Category: Top stories
MySpace bums out Tila Tequila with widget restrictions
Not heard of Tila Tequila yet? She’s one of the rising stars on MySpace, with over 1.7 million friends – a following that helped her land a record deal. Yet she’s not exactly chuffed with MySpace at the moment, after the site asked her to take down a widget she’d uploaded to her profile to sell tunes.
Video games: better learning, improved memory, bad driving…
Video games get a very mixed press. One minute they're the cause of increased violence and anti-social behaviour, the next they're able to develop amazing brainpower in children. Just three stories this weekend prove the diverse range of opinions, and…
PS3 Launch Special: Top 10 PS3 vids on YouTube
It's Monday, it's snowing, and more importantly shops are STILL taking pre-orders for PlayStation 3, despite it being just four days before launch. Either Sony's factories are staffed by ninja robots, or sales are disappointing – which you believe depends what kind of a fanboy you are, I guess.
Anyway, a video is worth a thousand words, even if they're about ninjas. So check below for the ten best PS3-related videos on YouTube, to get you in the mood for launch day this Friday.
20Mbps broadband, huh? What is it good for?
Last week, Virgin Media announced plans to double the speed of its most expensive broadband service from 10Mbps to 20Mbps. Due to come into effect this May, it’ll be the fastest widely-available home internet connection in the UK.
The first 10 things you need to buy for your PS3. In order.
One week until PlayStation 3 launches over here in the UK, and anticipation is building – although with units still available to pre-order, it’s fair to wonder if this is translating into actual sales. So, assuming you do have a shiny PS3 arriving next Friday, what should your next purchases be?
25 UK Web 2.0 startups to watch in 2007
You don’t have to be based in Silicon Valley to rake in millions of venture capital funding for your whizzy Web 2.0 idea, but it helps. Nevertheless, there’s a thriving bunch of Web 2.0 startups here in the UK too, even if they don’t fall into an easily classifiable scene or movement.
Piczo talks UK growth, hints at mobile strategy
Piczo might not be the biggest social network in the world, but it’s growing fast (4.5 million unique monthly users in the UK) and has had some people suggesting it’s the latest destination for the cooler teenagers who previously hung out on MySpace and Bebo.