It’s another gloomy morning in the UK – outside at any rate. Stick right here though and we’ll brighten it up for you with a round up of all the breaking headlines from around the gadget globe. Read on for your techie breakie!
October, 2010
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This one’s straight out of nowhere, but Apple has just served up invites to US media for an event next Wednesday – 20 October, if you’re counting – at its Cupertino, California HQ. If we’re not mistaken, that’s a lion behind that Apple logo – are we going to see OS X 10.7 revealed as OS X Lion? What about a much needed MacBook Air refresh? Drop your predictions in the comments below, and keep it locked here next week to see what Apple has to show. Needless to say, we’ll be covering it all as it breaks.
Philips is offering a new service from tomorrow for customers to customise one of its 7000 series TVs, which are available in 32″ or 42″. For an extra £50 you can pick from a range of tastefully titled colours including “satin champagne” (cream) or “velvet purple” (purple). Not only that, for those particularly obsessed with matching their home furnishings there are also three finishes for the remote control. The Philips 7000 series costs with the added colour, frame and stand choices on top costs from £749, and once you’ve chosen your design, it will take three weeks for Philips to deliver.
Out 14 Oct | from £749 | Philips
LinkedIn has a feature which allows you to see who has been looking at your profile, and until now, that feature has only showed you the rough location and the area of work that person was in. Now however, LinkedIn will be adding extra stalker potential to its pages, by telling you the name of the person that’s been sneaking a peek at your professional life (if you’re one of the people who bothers to keep their LinkedIn profile up to date that is). Flood Lite, quite appropriately, asks us to imagine what would happen if we could see this sort of information on Facebook…
Do you keep your LinkedIn profile up to date, or is it gathering dust?
[via Flood Lite]
We’ve seen all the Windows Phone 7 launch devices now, from Dell, HTC, Samsung and LG. We’ve snapped them from every angle, pored over spec sheets and stared at their variously sized screens. So, two days in, which device have you lusted over? Which do you want most? The snazzy slide out speaker on the North America-only HTC 7 Surround? The super screen size on the HTC HD7? Or the supremely 80s Dell Vue Pro? Click and tell…
Facebook security has been given a welcome overhaul with a set of clever new features to battle the legions of keyloggers and malware makers throwing themselves against the social network’s defenses. We’ve not always been that complimentary about Facebook (see last week’s Facebook iPhone app brouhaha) but this time we have to say we’re impressed. Read on for details of the new Facebook security measures…
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Facebook and Microsoft seem to be getting ready to supercharge the Bing battle with Google in an event later today. Microsoft has scheduled a Bing event at its HQ and Facebook is coming along for the party. Could they be getting ready to announce a new partnership designed to confound their mutual enemy Google?
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