http://Tech.bitchbuzz.com:80/::Page:: en-gb BABE v1 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:55:50 GMT 20 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/xbox-natal-the-future-of-gaming.html Earlier this month, the BitchBuzz team took a break from running around Fashion Week to pop into a lovely Xbox event, where they showed us their latest addition to the Xbox Family – the Xbox Natal.While this may sound like some sort of tool used by an obstetrician or a new sort of Pre-Natal vitamin, it’s not, and has absolutely nothing to do with babies. (So far, anyway.) Cate Sevilla Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:57 GMT Tech 2298 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/facebook-philanthropy-mediocre-mush.html Has Web 2.0 failed?It's supposed to be the break-through moment, when the web frees us of our chains and allows children to hold hands across the world and sing songs—at least virtually.  More people are online than ever: Facebook is the single biggest time suck out there for people with computers and more sign up for Twitter every day. You can sit down to your keyboard and have the world at your fingertips. K.A. Laity Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT Tech 2282 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/is-technology-really-good-for-human-rights.html How much has the internet and communication technology really helped human rights? From the first “Twitter revolution” in Moldova to the Youtube videos of Burmese monks marching against their military leaders, the internet has been heralded as a gateway to information we’d never have had access to otherwise. But how much does it actually help the victims of human rights abuses? Rebecca Thomson Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:44:05 GMT Tech 2279 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/the-worth-of-womens-words-online.html Somehow a weird collision of events sparked a realisation for me - or really it was a reaffirmation, I suppose.When you add together the narrow escape from tragedy dramatised in Lone Sherfing's An Education, the inescapable tragedy that was the University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting and the head-scratching success story of mixmaster/plagiarist Helene Hegemann - "There’s no such thing as originality anyway, there’s only authenticity" - with the news that social media supp... K.A. Laity Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT Tech 2269 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/has-facebook-been-feeling-over-crowded-lately.html Sure, I can understand that the estimated 300 million people on Facebook are going to create a hubbub that makes it increasingly difficult to be heard and I'm not going to point fingers at number 299 millionth person (when it was really the 718,543rd one anyway, I'm looking at you, Edith). Nonetheless, the strains of this enormous size have become apparent. K.A. Laity Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:00:20 GMT Tech 2230 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/win-an-xbox-360-elite-ellie-goulding-gig.html As we mentioned last year, Xbox Reverb is a seriously cool way for fans to see their favorite artists perform in small, more intimate venues. Essentially, Xbox Reverb gigs are a bit DIY, as fans have the chance to interact with their favourite bands and influence all aspects of the gig from DJ-ing on the night, from designing the gig’s poster and to selecting tracks ... Cate Sevilla Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:38:22 GMT Tech 2223 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/a-tv-cynics-opinion-on-the-sony-bravia-z5500.html I’ve never really understood the fascination with really big, fancy, LCD-HD-Plasma-whatever TVs.Sure, they look really nice when you’re walking through the TV section of Currys or Target, but I never really understood why people would spend the money on a 42” LCD TV, when surely you could just buy a smaller, cheaper flatscreen TV and be just as satisfied. Cate Sevilla Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:00:00 GMT Tech 2216 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/the-ipad-a-geek-chic-reading-machine.html As someone who always felt life would be much better if one could carry around a few hundred books at the same time, I am quite enthusiastic about the new Apple iPad. While eBook readers have been around a while and do a decent job of letting readers lug around an excessive amount of books, I could never justify another electronic device just to have a bunch of books on myself at all times. Jennifer Braginsky Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT Tech 2211 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/apples-new-ipad-no-girls-allowed.html Yeah, everyone was excited about the unveiling of the new Apple tablet computer. They braced themselves for the inevitable Twitter crash (which didn't seem to happen after all).  Geeks everywhere were poised to trumpet or decry the new product depending upon where they positioned themselves along the Steve-Jobs-Messiah-or-Huckster continuum.  