Author: Stuart Dredge
CONFIRMED: Apple launches 16GB iPhone and 32GB iPod Touch
The rumours of a new 16GB iPhone turned out to be true, as it’s just gone on sale in the US Apple Store for $499. In all other respects, it’s identical to the existing 8GB model, which is still available for $399.
At the time of writing, there’s no sign of it on Apple or O2’s UK websites, but we’re assured that it will be on sale here too imminently, where it’ll cost £329.
Fancy a font made from Post-It notes?
Fonts are great. Our word processing would be lost without them. Post-It notes are great. How else would we store phone numbers on the exterior of our monitor? So a font made from Post-It notes? It’s literally the best thing ever created in the history of stationary-based fontography. You knows it.
Zap screens without mercy with the TV-B-Gone gun
We have to admit, we were shocked and outraged when Gizmodo spent CES zapping TV screens on stands with their TV-B-Gone clickers. Mainly because they thought of the idea before us.
Rumours mount of 16GB UK iPhone going on sale today
And as usual, the rumours all seem to lead back to some grainy spy images allegedly snapped by an Apple Store staffer, which could just be a canny Photoshop job.
O2 unveils XDA Orbit 2 GPS smartphone
O2 has taken the wrappers off its new Xda Orbit 2 smartphone, which runs Windows Mobile 6 and comes with built-in GPS and the CoPilot Live 7 satnav software preloaded.
Get your filthy hands on the porn.mobi and naked.mobi domain names
Are you an entrepreneur on the rise looking to make a name for yourself in the thrusting world of mobile adult content? You’ll be wanting to go to the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West Live domain name auction later this month then. They’re flogging two sex-related domain names: porn.mobi and naked.mobi.
EXCLUSIVE Unboxing: Tchibo Tweezers with LED
You can forget the Wii, PS3 or iPhone right now. The most exciting product unboxing of the 21st century is here, and it dumps on all of ’em from a great height. Oh yes, Tech Digest has the exclusive on the Tchibo Tweezers with LED. That’s right: laser-guided tweezers (almost).
Microsoft quick to kick The Pirate Bay when it's down
Not that it’s down down, you understand. The popular BitTorrent site is still alive and kicking, and vowing to stay online even if it loses the case brought against it by a Swedish public prosecutor this week.
VoIP laying waste to spies' phonetapping strategies
The BBC’s Spooks TV drama isn’t realistic. There, I’ve said it. Why not? Well, you never see an investigation where the team sit around their computer lab weeping because a suspect’s using Skype rather than a fixed line or mobile phone.
Amazon struggling to meet Kindle demand
Product shortages are cool again, thanks to Nintendo’s inability to get enough DS and Wii units into the shops over Christmas. Amazon has leapt onto the bandwagon with its Kindle e-book reader, claiming yesterday that it just can’t make enough of ’em to match consumer demand.
