In what can only be described as Web 2.0 silly season with LinkedIn and their brethren being given crazy valuations, one potential deal stands out from the crowed - and it won't cost either party a penny.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Just when we'd all pretty much come to terms with Apple not announcing a new iPhone at WWDC, British technology blog ElectricPig has gone and got us wondering once more, with reports Apple's PR department are trying to get UK press to attend the event in San Francisco.
A new Windows Media Centre plugin brings the flexibility of Apple's AirPlay video and audio streaming to the world of Microsoft's take on the set top box.
Apple has reached yet another milestone in its meteoric rise to mobile phone and application daddy, with the number of apps accepted into its App Store reaching the half million number.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has promised over 500 new features will be present in the company's next release of Windows Phone 7.x.
The world's first 3rd party App Store, Installer, has been successfully ported to iOS 4.3.3 and below by Infini-Dev Team according to a blog entry on their web site.
Hands up if you've ever restored your iDevice only to realize you hadn't saved your photos somewhere beforehand? Come on, hands all the way up. That means you at the back!
Speculation before the iPhone 4 was announced was that the handset would be available in both 32GB and 64GB models, but alas Apple settled on the 16GB and 32GB variations we have today. According to sources of former Engadgeteer Chris Ziegler though, we could be in for a higher capacity model after all.
We've all got drawers, cupboards and other nooks and crannies stuffed chock full of old technology, be it phones, games consoles or MP3 players. If only there was an easy way to get hard, cold cash for them. Granted there are solutions like eBay and Craigslist out there but there are various barriers to entry for both of those options. Now Amazon is joining the fray by adding electronics to their trade-in program - including iOS devices.
Sometimes we're all so preoccupied with gaining friends and followers that we're sometimes missing one of the most important metrics we can use to measure our performance on social media sites - who's unfollowing us?
