Month: March 2010
Android v iPhone: how the States split up
People are fond of splitting the US up into those maps that show that the East and West coats think one thing but the mid-west and centre think the opposite. Democrat voters on the coasts, Republicans in the middle, latte drinkers on the coast, ole Joe's home-brewed moonshine in the middle. Frequency of UFO visits,…
Has the iPhone killed the girl phone? we're customising the inside not the outside
Two or three years ago, on this very blog there would be a steady stream of girl phones. You know what I mean: pink, dimante-encrusted things that would come pre-loaded with girl-friendly ringtones 'Oops I Did Again' and would perhaps match with your make-up case and maybe have a mirror on the back so you…
Google acquires picture-editing software Picnik, deepening reach into the internet's pictures
Looks like Google might be soldifying its control over the web's pictures by announcing yesterday that it will be buying out Picnik - the free photo editing software. Picnik has provided popular free browser-based picture editing software, meaning users don't have to purchase or download complicated software. It also links into social networks well, meaning…
Skinput: why touch a screen when you can touch yourself?
Why touch a screen when you can touch yourself? Er, that seems to be the message of SkinPut, a new technology that turns your forearm into a control panel for gadgets. It allows you to tap your arm to input commands into your phone instead of fiddling around with the keypad. Yes your arm is…
Men flock to Facebook in early months of 2010
There has been a surge in men joining Facebook in the past two months according to statistics from the Inside Facebook blog. Facebook membership is growing in all sectors, but more more quickly among men. Looking at growth statistics for February 09 it appears that men are joining at a much faster rate than women…
Glow mood map iPhone app shows what cities are happy…
I love mood maps and someone has just gone and created an iPhone app that lets you rate your mood and map it on the world. Glow- How Do you Feel from Heckacopter asks your location and then your feelings. You get to rate your mood on a scale of one to five stars. 1…
More evidence that the iPhone is a girls' phone
Picture the average iPhone user and I bet you are conjuring up some blokey geek in their 20s? Well according to new research from mobile advertising company Admob you are away off. The survey, which also quizzed Palm Web OS and Google Android users, found that iPhone owners are split fairly evenly between the sexes…
LG plot first Windows Series 7 mobile: a business-like slider
LG will make a high-end Windows Phone 7 Series handset coming out around September they announced in New York. Microsoft's new Operating System for mobile phones should get a consumer friendly receptacle in the as-yet-unnamed LG handset. Details are pretty vague but LG promise "a compelling and unique user experience", a Bing search engine (of…
5 things you didn't know about Chatroulette
The most fun you can have in front of a webcam, Chatroulette is everybody's favourite new NSFW video chat site. But here are five things you didn't know about it: 1. It was founded by a seventeen year-old Russian programmer called Andrey Ternovskiy, who started it for him and his friends to chat on. [NY…
French Connection in rubbish Chatroulette competition
In case you missed the hype Chatroulette started at the end of last year and it randomly connects users from around the world, enabling them to communicate using webcam, text and images. Much of the time though users share webcam footage with each other and much of it is, (our research team reckons about 10%)…
