Tag Archives: Apple iPhone

Our Anthony always foretold of an explosion in content creation at the expense of the ‘closed shops’ of old. Tonight, there’s another big bang going off…

8 June 2009 – 9:22 pm

I don’t really know the guy from Adam, other than he seems from his profile to be a smart guy.
His name is Aral – or rather, @Aral – and tonight he could be found waxing lyrical about the launch of the new Apple iPhone 3GS… in a lot less than 140 characters as his excitement [...]

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Two pints at The Artichoke later and the world suddenly looks a different place; should it be app first, browser later?

26 February 2009 – 4:56 pm

The Artichoke at Brome now needs a second blue plaque, me thinks.
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=20
A bit of background before we get to the ‘light bulb’ moment.
Our Ian has been otherwise engaged of late; he of Addiply-build fame, has been banging out Apple iPhone apps… the latest of which is ‘Cocktails Made Easy’.
The lad from the WSJ certainly liked [...]

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Sao Paulo, where are you? Sink your teeth into this one, pal, now that BBC1 is coming live to a mobile phone near you…

4 June 2008 – 7:35 pm

OK, here we go again – once more around the TV licence fee block…
For those that have missed the previous debate, we’ve touched on it twice before – namely here:
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=43
And again, here…
http://outwithabang.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/if-i-watch-bbc-news24-on-an-apple-iphone-do-i-need-a-tv-licence-discuss/
Because now, of course, BBC News24 and BBC Parliament are not going to be the only ‘live’ channels you can access through everything from [...]

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Do we (a) embrace the Mighty Atom, the MID and an HSDPA modem or (b) tell the paper boy to pedal faster?

17 April 2008 – 9:41 am

I have to say one of the best newspaper adverts for some time is that Gladiator-esque ‘battle’ between the sexes that ends up with one side reading their ‘You Magazine’; the other their ‘Live’.
For while what’s left of my best liberal intentions might struggle with the general thrust of ‘The Mail On Sunday’, in our [...]

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If I watch BBC News24 on an Apple iPhone, do I need a TV licence? Discuss.

2 April 2008 – 10:56 pm

It was the one question I forgot to ask; hopefully, he won’t mind if I do it via here.
But this debate fascinated me….
http://www.tomski.com/2008/01/dont_own_a_tv_you_might_still.shtml#comments
Not only for the murky legal water that surrounded this whole issue of when is a TV not a TV, but a PC. Or, indeed, when is a TV not a TV, but [...]

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