iPhone: The Video June 24, 2007

Read more Apple , Mobile Devices , Mobile phones , PDA , Smartphones , iPhone

Add this to the latest iPhone teases announced over the last week, from better batteries to YouTube content. Here’s a 20-minute promo video for the iPhone, showing you all the key features and lots of close-ups.

US consumers will get their mitts on it on Friday which means the real, ‘warts-and-all’ reviews will arrive a few days after that.

If you can stomach the cutesy presentation, you’ll be a little wiser, but also no closer to getting one over here.

Masochists can go here now for their iPhone fix.-Martin Lynch

iphone apple mobile phone

Top 10 Most Hated Web Words June 24, 2007

Read more Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Online , Technology

The Internet has spawned many great things but it’s also been responsible for a new kind of bastardised English, or Weblish. According to a new survey of 2,000 Brits, by YouGov on behalf of self-publishers Lulu, here are the Top 10 most irritating Web words/terms.

1. Folksonomy (a web classification system)
2. Blogosphere (the collective term for all blogs)
3. Blog (an online journal)
4. Netiquette (internet etiquette)
5. Blook (a book based on a blog)
6. Webinar (a web or online seminar)
7. Vlog (a video blog)
8. Social Networking (using the web to form virtual communities on sites like MySpace)
9. Cookie (a text file stored on your computer from a website you've visited)
10. Wiki (A collaborative website, editable by its readers)

Still, while they may be mildly annoying to certain people, it should be remembered that the lexicologists at the Collins English Dictionary, recently accepted ‘Godcast’, defined as “a religious service or sermon that has been converted to MP3 format for download from the internet for play on a computer or MP3 player.”

Suddenly ‘blog’ doesn’t seem all that offensive. –Martin Lynch

internet newsenglish fun