20 exclusive beta invitations to RealPlayer to give away right now!

real.jpg Hopefully most of you would be familiar with RealPlayer, the cross-platform media player which plays numerous multimedia formats such as MP3, MPEG4, QuickTime and Windows Media. Infact, some of you may even remember when it was launched in 1995 as RealAudio Player, one of the very first media players capable of streaming media over the internet.

With thanks to RealNetworks, we have 20 exclusive invitations for Tech Digest readers to join the private beta testing of the new RealPlayer, which lets you bookmark and download video clips you find on the web, which can be later viewed offline and even ripped to CD or DVD. Imagine being able to download all of The Smith’s music videos and rip them to a DVD! In the future, further updates to the player will also support devices, so you can download directly to your iPod or PMPs. I’m sold…

Guess what smartphone Paris Hilton is holding and win a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 Bluetooth headset

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She may be a Powerbook-toting jailbird, but at least Paris Hilton knows the way to earn big bucks – product placement all the way, baaaaby. That’s hot, as she’d slur.

What I want to know from you eagle-eyed readers is what smartphone she’s got clenched in those manky claws of hers. Whoever gives me the correct answer first will win a a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 Bluetooth Headset worth over £70. Read on below for how to enter…

Coca-Cola and Apple iTunes giving away choons, iPods and concert tickets this Summer

cokeitunes.jpg Anti-capitalist? Better look away now, as two of your most-loathed corporations are teaming up together in the marriage of the decade. Well, until Microsoft buys Yahoo, anyway.

Coca-Cola, they of teeth-rotting prowess, are collaborating with iTunes to bulk up your iPod playlist and give away songs in over 2 billion promotional packs of Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Diet Coke. Not got an iPod?…

Orange Pay-Off: 15 seconds to be a sexy, weird, dancer

orange.jpgOrange has launched its Pay-Off contest and is inviting its customers to submit 10-15 second video clips of themselves either trying to prove that they’re the sexiest person alive (Face-off), are the best/craziest dancer (Dance-off), or are just plain weird but couldn’t muster a longer clip on YouTube (Weird-off).

The best videos are entered into a series of play-off rounds, where users vote for their favourite and the winner then has to face a new challenge – though what that is isn’t clear yet.