Month: May 2011
What we've learned from FourSquare: New Yorkers booze more than Friscans
Apparently New Yorkers are more likely to check-in at bars than San Franciscans who are more likely to wind up in coffee shops. Foursquare opened up some of its information trove to the Wall Street Journal and it turned up some interesting data results - primarily about the leisure activities of the technorati in those…
Big Issue Sellers to get iPhone 5s and become Journalists
Big Issue sellers are to be given smartphones and asked to report on what happens on the streets around them. Big Issue manager John Bird said that he planned to roll out the sellers-as-journalists idea after the launch of the iPhone 5 (expected in September). All sellers will be equipped with iPhone 5s which would…
Link your scales up to your TV – WiFi Body Scales connect to the telly
We've already seen the weighing scales that connect up to your phone, but the company behind the best-connected scales in the world have just decided to link them up to something else - the TV. That means you get the shame - or err motivation - of seeing your weight flashed up on the telly…
How to build your own Augmented Reality App: A guide to Layar toolkits
A new announcement by Layar promises to put the tools for making Augmented Reality apps into the hands of everyone. Layar blogged: "Layar Connect allows anyone to build what could become the WordPress or YouTube of augmented reality, helping them create and share content in truly immersive ways." We're on board. Layer have opened up…
Apple plots Cloud Music: Will it beat these 2 Apple Software flops?
Will Apple launch a cloud music service? The company have reportedly just signed a deal with EMI, after having previously locked one down with Warner Music. It's a clear step on their way to do something different with how they sell music. We imagine them moving towards the sort of rental service available on Spotify…
Three things you never knew you could do with toothpaste: DIY App Morf is like a Useful Boyfriend with a simple user interface
Subtitled "Extraordinary uses for ordinary things" new iPhone and Android app Morf is a treasure trove of odd but practical DIY information. It's the sort of weird shit your parents/boyfriend/gran would come up with and you just don't know how they found it out. Things like - if you defrost frozen fish in milk it…
iPad Magazine doubters take stock – engagment on an iPad is 5x greater than on a website
The latest statistics on iPad magazine engagement show that readers will spend 5 times longer looking at a magazine's app than they will looking at its website. That's a significant increase in time. And a coup for the iPad mag supporters among us. Developers TigerSpike who have made apps for the Telegraph and the Economist…
We watch 11,000 years of online TV in a month: Is the human race doomed?
A few numbers for you to mull over if you can tear yourself away from watching Youtube and playing Angry Birds - It seems we all spend waaay too much time watching Youtube videos and playing Angry Birds. PREPARE FOR THE TRUTH 1) In one month (April) - Britons watched 11,000 years worth of online…
Facebook makes us rude and poor: Survey proves what we all fear
Facebook and other social media sites are costing the UK economy £57.8 billion a year, according to a survey by online market research firm uSamp. And - almost as bad - social media is making us rude. After quizzing 500 firms and crunching some numbers, the survey sponsored by social email software provider harmon.ie came…
Android leak: 99% of phones lose data to unsecured wifi networks
With news that 99% of Android phones can leak data when connected to unsecured wifi networks phones have become the new security risk for mobile users. It's the second security problem to hit Android after people revealed that the unmonitored Android app store was hiding viruses masked as apps. Unsecured wifi-networks are a safety risk…