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It’s rumoured that streaming music service Spotify is preparing to launch integration with Facebook, so you’ll be able to listen to your music from inside the social network. Forbes quotes “sources close to the deal” who claim that a Spotify icon will appear on the left side of the newsfeed, next to the regular photos and events icons. Clicking it ...

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A recent report has estimated the sales of the competing smartphone operating systems in the first quarter of 2011, has detailed Android to be on top. Its market share rose from 9.6 percent in Q1 of 2010 to a 36 percent for Q1 2011, with more than 36 million devices shipped — more than triple the amount for the same ...

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We love Lego creations for one reason: the coloured blocks enable you to build anything you can imagine. A German chap named Friedemann Wachsmuth has built a fully-functioning a Super-8 film projector out of just that; Lego. It uses two Technic engines and includes automatic feeding and fast-rewind among its features. It plays at 24 frames per second and has ...

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Jess3 has created these beautiful info-graphics representing the state of global social networks in statistics. For more visuals visit the website at www.jess3.com

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Not something I would hang on the wall, but very clever non the less.

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(Above: Largest collection of Converse shoes) Pokemon Figures Dalmation Merchandise Action Figures Barbie Dolls Ball Point Pens Super Soakers Winne the Pooh Toys Santas Do Not Disturb Signs

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Nokia are to stop using the Ovi brand for their rushed reaction to Apple’s app store and iTunes. The company said it planned to wind up the four-year-old project and would be offering services under the Nokia name in future. The Ovi store, or should I now say the Nokia App store has a worldwide user base which downloads on ...

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Microsoft have taken a very bold, and now it seems strategic, move of acquiring Internet Telephony pioneer Skype. Skype has over 170 million connected users and over 207 billion minutes of voice and video conversations in 2010 alone. Microsoft confirm this move on their website (click here)

Microsoft hope for this move to “increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination will extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.”

Microsoft said they will continue the development of the application for both their native OS (Windows) and third party operating such as Apple.

During the period of Acquisition a With that query in mind, Qriously, a service that measures public sentiment in real-time on smartphones, went out to get the data. The company asked 1500 smartphone users if buying Skype is a ‘win,’ or a ‘fail’ for Microsoft:

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Remember those faux wood grain GE flip clocks that sat on every bedside table?  These humble clocks were made obsolete by fancy LED clocks and more recently by cell phones. Jonas Damon’s Alarm Dock allows your iPhone to read as an “alarm clock”, with an opening at back for routing your power supply. Augmented by a flip clock app, this dock ...

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Mashups, the art of mixing multiple songs into one continuous song, is a subtle art. When a mashup is done well, you often can’t hear all of the different songs merging into one, because it’s so fluid. Cameron Adams, aka The Man in Blue, visualizes his own mashupDefinitive Daft Punk, to show just what goes into the piece. You might ...

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Holland’s bicycle company Van Hulsteijn founded seven years ago as a design studio with the focus on interior design now produces this extravagant bike. When Van Hulsteijn built a prototype of this bike for personal use 2 years ago people started asking obsessively were it came from and only then Herman van Hulsteijn and his team decided to start manufacturing a ...

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