Month: October 2010
Week in social media: Sutro's top 30 UK Twitter brands, MySpace revamped
We hope you've all had a very productive week. It is once again time for a quick look at what's been going on in social media. Sutro's top 30 UK brands on Twitter sparks conversation At the beginning of the week, we decided to collate a list of the top 30 UK brands on Twitter,…
iPhone 4 cases get a stylish London makeover from Ted Baker
Oo, more pretty iPhone 4 cases. This time from stylish London designer Ted Baker who brings some flash patterns and textured leather to the iPhone 4 case arena. All available for either £29.99 or £34.99 from proporta.com We just copied the images in below. I'm especially digging on the patterned hardback cases - cute...
The UK Facebook that could have been – 14 years before Zuckerberg
No, we're not talking about MySpace or My_____ as we should refer to it these days. We're talking about Monochrome, a social network born in 90s Britain which helped people keep in touch with each other online. Inspired by film The Social Network I started having a chat with @absinthecity about pre-Facebook facebooks and she…
Windows 7 for iPhone! – get a Windows 7 theme on your iPhone
Well, we're not saying it works or is a good idea, or that its even in English (it's in Polish) but you can now download the distinctive Windows 7 tile interface for your iPhone. Your jailbroken iPhone that is. iPhone themes only work on jailbroken handsets, but it might be worth jailbreaking the darn thing…
4 in 5 teenagers haven't used a VHS, survey finds, but how did they record TellyTubbies then?
4 in 5 of teenagers today haven't used a VHS according to a survey by myvouchercodes found. They asked 1,052 young people whether they had used certain devices from the tech hall of history and only 1 in 5 (19%) said that they had used a VHS before with a further 4% claiming to not…
Blackberry Bold 9780 – punchy new handset with OS 6 and a Facebook tie-in for BBM
RIM unveiled a new Blackberry Bold today, the Bold 9780 with a 5 megapixel camera and the new OS 6. Where other recent release - the Torch - set new highs for the Blackberry range, this new phone is more about adding depth to the more affordable Bold range. The phone features the new Blackberry…
French law-makers set a fixed price for eBooks in attempt to keep the paper book market alive
French law-makers have just decreed that any eBook sold in France must cost the same as its paper versions in a unanimous ruling in the French Senate. The law called the Single Price for Digital Books - is intended to stop digital books undercutting the market in paper books. The French Minister for Culture said…
Get some Augmented Reality with your Breakfast Cereal
We know Augmented Reality is popular right now, but we can now officially say it has gone mainstream with the arrival of AR in breakfast cereals. Nestle have launched a thing with their Chocopic range of cereals in France where 3D glasses you cut out of your cereal packet will let you open up and…
VIDEO DEMO: World's first Augmented Reality Spectacles: Vuzix WRAP 920 AR
We had a European first in the office today with this demo of Vuzix's Augmented Reality spectacles. Combining augmented reality with 3D images they let you see three dimensional characters pop out of objects in the real world. So looking through the glasses, dragons pop out of pages, volcanos erupt on a book in front…
Yahoo's new Mail service: speedier and with Facebook
The 10 million plus people in the UK who use Yahoo Mail can expect a revamp in the next few days as a beta version of the new and redesigned Mail is rolled out. The stand-out feature is the speed - they promise it is twice as fast. The new Yahoo is also designed to…
