Archive for November, 2008
Only 3 Days Left: Don’t Miss Your Chance to Win a Satzuma Lottoball and more!
If you feel like you have luck on your side then what better way to test it by entering our competition to win a Satzuma Lotto Ball (Read all about it here!) and be kept updated of our prizes every week till Christmas. We will also be unveiling 2 exclusive discount codes in the newsletter [...]
Social Fridays: Round-up of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week
If you’re bored at work and itching to get yourself through the day then you know the drill! Rather than surfing around trying to keep yourself occupied before you make a quick sprint to the door when it’s home time; catch up on stories that have been causing a storm on the social network sites [...]
UK Broadband Speeds Officially Slow
While all the big telco company ads will have you think that superfast broadband is guaranteed as part of your new package, the truth is, they’re lying. Over 40 per cent of all broadband connections in the UK are still below 2Mbps.
This figure comes from the Office of National Statistics and is based on headline [...]
Digital Music Sales Outstrip CDs
For the first time, a record label has recorded more digital music sales than sales of CDs. Atlantic Records provided this figure from 12 months worth of sales figures dating until the end of September 2008.
Atlantic is part of the Warner Music group and has signed up singers including Björk, James Blunt and Kid Rock.
No [...]
Spam On The Rise Again
Two weeks ago web hosting firm McColo was shut down, resulting in a whopping two-thirds drop in worldwide spam. Unfortunately the holiday seems to be over, with spam levels on the rise again and on target to reach prior high levels.
McColo acted as host to a large number of “command and control” centres for botnets [...]
Motorola Hint QA30: The Social Messaging Slider Handset
The Motorola Hint was introduced on November 25th 2008 in Illinois, USA. This slider handset with a QWERTY keyboard and a 2.5inch widescreen QVGA (320×240, 65k) display is designed to make social interaction easy and enjoyable.
The handset offers conversation-like experience via threaded text messaging and instant messaging with optimised predictive text capabilities.
With immediate access to email and [...]
Neuros OSD Media Recorder: A Digital Library of all your media
If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a vast mix of videos that are close to your heart. The trouble is, these movies come in different formats. Many of us have a mix of footage from DVDs, online, video cameras and embarrassingly, on VHS tapes. Well, this gadget is designed to create a digital archive [...]
Microsoft to head into the PC antivirus software market
It seems that Microsoft has finally understood the importance of good Anti-Virus software and that without this critical piece of software your PC will soon become as useful as a damp match in a dark room.
Anyways I rabble, back to the news story so it seems that Microsoft might soon be opting to offer free [...]
Orange HD voice calls
According to the ever-alert spies over at pocket-lint, those crackly, distorted, sounds-like-your-talking-from-the-bottom-of-a-swimming-pool telephone calls could be a thing of the past soon with Orange pledging to roll out HD call quality by Q3 2009.
Sonim XP3 – Future record holder?
Following up its Guinness World Record holding XP1 (A.K.A the ToughPhone) is the XP3; the newest edition to Sonim’s Xtreme Performance range.
