If you feel like you need a break from work — and who doesn’t every now and again — and want to make your brain ache a little, let us introduce Pongout.
It’s a combination of two old video games, Breakout and Pong.
Simon Perry
PongOut: Breakout & Pong Combined: Argh, My Brain Hurts
BT Statement on Home Hub Wireless Security
Following our story on the vulnerabilities of the BT Home Hub, the most widely used DSL wireless router in the UK, BT sent us this statement last week after we requested it.ZYB Buy Imity, Bluetooth Social Networking Co
ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase.They’ve bought a Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum.
“Europe’s thinnest TV” Heading To Comet
One of the clear upcoming trends for TV manufacturers is to try and persuade you to change your current flat screen (if you’ve taken the plunge already) to an even thinner TV.While we were at IFA last year, we were stunned by the ultra thin TV shown by Sharp, which came in at a crazy 20mm, at its thinnest point – it was only 29mm at its thickest!
Q1 Google Result: Income Up 42%
Google’s Q1 2008 results have been published with their income up 42% compared with Q1 2007.The result include the purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, although Google state that this was “immaterial to income.” (more…)
GTA IV: Ricky Gervais Cracking Jokes In Video Game
In what we think is a first, Ricky Gervais will deliver comedy routines in a video game, Grand Theft Auto IV.Widely touted — often by himself — as the funniest man in the world, if not further afield, Gervais will deliver three minutes of new material, as well as some from his Fame tour. (more…)
Wii Fit Tour Analysed and How Consoles Do Get You Fit
Nintendo’s Wii Fit have announced a tour around the UK to show off the Wii Fit and how people can integrate it into getting themselves … well, fit.When the Wii Fit was recently launched in the UK, it was reported as selling out pretty much instantly, which grabbed a few headlines.
(more…)Ashley Highfield: iPlayer Glory Boy?
How wrong The Times are in their piece praising Ashley Highfield, entitled “Business big shot: Ashley Highfield.”To label him as the man behind the launch of the BBC iPlayer, misleads their readers.
Ashley might have been the person who stood himself up for interviews, giving the impression that he was the man behind it.
The real accolade for originating the concept of iPlayer and carrying out the original work behind iPlayer falls to Ben Lavender, someone no longer at the BBC.
BT Home Hub: Wireless Security Vulnerabilities Discovered
Those with a BT Home Hub — and there’s a lot of them, as it’s currently the most popular DSL router in the UK — might be sleeping a little less soundly tonight following the claims of an ethical hacking group, GNUCitizen, to have found a way to past its Wireless security.Rather than getting all hardcore and going into details of how it came about, we’ll give you the overview.
O2: 8GB iPhone £100 Price Drop
The price of the UK 8GB iPhone has dropped by £100 to £169.O2 — the network with the exclusive right to sell it in the UK — and Carphone Warehouse, have announced that this will be until 1 June.
Following our story on the 
ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase.
One of the clear upcoming trends for TV manufacturers is to try and persuade you to change your current flat screen (if you’ve taken the plunge already) to an even thinner TV.
Google’s Q1 2008 results have been published with their income up 42% compared with Q1 2007.
In what we think is a first, Ricky Gervais will deliver comedy routines in a video game, Grand Theft Auto IV.
Nintendo’s Wii Fit have announced a tour around the UK to show off the Wii Fit and how people can integrate it into getting themselves … well, fit.
How wrong The Times are in their piece praising Ashley Highfield, entitled “
Those with a BT Home Hub — and there’s a lot of them, as it’s currently the most popular DSL router in the UK — might be sleeping a little less soundly tonight following the claims of an ethical hacking group, GNUCitizen, to have found a way to past its Wireless security.
The price of the UK 8GB iPhone has dropped by £100 to £169.