The female mind

You know the scene; you go for a night out and head to a bar in the city centre. The music's playing, you can't hear your mobile phone and come the morning, you get plenty of unjustified stick from someone who tried to call you at 2:00am.




Even if you have your phone in your pocket and set it on vibrate, you still don't realise that it's ringing.

That doesn't work with women though. For some reason, and I can't figure out why, women seem to know exactly when their phones are bleeping away whilst it's stuck at the bottom of their handbag. Presmuably they are all implanted with a bluetooth brain chip at birth - I honestly don't know.

Still, that same ability obviously went AWOL when one of our group realised her phone went missing.

We tried to see the funny side.

McMobile

Remember when mobile phones first started to hit the shelves? I bet back then, most of you emphatically said "I don't need one of those things!"





Sooner or later, most of us probably thought "Well, I guess it might be useful in emergencies..." and today, you've probably got loads - most of them old phones stuffed in a drawer somewhere. You're probably even fiddling with it right now.

There's quite a lot you can do with mobile phones these days. You can sent text messages, photos, videos, play music, play video, buy ring tones, surf the internet, get train times and download football results. You can even use them to make telephone calls, apparently.

Well now, you can even pay for a Big Mac with one, provided you are Japanese anyway.

Now you could say that this sort of thing is convenient. You don't have to scramble around for change and it will be a swift, seamless transaction.
You could also argue that this is yet another example of how marketers are looking to turn us all into a cashless society, making it easier for them to electronically tag what we eat, when we eat it and when we eat. Still, I suppose I'm paranoid like that. ;)

Anyway, we should all be avoiding McDonald's, Prince Charles has told us to.

Is a Vodafone mobile better than a PC?

Vodafone have announced that they have developed a service that will allow their customers to access and edit their myspace profiles from their mobile phone.










This is indeed groundbreaking technology. Mobile Internet has been around for many years, but isn't the sort of thing people have embraced. Instead, operators have focused on MMS, 3G and all the other gubbins.

But it's nice to know that someone, somewhere, has developed something that can actually make myspace profiles even remotely legible.

Myspace pages are renowned for being completely unreadable. In fact, even their homepage currently has 158 html errors, lord only knows what would happen to the W3C if you put some of myspace's profile pages in there. America's biggest computers magazine, PC World, named myspace as number one in their "25 worst websites" for similar reasons?

I mean honestly, could you imagine having this or even this profile on your mobile phone screen?

You could quite easily view mine though ;)