October, 2009 Archive

Freeview is celebrating its seventh birthday today. The service launched on the 30th of October 2002 as a joint venture between the BBC, Crown Castle and BSkyB. Freeview offered free-to-view TV after the collapse of ITVDigital, and OnDigital before that. Greg Dyke, then Director-General of the BBC, said: “Today is an important day in the [...]

We’d like to introduce you to Chumby… Always keen to explore new gadgets, we think the Chumby is a rather interesting concept – somwhere between a Nabaztag and a Joggler, the Chumby sits quietly where you put it, and uses an wi-fi Internet connection to pull down weather, news, Internet radio, podcasts (including ours, we [...]

Our website of the day… The tech team at Absolute Radio has released a nifty site that allows the world to peek into the playlists of UK radio stations. Their site robot monitors the “Now Playing” information transmitted by radio stations, and uses this to work out the number of songs on a station’s playlist, [...]

iPhone users – you can now watch 11 Freeview channels live on your phone. The service from TVCatchup.com allows you to watch the following channels: BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, ITV1, ITV2, Channe 4, Five, Film 4, e4, More 4 and 4 Music. To watch, point your iPhone web browser to http://iphone.tvcatchup.com/ – No subscription, no sign-up, [...]

New Tech Podcast out now… We’ve had a busy couple of weeks, and while we’re working on our next full-length podcast, we’ve released a quick audio update. Featured in the show: An update on the Freeview Retune News of the TomTom Start Amazon Kindle to hit the UK Barcode scanning on the iPhone Plus your [...]

FrequencyCast Update 15 Oct 2009 [ 16:42 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

At last – barcode scanning on a mobile phone that actually works. Despite some glowing reviews for the application RedLaser on iTunes, I must admit our hopes weren’t high. We’ve tried barcode scanning apps for mobiles in the past, notably on Nokia Series 60 handsets, and the results have been dreadful – lots of faffing [...]

On Monday 19th October, the Kindle hits the UK. If you’re not in the know, the Kindle is Amazon’s eBook Reader. It’s been big news in the US, and until now has not been available here in the UK. Things have opened up, and it’s now possible to get a Kindle direct from Amazon – [...]

Show 44 of FrequencyCast, the UK’s TV and Tech podcast, has just been released. In this show, we discuss all that’s new with digital TV and technology. Here’s what we cover in this show: News Updates: Freeview Retune time, Vision updates, Google’s new SideWiki and more. Focus: Save cash by going subscription-free. Also, how to [...]

FrequencyCast UK Show 44 [ 30:58 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download