The next generation of Mario Bros games are selling well, NPD figures have revealed, as the New Super Mario Bros game for the Nintendo Wii is reported to have hit the 10 million units sold mark. This means New Super Mario Bros has already outsold 2-year-old Super Mario Galaxy, suggesting there’s a real market for [...]
Archive for January, 2010
27 Jan
Facebook friends are virtual, finds Oxford University study
Facebook might give us the ability to have thousands of friends but it does nothing to expand how many we keep in real life, an Oxford University study has found. For humans appear incapable of maintaining more than about 150 active relationships, according to Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary anthropology. He arrived at that [...]
27 Jan
HP signs deal to take on iTunes
HP, the largest computer maker in the world, is set to take on Apple in the digital music sector after signing a deal to embed UK company Omnifone’s MusicStation in its PCs. Apple’s iTunes store is by far the world’s largest digital music service and accounts for the lion’s share of digital music sales, which [...]
27 Jan
Oops, that was a bad call, Earth
“CALLING all aliens, this is Earth. Are you receiving me?” Rather than simply listening for signals of extra-terrestrial life, some scientists are preparing to take a much more active approach to finding alien intelligence on other planets. They believe we should start beaming regular signals into space specifically to find intelligent life, even though other [...]
27 Jan
UK’s top scientist urges care in presenting results of climate change
A failure by some scientists to be candid on the uncertainty of predicting the rate of climate change is to blame for fuelling scepticism about such predictions, according the government’s chief scientific adviser. John Beddington’s comments come in the wake of an admission by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a claim in [...]
27 Jan
IPhone is firmly at the core of Apple
If anybody still questioned how much the iPhone has transformed Apple, the release Monday of historical profit statements revised for new accounting rules provides a clear answer. The handset generates more revenue than any other Apple product group—including desktop and portable computers combined. Under old accounting rules, Apple deferred much of the revenue and cost [...]
27 Jan
Royal spin set to get wool back in fashion
Retailers, including Marks & Spencer and John Lewis, will launch an autumn drive to entice buyers into winter warmers. The high street names have come together with producers and marketing agencies to kick start an ailing industry. Yesterday Prince Charles lent his support to the cause at the launch of The Wool Project, which aims [...]
27 Jan
Teenage St Helens sex attacker who struck on bail named
A teenager who sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl while on bail awaiting trial for the rape of a 10-year-old girl, can now be named. Simon Heaton, 17, of St Helens, pleaded guilty to rape, sexual assault and causing grievous bodily harm. He was previously protected by a court order which banned the publication of his [...]
27 Jan
First Night: AbbaWorld, Earls Court, London
ABBAWorld opened last night in a flurry of spangled jumpsuits and cacophonous harmonies. The basement of Earls Court’s cavernous exhibition centre was transformed into a 25-room shrine to everything that was bouncy, shiny and optimistic in the 1970s, when a Swedish quartet called Abba won the Eurovision Song Contest with a song about Waterloo and [...]
27 Jan
Christopher Reid’s quiet Costa triumph
Christopher Reid’s Costa win could be seen in several ways: as a triumph for poetry in a prosaic world, as evidence that bereavement inspires some of the greatest literature, or as a coup for a rather rarefied literary salon based in north Oxford. What is undoubtedly true is that it is the first poetry collection [...]
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