Month: October 2010
Sony offer a VAT-free Christmas with a money-back offer
Sony are making a nice gesture towards easing the pain of the Christmas bill bite. They are offering customers VAT back on most Sony gadgets bought between 28 October and 24 December. Another good reason to spend before Christmas is that VAT in the UK will hike up to 20% in the first month of…
Ghost in the Machine: why we're all seeing phantoms on our phones
IS IT A GHOST? AN ANGEL? A REFLECTION? Well. This is a seasonal story. Apparently the recent boom in high-specced camera phones means we see more ghosts. Tesco Telecoms have undertaken the worthy research project of asking whether people think any of the photos and video on their phones are a bit spooky. They asked…
Charatter: have a Small Robotic Bear read your Tweets to you
Some people like to read Twitter on the web, others prefer apps like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but surely the cutest way to receive updates from your friends on Twitter is to have a 10 inch desk-robot reading them out to you. Especially if that robot is the shape of a bear. It's from Japan, of…
Five things I want from an iPad Magazine & Poll – What do you think of Magazines on the 'Pad?
Is it the saviour of the magazine industry, or isn't it? Figures on iPad magazine sales have just been released on AdAge and we're not quite sure whether it means that iPad magazines work, that they don't work, or that they will work later. In meantime, I just wanted to set down some of my…
Have more men than women bought the iPad? – tell us
We know that iPad owners are part of a "selfish elite" [see this blog post] but are they mostly men too? Interesting statistic from magazine AdAge - showing that men's magazines have significantly outsold women's magazines in the iPad app store. That's the reverse of how sales go in the dead-tree publishing world where women's…
Top Five Brands on Twitter & why TopShop rules the roost
TopShop isn't just a high-street darling, it has social media down too - coming up as the biggest UK brand by number of followers on Twitter. The clothes shop has an incredible 100,000+ followers on Twitter, far ahead of the second biggest brand, Burberry.com which has just over 64,000, according to the survey of the…
Another sex chart? Why yes.. it's the Monogamy Graph
We like to bring you news about technology, but also to tell you when someone draws a weird graph about sex. Readers, someone has. There it is below. It's from the good people at Obsidian Fields and it's about different attitudes to monogamy. click the picture for a, uh, enlargement
Review: new Online Meeting Tool Join.Me promises to make conferences easier
If you ever wanted to meet 249 other people at once, but couldn't quite get around to the physical logistics of organising a real-world meeting, then perhaps you might be interested in Join.me. Forget 10-way calls on Skype, Join.me is an online meeting and screen-sharing tool that will connect up to 250 people. The core…
What Starbucks can teach Microsoft..
So you'd think Starbucks wouldn't have much to teach Microsoft except for um, you know, how to make better lattes for the office cafeteria. But Starbucks does have an interesting little bit of information to give the tech giants... as Robert Scoble picked up earlier this week. Starbucks gets data on who uses the wifi…
The TV Remote you need a PhD to use – Google TV has a few lessons to learn
A little lesson to be learned from the first version of Google TV: keep it simple. Or at least, keep the remote controls simple. Buisness Insider spotted this little tale of woe yesterday... "I tried Google TV yesterday. Flying a Cessna is easier and has fewer controls than the Sony remote," tweets Jon Steinberg, President…
