Category: Software

  • ZenNews aggregates the news on your iPhone

    Reading Robin Wauters’ review in TechCrunch yesterday of three nifty iPhone news apps, one especially caught my attention (Robin said it was ‘awesome’): ZenNews from UK company Zensify. I’m trying it out. ZenNews is a free app that aggregates news…

  • The mother of all broadband?

    Yesterday, the broadband internet service into my home office that I receive from Virgin Media was upgraded from 20Mb (what Virgin calls its XL service) to the latest 50Mb (XXL in Virgin parlance). The first thing you do when doing…

  • Get ready for video Twitter

    What if you could “video tweet” natively in your Twitter account instead of or in addition to the short text messages you currently send when you use Twitter? According to a report in the Telegraph today, video will soon be…

  • Watch your communication-ness soar

    A new technology tool that started rolling out during the past week is Google Wave, what Google dryly describes as “an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration.” It’s got a lot of people articulating a lot of opinions, pro…

  • Is anyone measuring Twitter on mobile?

    As the news spotlight shone brightly on Twitter yesterday – the company announced a new injection of $100 million in more venture funding – market researcher Hitwise published some new stats about Twitter’s growth. Hitwise’s data, measuring visits in the…