Author: Gary Cutlack
Asus milking its little white cow – Eee PC accessories flood in
Asus has just announced a whole pile of Eee PC upgrades at CeBIT 2008, proving the law that successful thing = masses of add-ons.
Including, the Eee PC Ai Guru U1 VoIP phone, the Eee PC Eee AP 802.11b/g wireless access point, the Eee PC 3.5G HSDPA Card so you can get hammered by roaming fees wherever you may be in the world, and the the Eee PC DVD-RW drive for when you’ve filled the little solid-state hard drive to bursting…
Woman racks up £11,000 in data fees – to download four episodes of Friends
The poor wife of a “city executive” managed to rack up £11k in data fees, after queuing up a few TV shows for download.
The download would’ve been free in the UK, but, sadly, the “businessman” husband had to fly to Germany to perform some important business and took his account with him – where the downloads resumed…
Bittorrent TV distribution works – Norway blazing a path into the future
Remember this update about Norwegian broadcaster NRK putting an episode of a TV show on Bittorrent? Probably not. It's not like developments in Norwegian TV are particularly big news. We understand. Still, the DRM-free download was a massive success for…
VIDEO: What's best? Working from home? Or working in the office?
Thanks to working for the very forward-thinking and modernist Shiny Media, I’m often afforded the luxury of being able to work from home.
But is it all it’s cracked up to be? Is the relaxed nature of home working beneficial, or do you end up slacking off more? Does the stricter office environment force you to work harder, or does the diversion of other people actually slow you down? What’s best? Home? Or office?
Let’s find out via a video comparison!
'Breast massaging robot' takes cyber-love to the next level
No doubt there’s some sort of serious scientific/medical use for this that’s of global importance. It will no doubt save millions of lives, somehow, in the near future.
But there’s also a good chance it’ll just end up letting you virtually grope women in Second Life.
Porsche raging against London Congestion Charge – sets up web site to FIGHT THE POWER
No doubt with half a mind on the masses of Porsche Cayennes currently cruising between Starbucks and Wagamamas over in fashionable West London, Porsche has called for an official judicial review of recently announce changes to London’s Congestion Charge.
“Gas guzzling” cars – like, say, the ludicrous Porsche cayenne, which is the stupidest car to ever drive within 50 miles of London – will be hit by a new £25 charge from this October, a tax intensified by London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s removal of the exemption for people who live inside the C-Charge zone…
Robot dogs just as good as the real things in reducing the emptiness and loneliness of modern life
Researchers at Saint Louis University gave one group of old people in nursing homes a proper biological dog made out of bones and meat, then tried a robotic AIBO out to see how the old folks reacted to the two.
They were both, incredibly, received very similarly, with the oldie subjects bonding pretty much equally with the robotic and real doggies…
MySpaceTV to host endless Britney Spears videos thanks to deal with TMZ
Guess what, everyone? MySpace is still going!
And it’s still doing deals to cram yet more content onto its already bewilderingly packed and ramshackle pages, with news that it’s embracing the dodgy celebrity paparazzi scene.
TMZ, the famed gonzo celeb-stalking channel, will provide a few exclusive videos of something like Britney Spears GETTING OUT OF A CAR each week…
Microsoft hammered by EU anti-trust body again – handed record £680m fine
The European Union has just hit Microsoft a record fine of around £625m.
It’s in response to Microsoft charging “unreasonable prices” to developers for data on how to get their applications working happily on Windows. Naughty old MS was ordered by the EU in 2004 to start charging more reasonable fees for licensing out its patents – but clearly the EU thinks it hasn’t complied with that. Hence the cash windfall for Brussels…
Yahoo! launching Digg clone "Yahoo! Buzz" – no wonder Microsoft was so keen
Displaying the sort of creativity that’s seen Yahoo! gradually decline for more than a decade, Yahoo! Buzz is a new social news service.
Users will – get this! – be able to “submit” stories, stories which other users will then be able to “vote” on. The more votes a story gets, the higher prominence it’s eventually given on the Yahoo! front page.
Good god, it’s a genius idea. No wonder Yahoo! rejected Microsoft’s $45bn offer – with creativity like this on tap the company will be worth trillions by 2012…
