Apple is taking the old sharing is caring phrase to heart. The Cupertino crew is on the brink of hitting its ten billionth download for the Mac App Store — you know, the desktop version of its highly successful mobile store. Here’s the good news: if your download is the ten billionth, you win a $10,000 iTunes gift card.
January, 2011
In a move to inspire British motorists to look into possibility of relying on an entirely electric car, the BBC’s Brian Milligan took up a challenge to drive from London to Edinburgh this week. It’s not quite as easy as one might think, in fact the rules of the challenge required that he only charge the car’s battery at public points. After four long days and plenty of patience, the journey is complete.
There’s certainly some high expectations for our favorite Canadian smartphone manufacturer this year. Launching the BlackBerry PlayBook this quarter, RIM will be embarking on an interesting journey when it enters a space largely dominated by Android and iOS devices. According to Quanta Computer, the Taiwan-based company responsible for manufacturing the PlayBook, production levels are expected to reach one million units in Q1 2010. Should the Motorola XOOM be worried?
It’s time to clear out for the weekend, but before you do, grab some tech talk worth chatting about over a pint right here in our teatime tech roundup.
Competition alert! While we’re not done giving away a PlayStation Move, we’re now also offering two readers the chance to win a Sony iPod dock worth £180. Want to bag one? Tell us how you’d pimp out your ride with gadgets. Read on, it’ll make sense when you see the video…
Office slowing down for the last leg of Friday? Why not insult 50% of your co-workers by having a go at Cubeduel. Cubeduel uses your LinkedIn profile, and asks you to rate who you’d rather work with, in a sort of platonic but bitchier version of your face or mine. There’s no escaping it once someone in the office has started it either, as you can’t unlock your stats until you’ve chosen one person over another at least 20 times, and even after that it requires your co-workers to vote.
Free | CubeDuel
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This neat sound bar from sharp is powered by USB so there’ll be minimal wiring, because it doesn’t need to be plugged into the mains. The Sharp CP-USB50 Mini Sound Bar Is a 2.1ch speaker system, which has a built in subwoofer and comes with a dinky carry case. It’s a snip at £40, and is good looking with it too.
Out now | £40 | Sharp