Archive for July, 2008
USB Stealth Switch: Go Undercover as a Diligent Employee
Ok, we’ve all been there at one point in our working lives; in the middle of watching a hilarious video on YouTube involving a guy falling off a particularly tall filing cabinet, a hedgehog and a huge bowl of custard. At that precise moment, your boss springs up from behind your shoulder to confirm their [...]
Thumbs of steel: Text messaging up in the UK
Recent data from the Mobile Data Association (MDA) has shown that more than ever, we in the UK love the sound of that little “beep”, that holds the promise of a new text message on our phone. Last quarter’s UK Mobile Trends Report shows that we have been sending a whopping 1.4 billion SMS messages [...]
Time for Google to Cuil off
This week marked the launch of search engine Cuil (pronounced cool), which has been heralded as a potential serious challenger to search giant Google. Formed by ex-Google engineers, Cuil says that its index of information is based on 120 billion webpages which it claims is three times more than Google uses, although Google still maintains [...]
Review: Bose Wave music system. Good things come in small packages.
Overview:
For sound aficionados out there, or for those of you who simply need more gigabytes to store your music than NASA has access to, you already know that the Bose brand is synonymous with quality and clarity of sound. The latest Bose Wave music system is no exception, and with features including a CD player, [...]
The death of the Samsung U600
Now whenever I get a new mobile phone my first thoughts are generally along the lines of, “I need to get home quickly to polish off the salesman’s thumbprint from it’s marred shiny surface.” So for mobiles.co.uk to contact us with the challenge of coming up with the best way to destroy their offering of [...]
London Oyster failure: twice in two weeks
Last Friday July 25, marked yet another glitch in London’s Oyster travel card system, with tube stations across London rejecting pay-as-you-go cards from 6:00am onwards. This prompted ticket barriers at all stations to be kept open to avoid congestion problems during the peak hour rush.
The fault is believed to have stemmed from incorrect data being [...]
Lock Cup: Don’t be a mug, lock yours up!
Don’t you hate it when Barry from Accounting walks out from the kitchen with a nice cup of coffee he’s made in YOUR mug? Workplace etiquette dictates this action is a big no-no, but you also don’t want to look petty in front of everyone by telling Barry that if he uses your mug again [...]
The i-bird. You are the wind beneath its wings.
If you’ve ever had a pet budgie I’m sure you’ll agree that no matter how cute and chirpy it is, being stuck in a cage limits your interaction together. The best you can hope for is to poke your finger between the bars and hope it will take a peck at your nail, which is [...]
mySky: Never Get Lost in Space Again
There’s something quite mystical about gazing into the depths of the night sky looking at… um… all of those stars. If you’ve ever wanted to be a bit more specific or eloquent in your appreciation of what is otherwise a twinkling mass of constellations, then this gadget is for you. The mySky is a handheld [...]
Massive Multiplayer Online Games advised to drop monthly subscription
Parks Associates analyst has advised that developers creating new Massive Multiplayer Online Games(MMOs) should drop the modern trend of charging monthly subscriptions, these subscriptions cost the user around £10 a month and with a one off charge of around £30 to buy the game itself.
In place of the subscription charges a ‘microtransaction model’ should be [...]
