Month: May 2011
Terrorism? There's an app for that…
Worried about a terrorist backlash after the Osama assassination? Well, there's an app for that... We're just not sure it's very useful. The new UK Terror Alert iPhone app from Raaza sounds well-intentioned and everything, but we're just not sure that having on-the-go access to the UK's Terrorism alert on our iPhones will actually be…
Poll: Are you worried by your smartphone spying on you?
With the South Korean police accusing Google of illegally tracking phone owners today, and revelations two weeks ago that iPhones store a record of everywhere that their users go - your smartphone spying on you is this month's big scare story. It's all about location tracking. We know that our phones know where we are…
Channel 5 opens Big Brother auditions
You have to fill in an online form first, but Channel 5 are accepting applicants for this year's Big Brother house and you can do it by Youtube according to Media Age. It's the first year that Channel 5 have been in charge of the popular show, previously run by Channel 4 for ten seasons.…
In New Series of The Apprentice: Contestants will have to pitch apps – apparently they're dreadful
Thrilled to hear that the new series of the Apprentice starting this Wednesday features contestants battling it out to create great apps. In the second episode of Series 7, showing on Wednesday 11th May, the contestants have to pitch an app to the staff of Wired magazine and convince some gamers at a conference. The…
Forget Apple, Google's new enemy is South Korea
Forget Steve Jobs, Google now have South Korea to worry about. The country's police have rushed headlong into a confrontation with the internet giant over privacy. South Korean police raided Google's South Korean HQ in Seoul after worries that Google had been collecting mobile phone users' location details without their consent. The allegations centre around…
Spotify Free users now get to sync their bought music to their iPod
The ability to sync your Spotify music to your iPod/iPhone/Android phone has just been extended to Spotify free users. However, users of Free Spotify won't be able to stream their music on their iPods - they'll just be able to transfer tracks they've already bought. Announced today on the Spotify blog , the company explained:…
Design your own speakers: Doodle speakers
If you've ever wanted to customise your laptop speakers the way you can can customise your phone case - well, be happy. You now can. Doodle speakers come with a customisable case - upload a picture or design of your choice on their website and they'll print it out and case up the 3 watt…
Aesir: The phone that costs £37,000 and can only call and text -but is inspired by Norse gods
While gold plating exists, there will be idiots plating stuff with it and even greater idiots paying huge amounts of money for that stuff. Witness the Danish company Aesir's latest offering - the £37,000 ($61,000) AE+Y phone that has no app-store, GPS or even email access. It only calls and texts and er lets you…
How-To: Run a Global Operation WITHOUT email – what we can learn from Osama bin Laden
If Osama bin Laden caused all that global chaos without email, just think what he could have done with Google Docs and a few iPhone productivity apps. It makes me shudder. I couldn't organise getting two people over for dinner without G-chat, google maps, text messages and possibly a Facebook reminder - so I was…
The Sony Hack: Who did it and why? UPDATED
STORY UPDATED: 17:00 03/05/11 Cyber criminals have just pulled off one of the biggest hacks in web history. The details of 43 million Playstation and Playstation online users have been stolen and Sony online services are still down. Three weeks after the Sony hack became public, the damage only seems to grow - with details…
