MoMail…email everywhere

The future is here and the future is MoMail. Not heard of it yet? It’s a matter of time. Momail is simple, free downloadable software that turns any mobile into one that can receive and deal with email. A mobile email account that levels the playing field between those with crackberrys and those without. Compatible [...]

Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan

Not by much mind you… only a margin of 239 consoles. What is interesting though is that both the PS3 and Wii are experiencing a decline in sales whereas the Xbox 360 has seen an unexplained upsurge in sales, possibly due to a mixture of the success of Halo 3 and the price drop for [...]

Leopard getting as much grief as Vista

It appears that after all the carping and crowing of all the Apple luvvies out there that Leopard was going to be the greatest thing to happen to mankind since the birth of Steve Jobs it transpires that as an O.S. it pretty much sucks. How so? Well… it crashes all the time, the networking [...]

BATTING ON THE SAME SIDE

The unlikely worlds of sports and arts collide as Addictive TV and Adidas join the same team on the Sportive exhibition which will tour China from this week, in the lead up to the Shanghai Olympics. Opening at the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Arts, Addictive TV’s AV installation was created using only the sounds [...]

PS3 winding up/down to ‘digital media center’ status. Exciting times ahead?

Last Thursday news came through that Sony was selling its PS3 chips to rival Toshiba and is no longer interested in developing the technology further. Yesterday we heard that PlayStation is currently begging games developers not to forget about its console (having previously taken a very arrogant stance towards them), and now it’s being reported [...]

Facebook and MySpace to hit peak by around 2009

Last Wednesday I wrote on these pages that sooner or later Facebook was probably in for a  rude awakening due to the inevitable drop in users once everyone got bored. Quite frankly, the interface is so dull I immediately got bored first time I looked at it and quickly left, forgot all about it and [...]

Audi to move into the mobile phone market?

This may only be a pipe dream, and if an Audi mobile does actually make it into production it will be as an accompaniment for your Audi vehicle. Outside of it having an mp3 player, Wi-Fi, 3G and sat nav the phone will take pictures on any fuckface who tries to steal your car and [...]

Music industry continues to do stupid shit

Due to upcoming changes in the UK chart rules, the 29th of October will see the widespread selling of singles on USB keys. This move according to Brian Rose (Commercial Director at Universal UK) is aimed at “12 to 24 year olds, who no longer believe that the CD is as cool as it used [...]

HMV finally begins to get a clue with games zone

HMV is launching its new gamin center at one of its flagship stores in Edinburgh. It will turn itself into an old fashioned arcade where you can hang out with your mates, smoke round the corner and get the older lads to buy cider for you.
In all seriousness this decision makes perfect commercial sense -  [...]

Napster to drop stand alone app for web based store

Napster U.S. announced yesterday that it plans to drop it’s standalone application subscription model in favour of a new web based subscription model.
Christopher Allen, Chief Operating Officer at Napster, said, “With this new platform, Napster can easily be integrated into consumer electronics devices or integrated into other Web sites such as social networking sites.”
What this [...]