Virgin and Universal are bestest buddies at the moment. The pair has only just announced the music subscription service and now Virgin has revealed that it’s going to bring Universal’s PictureBox on demand movie service to its cable customers.
June, 2009
It’s lunchtime o’clock folks, so you know what that means… all the tech headlines served up to you as a gourmet meal, ready for you to gobble up, right here in the Lunchtime Lowdown. Knives and forks at the ready…
For years manufacturers have been trying to make computers more portable and now I’m going to do exactly the opposite by turning the Asus N50 back into a desktop and seeing how it measures up. So today is all about those days you need to get some real work done and a sofa, 15 inches and a touchpad just don’t cut it. Or in other words computer evolution in reverse.
The Aliens role-playing game has officially been canned by Obsidian Entertainment and Sega. Obsidian, the developers behind Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II and the upcoming Alpha Protocol, announced the game with Sega in 2006, but announced on Friday “we are no longer working on the game”.
Fish lovers beware! Your colourful aquatic vertebrates could be under threat from online mapping service Google Earth. Over the last three weeks, the city of Hull has experienced a spate of exotic koi carp thefts and Humberside Police says all the evidence points to thieves using the internet to pinpoint their marks.
What happened to all the MP3 players? It looks like they’ve all been swallowed up by the portable media player brigade. Not that we’re complaining, we love getting all handsy with a touchscreen PMP. Which is why we’ve compiled a list of our five favourite touchscreen-toting PMPs…
As I didn’t have enough space in my last blog post to let you know about the third-party software which comes pre-installed, today I’m going to run through this and will install some software of my own to see how well the Core 2 Duo 2GHz processors and 3GB RAM are working.