Month: July 2004
Telewest offers online console kit
Telewest's Blueyonder is offering a broadband starter kit to gamers wanting to get their PS2 or Xbox online. For subscribers using a 750k or above speed, the kit costs £30, plus £5 per month (if you're under 1.5Mb speed). For…
Games download service launches
StarDock has launched the TotalGaming.net service, offering PC gamers a subscription model for games not unlike the new postal rent-and-return system, or even iTunes. For $89 for the first year and $50 annually after that, users get access to a…
ntl offers free Xbox!
It's the broadband wars. Hot on the heels of Telewest's offer for Xbox and PS2 console owners, ntl have decided to give new subscribers to either their 600k or 1MB speed broadband service a free Xbox. And in Sale Of…
Indies join iTunes
It was a criticism of Apple iTunes when it launched over here. Yes great service, loads of mainstream tracks from the major record labels but where are the indies. While independents are a relatively small part of the market in…
Silver Mini iPod tops sales (boring!)
It's a debate that rages in TD Towers on those slow news days. Which is your favourite colour Mini iPod? Anyway, according to Amazon who have done a survey on all of its pre-orders it's actually the silver model. Which…
Siemens gets on its bike
Funny, as the UK government has outlawed talking on a mobile phone while driving a car, we'd kind of thought the same rules would apply to other modes of road transport. Apparently not. In fact Siemens is positively encouraging cyclists…
XDA III, or is that XDA IV?
When push comes to shove our favourite connected PDA of recent times is the O2 XDA II. We like its size, ease of use, upgradeability and big screen for web surfing. An Opera web browser (which is so much better…
See-through speakers are back
It is not often we get all excited about speakers but we'll make an exception for the glass speakers from barking mad French manufacturer Waterfall Audio. The company recently updated its range to include a pair of new floorstanders in…
USB vacuum cleaner
Ok, so I'll be first to admit that I am the proprietor of a rather untidy desk, but a USB powered vacuum cleaner!? That sounds just a little too Monica from Friends-esque. Still Oy-Oy hopes that there are some suckers…
Goodmans £140 camcorder
MPEG4 camcorders aren't exactly new. But here's one for the cash strapped. The Goodmans G-Shot 300cc features MP3 player, voice recorder and 1.5inch TFT display. It's available from today for just £139.99…