Tag: tickets
Everything Everything to stream world's first iPad gig tonight
UK indie band Everything Everything are tonight to become the world's first band to stream an entire concert to an iPad. The Manchester band are playing a sold-out show at London's Union Chapel, but iOS using fans who couldn't nab…
Countdown the days to the South Africa World Cup 2010 with new iPhone app
With less than 100 days to go until the opening ceremony of this year's World Cup finals, the tension is building as the world prepares to go football crazy for 6 weeks this summer. With a new batch of match…
Train companies agree on barcode format – home ticket printing and mobile sales now on
The numerous franchises that operate the UK’s splintered, broken, late and chaotic rail network have all agreed on a common barcode format for ticketing, which, when it rolls out, will let us all print out our tickets at home – or buy tickets via text message.
Which means no more dehumanising queuing as you watch the clock tick slowly toward departure time, standing there, with the right money in your hand, helplessly fantasising about barging that old woman…
Popularity of buying digital goods via mobile phone set to soar
New research suggests that, globally, two billion mobile users will have bought digital goods using their phones by the year 2013.
“Digital goods” means anything that can be delivered directly to the phone over the cellular network or Internet, including ringtones, music, videos, electronic tickets, TV programmes, and games…
Japanese gamblers encouraged to feed losing tickets to ROBO-GOAT!
A robotic goat? Wow. Just wow. I thought that’d be the last animal I’d see roboticised, but it appears gamblers in Tokyo can even interact with one, after losing insane amounts of yen at the Edogawa Kyotei boat race course.
Punters are encouraged to mourn their losses by feeding their losing tickets to the robo-goat, to minimise littering…
