The video below is of Apple's new store grand opening, on the famed 5th Avenue in New York City. The poor chap who filmed the 3.5 min video stood in line for 3 hours before being able to squeeze his pimply Steve Jobs-Loving ass in amongst the other fan-boys. The things we do for love, eh? [Katherine Hannaford]

Just one, anyway. As part of design firm Alloy's presentation at today's MEX conference, they showed a video snippet of one mobile user trying to watch TV on a 3G handset. And you could say they weren't impressed:

"That is just crap! That is shit! I can't see anything, the sound's all distorted, the image is severely pixelated, and it makes you want to be sick. It's like when you get on one of those bad porn sites and you try and download something. If that's what streaming is, I'd never even think about going there, let alone paying for it."

Oof! This isn't picking on the networks or TV providers but it does cast some interesting light on the current hype surrounding mobile TV. And we certainly won't be surfing those bad porn sites any time soon...

Why is MySpace such a runaway success? Because it's a jack of all trades, apparently. This, at least, was the message from Frederick Ghahramani of technology firm AirG, speaking at today's MEX conference in London.

He was talking about mobile communities, but took time to explain why MySpace is such a hit, so that mobile companies can figure out how to emulate it. It's all down to the way it combines features of several other sites - Blogger's blogging, Photobucket's image-sharing, Match.com's dating features, topped off with a little bit of Napster's music preferences.

MySpace isn't better at any of these things than those sites, but the important thing is that it brought them all together in one service. "It's played the combination game of combining all these key building blocks, so there's a real multiplier effect which is what makes it sticky and successful," said Ghahramani.

Design firm Alloy used today's MEX conference - it stands for Mobile User Experience - to unveil its latest concept phone, the Polygon. It's their attempt to design a handset that's actually half-decent for accessing multimedia content - whether it's TV, music, taking photos or surfing the Web.

And it looks.... like a normal phone, actually. It's a clamshell phone which replaces the buttons on the bottom half with a rugged touchscreen, which changes according to what you're using it for.

In the past few months Propellerhead has noticed an alarming increase in the amount of foreign spam. Most of it seems to be Russian in origin but there are also good few Chinese, Japanese and Korean messages as well. If they're getting past your Spam filter it's worth creating an Outlook Express Message Rule to deal with it.

Open one of the emails -- make sure you don't open any attachments or click on any links -- and look for a foreign language character or symbol that appears several times in the message body, but not one that could be used in an English language email. Highlight it and press Ctrl + C to copy it to the Windows Clipboard. Now go to the OE Tools menu then Message Rules > Mail and click the New button. Tick the Conditions box that says ' Where the message body contains specific words', now go to the Actions box and check 'Delete it'.

According to Games Digest, a report on US gaming site Gamespot states that Apple is currently putting together a working party of games industry folk, quite possibly with an eye on entering the games market.

It's believed that the new games section will be connected in some way to iTunes, which could mean downloading new games as opposed to nipping down the local retailer for it. With download speeds getting faster, it's certainly possible and would make sense. Want to know more? Visit Games Digest for more on this and everything else that's happening in the world of gaming.

  Orange has announced it is bringing together mobile, fixed-line and broadband, rebranding Wanadoo as Orange in the process and offering free broadband with some mobile packages.

Customers signing up to a pay monthly mobile contract over £30 per month will get free broadband. The broadband package (previously £17.99 a month) includes a wireless modem and Orange Wireless & Talk - Orange's VoIP service, which offers free evening and weekend calls to UK landlines. For an extra £6 per month, customers can sign up to the Orange Anytime package which gives them free calls to UK landlines. In addition, if they are an Orange Pay Monthly customer they will also be able to register for free calls to Orange mobiles (via the Wireless & Talk service).

Aimed at those on the move, who want to take their favourite music and movies with them, Packard Bell's Store & Play is a storage device that's simple to use and solid enough to withstand the knocks of the outside world.

Essentially, it's a glorified portable hard drive - a 50GB hard drive to be precise, which can hold up to 3,000 MP3 files, 14 MPEG movies or 10,000 digital photos. Uploading your data is simple, a one-button transfer using a high-speed 2.0 USB port. Alternatively, you can transfer your files using the integrated 4-in-1 card reader which is included.

GNER reckons that all its East Coast trains will be equipped for WiFi by August this year, so to celebrate, it's offering the service free of charge this summer.

As an attempt to get punters used to using it, from Monday 5th June to Monday 31st July, GNER is giving Standard Class passengers the chance to trial the service with a one-off unlimited 24-hour session free of charge. The standard rate will be £9.95. If you travel first class, it's not an issue, as WiFi access comes free for those in the better seats. To use it, you just have to launch your web browser which will automatically detect the GNER landing page. After that, just follow the instructions for your freebie.

Do we really need offices anymore? If you can pick up a wireless connection and have a mobile phone in your pocket, it's only the four walls you're really missing. And you'll have that if you pick up the inflatable Office in a Bucket.

It's designed for both indoor and outdoor use (conferences or for a wacky company away day I imagine). Simply plug it in and within minutes, you're up and running. And it can be packed up as easily as it's installed. It's made from PU coated rip stop nylon and comes in three sizes, with a clip fastening door closure for increased privacy.

Good news for those of us potentially office-bound during the World Cup - Yahoo! and FIFA have announced that fans will have access to video highlights of games on FIFAworldcup.com - the first time World Cup highlights have officially been available for free on the web.

