Month: July 2011
Spotify deal with Virgin Media will give TV subscribers free Spotify accounts
A deal between Virgin Media and Spotify will open up the music service's vast library to Virgin media subscribers. Spotify will be one of the bolt-on extras subscribers can get in their subscription packages - Spotify unlimited and Spotify premium are both on offer. We're not surprised Virgin want to bump up the music access…
Facebook Announcement: We'd love it to be a Music service unveil
Facebook are making an "awesome" announcement at 10am PST today, or 6pm GMT, 7pm British Summer Time. Timed to pull the carpet from under Google Plus - which has been dominating tech news for the past week since its launch - Zuckerberg made clear that this wasn't just any old announcement. It's going to be…
The Google+ backlash: Do we really need Friend Circles? Aren't they all… just Friends?
I know - five days ago I was writing about how the ability to sort your friends into Circles was a massive winner for Google+. But now, after a few days of sorting my friends into circles I've decided it's Not Such An Incredible Thing After All. The ability to group friends has been sold…
LulzSec and Anonymous take on Apple: Why are Hackers turning on a loved tech brand?
UM - forget the Arizona police and the music industry, Apple is the new target of the hacking movement #AntiSec. Hackers loosely allied with hacker groups LulzSec and Anonymous have thieved some data from Apple - the names and passwords of users in their business intelligence unit, according The AnonymousIRC Twitter account linked to a…
AR Art you can only see through your phone: Nick Knight, Hussein Chaylan & Arne Quinze
An artist has stuck a giant plume of orange silk on top of the Statue of Liberty's torch - but you can only see it when looking through your mobile phone. It's an Augmented Reality artwork - which means it doesn't actually exist. Or it does - but only on your phone. Or in your…
Brugo Tip'n'Sip mug keeps drinks at optimum temperature for Tea Fascists
If you're one of those people who refuses to drink tea or coffee unless it's at an optimum temperature, then you should probably should consider an insulated mug: for the good of yourself, of the environment and of the other people in the office who make you all these cups of tea that you BARELY…
The Snakescope: Poking stuff with a waterproof camera on a stick is great
The Snakescope from ThumbsUp is a camera with a light on the end of a bendy stick. And that is exactly as much fun as it sounds ie - LOTS of fun. It's powered by USB and shows up the footage from its camera on your computer screen. You can record it, take pictures or…
Technode – our new free digital/iPad magazine
Introducing Technode; the new, free quarterly digital technology magazine from the editorial team behind Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny! Available on all iOS devices as an app, as a web edition and PDF version for other operating systems via Magcloud.com and also as a traditional print edition too, each issue will focus on a key…
