What a busy digital week it’s been, there’s been posts from blogs and newspaper articles covering everything exciting in the pervasive and online world.

A lot more mobile technology news stories are beginning to hit the news in comparison with straight internet related interest reads and so this week I’m mostly rounding up any great/bad news that’s affecting the Happy Package’s further development.

Mobile Vouchers for greasy hands

Apparently South Korea isn’t the only place where (more…)

A piece in the Media Guardian today nicely summarises the point I’ve been blabbing about over the last few months - online spend is yet to overtake print & TV spend, even though we spend more time online than watching TV and reading newspapers!

What does this mean for us? I suppose we’ve got at least a few more years of running round like headless chickens before the second dotcom bubble bursts =) For more info read the Guardian post

I’ve been carrying out some very ‘in-depth’ studies into social network usage over our short-lived British Summer, and realised I’ve been using Facebook a lot less.

Apparently my ‘phone-losing house-mate‘ hasn’t checked hers in a few days too and it raised the point relating to my pervasive weather post.

We’re more likely to interact with our desktops over winter’s cold months, but (more…)

Anyone wanna’ know what’s been lighting our fires recently? I know we’ve been posting on Happy Packages, Bournemouth and a sunny day on the beach, but there’s been a few interesting moments been happening outside our bubble too.

Money in your Mobile

First up is some news I’m following very closely regarding payment of services from your Mobile Phone. It seems that Mobile Banking team, Monitise, are working with the Carphone Warehouse to develop a secure money application on your phone which you can use to check balances, view transactions and transfer money.

Judging by the amount of phones my house-mate’s lost (more…)

Wow, what a brilliant night we all had at the Cineformation event last night!

The talk had varied speakers from Dr Tom ‘have you read this book’ Abba and Rik ‘new internet tv ideas’ Lander who both rocked out with their own projects. The lovely host Vicky ‘wonky’ Brophy chaired a great night and judging from the comments (some in French!), people loved it.

Thought Den were invited to chair a discussion on the Distribution of Video to Mobile and explore the current scene, but no one had hair nearly as good as Ben’s last night… (more…)