Trolls, sharpen your blades and pull out your clubs: Ofcom‘s just come back with its independent mobile broadband speed tests to settle once and for all which network is fastest. Let’s breakdown the winners.
May, 2011
The hours have flown by, and so have the headlines: luckily we caught them all and cruelly shoved them into a cage called the lunchtime lowdown. Read on for your news roundup right here.
The Daily Mail is at it again. The trailer for Modern Warfare 3 which features scenes of battles in London as well as other European cities has set the hyperbolic scandal sheet into overdrive.
Because the game features scenes in London and the trailer includes a moment with a Tube train, the paper has jumped immediately to the most horrific association possible: the 7/7 bombings. But, as is quite often the case with The Daily Mail, the “controversy” that its wailing about begins and ends with its own story…
What does a company do when Google simply announcing a free service causes its share price to plummet by twenty percent? If you’re TomTom, you take a leaf out of Don Draper’s book and try to change the conversation: ignore the looming mobile elephant in the room and try to sell satnavs by making traffic “sexy” instead. Will it work?
The Portal 2 soundtrack is out now for our favourite price…free! The album, Portal 2 Soundtrack Volume 1, is subtitled “songs to test by” and features 22 tracks from the game to enjoy.
You can also grab six of the tracks as ringtones from the same site with the choice of Android or iPhone-friendly formats. Check out our favourite track after the break…
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer is under fire again. David Einhorn, the head of Greenlight Capital and a long-time Microsoft shareholder, has struck out at the CEO slamming his leadership and suggesting that it is the main reason the software giant’s share price has remained stagnant.
See if you can guess what the major issues Einhorn says Ballmer has called wrong and click through to see if you’re right…
Good news Android fans, here comes another Android games console! The second generation of the formerly-Linux-based EVO game console is coming with Android onboard…
Facebook will reveal a Spotify-powered streaming service built into the social network within weeks, according to new reports. Forbes made the claim first saying the service is currently in its final testing but when launched will put the Spotify logo in the same menu as Facebook’s Photos and Events features.
Clicking the Spotify icon will apparently install the service onto your dekstop and let you play songs from Spotify’s library through Facebook as well as simultaneously listening to songs with friends. Sadly for the US, it doesn’t look like this will be Spotify’s route to the States…