Happy Pancake and International Women’s Day tech heads! If you can bear it, now’s the time to tear yourself away from batter-making (or from rectifying inequality) and sate your gadget hunger with today’s round up of the morning’s headlines.
We7, the online jukebox radio service, is making its first foray into the app world. It hits the Android Market today, and will be arriving on the Apple App Store in a month. The we7 app fits somewhere in between Last.fm and Spotify, but with more available for free. Read on for more info.
Pure has launched the Twilight radio. It’s a bit like a Philips Wake Up light, but with a toybox worth of bells and whistles. This is one for the kids, on top of being a wake-up gadget for grown-ups too.
Pure has announced a special edition of its Evoke Mio radio, designed by Orla Keily. It’s an FM and DAB radio, and internally is exactly the same as the original Pure Evoke Mio, with an alarm, kitchen timer, 30 presets and an input to plug in your iPod. The Pure Evoke Mio Orla Keily will be available exclusively in John Lewis from November, and other retailers will be getting theirs in March next year, after the Christmas rush.
Out November 2010 | £150 | John Lewis
Flow Songs, the new service that lets you download songs direct from your radio, will be launching on Monday. It’s a service which brings together radio broadcast and digital music sales, in theory into a neat, functional service. We took a closer look, and weighed up some of the major pros and cons of Flow Songs, to ask you whether you’d use it…