Month: June 2011
World of Warcraft is now free to play (until level 20)
If you've failed to try the slightly sadomasochistic delights of World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), you've just been offered a new incentive to do so. Blizzard's title is now free…
10 inch BlackBerry PlayBook to make way for QNX phone instead?
RIM are rumoured to be ditching the planned 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook, despite its expected launch a little later this week. Its possible replacement? A smartphone packing the PlayBook's QNX operating system. Reports suggest that it will be a 4.3 inch…
MySpace to be sold for a miniscule £18 million
MySpace may be sold on again as soon as Thursday of this week, but for a fraction of the cost that current owners News Corp paid for it. Rupert Murdoch's media empire bought the social network for $580 million back…
APP OF THE DAY: Kabbee minicab booking service (iPhone)
Kabbee is London's first minicab price comparison and booking service app. Comparing fares from 60 registered and highly-rated minicab firms, you can pick rides based on the cheapest price, shortest waiting time or highest user rating. Location data helps intelligently…
Angry Birds finally hits Windows Phone 7 handsets
The world's most popular gaming app, Angry Birds, is now available for one of the world's least popular smartphone platforms, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. Despite attractive Xbox Live integration, Microsoft's OS has yet to court the variety of app developers…
HANDS-ON PREVIEW: Archos G9 8-inch and 10-inch Honeycomb tablets
Archos unveiled a pair of budget-friendly Android Honeycomb tablets yesterday as they showcased their 8 and 10 inch G9 tablets. We went hands-on with the Archos 80 G9 and 101 G9 at the UK launch event. Available in a number…
ONLY IN JAPAN: Sense-Roid, the hug-simulating mannequin robot
We're not sure what's more creepy here; the concept of a hug-simulating robot mannequin or researcher Nobuhiro Takahashi, who demonstrates the unit a little too enthusiatically in the video above. Called the Sense-roid, a user hugs the mannequin while…
LG DM50D 3DTV / monitor designed to reduce "3D sickness"
LG have today lifted the curtain on the LG DM50D monitor, a 3D screen that straddles the line between a PC display and a personal HDTV thanks to its DTV tuner, MPEG4, DVBC, DVBT support and HDMI inputs. The…
Buffalo launch 1TB and 500GB MiniStation Plus storage solutions
Buffalo are looking to boost your PC storage space without taking up too much room on your desktop with the new MiniStation Plus external hard-drive range. Shock-proof and USB 3 compatible for high-speed file transfers, the sleek drives come…
LulzSec affiliate Ryan Cleary bailed and banned from the net
Ryan Cleary, the British teenager arrested last week in connection to the LulzSec hacking collective who ran riot over the internet during the past few weeks before swiftly disbanding, has been granted bail provided he stays offline. the internet ban…