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Royal Wedding Marked with Traditional Google Doodle
As the whole world celebrates the Royal wedding various technology sites have put up the bunting including Google who has gone all out with a very special Royal Wedding Google Doodle.The celebratory logo depicts…Royal Wedding Marked with Traditional Google Doodle is a post from: Gadgets and gizmos
2011-04-29 10:41:57 | Gadgets and GizmosReview: Soundstyle Z2
The Soundstyle Z2 really is a lot of stand for the money and it's not by any means obvious where corners have been cut. The very efficient packaging opens to reveal four 25mm pillars and two 50mm ones, plus two large base plates (300 x 230mm) and two small top plates (170 x 130mm), plus enough screws to fit it all together and spikes for top and bottom. The smaller pillars, which are intended (...)
2011-04-29 10:30:00 | Tech Radar
SIM-sized satellites to lift off with Endeavour this afternoon
They won't be beaming GPS or radio signals back to Earth anytime soon, but these one-inch-square satellites could one day travel to distant planets -- without fuel. Developed over a period of three years by a team of undergraduates at Cornell University, the Sprite chips could eventually be used for communication, flying in clusters like tiny space plankton. After hitching a ride on-board the final space shuttle Endeavour mission this afternoon, the three prototype (...)
2011-04-29 10:27:00 | EngadgetProject Café to stick with buttons and d-pad
The latest news about the successor to Nintendo's Wii – currently codenamed 'Project Café' – is that the Japanese gaming company plans to stick with traditional buttons and directional pads (d-pads).According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, the company is unlikely to abandon these traditional and well-loved forms of game controls.Even so, the rumours about Project Café do seem to indicate that Nintendo is planning on integrating some form of touchscreen tech into the console, (...)
2011-04-29 10:10:00 | Tech RadarThe royal wedding in the land of Twitter
The world of social media burst with excitement Friday as millions took to Twitter, Facebook and other sites to join a virtual wedding party for Prince William and Kate Middleton.
2011-04-29 10:08:52 | CNNDoes Your Name Spell Power? LinkedIn Reveals Top CEO Names (Time.com)
Time.com - What's in a name? It just might be the ticket to your success
2011-04-29 10:05:00 | Yahoo News
LivingTechie is like Groupon with a Techie Twist
Techies who want to buy gadgets at bargain prices now have a Groupon-like Web site at their service that features exclusively deals targeted to hipsters and early adopters of innovative products.The exclusivity factor of LivingTechie goes even further. The special offers are sent to work email addresses, only to employees ...Continue Reading on Walyou
2011-04-29 10:03:59 | Walyou
Xcom Global's international MiFi rentals getting cheaper, Eurotrips making a comeback
No sense in beating around the proverbial bush -- we're huge fans of Xcom Global's business model, and frankly, we're saddened that every single nation in the world isn't yet included in its list of supported countries. For those hearing the name for the first time, you'll be doing yourself a solid by catching up with our review of the service, which enables jetsetters to rent MiFis or USB WWAN devices for international destinations (...)
2011-04-29 10:00:00 | EngadgetReview: Quadraspire QV60
The last time we reviewed a speaker stand from Quadraspire it was the unique-looking, all-acrylic QX600. Now the company has done it again with the QV60: a wonderfully simple and elegant design in veneered MDF, which looks like no other speaker stand.At the same time the QV60 contrives to seem somehow familiar because of its similarity with some contemporary sculpture and architecture – not to mention Quadraspire's established range of equipment racks. It is (...)
2011-04-29 10:00:00 | Tech RadarWeek in Tech: Where now for the next-gen consoles?
If your games console was a person, its relatives would be subtly leaving brochures for retirement homes near its favourite chair. The Wii and PS3 have been on sale since 2006, and the Xbox 360 is even older: it shipped in late 2005. So what's next?Officially, what's next is nothing: Microsoft has just revamped the Xbox and added Kinect, and both it and Sony say there's plenty of life in these old dogs. Nintendo, (...)
2011-04-29 10:00:00 | Tech RadarHow does Twitter see the Royal wedding?
What does Twitter think of the Royal wedding? Data specialists Infomous have taken the data from Twitter to produce this stunning visualisation. Click on a word to change the perspective - hover over it to get a list of comment pieces. Refresh it to get the latest live results
2011-04-29 09:59:30 | Guardian.co.ukRoyal wedding a top destination for Web users
The royal wedding was a hit among Web users, causing spikes in traffic on Akamai's network of sites. Concurrent users even topped World Cup traffic.
2011-04-29 09:59:00 | CnetGoogle catches royal wedding fever
Beside a fairytale doodle, Google has added a royal wedding easter egg its Street View package for central London addresses – for one day onlyWhat?! No Google Doodle? Don't be silly – of course there is. Google's Doodle this Friday morning is a cartoon picture of Westminster Abbey, rendered in the happily-ever-after style that may be familiar from fairytales everywhere. There's a link to let you watch the event on YouTube.And even more enjoyably, (...)
2011-04-29 09:56:44 | Guardian.co.ukPSN: hackers claim to have 2.2m credit cards
Discussions in hacker forums point to huge numbers of credit card details stolen from Sony's PlayStation Network, while some owners see fraud – but is it just coincidence?Hackers in underground online forums are claiming to have access to credit card details stolen from Sony's PlayStation Network in mid-April, though security researchers say it is not possible to verify the claims.The online discussions centre around a haul of 2.2m Sony customer credit card numbers that (...)
2011-04-29 09:54:00 | Guardian.co.ukSony faces lawsuits over costly PSN data breach
Following the PR disaster that is the massive Sony PSN hack Sony is already facing a number of legal cases from groups of irate PlayStation fans across the globe.Sony shares were down by nearly 5 per cent following the widespread publicity in both tech and mainstream media about the high-profile PlayStation Network hack.Angry gamers demand answersSony CEO Howard Stringer or his deputy Kazuo Hirai have both refused to comment publicly on the PSN hack (...)
2011-04-29 09:40:00 | Tech Radar