Month: August 2006
Teens wary of online shopping
Research amongst "teenagers on the street" from Vox Pops suggests that, though teens are into fashion and shopping on the high street, they’re not so keen to take that online – preferring instead to use the Internet for social networking,…
Microsoft Live Drive to offer 2Gb storage.
Microsoft’s obsession with everything "Live" continues as it gave a few details about its forthcoming ‘Live Drive’ service – yet another online storage service. But hey, this one you get to be tied into – sorry I mean synchronised…
Friendster gets $10m to rebrand and focus on young professionals
Remember Friendster? It's trying to re-establish itself in the crowded and growing social networking space and has had a $10m cash injection to help it do so. Friendster was pretty much first on the scene in terms of social…
Microsoft offers Mozilla access to Vista developers
Maybe Microsoft are keeping away from situations that could turn into more anti-trust problems, but they do seem to have been offering the hand of friendship to rival software manufacturers of late. They'll be working with Google next… (well,…
Widescreen notebook PCs the standard by 2008
It didn't seem long ago that widescreen notebook computers were a bit of a novelty, but they're becoming more mainstream as widescreen displays in general become more popular. Notebooks with a 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio are expected to…
1 in 4 Brits have or want personal web site or blog
New research from domain registrar 1&1 has shown that 25% of the UK population either already own, or want, a personal web site or blog. Some stats revealed: Over 50% of the men surveyed wanted to create a site…
Top 10 spam email subject lines: phishing galore
Internet security firm McAfee have been doing some more research and revealed the top 10 spam email subject lines for July 2006, and surprise, surprise, they're nearly all about phishing – attempting to steal account information or otherwise extort…
Social networking site of the day: SingShot
WHERE'S IT AT?www.singshot.comWHO'S ON IT?Singers. And I don't mean famous singers like you'd find on MySpace. SingShot is a community for karaoke lovers, from the sublimely good to the ridiculously bad. HOW DOES IT WORK?You sign up, and can…
Tuesday Top Ten: Sexist video games. Or are they?
Tsk, another media article moaning about Lara Croft and other balloon-breasted game heroines. It's not as if they're turning the nation's men into a race of mole-eyed stalkers, is it? Don't answer that. The fact is there are plenty…
iStuff iCast Universal FM Transmitter
With UK leglisation of low-power FM transmitters just around the corner (well, sometimes this year anyway), there's no shortage of options for playing your music through your FM stereo – the latest of which is this iStuff iCast Universal…
