Tag: #1
IFA 2011 VIDEO: £1,000 AKG K3003 in-ear headphones preview
How much would you pay for a pair of in-ear headphones? £50? £150? How about £1,000? That's the asking price for the latest luxury pair from AKG, the K3003 in-ear headphones. They were on show at IFA 2011, and…
+1 button lets your freinds curate Google search results and ads
The Google search engine gets another new addition today in the shape of the "+1" button. Showing Google to be on the pulse when it comes to the growing importance of crowd-sourced data, the button sits alongside each advert…
Test version of Firefox 3.6 available for testing
Firefox fans who can't wait to get their hands on the latest release of the super-fast, super-safe web browser can today try out the first release candidate for version 3.6. As ever, higher speeds are top of the agenda for…
One Billionth app downloader wins $10,000 iTunes voucher
If you know Connor Mulcahey, age 13, of Weston, CT, I wouldn’t bother buying him any music for his birthday. Ever.
Connor was the downloader of the one billionth application from the Apple App Store this afternoon. The lucky app was Bump, an information exchange app as created by Bump Technologies and it’s taken just nine months of the store being open for the milestone to pass.
Little Connor is now the proud owner of iPod Touch, Time Capsule, MacBook Pro and a $10,000 iTunes gift voucher. Not bad for an impulse buy.
There are different kinds of power cable! Including the Furutech Powerflux Power Cord which costs $1,800
There is, we can exclusively reveal today, more than one kind of power cable in existence. Some power cables are better than other kinds of power cable. And the Furutech Powerflux Power Cord, which costs $1800, is presumably being pitched toward the high end of the power cable scale.
Here is why this cable is worth more money that a perfectly usable second-hand car…
Wii Fit did the business – sixth most successful launch in the UK EVER
Good lord. We doubted it, we really did. We thought that the odd balancing/health/positive-thinking game would be a bit of a disaster, especially with its £70 price tag.
But no – Wii Fit managed to enter the UK charts at #1 this week, and it sold like crazy – handing it the sixth biggest-selling launch period of any game in the UK. Taking into account the £70 price point, Wii Fit actually became the third highest cash-taker of all time – taking £16.3m in the UK…
