Vodafone debuts mobile charger and SMS payment in taxis
Vodafone has launched a new service that lets its customers charge their phones in the back of select London taxi cabs, and even pay cabbies via SMS.
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Text donations raise over £15m for Red Nose Day
Comic Relief 2011 has raised £15,168,331 through £1, £5 and £10 text donations, making a significant contribution to the overall £74.3 million raised so far.
Flickr ‘Royal Wedding Album’ shows what the world was doing on the big day
Flickr has launched ‘The People’s Royal Wedding Album’, a competition that aims to capture how the British public marked the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
YouTube buys social bookmarking firm Delicious from Yahoo
YouTube has bought the online social-bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo for an undisclosed sum.
Right to reply: Will the PSN hack undermine credit card confidence?
Sony recently admitted that the personal information of 77 million of its customers, 3 million of them Britons, is now in the hands of hackers. That’s the same as unofficial estimates of the UK’s population. Justin Schamotta is a senior staff writer for Choose.net, looks into the implications of one the biggest data heists in … [Read more…]
Guest comment: 2 year contracts leave Brits stuck with ‘obsolete smartphones’
If you could upgrade your phone right now without paying a penalty, would you go ahead and get that new iPhone or Android smartphone? If you answered yes, you wouldn’t be alone, in fact Retrevo recently discovered that a large number of U.S. phone owners say their phone is either currently out of date or … [Read more…]
‘Gambling.com’ becomes most expensive domain name of the year
Sedo, the online domain specialist, today announces that it has brokered the sale of gambling.com for $2.5 million, the highest price for a web address this year.
‘First-ever’ church service launched on Facebook
Internet church ‘St Pixels’ will be at the International Christian Resources Exhibition to host the first-ever interactive service on Facebook next week (Tue 10 May, 1 and 3pm).
‘TimeForTelly’ site offers cross platform TV guide
A new TV search website, TimeForTelly, has launched, designed for offer UK consumers a one-stop platform to catch up on the week’s TV, whether on digital or online.
Fast and Furious 5 gets viral ‘3D’ YouTube campaign
MediaCom, Feref, Universal Pictures and MediaMind have teamed up to deliver a brand experience on YouTube to promote the opening of Fast and Furious 5 in movie cinemas across Europe, Australia and Mexico.