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Apple’s media event on September 1st – is it the debut of Apple’s iTv?

Apple’s media event on September 1st – is it the debut of Apple’s iTv?

Apple has earlier used a September event to release new iPods and announce upgrades to the iTunes service. Keeping with the tradition -  Apple will be holding a media  event on September 1st out in San Francisco, and we think that it is for  new Apple TV everyone is talking about. Apart from a  Apple TV release, which is expected to be relaunched with a naming change to Apple iTV, Apple watchers [...]
Your personalised Holiday Match Maker

Your personalised Holiday Match Maker

The Holiday Match Maker from Halifax. It’s one of those rare things, a Facebook application that is genuinely useful and entertaining at the same time. It’s also pretty clever. By analysing the content of your profile, it will ’calculate’ what your ideal holiday destination is, where you should stay, what you should do, what the weather’s like at the moment and how many plastic Eiffel Towers [...]
GodisaGeek to organise a Football World Cup in London

GodisaGeek to organise a Football World Cup in London

Fifa  Football World Cup has started today and all the action and attention has shifted to South Africa. If you are regretting not booking your trip, now is your chance to be not only a part of a special one-off football tournament event and what’s better you could also participate in it. Leading online gaming magazine and community GodisaGeek is organizing  a virtual xbox 360  FIFA Word [...]
Tony Blair joins Silicon Valley firm Venture Captitalist firm

Tony Blair joins Silicon Valley firm Venture Captitalist firm

Tony Blair, the  former Prime Minister of UK  has been hired as a senior adviser by Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm which is promoted by Vinod Khosla who is  known as the brains behind Sun Microsystems and is one of Silicon Valley’s smartest investors. Khosla Ventures  is planning to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in green technology and is banking on Blair’s international [...]
New London Bus design revealed

New London Bus design revealed

Image by wallyg via Flickr It will be a red-letter day in the lives of London buses. The new London bus design was unveiled by London mayor, Boris Johnson yesterday. The design of the London Bus is based on the old Routemaster model which is an icon on London, but the iconic 1954 design is getting a much needed revamp. The new bus will be powered by eco-friendly hybrid technology. According [...]
Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency

Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency

A vast majority of social gamers are game  to undertake a marketing action in return for virtual currency, according to new research  by comScore  for Offerpal Media which was released at the Game Developers Conference. Alternative payment methods enable developers to monetize significantly larger portions of their user base and currently they  struggle to monetize even three percent of their [...]
HP’s Slate takes dig at iPad

HP’s Slate takes dig at iPad

HP  began to brag about the ability  of its forthcoming tablet pc  to run Adobe Flash content, a feature which the iPhone never did and iPad will not do. Though HP did not mention the iPad specifically by name, its choice of words and the specific promotion of Flash make it clear that the company is attacking Apple’s iPad and displaying what will HP’s Slate Tablet have that Apple’s [...]
Sky’s 3D Channel Comes to Westfield

Sky’s 3D Channel Comes to Westfield

Sky Television kicked off  UK’s first 3D channel with a live Premier League football match  between Arsenal and Manchester United which was  broadcasted in nine pubs around the UK a few weeks back and was well received. This Friday, London’s Westfield shopping centre will have Sky TV showcasing 3D TV content; this event is the first of many planned displays to showcase the company’s [...]
#hanukkahLDN 2009: Thank You!

#hanukkahLDN 2009: Thank You!

So the idea was simple, let’s host a party for the winter holidays and raise some money for charity. We acquire the splendid G Casino in Piccadilly Circus, MoonBingo sponsored the bar, and we gambled, drank and had an amazing night of fun and Jewish stories. We raised money through Poker & BlackJack, which went to support JHAfrica. Why JHAfrica? Jewish Hearts for Africa provide Israeli solar [...]
Sporkings Party 2009

Sporkings Party 2009

Being the multi-cultural team that we are, this year instead of a Christmas party, we’ve decided to go for a Hanukkah event! Now, this means all the usual dancing, eating and drinking (in fact, we have a free bar), but with the addition of gambling On Monday December 14th from 7-9 PM we will hosting a charity Poker tourney. Concurrently, we will be running Blackjack and Roulette tables. [...]
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