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I don't understand the importance of desktop search from mobiles, except for a very limited cross-section of the population. It's much like the ability to take Excel spreadsheets with you on your PDA; I'm sure a few people need it, but not as many people as buy the kit to do this sort of thing...

The emphasis on the desktop and the PC strikes me as a very US-centric view of mobile, crow-barring it into a well understood context rather than seeing it as something new.

Viewtiful Joe 2 is out. I'm not a massive gamer, but was struck by the originality of the original when Mr Melon showed me it a while back - it seemed like a textbook example of using the ever-increasing capabilities of a games console to do something really new...

The first ad network devoted to in-game advertising has launched.

SMXL contrast the down-turn in premiership viewing figures with operator plans for video downloads via 3G, and finish with a call for operators to consider niche communities:

"So, mobile operators don't forget the bird watchers, what could you do for them on 3G or the Fishing crazies. Its not just Premiership goals where you future revenue will come from."

Heh.