The site will feature World Cup action, including all the goals from the 64 tournament matches for free (no registration required), two minutes of professionally-produced video highlights available within the hour following the final whistle of each game (except Asia and Middle East, where a 24-hour delay is in place and in Germany, where a 48-hour delay is in place) plus on-demand, searchable highlights, so you can locate your favourite moments, such as goals scored by your team of choice. 

There's so many sat nav systems on the shelves these days, it's hard to differentiate. If they give you accurate directions, that's the job done really. However, if you have a Tom Tom device and want to add music and movies to the maps, it's now possible with Media Studio for TomTom 1.0 by Makayama Interactive.

With this software, you can turn your TomTom GO navigation system into a media and movie playback device. DVDs, recorded TV shows or any other video can be put on the TomTom using only three clicks via the media conversion software, then viewed on the LCD screen. Run the software, pick any video file from your hard drive, CD or DVD and convert it into a compressed movie file, which can be played on-the-go from the memory card or from the built-in hard drive. The software captures all content (AVI, MPEG1, MPEG4, DivX, XVID, VOB, ASF) on all drives (hard drive, CD, DVD, removable) and encodes it to MPEG4. The converted content can be sent to the TomTom over a USB-cable/cradle or to a memory card reader.

Looking more like a lunar landing craft or an alien's face than an iPod accessory, the iWoofer promises to blast out your tunes as well as charging your favourite portable player.

The iWoofer is compatible with all iPods post 2G, including the shuffle. It features a 2.1 channel speaker system with left and right stereo speakers and a "downfiring" subwoofer for extra bass. There's also an FM radio with auto-scan tuning and preset station memory, while the iPod dock recharges your iPod and can also synch it to your PC or Mac (via USB). You can also use it with other MP3 players, home stereos or your computer via an audio-in cable (included).

HMV, in conjunction with Digital Rum, has launched a new service allowing customers to Txt2Buy CDs, DVDs and games directly from their mobile phones. The Txt2Buy service allows customers to respond immediately to HMV adverts appearing in the press, using their credit/debit cards to buy products wherever you are in the world.

From 5th June, HMV will place a series of adverts in national magazines and newspapers with a unique ordering code for new music, film and games titles. Text back to a shortcode number, and receive a mobile internet link to a secure site where you can pay using your credit/debit card details.

If you are still trying to untangle your JPEGs from your Gifs and Tiffs then you are probably not going to be terribly impressed by the prospect of yet another picture file format. Like it or not, though, you will probably be hearing a lot more about Windows Media Photo from Microsoft. WMP will be a core ingredient in the new Windows Vista operating system, due out later in the year (well, early 2007 for non-specialist users) and there will be retrospective support for it in XP.

Your mouse isn't just for pointing, clicking and dragging things. For example, this Popellerhead Top Tip turns it onto a sort of mobile desktop clipboard? Click on a file in Windows Explorer and it literally sticks to the mouse pointer, and it will stay there for as long as want. This obscure little feature is built into XP and other versions of Windows, you'll find it in Control Panel, double-click the Mouse icon and select the Activities button (one some machines it may be on the Buttons tab) and check the 'Click Lock' button. To use it simply click and hold on a file for a few seconds, then release the mouse button and the file selected will attach itself to the pointer. To release the file in its new location just click again. You can vary the time needed to engage Click Lock from the Settings button. Be warned, useful though it is, it can change the behaviour of the mouse in some applications so it may take some getting used to. For more great tweaks check out the Top Tips Archive on the PCTopTips website.

Sonnet has announced a new line of compact USB power adapters for 4th and 5th generation iPod models including the iPod mini, iPod shuffle, and iPod nano.

The iPod USB Power Adapter is a fast way to charge your portable player without starting up a computer. Just plug in the adapter and connect the included cable between the adaptor and the iPod (iPod shuffle connects without the cable).

It seems like there's an endless supply of idiots candidates desperate to make their name on reality TV - and Big Brother is surely the cream of the crop. A few weeks of moaning, sunbathing and pairing up could get you a place in the Sunday papers, a Hello! photoshoot and free nightclub entry for at least a fortnight. What more could you want?

The only way you'll have a chance of getting in for this series is with a Kit-Kat 'Golden Ticket' - and according to Bayraider, eBay is full of them. Well, there's the odd ticket and a load of Kit-Kat bars offering you 'the chance' of a golden ticket.

Want to know where to look? Check out Bayraider now. And don't forget, for the latest news and analysis on this current housemates, keep an eye in TV Scoop.

Not content with dominating the grocery sector, Tesco is set to flex its muscles in the IT market by boosting its range of cut-price PCs next month, with stores featuring a permanent computing section in stores for the first time.

Tesco's entry-level notebooks will be under £400 for an Acer Travelmate, rising to £800 for something like the Samsung X11. They'll also challenge Dell with desktops under £300 and the wider PC market with dual core machines for £600.

Fujifilm has announced the launch of its new FinePix Z3 Zoom, which the company has unashamedly pitched at the female market, describing it at as "handbag" camera and adding blue and light pink models to the traditional silver.

Along with the stylish looks, the 5.1MP FinePix Z3 Zoom boasts a sensitivity range up to ISO 1600, which means images with the minimum of 'noise'. There's also a new Anti-Blur button and an Intelligent Flash system that combines a well-exposed background with natural skin tones on subjects in the foreground.There's also a Dual-Shooting Mode, which takes two consecutive shots (one with flash and one without flash) giving you the choice between the two images.