But the one thing that seemed to be overlooked was the impac... K.A. Laity Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:42 GMT Tech 2207 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/the-inside-source-news-and-trends-on-ebay.html There is something about eBay that scares me. It scares me in the same way giant thrift stores scare me: I never know where anything is, and I never know how to find it. Yes, I understand that you can, like, search for things and that there are categories, but whenever anyone says, “Look on eBay.” I suddenly become very overwhelmed. Cate Sevilla Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:30:00 GMT Tech 2203 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/retro-futurism-the-new-polaroid-pic-1000.html Back in Autumn I wrote about The Impossible Project Urban Outfitter's attempts to bring back the Polaroid in when they were gathering support for the discontinued device through selling books and displaying the history of Polaroids in-store.  Claire Tayler Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:00:00 GMT Tech 2156 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/rachael-mcadams-why-green-is-sexy.html Whenever movie stars or celebrities get involved with the Internet, I can’t help but roll my eyes. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore’s foreplay on Twitter is enough to make me throw up and Kim Kardashian’s blog – albeit highly entertaining – is also high on the “Will It Make You Vom?” scale. Because celebrity’s online are so nauseating, I was pretty skeptical when in I read in Cate Sevilla Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:52:48 GMT Tech 2151 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/bitchbuzz-review-csi-hard-evidence.html Before I write anything about CSI: Hard Evidence, I have a confession to make… I love the TV show so much I came up with a special dance to go with the credits. That’s to give you an idea of just how receptive I am to a game emulating my favourite show. It is not a bad game either, despite its being a massive throwback to 1998 – but I am not against a spot of vintage gaming. Laëtitia Wajnapel Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:09:00 GMT Tech 2149 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/dell-considers-building-indian-tech-recycling.html I interviewed Dell’s “lead environmental strategist” yesterday, and I admit I didn’t expect to be convinced by him. The way I saw it, Dell – and other tech companies – are the bad boys, the ones who drag their feet over removing toxic materials from computers, and the ones who make astronomical profits from selling us technology while ignoring the Rebecca Thomson Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT Tech 2118 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/gender-blogging-writing-under-a-female-name.html Blogger James Chartrand revealed this week that "he" is actually a she and deliberately took up the name after finding it impossible to make a living as a female blogger and facing ridicule and dismissal. It's hard to tell whether female bloggers were more disgusted that pretending to be a misogynist jerk actually worked or depressed that nothing has chang... K.A. Laity Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:16:22 GMT Tech 2115 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/virgin-group-avg-team-up-to-create-virgin.html Did you know that 26% of the British public “get mad” at their gadgets and bits of technology they don’t understand instead of getting help with it?To aid those in the UK who need help with technology, Virgin Group have launched their first new UK company in three years and have teamed up with AVG to launch Virgin Digital Help. A service that promises to “revolutionise the way British consumers s... Cate Sevilla Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:45:00 GMT Tech 2113 http://sex.bitchbuzz.com/violet-blue-and-the-future-of-sex-at-leweb.html Today the fabulous  Violet Blue took the stage at LeWeb, wowing the geeky crowd so used to listening to rich male entrepreneurs claiming that "money is bullshit", with her sex robots and empowering views on sex The title of her talk  was "The Future of Sex", and to be honest, I had never thought about whether or not there was a future for sex. Sex is just sex, right? And in the future there should be a lot of it...righ... Cate Sevilla Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:58:12 GMT Tech 2094 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/facebook-makes-more-changes-to-privacy-settings.html The news slipped in while many of you were sleeping: Facebook made more and significant changes to your privacy settings. Yes, it's a whole new set of alterations that you will have to go in and manually address unless you don't care one way or the other about who can read what you put on the social media network. K.A. Laity Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:36:27 GMT Tech 2090 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/virgin-mobile-launch-new-blackberry-tariff.html  Virgin Mobile have made quite an exciting announcement today, as they now have a Blackberry tariff!Hoorah! Now Virgin are, like, grown-ups in the mobile network world! Cate Sevilla Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:52:26 GMT Tech 2069 http://tech.bitchbuzz.com/machinarium-worn-out-places-worn-out-faces.html Videogames that trigger any form of emotion apart from “grrrrr I need to kill them all” are few and far between. When it comes to games available online, they are even rarer. One generally has a choice between mind numbing RPG in anime style and hypnotic puzzles that will make you go blind (my favourite kind). Laëtitia Wajnapel Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:03:00 GMT Tech 2058