Bad app-le – Someone get us a catapult and some disgruntled fowl, we want to fire them at this Latvian firm that was publishing fake editions of Angry Birds and Cut the Rope which allowed it to send hidden premium texts to anyone who downloaded them. Happily, the firm has now been fined £50,000 and ordered to refund all the people caught out by the scam.
3. One More Thing: Robot fish - pollution’s greatest fear
One more thing: today’s other news
One More Thing: Google Play hits 15 billion app
downloads
Bad app-le – Someone get us a catapult and some
disgruntled fowl, we want to fire them at this Latvian
firm that was publishing fake editions of Angry
Birds and Cut the Rope which allowed it to send hidden
premium texts to anyone who downloaded them.
Happily, the firm has now been fined £50,000 and
ordered to refund all the people caught out by the scam.
4. Wooooay, football – Football’s still going, apparently. The
second test for Hawk-Eye’s goal line tech is set to be
England v Belgium on June 2, thus providing one more
thing to blame when England doesn’t win things.
What up Barack? - All you’ve got to do to get a call from the
president is launch your own privately-funded space
program. Sadly for Elon Musk said “Caller ID was
blocked, so at first I thought it was a telemarketer.” If it
hadn’t have been blocked it’d have flashed up “B-DAWG
Calling”, presumably.
Dark matters – It seems there was some question mark
over whether or not dark matter exists. Apparently it
does. As you were.
5. Get lost – Twitter won’t tweet any two-word tweet starting
with the word ‘get’ on account of it once being an SMS
service. Not much good if you’re in a hostage situation,
risking your life to tweet and all you’ve got time to type is
‘Get help’. We’d probably all ignore that anyway though
so… no biggie.
Where did dogs come from? – The eternal question. No
one seems to know. And if you said WOLVES then QI
KLAXON.
Like Mike - Google’s shopping spree not only saw it picking
up Motorola Mobility but also design studio Mike and
Maaike, which worked on the first Android phone (the
much-loved G1) as well as the Xbox 360. Controversial. .
6. Fashion - If you buy this R2D2 hoodie, you’re only allowed
to communicate in beeps and boops while wearing it.
And maybe by projecting holograms. But that’s really it.
[Gizmodo UK]
7. Yes mate - One way to impress a person you quite fancy is
this: on your first date, whip out your smartphone and
fire up the new Poundland app. Guaranteed success.
Plus, y’know, bargains.
Marvel-lous – Gorgeous 4-year-old Anthony Smith woke up
one day and told his mum he wouldn’t wear his hearing
aid because superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.
Gorgeous Marvel was having none of that: when
Anthony’s mum emailed for help finding a hearing-
impaired superhero, not only did Marvel respond with
news of Hawkeye who lost 80% of his hearing, but it also
created a whole new superhero named Blue Ear named
after Anthony’s hearing aid. Gorgeous.
