The door’s open boys: the webOS SDK for the Palm Pre has just been made available online with Palm’s blessing. In few months, the Palm Pre App Catalog will be stocked to the rafters, so if you’ve got an idea for a pocket program, now’s the time to start work. Read on to find out how you can get in on the biggest gold rush since the iPhone App Store.
July, 2009
Looks nice, doesn’t it? And the good news is the LG BD370 Blu-ray player is more than just a looker. Its piano black exterior hidesful Blu-ray profile 2.0 functions, as well as the ability to upscale DVDs, play back files from a USB connection, and grab YouTube clips from the web. All that, for a shade over £200.
News just in: it’s Friday! Only a few hours to go now until the weekend, so you’d better cram in as much tech news as you can handle before you clock off. We’ve got it all gathered up right here for you in techie breakie, so read on and tuck in!
Here’s a patent we might see in the next pair of Apple earphones: flash memory built into the cans themselves. You won’t be able to store all your tunes on them just yet, but you’ll be able to keep all your presets stashed away inside, so you won’t need to reset every time Apple pops out a new iPod. Intrigued? Keep reading to see what Cupertino’s come up with.
Sure, the Sony PSP Go is a download only handheld console, but if you thought Sony was content with stuffing games like Gran Turismo on there and chillaxing, guess again. As promised, Sony’s pushing for developers to come up with snack sized games and applications for a new, separate area of the PlayStation Store, putting the Wi-Fi connected, UMD-less device, as well as the plain PSP, up against the might of the iPhone App Store.
Teletext, the service bringing you news on your TV long before widgets began invading the screen, is to go off air from next year. That’s two years ahead of schedule, so read on to find out when and why it’s getting credit crunched.
Facebook has been trying to stamp out Twitter ever since the micro-blogging service began stealing all its web 2.0 buzz, but now the social network giant looks like it’s trying a new strategy instead: making a Facebook Twitter client. If you can’t beat’em, join them, eh? Read on to see how we know.
That Guitar Hero 5 drum kit we sneaked a peek of last week has gone all official on us. It might not be the monster set up Logitech showed off yesterday, but it’s still a great leap from the plasticky frame of the original Guitar Hero: World Tour skins. Read on to find out just how you can make like Dave Grohl with Guitar Hero 5.