Month: October 2010
Are you a geek? Could you be Geek of The Year?
It's an honour it's hard to pass by. Imagine, you, a Geek of the Year... If you are interested in putting yourself forward for this honour, then check out the competition on site geeks.co.uk. You have to upload a picture and a uh video of yourself doing your geeky things. The pictures all get uploaded…
Why I'm still not convinced by Apps on TV
Samsung tried to get us all excited about the potential of apps on TV today. And to extent they succeeded. The iPlayer app looks great, LoveFilm and music video site Muzu.com will be excellent. But what all those apps have in common is that they offer content that was always intended for TV in an…
INTERVIEW: Samsung execs explain why you will want apps on the TV
We grabbed a quick video interview with two Samsung execs at the launch of their Smart TV Apps platform. We had just been sold the brave new world of apps on the telly and so we asked these guys just why we should be so wowed. They also tell us how you pay for TV…
Samsung: TV apps will change how we watch television for ever..
Apps will do for TV what they did for smartphones - said Samsung UK Vice President Andy Griffiths today - and change it forever. He announced a sheaf of apps that would appear on the new Samsung Smart TVs - iPlayer, LoveFilm, Muzu.com, Facebook, Skype and Twitter - explaining how they'd all been optimised for…
Key to selling more apps – get a good app store: RIM learns the hard way
One way to sell more apps is to have great apps. The other way is to have a simple, easy to use app store. Much more than giving developers freebies, that is what phone-makers like RIM and Nokia should be focussing on. Having a store front which is easy to use, simple to navigate, and…
The Irish-Pad? Cute Irish Tweed iPad Sleeves from Foof
If you want to bring a little Irish charm to your fondle pad you can either play Ronan Keating videos on loop or buy an Irish Tweed iPad case. The first option will be free but annoying, the second one will cost you $28 Australian Dollars (£17.36) but could look quite nice. Australian case-makers Foof…
Someone actually spends £5million on an iPhone
And there was me thinking that no-one would ever pay to get a gadget with a shelf-life of about 2 years covered in rose gold and 100carat diamonds. How wrong I was. Tony Sage, an Australian who has made big money as a fund manager in the mining industries just commisioned Liverpool gadget-blinger Stuart Hughes…
Try on Jewellry in Augmented Reality: new Boucheron website
Fashion has really picked up on Augmented Reality - we've seen it on the catwalks a few times and on the covers of fashion magazines - but the big growth area seems to be virtual changing rooms. AR lets you superimpose a computer image on top of a picture of the real world - ten…
Chilean Miners bump up internet usage by 22%..
Well, I promise I won't mention Chilean miners again, but just got this interesting little story about how everyone rushing online to watch videos of the miners coming out of those rocket pods sent internet usage up 22% on the evening of their rescue. The figures come from British Internet Service Providers Demon who clocked…
5 Things You Could Crowdsource But Shouldn't
News that Gap have decided to crowdsource their new logo, after hastily withdrawing the fairly shit helvetica thing they produced last week, prompted us to examine the things that you could crowdsource, but probably shouldn't. 1. Logos. Yes, CEO of Gap, if you're reading we are suggesting that your logo is one thing you should…
