Category: Top stories
Buy Syd Barrett's Christmas tree on eBay
Poor Syd. He was the frontman of Pink Floyd in their heyday (i.e. before Your Dad liked them), but fried his brains so spectacularly on DRUQS that he ended up booted out of the band, and eventually settled down to…
Monday interview: Yahoo's Mecca Ibrahim on blogging, communities, and Web 2.0
Web 2.0 isn't just about groovy startups, y'know. The firms who rode the internet boom the first time around are coming out with their own attempts to keep pace with the user-generated content phenomenon. Services like Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces…
Nintendo Wii launches in the US
As you'd expect from Shiny's Ninendo Wii blog Wii Wii, there's coverage on the site of yesterday's US launch of the Wii console. Check out some video footage of Reggie Fils-Aime (that's the President of Nintendo of America) giving a…
Apple iPhone to sport 2 megapixel camera?
We love Apple rumours, and particularly Apple iPhone rumours. I think we're all expecting some kind of iPhone to be revealed early next year, but the latest buzz is that it will contain a 2.0 megapixel camera on board….
Image email spam arrives in its billions
Statistics from the IronPort Threat Operation Centre show that the volume of email spam continues to soar, with the greatest threat coming from image-based spam. Unless you have an incredibly watertight email address, or on-the-ball ISP or mail software, you're…
Welcome in 2007 at the intercontinental Nokia New Year's Eve party
Nokia are planning an extravagant send-off to 2006, and welcoming in of 2007, by co-ordinating a worldwide New Year's Eve party spanning five cities, connecting up millions of music lovers in the process. Starting at Hong Kong's Ocean Terminal, then…
Chinese Wikipedia unblocked, becomes second fastest growing version
China's version of Wikipedia, the online user-edited encyclopaedia resource, has been unblocked by a number of Chinese Internet access providers after more than a year. The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders carried out tests to prove that access…
