Early MacBook goes on sale
There is one thing about the online auction site eBay and that is you can buy almost anything on it, but one unusual item has appeared for sale, an Apple MacBook Air prototype, listed on the auction under the guide condition of “As is” it was eventually sold for $730.
But this equipment was only ever [...]
Anonymous internet users are finished
Are we looking at the end of the being able to say what we say on the internet without the fear of being tracked down and arrested or worse!
It would seem so and it comes from across the pond where the military are being slightly fed up with having to cope with hackers and [...]
Underwear fitted with GPS
This could be a either a good thing or potentially a bad thing depending on your point of view, this is a new type of underwear which has been fitted with GPS tracking.
Now, for some people it would seen that somebody who was really possessive could in fact keep track of their partner’s movements, whereas [...]
Just how much ink is left in the cartridge?
Anyone who has a printer be it at home or in a small business have all experienced the message that say you are running low on ink. So faced with this warning what do people do?
Some get out those new cartridges and throw the old ones away, while there are those who do not have [...]
Will laptops will be £50
For a long time, there has been talk of very low priced laptops coming onto the market initially to provide youngsters from deprived regions with a computer to enable them to study better and make a different life for them.
But this idea seems to have been hijacked slightly by commerce, these cheap computers have become [...]
Google earns from start page now
One thing about iGoogle is that you can totally control what you are seeing. This is done by adding different widgets and information that are relevant to you, maybe you want to have your Gmail or Google reader on there every time you start, or maybe a feed from somewhere else is appropriate.
Whatever you are [...]
Amazon cuts delivery limit
It is debatable whether Amazon is feeling the strain of the competition or just pilling on the pressure in these difficult times. For some businesses it would seem to be an opportunity to make life difficult for the rest of the industry.
The world famous online book seller used to offer free delivery on orders over [...]
Great gadgets to buy
It seems that while there may be cutbacks on certain purchases, there is such a love of gadgets and hi-tech equipment that these items are flying off the store shelves and in some cases cannot be made fast enough to keep up with the demand.
With so many new ideas being brought onto the market, just [...]
Googles phone coming soon
The Apple iPhone killer is about to launched by Google sometime in the next couple of months, but have they left it too late, because the iPhone 3G is going great guns at the moment. If Google could have slipped their phone prior to the iPhone 3G launch then maybe they would have been able [...]
September 10, 2008Eye scans to pay for shopping
It’s funny how technology from the small and big screen make it into the real world, all be it not in the way that they were first portrayed in the screenplay. Take the use of retina scans, this has been seen in Star Trek and other sci fi shows, now you would expect this to [...]
August 28, 2008UK bans iPhone ad
The iPhone has been advertised on the TV for a while now, but it seems that these adverts are now to be banned because the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has deemed them to be misleading.
Complaints were made about the adverts claims that the iPhone gives the user access to all parts of the internet, but [...]
Gay marriage cards on the way
Hallmark is the largest greetings cards company in the US, so they are unlikely to be one of those firms that get things wrong, which is why we should be looking at their latest product. The new line for 2008 is same sex marriage cards in a variety of designs.
This move follows the legalisation of [...]
Pizza Hut the spammers
It is funny how different people and businesses relate to spam. In most cases, spam is any email that received by someone from a person or company who is unknown to the recipient. By this has recently become blurred, especially from large organisations like Pizza Hut.
This is what they sent out to people that they [...]
Tiffany to fight eBay ruling
It was almost four years when Tiffany & Co decided to take the online auction house eBay to court over the amount of counterfeit products for sale on their site.
However, last month a Judge ruled that eBay could be responsible to examine every single item that is listed on the site for authenticity.
Naturally, for a [...]
The iPhone app that does nothing
As we already know there are over a thousand applications for the Apple iPhone, most of these are useful for the person who buys them, otherwise there would not be any point in buying it at all!
Well you would have thought so, but in these days of financial pressure, there are still those people who [...]
Microsoft fears the rise of open source
If there is just one thing that the top execs at Microsoft fear it’s the threat from the success of all of the open source projects that are springing up all over the net. That is according to Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Architect, who was speaking at a conference in New York.
Most people [...]
June 24, 2008Huge screen TV costs £60,000
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June 23, 2008Millions turned into criminals overnight
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June 18, 2008Marijuana to get medical go-ahead
In some parts of the US it seems as that the legalisation of marijuana has had a great effect on those people who want relief from the pain which they get from certain illnesses. So will it be available in the shops for anyone to buy? Basically no!
However, there are other states that do [...]
June 17, 2008Shopping early for stocking fillers
It may be six months away, but believe it or not people have begun to shop for Christmas already, obviously they are not buying the major items yet, but it is the small little things that are being snapped up.
These are the sort of items that you see plenty of today, but when [...]