Category: Top stories
Girls! Destroying Apple laptops! In bikinis! BEST. DAY. EVER!?
Hot girls. Bikinis. Smashing up Macbooks. Yep, life doesn’t get much better than this. Certainly worthy of directing some attention towards YouTube, anyways…
YouTube launches its own mobile site
Vodafone customers have been able to watch YouTube videos on their phones for a while now, thanks to a deal signed between the two companies a few months back. However, YouTube has now launched its standalone mobile site, which you can access no matter what network you’re on.
Sony to close its Connect online music store
Few gadget-lovers will lament the passing of Sony Connect, an online store that was famously less user-friendly than iTunes and other rivals.
Three new Nokia phones: the 6267, 3500 Classic, and 6121 Classic
Nokia has unveiled three new mid-range mobiles at its Nokia Connection event in Singapore. None of them are spectacularly whizzy, but they’re more examples of how high-end technologies like HSDPA and two-megapixel cameras are making their way into cheaper phones.
Toshiba cuts HD DVD sales targets
Someone, somewhere knows which out of HD DVD and Blu-ray is most likely to win the HD format war. But there’s so much bluster and hype around the area, you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re both winning. By a country mile.
Tech Digest's Robot World Cup: Round 1
Forget the football World Cup. It’s not as if England are ever going to win it again after all. No, the only World Cup worth caring about is Tech Digest’s Robot World Cup, where we’re pitching 64 of the planet’s best bots into a knockout competition to find out who’s best.
NMK 2007: Jason Calacanis' Mahalo Greenhouse will pay YOU for writing search results
Today sees a bunch of Web 2.0 luminaries converging on London for the NMK 2007 conference, debating all aspects of social media. Kat is there liveblogging it as we speak. And the big news so far has been the announcement of Malaho Greenhouse, which is offering to pay internet users to submit search results, which will be used on search engine Mahalo.com.
Sotheby's to auction off Atari's heritage – for around $150k
It’s surely a retro gamer’s dream – but you’ll have to be a well-heeled one to bid for Atari’s marketing archives, which are up for grabs at Sotheby’s in New York, with an estimate of around $150k – $200k.
What the bloggers say about… Safari for Windows
Apple is hoping that bringing its Safari browser to Windows will tempt PC users away from Firefox and Internet Explorer. However, you could say the reaction to the app’s public beta has been… mixed. Well, mainly negative, if I’m honest.
Apple to sell iTunes music downloads through Bebo
The crossover between music and social networking isn’t a new idea, as anyone who’s spent a happy few hours listening to deathcore grindie bands on MySpace will know. Or is that just me?
