Britain’s oldest Tweeter has died in her sleep at the age of 104, staff at her care home have said. Ivy Bean, from Bradford, acquired over 56,000 followers on the popular micro-blogging service. Pat Wright, manager of Hillside Manor where Mrs Bean lived, broke the news on her Twitter feed.
Mrs Bean joined the site in 2008, one year after she registered on Facebook. She soon attracted attention for being the oldest “tweeter”.
Windows Phone 7 is on its way to the smartphone market. While it remains to be seen if it can really be a contender, particularly with Google’s Android taking off, it will put Bing front and center for its users. In fact, the company will be making games a big part of the Windows Phone 7 experience , with direct connections to Xbox, which could provide a nice boost in usage.
Windows Phone 7 has loads of other great features
The browser is Internet Explorer, it won’t be as fast as Mobile Safari. It’s got multitouch powers right out of the box. Naturally, you’ve got multiple browser windows, and you can pin web pages to the Start screen, like any other decent mobile browser.
The Outlook email app makes me question how people read email on a BlackBerry. It is stunning. I never thought I’d call a mail app “stunning,” but, well, it kind of is. It’s the best looking mobile mail app around. Text is huge. Gorgeous. Ultrareadable. Of course, it’s got Exchange support too.
The Marketplace is where you’ll buy apps.
Naturally, Bing and Bing Maps are built into the phone as the default search and maps services. They’re nice, smartly contextual, and very location-oriented. Bing’s also used for universal search on the phone, via a dedicated Bing button.Bing Maps is multitouchable, with pinch-to-zoom. It’s rich, with built-in listings with reviews and clever ways of searching for stuff.
The Mozilla Foundation has announced the first beta version of Firefox 4, the next generation of its cross-platform web browser.
Although there is some way to go until the final release, the beta is considered to be stable and safe enough for daily use.
Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will soon be able to hop between the two mobile networks as the firms merge their networks. ....
Almost 13 years after it was first announced, video game Duke Nukem Forever has finally been given a release date by its new owners. ....
Google proposes settling a lawsuit over its Buzz social network, whilst regulators launch a review of the firm's US search practices. ....
