Stop sentimental vampires – the Twilight backlash
The backlash was inevitable. Twilight's smooth-cheeked smoochy boy-next-door vampires had held sway for too long and people want the real thing back. Real vampires who want to scare the hell out of you then bite you to death, not kiss you and then mope about it afterwards. Well, I'm good with either sort really. I…
Watch Cranford anytime: BBC shows will be available on demand on site See Saw
Some of the online walls around BBC content are about to be broken down though thanks to a deal between BBC Worldwide (the BBC's commercial arm) and a site called See Saw, which will provide video on demand from the BBC Worldwide. From the end of February, shows such as 'That Mitchell & Webb Look',…
"My iPhone got me pregnant" – sort of
You know the way they tell you where babies come from in 3rd form Biology classes? well something they never told me is how iPhones can get involved. No, though you can get iSperm applications, you can't quite download zygotes - yet. A great story from the Scottish Sun reports how an iPhone helped bring life…
Warhol prediction comes true in 15tofame video site
Launched at the beginning of 2010, site 15tofame aims to make that well-known Andy Warhol saying finally true - "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." You could say that TV programmes like Big Brother have already recreated the American pop-artist's vision, but 15tofame.com takes the prediction even more literally. The result…
Vodafone shifts 100,000 iPhones in one week: more proof this Apple gadget has gone mass-market
Vodafone has shifted 100,000 iPhones in the handset's first week on the network, more proof if we needed it that the phone is no longer a niche gadget but a must-have. Vodafone's promise of strong network coverage and good upgrade deals for existing customers seem to have wooed large numbers to the Apple phone. Vodafone…
"You Are Not A Gadget" a book with a beautiful cover, and a skewed message
"You are not a Gadget: A Manifesto" is a book by internet guru, musician and author Jaron Lanier published a few weeks ago. The American version of the cover is pretty beautiful (thumbnail to this article, but the English version is even more striking: it's a fake e-reader: (clever huh?) Gorgeous though it is, I…
Man trapped in Haiti rubble saves leg with iPhone
An American man trapped in the rubble in Haiti saved his leg with his iPhone, according to a report on MNSBC. Dan Woolley used a First Aid app to work out how to treat it after he was injured. Because Dan Woolley is near-sighted and lost his glasses in the quake shock, he used the…
Case chic comes to the Google Nexus One
Google's Nexus One is cementing its status as a desirable phone: luxury case-makers are already rushing to case its slender slightly curvy body in plush materials. And the 3G network doesn't even work on it yet. Well not one the one I saw last week. Waterfield designs have coated it in suede leather in what…
Twitter Hashtags that can help organise aid in Haiti
An encouraging story from Haiti about how an organised system of twitter hashtags can help get information to the right people in times of crisis. Spurred by the earthquake crisis in Haiti, hackers and twitter do-gooders have developed a series of hashtags for use in emergencies. Working on the same principles as the tweets that…
Apple to dump Google on iPhone, get Bing instead
There's been a lot of irresistable though unsubstantiated gossip that Apple will dump Google on its iPhone for Bing, Microsoft's rival search engine. The iPhone OS is due an update next week and we expect some big changes on OS 4. As well as changes to iTunes, The Wall Street Journal spread a rumour that…