Tag: .uk
When rumours become FACTS – Xbox 360 only £129 from this Friday
And that is OFFICIAL. No more relying on dodgy scans and the assurances of 13-year-olds on internet forums. Xbox 360 Arcade, the non-hard drive model of the console, will cost £129 from this Friday.
The 60GB hard drive one, which Microsoft refers to as the plain old “Xbox 360” is also coming down in price, to £169, with the all-black Elite worrying PlayStation3’s arse by costing only £229. The war has just got DIRTY. Here’s what Microsoft’s chief European war commander, Neil Thompson, said…
Wadja wants to save mobile users money by offering free text messages
New research by the social network and communication web site Wadja suggests that UK prepay mobile phone users are, collectively, spending over £66m each week on the cost of text messages.
The SMS is very popular in the UK, with 1.4 billion messages sent each week – more than in any other European country. Around half of these are sent from non-contract phones…
People who know people say T-Mobile's revealing its Android phone plans on September 23
The sort of “insiders” who can’t be named or they’ll get sacked reckon that Google and T-Mobile are very, very near to announcing official facts regarding the retail arrival of a Google Android mobile.
The two companies are planning a revelation for this month, with the same undercover sources hinting that a September 23 launch date announcement is definitely possible. September 23 is, at the time of writing, 12.5 days away…
Rumour: Nokia's Tube launching in the UK next month
With Internet BS shovel at the ready, we tread tentatively towards a big flashing neon sign which announces that the Nokia Tube (Nokia 5800) could be launched in the UK in exactly a month’s time, on 8th October…
For cheap(er) UK BlackBerry Bold contract, Vodafone's the place to go
Vodafone has announced its pay monthly pricing for the BlackBerry Bold, and it’s a tenner a month cheaper than Orange and T-Mobile are offering.
For £35 per month, you get 600 anytime, any network minutes, but a paltry 500MB data allowance…
Half of teachers think the internet's useful, half don't, and 20% don't understand it at all
That long-winded headline is the summary of a survery carried out by LM Research, which interviewed 1,500 teachers, parents and students about how the internet is changing the classroom.
Half of teachers think that internet tools like Wikipedia are good, but half think they’re of no educational use and simply distract the youth of today…
MTV launching HD music channel across Europe, from September
Staring from September 15 you’ll be able to scrutinise the skin of your favourite pop star in more detail than ever before, as MTV and its parent company Viacom launch an HD music channel for quite a chunk of Europe.
Initially shaming Britney Spears in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland and Sweden, the channel will feature “new music” and “programming for kids,” all in English…
iPhone 3G PAYG coming to O2: 16th September from £349.99
At last, the long awaited contract-free iPhone 3G has been announced* by O2. We’ve been expecting it for some time, and indeed O2’s help pages have been geared up for PAYG queries since the pay monthly version launched.
If you’ve got a spare £349.99 lying around, then in just over two weeks time you’ll be able to slap it down on an O2 store counter and say “Give me the Pay As You Go 8GB iPhone please”.
For an extra fifty quid, you can get the 16GB model.
Yes, you’ll be able to do exactly the same at The Carphone Warehouse too…
Guess how many people in the UK haven't got internet access at home?
It’s quite easy to get complacent, sitting here, on the internet all day, with twelve tabs open and a billion RSS feeds firing in enough information to keep a thousand human brains in a comatose state for decades – but not everyone is so switched on. Brace yourselves for an amazing fact.
One third of all households in the UK haven’t got internet access…
Nintendo saves UK education system – Brain Training sets new games chart record
The game officially known as Prof. Kawashima’s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? was first released in June of 2006. It’s still in the UK software top 10 this very week, moving up one place to number eight.
This staggering achievement makes a total of 80 weeks in the top 10 for Nintendo’s DS concentration masterclass, a stay which takes the all time record…
