February 2010

Apple Guilty Of Unknowingly Using Child labour

by Robert February 28, 2010

We have heard all about big multinational corporations being in the firing line when it’s been discovered that they’re using child labour. I think we all remember the big taboo over Nike when they were using child labour. Well Apple seems to be the latest company to fall victim to this, however to be fair to them, they didn’t seem to be aware of it. An internal company audit showed that more than half [...]

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iTunes Contest Winner Gets Call From Steve Jobs

by Robert February 27, 2010

Remember that contest that iTunes were running to reach 100 Billion downloads? The contest winner received a $10,000 voucher for the iTunes store. The #10,000,000,000 song was by none of than Johnny Cash, with his “Guess Things Happen That Way”. The lucky winner was Louie Sulcer, a resident of Woodstock, Georgia bought the song and was awarded with the $10,000 Itunes gift card. Well it seems that he got more than he [...]

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Nexus One Coming To Vodafone In April

by Robert February 27, 2010

According to the Telegraph, the Google Nexus One will be coming to Vodafone UK in April. The long awaited Google Phone – Nexus One has been available in select regions sim free for a while now. During Googles press conference release they said that Vodafone would be carrying the Nexus One in Europe but gave no date. We finally have news from the Telegraph here that the Nexus One will [...]

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New Legend of Zelda coming to Wii this year?

by Robert February 26, 2010

Nintendo seem to have a bumper line up of games coming to the Wii this year. We’ve got Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid on their way as well as a host of other unannounced titles. In a recent interview with Wired , Nintendo Vice President Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo’s release calendar for 2010 is “night and day,” when compared to its releases in the first half of 2009. So they [...]

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YouTube Killing Support For IE6 From March 13th

by Robert February 25, 2010

At the beginning of the month I wrote up an article that Google were beginning to phase out support for the outdated Internet Explorer 6. Well in a further attempt to try and send the outdated browser to its grave, YouTube, which is owned by Google is pulling support for Internet Explorer 6 as of March 13th. Support stops on March 13th. Stopped support essentially means that some future features [...]

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iTunes Reaches 10 Billion Downloads

by Robert February 25, 2010

Just a couple of weeks ago Apple announced the ” Countdown To 10 Billion Songs “with the contest winner getting a cool $10,000 voucher for iTunes. At the time, the iTunes store counter read just over 9.8 Billion. Yesterday iTunes reached the incredible 10 Billion download mark, it’s quite an achievement for Apple and just goes to show how dominant they are in this market. So i’m sure your all [...]

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Motorola Devour Coming To Best Buy This Week For $99

by Robert February 22, 2010

There has been a lot of hype recently over the next major android phone coming to Verizon. The Motorola Devour is set to hit Best Buy stores in the US on the 25th for just $99. The phone will then hit Verizon stores in March for $150 after a $100 mail-in rebate. Buyers will also need to sign up for a Nationwide Talk plan and the $30 unlimited data package, [...]

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Apple iPad Pre Orders To Start On Feb 25th?

by Robert February 21, 2010

I know lots of you can’t wait to get your hands on the Apple iPad, personally i’m not one of them but I still feel obliged to let you know all about the iPad as I’m still interested in it. According to AppAdvice, the Apple iPad will be up for pre order next week, February 25th. Steve Jobs t0ld us that the Wi-Fi only version of the iPad would be [...]

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The First “iDo” In An Apple Store

by Robert February 20, 2010

I must say, this is something I haven’t seen before. Josh and Ting Li became the first couple to officially tie the knot in an Apple store. The pair first met in an Apple store, so of course the only place suitable to get married was the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, New York between a row of Mac Books. “We got to know each other because Ting was looking [...]

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Windows Browser Ballot Screen Revealed

by Robert February 19, 2010

Remember a couple of months ago, leading up to the release of Windows 7, Microsoft and the EU weren’t getting on too well. All the taboo was basically over small browsers like Opera complaining that Microsoft had the upper hand in the browser industry because they shipped their own software with their own Operating System. So because Microsoft ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer set as the default browser, the [...]

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Google Could Be Making $497 Million A Year From URL Typos

by Robert February 18, 2010

You know everytime you type something into your address bar, then once you hit enter and land on the wrong site you realise you’ve made a common typo, yet again. Well it’s nice to know that you are helping Google make up to $497 Million a year when you do that. For example if your quickly typing in “Facebook.com” you may accidently type in “Favebook.com” and if you hit enter [...]

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