LONDON, England – Internet Radio on your mobile has just been given a boost following a deal to put the BBC World Service, BBC Arabic and BBC Rolling News in English on the Nokia Internet Radio Application. Already pre-loaded on some S60 3rd edition devices, the Internet Radio app can also be downloaded from the Nokia site. With the BBC World Service particularly having a global following, this will be a huge boost for Nokia users across the globe.
LONDON, England – I’ve spent the last few days playing with the N96 and drawn like a midget to a lightbulb to its BBC iPlayer application. The N96 comes packing a DVB-H tuner, which means it can receive TV signals, which in turn enables it to play terrestrial TV. So far so good. Except in the UK there isn’t an form of mobile TV service right now. The UK Nokia team is doing its bit with Capsule N96 – the home-grown TV station designed specifically for the N96, but the real gap-filler has to be iPlayer.
GLOBAL – That’s the question Tim Berners-Lee asked when he was speaking to the BBC to publicise the launch of his World Wide Web Foundation. The Foundation is set up to improve the web’s accessibility, particularly for those in developing countries. According to the story on BBC news “only 20 per cent of the world’s population have access to the web.”
GLOBAL – Yesterday AllAboutNGage.com wrote a story about what happens with your N-Gage games if you change or upgrade your device. Right now the answer is simply that you lose your games and will need to re-purchase them. This differs from the original plan where your games would form part of your N-Gage Profile, enabling you to take the games with you on whatever N-Gage-enabled device you choose.
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