Well today I spent the day in Birmingham UK at the Gadget Show Live 2009 – a festival of all things tech and gadge! The setup: having been seeded tickets by a contact, I was in line to get in at the start of the show – or so I thought. Actually all three days…
Konami announces Silent Scope to Apple App Store!
Konami have announced today that Silent Scope is coming soon to the iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the popular arcade game originally released in 1999, players take on the role of the world’s top sniper and must defeat terrorists to save the American First Family, including the President of the United States, who have…
UK: eXpansys Easter Voucher offer!
The excellent online retailer that is eXpansys has pinged me to let me know they are doing an Easter “fiver-off” offer – that is, £5 off when you spend £20 or more! Handing over to the guys for the details: We are giving you £5* to put towards an order of £20 or more between…
NetLingo: time porn!
My fave tech-language site, NetLingo, has got another classic phrase – for something I experience often, but hadn’t been able to put a tech-term to before: time porn Popular entertainment, such as TV shows like Cheers, Seinfeld, and Mad About You, where people never seem to have anything to do except hang out. They tease…
UK: O2 customers getting pop acts love at the O2!
O2UK customers, you are in for some major love from O2 if you are registered with the Blueroom, and like good music – Pink and Ne-Yo are due at the O2, and you can get some priority tickets! 🙂 Pink – O2 Priority Tickets are available from 9am Wednesday 8 April until 8am Thursday 9…
Vodafone UK starts PAYG war with Freedom Packs!
Electricpig.co.uk is on point with this story, confirming a rumour previously reported that Vodafone is going big on PAYG – by offering some value packs – they are called Vodafone Freedom Packs, and will start being offered on Good Friday, 10th April. Vodafone Freedom Packs basically give you loads of free texts and minutes for…
Orange UK has new mystery handsets says Omio!
Omio.com have grabbed a neat exclusive, having peeked at Orange UK’s Q2 launch schedule – cool tech incoming – both the Samsung Omnia HD and LG’s Viewty 2 will be out in June of this year! However, that ain’t it – there is news of previously unannounced handsets! The Samsung Preston is pencilled in for…
All your Internet phone calls and email data trails stored…
Probably a story that you will be very familiar with if you (a) live in the EU somewhere and (b) read the news on the net at all. An EU law was put in to effect on Monday 6th which means that all ISPs have to store the logs of internet phone calls and emails…
Can you 3D me please?
There seems to be a growing buzz in the media industry generally right now about 3D – how good it is, the fact that consumers are bound to want it, and crucially, how to do it. Interestingly though, Mobile may be very well set up to handle 3D and potentially even take the lead over…
PSP2 due in shops before Christmas, rumour says
Apparently a new PSP, trumping the old one in spectacular manner, is due in the shops for Christmas. Er… great – as one of the (many) owners of an original PSP, I guess we are going to be resigned to no support for our devices – both on the software side, but also the hardware…