Tag Archives: mobile phone

Competition Closed: A Christmas Pressie from the Carphone Warehouse

  By Sinead Keogh | December 16, 2010 - 12:15 pm | Competitions, Gadgets, The Culch, The Internet, wantsies
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**Competition Closed. Congratulations to Niall** Ho ho ho….Merry Christmas! That’s right folks…it’s nearly time (as if you didn’t know). We hope you’re getting through the shopping, enjoying the socialising and planning a relaxing and happy December 25th. But wait, you say, there’s more! The folk at the Carphone Warehouse invited us along to the launch of their new Carphone Warehouse Connected World in Dundrum Town Centre a few weeks back. It’s full of tablets (the techie kind), ‘droid phones what nerds love and loads of other cool gadgets, in fact it’s a rather snazzy place altogether. We recommend dropping in to check the place out, the amount of tech on display gave us a serious case of the wantsies. They even have Ireland’s first Geek Squad: 3 guys who’ll provide tech support from simple stuff to setting up your phone for you if you’re not that way inclined to the … There’s more →

Microsoft Game Room, stepping away from the Xbox

  By Will | March 26, 2010 - 2:29 am | Gadgets, Games
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Microsoft released their Game Room yesterday as part of their “House Party” (or “Block Party” if you live in the USA) event. Apart from some intriguing teething problems its been an interesting experiment. Essentially Game Room is a MAME type emulator of arcade games (currently limited to Atari and Konami cabinets from the late 70s and early 80s) as well as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision consoles. And these seem to be the original ROMs based on the ROM boot sequence some of the games show. The emulation is wrapped up in a customisable virtual arcade for your avatar and friends avatars to roam through. The games are OK, but the brilliance is in the execution. When you first start (provided it can connect to the game room server, that’s where the teething problems lay), you can demo the games, usually for about 10 minutes (or less if you leave … There’s more →

What’s a TV?

  By Will | May 6, 2009 - 7:53 pm | Gadgets, Politics, The Internet, TV
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It sounds like a simple question, but what is a television? Some of you are thinking “that box/flat yoke in the corner/on the wall” but that isn’t the full answer. At the moment. Legally. You see, I lived for years without a TV. I had broadband, and who needs a TV when you have YouTube. And now RTÉ and TV3 have their flash based players so you have even less need to buy a TV. Or a TV license. Unless they change the law… Oh they are changing the law. Spotted by Stochastic Geometry it appears that the 2008 Broadcasting Bill is (still) going through the final stages of the Oireachtas defines a “Television set” (on page 142, Part 9 line 37) “television set” means any electronic apparatus capable of receiving and exhibiting television broadcasting services broadcast for general reception (whether or not its use for that purpose is dependent … There’s more →