Olympic Phone touch-payment details revealed

Games to be a hotbed of bonking for money

Samsung's "Olympic" Galaxy S3 is being posted out to athletes and game officials next week, complete with pay-by-bonk functionality and a customised interface for those who need to know how great Samsung is.…

via The Register - Networks

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/visa_samsung_olympics/

Lightsquared cremation postponed

Corpse can keep walking about for another year

Troubled cellular disrupter LightSquared has apparently managed to extend its debt burden again, potentially keeping the company afloat until September next year.…

via The Register - Networks

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/lightsquared/

Habbo Hotel to 'unmute' chat so users can show they love it

'Many of the inappropriate adults are journos', says CEO

Teen social network site Habbo Hotel is going to allow its users to chat again soon, as its parent company removes the restrictions imposed after allegations of inappropriate sexual content.…

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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/habbo_great_unmute/

ITU says broadband can heal world economy

Calls on G20 to write broadband plans like Australia's NBN by 2015

Western economies buffeted by the Great Recession and subsequent Euro-crises can accelerate out of their current fiscal fug if governments invest in a jolting dose of fast broadband, says the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).…

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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/itu_g20_broadband_call/

China goes Alt with root proposal

Because the DNS doesn’t scale … no, really

China Telecom has only our best interests at heart, which is why it’s proposing that a Balkanised DNS system would save us from the disastrous effects of failure to scale.…

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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/china_firewall_dns_proposal/

Six in Tokyo slammer after Android smut scam

Malware was distributed through adult site

Six men including three IT executives have been arrested in Tokyo in connection with an Android malware scam which netted them over 20 million yen (£160,740).…

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http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/android_malware_japan_adult_site/

Can your cloud balance supply and demand?

The perfect match

Private cloud involves a multi-layered approach to architecting IT systems and delivering services to the business, making the most of virtualisation to provide a separation between the two.…

via The Register - Cloud http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/18/private_cloud_infrastructure/

What if Google ceased to exist tomorrow?

I was just sitting here contemplating things, and wondered "What if Google ceased to exist tomorrow?". I use a lot of their stuff - apps for my email, their blog service (which is where this blog is hosted), picassa, maps and more recently Google+

Email, blogger, picassa, and Google+ would be pretty easy to replace for free (although you'd likely have to use multiple services to get close to the built-in functionality that the Google tools offer). However some elements of maps would not be without some cost (eg. purchasing some sat-nav software).

Thoughts?

Updated my free UK Lottery Number Generator app

I've updated my free UK Lottery Number Generator app to now include the option to generate numbers for either the main Lotto or Euro Millions.

http://goo.gl/H8fCP

My aMazing game for Android

When my aMazing maze game for Android reaches 500 downloads, I'm going to make the Pro version free!

http://goo.gl/F3IKy

Latest version of aMazing now on the Android Market

Have you tried the latest version of my free aMazing game for Android yet?

http://tinyurl.com/5wsub3t


It's got 10 levels and now has a ghost that roams around, which you must avoid!

aMazing Pro now available on the Android Market

My aMazing Pro maze game is now available on the Android Market http://tinyurl.com/6y3ksc4

It's an easy to pick up, addictive game for the whole family to enjoy.

Latest version of my aMazing game on the Android Market

I've uploaded the latest version of my aMazing maze game to the Android Market. It now has 9 levels...

Let me know if you like it.

http://tinyurl.com/5wsub3t

I just uploaded a taster version of my latest Android app - aMazing to the Android Market.

It's a simple little maze game, where you guide a little red ball to the yellow target.

This taster version has 5 levels, but currently I'm working on adding more levels and features!

Check it out, and let me know what you think.

http://tinyurl.com/5wsub3t

NavBook Pro is now available on the Android Market

I've just made the Pro version of my NavBook app available on the Android Market. You can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/3sdhcmb

It's got all the features of the free NavBook app, plus also includes:

* Switch between Nav and Map mode
* Tell you where you currently are - in case you're lost
* Parking mode - stores current location and then gives you directions back to it
* Slight improvement to the screen layout

My first Android app is now in the Android Market

I've put my first Android app up in the market. It's an address book for Google Navigation.

I'm currently working on a pro version with extra functionality and a slightly improved UI.

If you want to check it out, you can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/3jxdqtg

App Inventor issue...

I've been trying to generate an email from an App Inventor app. It successfully builds the mailto URI, but for some reason the data for the email body, which should look something like:

name1, value
name2, value
name3, value

Isn't being displayed - only the first line is placed into the email... I'm using %0A to signify a newline within the mailto URI (as indicated by a number of folk) but it just doesn't work....

The mailto URI that my app is generating is something like:

mailto:x@y.com?subject=test&body=name1,value%0Aname2,value%0Aname3,value%0A

but all I see in the generated email is:

name1, value

Anyone got any ideas?

Google AppInventor fun

I've just spent a couple of hours playing around with Google's AppInventor. It allows you to create apps for your Android device quickly using a web/java based drag-and-drop interface...

My first project is an address book for Google Maps. It allows you to store names & postcodes in a persistent DB. When you then select the stored address from a list it fires up Google Maps and passes the postcode.

So far it works just great - now all I need to do is refine it a little... The biggest "issue" is that you're really limited in terms of UI layout options, so have to get a little creative with blank images as spacers etc...

If you want a copy of the code to import into your Google AppInventor project, drop me a note.

Anyway - off to sleep now as the Formula 1 qualifying starts at 6am!

Brrrrr - It's bloomin cold!

It's bloomin cold in my office owing to the heating system being broken, and the external temperature being around 3C :(

I'm attending the Cloud Expo 2011 at Barbican, London tomorrow...

Hoping it's going to be a worthwhile trip - got several meetings scheduled so that's a good start!

http://www.cloudexpoeurope.com/