Furniture retailer Habitat has offered an apology after adverts for the store turned up in trending Twitter topics such as ‘Iran’ and ‘Mousavi’. One tweet read: “HabitatUK: #MOUSAVI Join the database for free to win a £1,000 gift card.”
June, 2009
iPhone 3GS: the S stands for ‘speed’, but just how much speed, exactly? Quite a lot actually; in fact new benchmark test results show it’s three times faster than the iPhone 3G, three times faster than the Palm Pre and nearly six times faster than the T-Mobile Android G1. Read on to find out why.
I have not yet talked much about price. Is the EeePC1000HE good value for money?
id Software, the legendary videogames developer behind games including Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake, has been bought by ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks. Bethesda is responsible for recent games including Fallout 3, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and upcoming titles including WET, Brink and Rogue Warrior, all unveiled at E3 2009.
Facebook has announced plans to make its users’ status updates even more public. A new version of Facebook ‘Publisher’ (the box where you can enter your status, share photos, links, etc) is now being tested, which will allow you to send out status updates and other content to literally everyone, no matter whether they’re on Facebook or not.
The Kogan photo frame isn’t just for photos, which is just as well, because we want our digital photo frames to be amazing convergence devices… and to be honest we can only bear looking at our mates’ mugs for so long. We’d rather spend that time finding out what our buddy Obama is up to. This Twitter and Facebook fancying digital photo frame looks just the ticket.
The Bath-o-matic iPhone app is so clever it will allow you to run a bath in your house, from wherever you are, all via your iPhone. Who needs servants to pour you the perfect bath? Sounds too good to be true? Read on to find out if there’s a catch…
The origins of Microsoft’s jaw-dropping Project Natal technology have been something of a mystery, but Redmond is starting to shed more light on the subject. It has confirmed the acquisition of Israeli company 3DV Systems earlier in the year. In the meantime, apparently, Microsoft has been waiting for the thumbs up from the Antitrust Authority.