Category: Top stories
Dubai Tower Solar Powered
First real contender for Wonder of the World 3rd Millennium Style: the Time Residences tower in the City of Arabia. Moving 5mm per second at a cost of 21 kettles of electricity per (but every drop is fresh-squeezed from…
Fill in our Xmas survey and win loads of stuff
Ho, ho, ho boys and girls. Santa has just rocked up and he has brought with him a very big sack of Boys Stuff goodies. And one of many prizes (we'll give you full details tomorrow) could be yours if…
BT signs Setanta deal to broadcast live Premiership football
On the day it officially launches its BT Vision service, BT has also announced a tie-in with Irish broadcaster Setanta to broadcast live Premiership football games through its service. Setanta successfully bid for the rights to 46 Premiership matches for…
BT Vision – digital terrestrial TV plus on-demand programming through a phone line
We previewed the BT Vision service way back in March. Nine months down the line and it's available – just in time for Christmas viewing. BT Vision, initially available only to BT broadband subscribers, is the company's offering of digital…
X-Series from 3 – flat-fee broadband internet and services – pricing announced
Two weeks back, 3 announced the X-Series, answering most questions about its flat-fee mobile broadband and data-hungry services except one – the pricing. Well, now it's out in the open. There are two packages, both of which are on top…
Media Tech live blog – exec admits Google moved too slowly on YouTube and MySpace
Another top question at the Media Tech summit (background here and here) was ‘which is the best investment you have missed.’ The panellists gave some great answers with Anil from Google essentially acknowledging that the company should have been much…
Nokia World: Next-gen N-Gage to work on 5-7 phones from Day One
Interviewed at Nokia World, the company's games chief Jaakko Kaidesoja said that when Nokia's N-Gage 2.0 platform launches next year – and no, they're not calling it that, I'm just trying desperately to coin a phrase – it will work…
Nokia World: Nokia declares war on the iPod!
Or, in their words: "I don't see any reason for standalone MP3 players to exist in the long-term. There's no reason for standalone non-connected MP3 players. You have a worse experience." That's what Nokia's Tommi Mustonen said earlier this afternoon,…
Nokia announce four new mobile phones: 6300, 6290, 6086, 2626
Nokia today announced four new mobile phones which will be hitting world markets in the first quarter of 2007. Here's an overview of the four handsets, with links to more detailed descriptions and pictures for each phone: Nokia 6300 The…
Sony PlayStation 3 sells for $9.99 on eBay
You've got to feel for the person who rushed out to buy a PS3 on launch day, and promptly slapped it on eBay trying to get $1,250 for it, only to end up accidentally selling it for $9.99. That's what's…