Kisses = New Global Money, According to Kissbank
This is not about prostitution. Kissbank wants to turn the kiss into a new form of web-based virtual currency, where users can send kisses to their heroes, friends, lovers and fans.
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This is not about prostitution. Kissbank wants to turn the kiss into a new form of web-based virtual currency, where users can send kisses to their heroes, friends, lovers and fans.
BBC HD is to get the axe to be replaced by a BBC Two HD channel joining BBC One HD. Sounds like those BBC cuts are having a deeper impact than first thought. [BBC]
A glitch in the way an energy company computes bills resulted in a shock for one poor lady, who was greeted by an automatically generated demand for an extra £13,230.55.
Some people have no scrupules. Scammers are already capitalising on the passing of Steve Jobs with a fake Facebook iPad giveaway that's conned some 15,000 gullible people.
So obvious, I'm amazed I haven't seen this before -- glow in the dark bog roll! Your night time rendezvous with the porcelain throne will never be the same again. Who needs a night light with £8 luminescent toilet paper. [Curiosite via GeekAlerts]
Google's Google Earth mapping tool has been downloaded over one billion times. That number includes downloads on your laptop, your desktop and your phone, plus downloads on your new laptop, new desktop and new phone, but still... [Google]
Our European cousins on Orange France will see the Nokia Sun in the second week of November according to a leaked screenshot sent to Mon Windows Phone. With any luck we'll see the Sun about then on these shores too.
The number of Honeycomb-optimised Android apps continues its slow rise, thanks to Google's updated Google Docs app, with custom features for 3.0 tablets. It includes a new, three-panel layout, to make editing and sharing easier on the larger screen. [Google]
Microsoft has announced plans to add BBC and Channel 4 content to its Xbox 360 TV service, finally bringing the big guns to its Xbox Live media domination plans. But it's a bit late, isn't it?
Star Trek has given us many an interesting thing. Klingon is one of them. Who'd have thought that a fictional language could actually help people?
In typically random British fashion we're sending a phone into space. No, it's not an iPhone, or a Galaxy S2 -- that would have been appropriate -- no the lucky little guy will be the Google Nexus One.
The BBC is cutting yet more jobs, with another 2,000 poor souls back on the dole, some 11% of the Beeb's workforce, following 900 redundancies in February. No cut in services this time -- BBC2 and BBC4 are safe, for now. [FT via TNW]
Our very own Sam Gibbs, news editor extraordinaire, made an appearance on Al Jazeera news today to discuss the "world's cheapest tablet," which will be sold in India to students for the subsidised price of £22, and later in shops for £38.
Everyone and their aunt has played Snake, right? It came standard on most Nokia phones (it probably still does), a bare-bones monochromatic puzzler that involved stopping a greedy snake from bashing into its own tail. It was boring as all hell, and the only thing it was good for was... Well, not much actually.
How many different interchangeable-lens camera systems does one world need? The answer, according to Fujifilm, is MORE MORE MORE, as they've just unveiled a new set-up in Japan, which will go on sale next Spring.
The historic monument known as Bletchley Park has had all sorts of do-gooders rallying for its place in the future, after a lack of funding slid it into a state of neglect. With this £4.6m Heritage Lottery Fund, the old WWII codebreakers' building can be restored and turned into a tourist attraction.
