power supplies.

We were given a number of 0800 083 7373 for those wishing to contact o2 about the o2 Joggler power supply recall.

It seems that the o2 Joggler has also been pulled from sale from the o2 store today.

To discuss the Joggler, please go to www.jogglerforum.co.uk

BT Vision free box ends Friday 3rd July

If you have a BT Total Broadband account, you only have until midnight on Friday the 3rd July to get a free BT Vision set-top box.

The box is currently free, but will cost £90 from the 3rd of July. If you want a free hard-disc recorder from BT, see btvision.bt.com for the details.

Podcast: FrequencyCast 41 out now

Show 41 of FrequencyCast, our UK's TV and Tech podcast, is online now.

In FrequencyCast Show 41, Carl and Pete ways to get a faster broadband connection, get hands-on with the o2 Joggler, and look at a pocket pedometer, as well as round up the latest tech news and answer listeners's questions.

You can download Show 41 direct to your MP3 player or listen online at http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/latest.html.

You can also get us via iTunes.