Nokia's X6 is coming with music, and it's coming soon
We're all getting a bit excited about the Nokia X6 Comes With Music. As the name suggests, this touchscreen smartphone was built to listen to music on. It has 32gig of storage and 35 hours of music-playing battery life - it's a powerful phone with one stand-out feature: unlimited music downloads. Yes, unlimited free downloads…
Why Wii is a girl's best friend
Eighty per cent of female gamers own Wiis, show stats just released by Nintendo. Xbox has 11% of the market and PlayStation 3 has 9% but - with a staggering majority it's clear that Nintendo PWNs the female games console market. A quarter of the total number of games console owners in the States are…
Swype versus iPhone text challenge
We mentioned new texting technology Swype a couple of days ago. Genius Texting works on touchscreens and simply requires you to slide your finger over the keyboard to write words. Swype claim it's quicker and more accurate than traditional tap-typing and lets you text at up to 50 words per minute. Techcrunch lined up the…
Why Farmville has became the most popular game in the world
Farmville is a Facebook app that lets you sow, grow and harvest crops. It's a farming game and recently it became the most popular computer game in the world. Yes: the world. You get a virtual patch of earth, earn money by farming with the option to buy seeds, tools and ornaments if you want.…
Mariah Carey-oke: worst app name ever?
Don't do this in public guys - the Mariah Carey-oke app is yes - groan - a Karaoke app that plays Mariah Carey songs. Four Mariah Carey songs to be precise:Obsessed, Touch My Body, Don't Forget About Us and Shake It Off. A sort of portable Mariah-centric SingStar, this is one of those apps you…
Are virtual Christmas presents the new presents?
I know several people who would probably slap me if I gave them virtual Christmas presents. It's not often you can get away with sending someone what is essentially an email attachment as opposed to going out to the shops and coming up with something decent and err, real. However - one small British start-up…
Iraqi Government starts a Youtube channel: what will the comments be like?
Delighted to hear that Iraqi Government have just started its own Youtube channel. On it they promise to broadcast official speeches, informal chats, behind-the-scenes footage and there seems to be a simultaneous captioning in English for most of them. As the Prime Minister explains in the most watched video on the channel, the Iraqi government…
Facebook in the office makes employees work better
Using Facebook at work could actually improve the performance of employees, says an article in Advertising Age. Approximately 54% of American companies have banned Facebook and other social networks in offices, according to figures compiled by USA Today. That's because employers are worried about lower productivity or their company getting bad press. Well they shouldn't…
Stocking-fillers for kids – tiny solar-powered gadgets
A good stocking- filler for the kids, this tiny whizzing car runs on solar-power and scoots at high speed over the floor when you put it under the sun. Its light weight & tiny size, means it can shoot around really quickly when its solar panel gets direct light. Cute, and seeing how kids -…
iTunes for Magazines?
Three big publishing houses have sought to perk up the magazine market by setting up an "iTunes for magazines". Time Inc and Conde Nast and Hearst are planning to create an online store where digital editions of their biggest magazine names would available to download - at a cost. They hope that the online store…
