Results tagged “mobile” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

A mobile phone that predicts Welsh text messages was unveiled today.

The feature will be included on the first Welsh-language mobile. Users will also be able to scroll through Welsh menus.

A touch-screen Samsung S5600 containing more than 44,000 Welsh words will be available from Orange next month.

Heritage Minister Alun Ffred Jones congratulated the two companies when he unveiled the phone at the National Eisteddfod in Bala.

A *LOT* of people use Facebook applications.

They all seem harmless fun, in the main, such as chosing your 'top five' in all manner of subjects, taking quizzes and suchlike.

On the other hand there is a side to these programs which many people don't seem to consider.

You are allowing a third party, not connected to Facebook, access to all information you place on the site.

Interesting new statistics from Ofcom about people's habits during the current multimedia explosion.

For me the striking thing is that people aren't changing their habits much - just doing more.

The report shows that Consumers spent 429 minutes, or more than seven hours a day, watching television, listening to radio, surfing the internet and making fixed-line and mobile calls in 2007, compared with 423 minutes in 2002.

This is an incredibly huge sounding amount, although I suppose you've got to take into account people will probably be doing other things, including driving, at the same time.

You might have thought traditional pursuits such as the simple telly would have seen a huge decline as a result of the increased platforms on offer.

But no - in 2007, 218 minutes a day were spent watching television, compared with 224 in 2002 - not a great deal of difference.

So basically social networking on the internet, texting, sending video messages, streaming your tedious existence pointlessly over the net through bambuser and so on is all in addition to whatever radio, tv and phone calls you were doing before!

You see those people over there in the corner? You probably don't recognise them, but they're your family. Go on, try and talk to them. Perhaps even go out somewhere together. Oh - someone's written a pithy comment on your Facebook wall. Better reply. Chance gone.