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Amazon's new Kindle: cheaper & better
Wide Open Facebook: 4 moves that have pushed private data into the light
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Just a little Tuesday maths. I remember being taught, back when I was in Primary 6, that a billion was equivalent to a million millions. 1 million = 1,000,000,000,000 or 1012 It's not surprising that that's what Mrs Marshall...more
There have been dating apps on Facebook for a while: Zoosk, Are You Interested and Flirt Wall for example, indeed some would consider the entire network of Facebook to be a giant date facilitator. However another one officially launched...more
The Lotus Music Candle is a seriously banging birthday candle. Don't put it on a cake, but my goodness as far as cheap pyrotechnics go this is way better than low-end fireworks, waaay better than sparklers and just below...more
There now I've said it. I'm sorry you dropped your phone on the bus/had it filched from your bag/or just left it in the pub and sure, you can have my number again, but do not for the love...more
Nothing I love more than a story saying that something I like doing is good for the world. No-one has yet said that about eating salt and vinegar crisps - yet- but the New Scientist have just said it about...more
External websites will be able to post content to your Facebook wall, in a significant change to Facebook's Like button, described as "HUGE" by allfacebook.com. If you like a post on, say this website, then not only will it turn...more
That Blackberry-like top-end Nokia you've been waiting for? It's here. And it costs £289. That's £210 cheaper than the iPhone 4 I hear you say, and you're right. Very right. The C6 is an email focussed phone and sports a...more
You look at a crowd of people - in a stadium, a shop, a station. Your eyes scan the masses, some moves a little awkwardly, maybe they've got backache or maybe.. they're hiding a bomb!! TERRORIST! SHOOT THEM SHOOT...more
Ever thought you spotted a bit of Croydon in a film that is supposed to be set in New York? or wanted to go stroke the tarmac in the carpark where Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have their first romantic...more
We know that on most phones these days, the handset will flash up the name of the person calling - "Mum", "Tom", "John from the Office", "Guy I met on a train", and on many phones you can set a...more
Yup, it's happened - someone has taken The Great American Novel and made it into A Middling American Computer Game. The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is now an online game, available with a free trial on iplay.com. A...more
Chatroulette is an amazing site spoiled by everyone who uses it. The concept of a carosel of random video conversations with people from all over the world is really interesting it's just sad it ends up with the huge...more
Err, a funny story this week about how a blogger got stopped by security guards for taking pictures of t-shirts. Joe Madden runs a Wordpress blog called Meaningless T-Shirts. It's about those T-Shirts which have random fake slogans on them...more
Ah the iPhone 4, so beautiful and yet so flawed. Okay it's not actually that flawed. It just is vulnerable to pressure in a certain special place. Lots of people find that funny. These are our top ten iPhone 4...more
Described as a micro hi-fi for audiophiles, it's a high-tech but small-space sound system that can play off a CD, iPod, USB or Auxilary connection. That means you can plug this into pretty much anything and get it to...more
New Yorkers are a bit miserable, Florida is more cheerful and people are happier at night than midday. I love mood maps, we covered a UK one here a few months, and some research Computer Scientists in Boston have...more
A hotmail phishing scam that took over more than 10,000 accounts proved to be problematic as a combination of severe hacking and good spelling made the attack particularly convincing. Emails arrived seemingly from friends claiming to be in dire...more
We asked Howard Odgen about some of the other people getting interested in Augmented Reality, Foursquare for example who recently released "layers" of their own. Though he remained a little tight-lipped about that, he did agree that it would...more
Here at Shiny Shiny we really like Augmented Reality - the technology that overlays reality with computer data and makes pictures, icons and tweets float over an image of the real world. We are soo into it. Layar is...more
In the market for a new bike? Then it might be worth checking out MyVelo This enterprising new West London company thinks that most bikes that are sold by traditional retailers, are, well, a little bit boring. It wants...more
Amazon's new Kindle: cheaper & better
Wide Open Facebook: 4 moves that have pushed private data into the light
American Billions are different to British Billions: so the human race is 1000x smaller than I thought
New dating app for Facebook promises most compatible matches ever
From: Sony Ericsson's first Android phone: meet the Xperia X10, out in 2010