Jun 20 2008
Champ Tracks - ICT Round-up for 20 June 2008
How time flies, time for the edited ICT highlights from the last week or so.
Web 2.0
- Lingro is a new collaborative dictionary and translation service that combines open dictionaries on the web with user contributions under a CreativeCommons license.
- Need to dynamically generate charts in web pages? The Google Charts API will let you do it.
Mobile 2.0
- With mobile phone global sales past the 3 billion mark, Infoworld reports on the hidden environmental costs of mobile phones.
- You can make it up. Last year, 5 out of 10 of Japan’s best selling novels were originally composed on mobile phones, and now craze is breaking here with Quillpill.
- Mippin is a service delivering web content “perfectly formatted” to your mobile phone
- Read Write Web discuss the rise of m-commerce - or buying stuff from your mobile phone.
- Download Squad reports that Spb Software House has released an updated version of the company’s popular Spb Backup utility for Windows Mobile phones and PDAs.
Government:
- British democracy is alive and well and The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament have launched their own Youtube channel to prove it.
- IT over-spend shocker: According to Kablenet, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s telecommunications network and its Future Firecrest infrastructure work have produced a £61m net overrun on the department’s IT projects.
- Lost data shocker: Another one from Kablenet. Six laptops containing personal data on 20,000 patients have been stolen from St George’s Hospital in south-west London, the hospital’s parent trust has revealed
