Tag: competition
Tech Digest's Gary Cutlack scoops Games Media Awards for UK: Resistance
Just a quick self-congratulatory post, don’t mind us whilst we all pat one of our writers, Gary Cutlack, on the back for a minute.
Not only does Gary write for Tech Digest, he’s also been running the insanely-popular UK: Resistance blog (are you letting people call it a blog yet…
Tech Digest competition: win a Tesco Internet Phone Stickphone!
You might’ve seen Alex’s video review the other week of the Tesco Internet Stickphone, which allows you to use their internet phone service with your computer or laptop. If you did, you would know all about the competition we’re running from today, then, where Tech Digest are giving out two of Tesco Internet Phone’s Stickphones, and our friends at Shiny Shiny have two to give away as well…
Brush up on your Wii skillzorz, as Nintendo's launching the Britain's Brainiest Family competition
What could be more geeky than huddling in your lounge room in front of the TV once a year, watching X X present Test The Nation: The National IQ Test with your family or housemates, perving on Phillip Schofield or Danny Wallace (or even Anne Robinson, if you’re mentally deranged)?
Nintendo has come up with the answer, by launching the Britain’s Brainiest Family competition, which kicks off this Saturday. The idea behind it is that you and your family (oh, how I wish they’d accept groups of friends – surely friends are the 21st century family?) compete against other families across Britain, playing…
Could you design a web app in 48 hours? 100 teams in Rails Rumble did!
Imagine the geekiest thing you can think of. Bill Gates, watching an episode of X-Files in ASCII form? Multiply that by 97,524 times. Now you’re getting close to the spectacle that is…RAILS RUMBLE!
Basically it’s like an Olympics for geeks, with over 100 teams consisting of one to four developers, programmers and designers competing against one another by creating the best web application they can, in just 48 hours.
Teams weren’t allowed to prepare much for the competition, allowed to create only paper mockups before it…
Palm and MobiTV announce Treo Mobile Comedy Film Festival
Palm must have hired some whizzy new PR guru, as their marketing assault over the past few weeks has been astronomical. Not only did they launch a suspenseful ad campaign for what was announced last week to be the 500v and give away five of the new smartphones, they’ve now teamed up with MobiTV for the Treo Mobile Comedy Film Festival…
Palm teaser site promises new smartphone on September 12th
Palm are dangling the proverbial carrot infront of our noses, with a teaser site set up claiming a new Palm smartphone will be unveiled on the 12th of September. With only eight days to go, I don’t know how Palm-fans will be sleeping at night.
There’s speculation rising all over the internet as to what the phone will be, but the general consensus seems to be that it’ll be the Centro….
Win a Doctor Who R/C Dalek Battle Pack from Prezzybox and Tech Digest!
Yup, we’ve teamed up with Prezzybox, the online gift boutique, to hand out one Dalek battle pack to a lucky Tech Digest winner.
You can ‘seek’, ‘locate’ and ‘annihilate’ to your heart’s content with the remote control Dalek, and aim your weapon at an opponent’s Dalek’s Infrared sensor and ‘exterminate…exterminate!’ When hit five times, the Dalek will scream ‘ARGH!’ and an explosion will be heard…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 26-July-07: Smashing Pumpkins, Blu-ray, Joost, MySpace, Ubisoft
– Create a Smashing Pumpkins video, win a Zeitgeist-skinned iPhone or Mac Pro (Smashing Pumpkins)
– Target to stock purely Blu-ray players from now on (Engadget)…
Win a disposable, cordless mobile charger from Mobcharger – perfect for Glastonbury Festival!
Glastonbury Festival kicks off next week, and we’ve got a killer competition to get you just in the mood for all that aural pleasure your ears will be receiving.
The kind folks at Mobcharger have given us a bunch of their mobile phone chargers to give to 12 lucky readers located in the UK. These pocket-sized mobile phone chargers are disposable and cordless, so perfect for the five days you’ll be spending swimming around in mud out in the country. No more refraining from texting your mates, for fear of running out of battery!
We’ve got several of each sort to give away to 12 people to enter the competition, so if you have a Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson or Mini USB phone, read on below the jump for how to enter…
