Sports apps are taking position ready to kick off a year of great British competitiveness, and following the Sky Sports News app recently launching and topping the league at the Carphone Warehouse awards, the BBC has decided to get on the ball with its very own dedicated sports app, which will touch down on Playstation …
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Sky Sports News App Wins Takes Top Prize at Carphone Warehouse “Appy” Awards
The Sky Sports News app for Apple iPad has taken the esteemed award for App of the Year at the Carphone Warehouse “Appys”. The app which covers and adds exclusive interactivity across the whole range of Sky’s sporting programming outran four other software applications to get first place and also took home the gold for …
Facebook Introduces “Interests” – Customizable News Feeds From Your Liked Pages
Whilst checking out your social feeds this morning you may notice that Facebook has introduced a new Interests feature. The Interests links is found in the left hand column along with your Favourites, Groups, Pages and Apps and by clicking onto this you will be taken to a new section of the social network where …
Hoax News Story Heralds the “End of Facebook” on March 15th!
A “news” site which reports alien takeovers of Earth and Mike Tyson’s pigeon fetish has pranked the socially addicted internet community into believing that Facebook would be pulled on March 15th 2012 and that all data, photos and conversation will be deleted – Heralding the end of the world as we know it!
After Weekly …
BBC News App Comes To Android Honeycomb
Really great Android Honeycomb apps are pretty thin on the ground compared to Apple’s iPad – so when the BBC releases one it gets us pretty excited
Today the beeb released their massively popular BBC news app, which has been specifically re-designed to take advantage of the extra screen size Google’s tablet version of Android …
Kick-off Time for Sky Sports News App on Apple’s iPad
Sky has kicked-off its refreshed Sky Sports News app, upping the standard from the previous iPhone-designed app, optimising the interface and video playback for the tablet’s generous 10” display.
The latest app follows the familiar design and similar stylishly uniformed look as 2011’s Sky News app for the popular slab as well as features on …
BBC Switching To HTML5 Support For Videos Across Its Websites
Interestingly, the BBC has conducted a study that now shows that 80 percent of all web videos are now available in HTML5 players.
And since performing this study, the BBC has now announced that it also intends to switch to the new standard for its video playback on all regular and news based BBC sites …
Social Site Reddit Raises $55,000 For Sick Boy In Just One Week
The social internet can be a somewhat dark place at times. It’s become our most powerful tool of communication but it has always bore a somewhat shady taint. It’s not all bad, however – and on occasion some truly inspirational things can emerge. Read on..
You may have heard of, or even use the social …
New Look BBC Homepage Breaks Out of Beta – Live Now!
Back in September the Beeb launched its refreshed website homepage as a Beta test and it seems that Auntie is very pleased with its progress. Pleased enough with the increased traffic to the site since then that she’s decided to unscrew the stabilizers and let the broadcasting corporation’s new online interface go official!
James Thornett, …
Quad Core HTC Edge Smartphone, Modern Warfare 3’s Huge Launch and the Rise of Smartphone Malware – This Week’s Roundup
HTC Edge – The First Quad-Core Smartphone?
The biggest smartphone news this week came courtesy of PocketNow, who broke the story on the amazing HTC Edge. The Edge is reportedly the first smartphone to use a quad-core processor, utilising Nvidia’s Tegra 3 Kal-El chipset.
It should run up to twice as fast as the best …
