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Research: remote workers prefer wanking to banking
Everyone likes to have the odd chuckle at people who are ‘working from home’ often implying that these lucky remote workers are either spending all day watching Jeremy Kyle and browsing free internet porn. Little do they know, they’re actually underestimating the sheer depravity of their co-workers…
Lonelygirl15 creators to launch online TV-studio-cum-social-networking site
Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, better known as the duo behind online viral phenomenon, Lonelygirl15, have secured a $5m investment to create their own independent online studio. Beckett and Goodfried say they have been offered money from major media companies, but have opted to go independent so that they can continue to do things their own way…
EU gives go-ahead to Activision-Blizzard merger – quiver in fear, EA, quiver!
The European Commission has decided that the $18.9 billion merger between publishers Activision and Vivendi Games won’t “significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area or any substantial part of it”…
Apple fixes prize-winning Safari bug
Apple has issued a patch to fix the loophole identified by the winner in the recent CanSecWest security conference PWN 2 OWN competition…
Forget EDGE, 3G and HSDPA: mobile manufacturers are now planning for 4G
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, NEC and Alcatel-Lucent have all sat down and formed a licensing framework for a new mobile standard called Long Term Evolution, which can be shortened to LTE, or simply 4G as that makes things much easier to follow…
GTA IV launch to pull in $400m, kill Iron Man
With gaming no longer the bedroom pursuit of adolescent boys who should really get out more, the movie industry is starting to get a little nervous about what it’s doing to the box offices. Variety magazine has now put a figure on what is gearing up to be the biggest game launch in the history of gaming: $400 million. And the fear is that this is one $400m that won’t be going into the pockets of Hollywood execs like it’s supposed to…
Another twist in the PS3 iPlayer tale: BBC offers coder a job
Here’s a success story for any rogue independent coders out there: PS3iPlayer.com was launched over the weekend proving that the BBC iPlayer video streaming website could easily be made compatible with the PS3. We thought it would be torn down as soon as Auntie found out, but Anthony Rose, Head of Digital Media Technology at the Beeb, has instead praised the clever coder behind the website and explained why it’s taking a while to get an official version working…
Grand Theft Auto now only two weeks away… better start queuing!
Actually, even if you rush down to the shops right now you won’t be the first person on the streets to start the long countdown to the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV. That most dubious honour goes to a handful of really nutty Swedes who already started their pilgrimage last week. At the moment they’re living it large inside a small tent pitched outside their local video game store…
iPlayer now working on PS3; just don't tell the Beeb
After the BBc’s iPlayer arrived on the Nintendo Wii last week, the corporation explained that a similar service hasn’t arrived on PS3 due to Sony attempting to “control the look, the feel and the experience” of the service…
Flickr users rebelling over new video feature
Scarce days have passed since Flickr upgraded its service to include a new video feature, and already thousands upon thousands of users are up in arms, demanding that the feature be removed again. One of the main groups – “We say NO to Videos on Flickr” – has gathered over 23,000 members already…
