Interesting move by PlusNet, as they release a version of their broadband service tailored specifically towards Polish speakers.
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Month: June 2007
HTC Touch Phone Review (Part 2/3)
In Part One we gave you an outline of the phone took a gander at the look and feel.
Opening up the Touch
The phone may be elegant on the outside, but it’s not such a pretty picture when you need to get inside.
Opening the phone was tricky enough, requiring a fair bit of energy to slide the back off to install the battery, but worse was to come when we looked to install the SIM and MicroSD card.
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Manhunt 2 Is “A Fine Piece Of Art”
Manhunt 2 has been hanging around the news all week long.
It started off with being banned by the BFFC for sale in the UK, now it’s being called a “fine piece of art” by the game’s publisher, Take-Two.
The game, written by Rockstar Games, must be liked by the chairman of Take-Two, as he is now on record say that he “Fully” stands behind the game.
More extensively he release a statement saying
“The Rockstar team has come up with a game that fits squarely within the horror genre and was intended to do so,” he continued, “It brings a unique, formerly unheard of cinematic quality to interactive entertainment, and is also a fine piece of art.”
So there.
Friday Video: Domino PCs
Here’s the Friday funny video of the week.
Two young bucks have tried to make the most out of a huge amount of PCs that must have been hanging around the office.
It looks like they must have been left alone over a weekend and given this, decided to get creative.
It’s been around for a little while – it was uploaded late April – but given the language used “dot com crash,” it sounds like it was at least a few years back.
None of this diminishes the entertainment we think you’ll get from watching it.
Watch it after the jump
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Porn Scum Stoop Ever Lower
This morning my daughter was having a look around for some pictures of medieval castle’s on Google Images. She’s six and a half.
My Wife was sitting with her while she browsed the index, and as the results looked quite reasonable, she left the room to let her browse around the search results.
Next thing, our daughter was calling out that she didn’t like what was on the screen – and seeing what was there, no wonder. It was a porn site.
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Microsoft Surface Parody Video: Brilliant!
We’ve all seen the video of Microsoft showing off the surface table that lets you interact in what is now a novel way.
We’ve found a video that brilliantly mocks it.
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HTC Touch Phone Review
We were recently invited to the launch of the HTC Touch phone – a new slimline WM6 phone sporting ‘TouchFLO’ touchscreen technology – and the assembled herd of head honchos told us that HTC was hoping to steal some of Apple’s thunder ahead of the release of their (over) hyped iPhone.
Now we don’t go in for all this ‘unpacking video’ nonsense, but we feel that HTC’s packaging was especially noteworthy, with the Touch coming in a stylish black box containing a large, full colour manual, which made a very pleasant change from the usual multi-language folded leaflets instructing us to, “Read the PDF file for more.”
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VideoIPO: Video Stock Exchange: Trade On YouTube Popularity
A nifty mashup reaches us via Perry Aulie, co-founder of VideoIPO.
It’s a service that is hoping to make a success out of the enormous and growing interest in watching videos online, specifically YouTube – but not by following the same now-overdone model of serving videos.
VideoIPO lets you trade on the popularity of YouTube Videos by mashing up YouTube video and the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) trading engine.
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China Unblocks English Wikipedia, Mostly
Quick catchup news. China has modified their content blocking – or Great Firewall of China as it’s sometimes called – to allow through the English language version of Wikipedia to be seen in China.
This change only took place at the beginning of this week. My experience the week before (while in Beijing), was that results were show in Google, but when clicking on the Wikipedia links, they would timeout with nothing displayed – classic firewall blocking behaviour.
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Vodafone Mobile Broadband Is Great: UK Price Drop
From the beginning of July, Vodafone UK is dropping the price of their Mobile Broadband service to £25 a month or a ‘designed to get you to take the monthly offer,’ £8.50 for 24 hours.
There’s also a new feature that gives the ability to continue data connections, while you’re in select European countries for £8.50 for 24 hours.
All of these prices exclude VAT.
They are pitching it as a real alternative to fixed-line broadband and Wi-Fi.
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