Month: January 2011
Sony's new handheld games console unveiled – meet the Next Generation Portable NGP
Sony unveiled their new handheld games console at their PlayStation Meeting 2011. And dropping the PSP name is only one of the surprises in the new Next Generation Portable (NGP). Resolution on the NGP's screen will be four times sharper thanks to a faster four-core chip (ARM CortexTM-A9). The motion sensors are now the same…
Wikileaks the game – defend America with your iPhone
Of course it wasn't going to be long before someone decided to turn the rollercoaster story of the world's largest secret-busting website into a game. Well it is a game, an app game. However, rather than being the information outlaw Julian Assange, busting open the secrets of government and big corporations, you play the part…
Why Twitter is dangerous: Egyptian government blocks Twitter and Facebook #jan25
It's not just the people rioting on the streets of Cairo that the Egyptian government is trying to subjugate - it's the people on Twitter and Facebook. Social media has been one of the first targets for the regime trying to regain control of its streets. It just shows how important social media is for…
Facebook announcement on Monday: What it might be
Facebook are making an announcement on Monday. We're expecting some new business model, something to do with social advertising, new advances into mobile. Or maybe just a firing squad, related to this story. NO! only joking. I think it's likely to be about finance. Facebook are in one of the most interesting positions of any…
Zuckerberg promises to – OH WAIT his Facebook account was hacked
So in one of the great ironies of modern time, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account was hacked, and a fake status posted by someone who has claimed the 2011HackersCup. Unless someone else brings down the stock exchange, I think this guy should win that cup. Not the usual Frape - it didn't say anything rude about…
@HeartDroid uses Twitter to bring happy and sad people together: we interview the creator
One of the nicest features of Twitter is the way it lets you meet and interact with people that you wouldn't meet IRL. It goes further than Facebook because there's an open culture of following and chatting to people you wouldn't meet in real life. And an Amsterdam developer has just taken that one step…
Dell will launch hybrid tablet computer on Three
Dell's transformer-style laptop-cum-tablet computer The Inspiron Duo will be launched on Three in the UK next month, according to rumours on blogs. It's not one of the swanky new tablets we saw at CES 2011, but it does look like an interesting addtion to the line-up which currently just consists of the iPad and the…
Someone on the internet has made a naked-men clock
Err, well you won't want this open on your work computer, but someone on the internet has made a clock OUT OF NAKED MEN. It's a sort of naked man-themed web app I guess. If you click on the little naked men, then they change from being an analogue clock digital format and sometimes they…
Pope give his blessing to Twitter, but warns against writing things just to be popular
Well, nothing like getting the seal of approval from God's representative on earth. And now Twitter, Facebook and other social networks have got the get-go from the Pope. Last week - proclamation called "Truth, proclamation and authenticity of life in the digital age" The Pope encouraged Catholics to use the internet to spread the good…
Kate Middleton booted off Facebook..
An American woman called Kate Middleton was booted off Facebook last Thursday because administrators thought she was trying to impersonate the more famous Kate Middleton who is about to marry Prince William. Turns out the 29 year old had already been on the site for 3 years and was just going about her normal business.…
