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 [...]
Archive Stories: July, 2009
One-for-all phone charger on the way
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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