Month: July 2006
A changing AOL set to enter video downloads market
AOL, the global Internet giant, is set to announce today its intention to trial an Internet video service, imaginatively titled AOL Video. It's yet another company diving into this kind of high-bandwidth, hard-to-monetise service. AOL Video 'aims to be…
Microsoft's Zune strategy revealed
Microsoft has predicted that it will take up to five years of investment before their Zune digital music device begins to pay off. It's planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to challenge Apple's iPod/iTunes combo, and is…
Review: Logitech Noise-cancelling headphones
The Propaganda Logitech only have three headphones in their current range, and these noise cancellation headphones are the serious ones. Their schtick is that they are designed to cancel out low-frequency noise, making them ideal for planes, trains and…
Monday interview: Channel 4's Steven Forde on their innovative Lost Experience
For many fans of Lost, the guessing games don't stop when the TV show's credits roll. Forget your bog-standard 'Cast Bio' websites: Lost has an innovative online game called The Lost Experience where players have to follow clues, crack…
Segway's ulta-cool Centaur concept ATV quad-bike
Remember Segway? No? Tsk, how quickly people forget. Segway was a Human Transporter (i.e. posh scooter) that used gyroscopic technology that meant when you leaned forward, it sped up, and when you leaned back, it braked. It's fair to say…
WOTD: Retro Thing
Today's Website of the Day is Retro Thing, the independent guide to vintage technology. Its latest posts include Retro Camera Art; Online Issues of ST-Log Magazine; The Luxo L1 lamp – star of desk and blockbuster movies; ZVG vector…
Casual Game: King Of Buttons 3 will rock your fingers
Casual games are marvellous. Why are they called casual? Because if you play them too much at work, you'll soon be casually sauntering down to your local job centre of course. Which is why I'm posting this at 6.15pm…
YouTube Video of the Day – The Amazing Vanishing Octopus
YouTube is brilliant. You can find scallies being flung from roundabouts, as well as loads of old music videos. Not only that, but you get to see amazing things like the featured video of the day – which is an…
Sony introduce two HDD DVD recorders
Sony have unveiled their latest hard-disc based DVD recorders with built-in Freeview TV tuners. Features are much as we've come to expect from these all-in-one recorders, with some nice touches. The RDR-HXD560 has an 80Gb hard disc, the RDR-HXD860…
Opera 10: Vision of open Internet on any device
The Opera web browser is planning an assault on Internet Explorer 6 and (soon) 7 users, highlighting its enhanced security, customisability, and cross-platform support. Since Opera 9 came out last month, hundreds of widgets have been produced – little…
