Digg Set to Launch iPhone App

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Apparently, a couple of journalists tricked Digg founder Kevin Rose into unveiling that Digg was getting ready to launch an app for the iPhone. Rose was reportedly caught playing with the app while making a guest appearance in London at the Future of Web Apps conference.

Digg making an iPhone app is hardly a surprise given the popularity of the iPhone. The app is expected to have a built-in browser since the iPhone can only run one thing at a time. Read more

Posted on Tue, 6 Oct 2009 10:52:47 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Starbucks Launches iPhone App and Free Wi-Fi

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Starbucks has unveiled a plan in the UK that will see it offer free Wi-Fi to loyal customers while on its premises to encourage people to drink more of its over priced coffee.

Customers with Starbucks cards will be able to get Wi-Fi free at any location in the UK and Ireland. That means that if you aren’t a BT customer you can now get free Wi-Fi at the coffee house. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:03:17 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

New Giant Rat Species Found By BBC Film Team

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The super lucky blokes of the BBC team filming for the Lost Land of the Volcano programme discovered a new rat species in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.
The rat is actually a big one, measuring 82cm in length. As you can see in the video on BBC News the new rat is not scared of humans and actually is kind of cute. Read more

Posted on Mon, 7 Sep 2009 06:50:44 GMT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Opera Version 10 Launched

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If your favorite browser is Opera, the latest version of the browser is now available. Opera 10 has launched and is available for download on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems. The official launch comes a mere week after the RC version was offered.

The new browser features Opera Turbo, a compression engine designed to speed up slow web connections. Opera 10 promises to run up to eight times faster on slow connections. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:17:14 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Now You Can Smell Like James T. Kirk

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Any geek worth their salt is familiar with the one and only (and over acting) James T. Kirk from Star Trek. If you wanted to be Kirk so badly that, you are willing to smell like him, Firebox has your fix.

The company has announced two colognes for men and a perfume for women based on Star Trek. The scents sell for £29.95 each. The first men's scent is Tiberius scented with citron zest, black pepper, and cedar create (possibly with a bit of Tribbles thrown in). Read more

Posted on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:19:27 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

BT Hits 500,000 Hotspot Number

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BT has announced that its massive hotspot network now totals 500,000 around the UK. The company isn't content with 500,000 though, it is shooting for a million hotspots.

BT offers the hotspots all around the UK via its Openzone network with hotspots in places like Hilton, Ramada Jarvis, and Thistle hotels. The hotspots are also offered in Starbucks and Caffe Nero. Read more

Posted on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:40:27 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Teens Addicted to Screens

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According to a new study, kids in the UK are addicted to their screens and spend as much as ten hours per day staring at TVs and laptops. The study was conducted by npower and shows that an average kid spends 9 hours and 54 minutes watching screens.

According to the study 2 hours and 43 minutes of that time is spent watching TV. The study also claims that kids spend 54 minutes per day looking at playlists on their iPods. Read more

Posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:32:20 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Twitter Tries to Make Retweeting easier

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Twitter is one of the more popular social networks out there. In fact, Twitter is so popular that Facebook reportedly tried to buy it earlier this year. Twitter is out to make its site easier to use in order to attract more users.

Twitter is making its home page more inviting and will standardize how people retweet the messages of others. The update is currently in the planning stages and Twitter is asking devs to simplify the retweeting process. Read more

Posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:46:32 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Illegal Music Downloading Declines

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A study has been commissioned in the UK that suggests that illegal music downloading has declined this year, albeit only slightly. According to the survey, illegal downloading of music files has declined from 63% to 61%. The survey also claims that 85% of those surveyed in the report would pay for an unlimited music download service. The survey polled 1,808 music fans 18 to 24 years old from across the UK.

Of that percentage that said they would pay for an unlimited music download service, 77% of them said they would also buy CDs. I wonder if these survey respondents are simply more comfortable with lying this year. Read more

Posted on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:33:57 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Apple Wins Legal Row Over Advertising

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Apple has won a battle over its advertising claims and is now free to advertise its App Store as the only option for the iPhone. The ads in question were for the iPhone 3GS and showed different apps with the tag line "only on the iPhone."

Some viewers of the ads took offense because similar apps can be accessed on Google's marketplace. Apple defended the ads claiming that the line "here's an app for just about everything" couldn’t be said about the Google Marketplace. Read more

Posted on Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:40:54 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Courts Clear Google of Defamation

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A UK court has cleared search giant Google of any responsibility in a defamation suit brought against it in court. The suit held that Google was responsible for the remarks that were returned in its search result, blogs, and forums.

A high court judge cleared Google of defamation and said that the search giant only makes the information available instead of being the direct publisher. London's metropolitan International Schools filed the case. Read more

Posted on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:43:45 GMT | by Shane McGlaun