Tag: Tech
Which Tech Are You? – Search Engines
Welcome to part three of Which Tech Are You! This week, given Ask.com’s remarkably undrastic relaunch, we have a gaggle of search engines for you to become. Are you the calm, serene, but world-dominating Googleborg? Or are you feisty Yahoo!? Find out over the jump…
Web Mission 08 – UK tech start-ups hit Silicon Valley
Back in the ’60s if you were on pilgrimage to San Francisco chances are you were wearing flowers in your hair and pursuing a hippy dream. Today you are more likely looking for funding for your tech start-up. Which is a kitschy way of introducing the fact that for the next week or so I am going to be reporting/blogging from the undisputed tech capital of the world.
I am part of a trip called Web Mission 2008 in which twenty top UK start ups plus a few media hangers-on like myself and TechCrunch UK, are visiting the city to hopefully learn more about how to create a successful tech business…
Web Trend Map – has your favourite start-up reached the end of the line?
The ludicrously detailed Web Trend Map tries to sort out the tangled mess of today’s internet by neatly (ish) wrapping it around the Tokyo underground map.
Each tube line represents a specific strand of web tech, so you’ve got your piracy line, a big red corporate tech central line…
Joel Johnson and Boing Boing launch Boing Boing Gadgets blog
The whole tech ‘blogosphere’ is no doubt feeling a little unnerved today, as heavyweight tech journo Joel Johnson has just launched a brilliant new gadgets blog with ‘blogosphere’-ruling Boing Boing…
13 tech-related product placements in The Bourne Ultimatum
Last night, whilst all the ‘slebs were walking the red carpet in Leicester Square showing off their designer frocks for the premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum, a few of us lucky Shinies got to go to an advance screening with Motorola at the BAFTA down the road. No fancy dresses for us, we all wore jeans. And boy, were we impressed, and I don’t even LIKE Matt Damon. (Said in Team America-esque voice, obviously).
One thing you’ll notice minutes into the film is the blatant product placement – director Paul Greengrass didn’t even try to hide it. Like the good little Tech Digester that I am, I sat there with a pen and paper and scrawled down every techie product placement I saw in the film, whether used by Jason Bourne himself, CIA agents, hit-men, or just billboards seen in shots. If you noticed any more I’ve missed, definitely leave your comments in the field below…
Top ten techie gadgets and tat to take with you to the beach
Back from a few days’ holiday over in Lowestoft, on the East coast of England, I’ve gained not only a lot of sunburn (curse my parents and their fair-skinned genetics!), but also a lot of wisdom in regards to just what you should pack for a good few hours’ worth of lounging in the sun…
Visit the filming locations of all the Star Wars movies
Those boys over at Lost Weekend are churning out the geek holidays faster than you can recite Peter Kay’s infamous Teletext sketch, and probably causing many of our bank accounts to deplete day by day. Darn our insatiable geek prowess and longings for a holiday!…
Get your geek on for this year's holiday: Lost Weekend's top techie trips
Haven’t feasted your eyes on our new men’s blog, Lost Weekend? Perfect for planning that boozy trip away with Gazza, Rob and Christos, and now…helping you get your geek on by giving you six of the best techie destinations to holiday at. Just don’t drag the missus along, unless she too owns a pair of Spock ears.
Featuring trips to CERN in Switzerland, Futuroscope in France, Sega Joypolis, plus many other destinations rimming to the brim…
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 04-May-2007: Game, iTunes, miCard, Dell, Steve Ballmer
– Millions of cheap gamers throughout Britain are crying today, as Game have bought out high-street competitor Gamestation for £74 million. No cheap trade-ins, then, *sobs*.
– Apple are keeping schtum on hidden email addresses and passwords enclosed in DRM-free music files, refusing to answer any questions from angry iTunes-users.
– A new memory card standard has been approved, the Multiple Interface Card (miCard) will hold eight GB of memory, with the maximum…
Win a £3500 Philips Ambilight Telly
Here at Shiny towers we love big LCD tellies. We just can’t get enough of them. But the truth is that sometimes the picture quality isn’t really all that special. One exception is the Philips range of Ambilight TVs…
