Pixel Ads; gWiFi; WoW Plague – Teenage Tech News Review
A great way to make money, by selling ads by the pixel; Google’s WiFi; and a plague enters World of War all get Lawrence’s attention with week.
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Star Trek Special Edition Phone Announced
Sona Mobile beams down an enterprising phone for Trekkers … Geddit … Enterprising.
Holographic TV Created By Scientists
US academics create imaging technology that displays the “first truly 3D holographic movies”.
V600i 3G UMTS Phone From Sony Ericsson and Vodafone
Feature packed new 3G phone in Ozzy Ozbourne black serves up video, still and gaming entertainment for Vodafone customers.
Log On Through The Lord
Cardiff church offers wireless broadband access – Get connected while you confess.
XBox 360 Launched on US MTV. UK Tonight
Microsoft’s eagerly awaited Xbox update offers media centre functionality, oodles of power and connectivity galore. And yes, we want one.
Sales in Virtual Goods Surpasses $100m
Real-world sales of virtual resources gained within multiplayer online computer games has surpassed $100 million worldwide.
Mobile vs Web gaming
Macrospace and Certus enable the mobile phone community to embrace the communal delights of multiplayer online gaming by battling in real time with PC gamers.
Exclusive: Mobile Gaming Goes 3D
The huge leap from 2D sprites to 3D polygons created the modern games industry as we know it – mobile phones are about to make that transisiton for themselves with the release of the M3G standard. Superscape have produced Swerve, a tool to enable developers to make immersive 3D games for mobile phones. We spoke to Stephane Groud, Swerve product manager at Superscape about M3G and the advantages of turning sprites to polygons.
Busy Times for Vivendi
Vivendi Universal Games to lay off 350 employees, meanwhile Jean-Marie Messier former Vivendi Universal chairman gets an early knock on the door from le flic.