Even Noel Gallagher's Mobile Phone is Stuck in the Mid 1990s
According to the ever-quotable Noel Gallagher, iPhones are for "cockneys" and "***s" and he's much happier pulling a battered old Nokia out of the back of his expensive jeans.
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According to the ever-quotable Noel Gallagher, iPhones are for "cockneys" and "***s" and he's much happier pulling a battered old Nokia out of the back of his expensive jeans.
The Who's Pete Townshend, who famously had no problem paying to download child porn back in 1999, has hit out at Apple, and the people who download his tracks for free. Speaking at a music industry event last night, Townshend labelled Apple as a "digital vampire" and said if they do "even one of the things on my wish-list [my inner artist] will offer to cut off his own balls."
Android users -- Sky does love you. It's just way-late to the mean-green-machine party. Sky Go is reportedly launching 'in the coming months', after being a big hit on iOS and the desktop, with 1.6 million Brits taking advantage of the streaming service. [TechRadar]
Zeebox is a new app that's just launched for iPad, which wants to become "the new way to watch television". And it doesn't mean "disinterestedly, while on Twitter, not really paying attention to it."
There will be another Star Wars themed advert beaming out of your TV every few minutes soon, thanks to Dixons doing a deal with Mr Vader to promote the benefits of giving Currys and PC World your money.
After eight-straight years of losses, Sony's splitting its Bravia TV business into three and cutting back. The surviving TV arms will be Sony made LCDs, outsourced displays and next-gen TVs.
UK mobile network Three has really been hit by the smartphone boom, revealing that a staggering 97 per cent of all the traffic through its mobile network is now internet data alone.
The hair! The shorts! The Carmen Miranda-style fruit hat! Echo and the Bunnymen had a great sense of humour hiding under that goth-like rock exterior, most obvious in lead singer Ian McCulloch's lyrics. The Game, released in 1987, is one of those songs, the lyrics of which haunt you for hours.
It's that time of year again. Where kids are chucking eggs at you in the street. Or lighting paper bags filled with dog turds on your doorstep, then ringing the bell and watching from the bushes as you frantically stamp on the poo inferno threatening to engulf your house. Such fond memories.
Bad luck if you travel on the A1 southbound in Hertfordshire, and enjoy putting your foot down too hard -- the speed camera between junctions three and four has been named as the UK's highest-earner amongst the speed cameras.
Ex-Home Secretary, Blunkett, claims the then French Home Secretary, now President Sarkozy, let slip that the French read confidential emails sent to the UK embassy in Paris in 2002, and suggested that the UK encrypt them. That didn't occur to them before?
A new report by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech pegs the UK mobile phone market as half smartphone, with Android in a dominant position, claiming a 50 per cent chunk of the smartphone population.
Google's fabled GDrive has been the stuff of legend for years; but a recent search result for Writely.com, which Google acquired in 2006, lends more evidence to the suggestion that it's still on the cards after being quashed in 2008. [Google via TechCrunch]
The government is looking to integrate the BBC iPlayer and its kin into the TV Licence, in plans that will mean anyone watching any of the terrestrial catch-up services will require a licence, regardless of TV ownership.
The universe is full of incredibly beautiful sights, but they're all designated with dull official codes like NGC 281. Thankfully some stargazers have a little imagination, and have nicknamed the nebula above after the original dot-chomper, Pac-Man. Can you see it?
