I tuned into the SMS Text News podcast (number 9) this morning from the Desert Island. Instead of using the Dell Ultralight M1330's (rather nifty) speakers, I plugged in the Polycom Communicator C100 (it's USB). It's a bit of genius. Of course it does voice really well.. I've got a post on

Sony have jumped ahead on the megapixel category with their latest handset, the C905 Cyber-shot. Of course, as Dan Lane (regular contributor to the SMS Text News podcast) points out, megapixels aren't necessarily indicative of photo quality per se. However if the C905 is anything like Sony's K800 or K850 series handsets, it'll

Here is the latest video podcast #16 from SMS Text News. Guest was James Whatley initiator of Mobile Geeks of London, a great idea. Maybe one in Boston? Mobile Geek of Boston! If anyone is interested in the idea, please leave a comment. Alessandro

Ben Smith, SMS Text News contributor and Podcast Master, is heading off to Beijing this summer for the Olympics. He's spending 10 days with the UK Paralympic team. And when he's not looking after our genius basketballers (amongst others), he is hunting for things to review and test — think: navigation, city guides, language

Via SMS Text News Mobile Industry Review, a new video podcast #17 from Covent Garden London. Alessandro

If, like the other tens of thousands of listeners to the SMS Text News podcast, you've listened to this week's already, you'll have heard a bewildered, shocked, … nay, utterly perplexed James Whatley sit in total silence during the recording, whilst I and the rest of the podcast team described how we wanted him to

Did you see it? A bonus! Did you see it slip, carefully — quietly, even — into your iTunes podcasts this morning? (If you were a subscriber to the SMS Text News Twitter feed, you'd have known about this last night, obviously — that's where we stick it cool stuff before we

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled against Telecom Italia's attempt to fire an employee who sent more than 12,000 private text messages from his work phone. UPI via SMS Text News. "The Cassation Court overturned a 2002 ruling by a Naples tribunal that permitted the telecommunications company to fire the employee, identified as Carlo T., after he incurred more than $2,000 in text messaging ch...

Mr MacLeod is back from his desert island this week and we're back in SMS Text News Towers too - normal service has been resumed. This week we preview Ewan's write-ups on the technology he took with him - the stuff that made it through customs and the stuff that didn't. We also celebrate Orange's entry to the 21st century with a sensible data tariff and their latest customer, talk about Yahoo's de

We've talked a lot about the next gen iPhone coming here on SMS Text News. There are those who think it may be the second coming and those who could really care less. There was even a lengthy discussion on last week's Podcast, but with the new phone expected to unveil a week from today,