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News.blog: Blue Man Group texts fans

News I'm sitting at the front of an arena in San Jose, California, that's crammed with 10,000 screaming Blue Man Group fans and were witnessing an odd dichotomy: the show we're watching is both a celebration and a repudiation of technology.

6 November 2006, 9:27

Football club tracks fans with RFID tickets

News London-based Premiership football club Fulham has started issuing RFID-enabled smartcard tickets to fans to cut queues at the turnstiles on match days and increase safety around the stadium. Fans can update the cards over the phone or in person at...

16 November 2006, 9:13

iTunes fans keep Apple at the top

News Music fans flooding iTunes last month helped Apple outpace Google and Amazon as the fastest-growing Web site among the top ten best-known online brands, according to a report released on Tuesday. Traffic-reporting service Nielsen/NetRatings said...

21 December 2005, 10:16

Photos: Apple fans dream up next iPod

News With each major Apple event, we see more mock-ups of potential products created by fans being posted to blogs and message boards. The most prevalent feature in fans' designs was a touchscreen. A contest held by iLounge.com, a blog that covers all...

12 September 2006, 11:45

Comic creation for artless Spidey fans

News The role of comic book auteur will soon be within easy grasp of Spider-Man fans -- even if their artistic talent extends to stick figures rather than web slingers. Software maker Planetwide Games has signed a licensing deal with Marvel...

19 July 2006, 11:12

Mac fans love Apple's quick delivery

News The new Intel Macs are faster than their predecessors, but what fans really appreciate is how quickly Apple raced the machines to market. Last June, Apple stunned the electronics world by aligning with Intel, saying at the time that the Intel...

11 January 2006, 10:06

Kylie connects fans via mobile phones

News Kylie Minogue fans now have a new way to indulge their obsessions -- via mobile phone. Members can create a profile, write blogs, upload photos, download content and connect with other fans all over the world by mobile phone or Web browser.

11 December 2007, 9:05

Mac fans love Boot Camp

News Of course, not all Mac fans are so sure that Apple's move is smart. And some Mac fans are enjoying Apple's bitchy references to Windows security holes. Perhaps hell has frozen over. That could explain the Macintosh community's surprisingly upbeat...

6 April 2006, 10:37

New UK Apple store welcomes Tiger fans

News It may not be London's swank Regent's Street, but Birmingham's Bullring shopping centre saw its share of Mac fans camping out for the grand opening of Apple Computer's retail outlet -- and the arrival of the Tiger operating system.

3 May 2005, 10:02

RIP, iPod Mini? No way, say fans

News His friend's girlfriend appears to be just one of many fans of the Mini, which, unlike the nano, comes in a 6GB version, and in a vibrant rainbow of colours: pink, blue, green, silver and gold. Even though Apple discontinued the Mini in September...

13 December 2005, 11:19

Start-ups let fans sell music online

News The idea draws in part from the venerable 'street team' promotions in which fans -- or at least people who might plausibly be fans of a band -- are deputised by record labels to talk up an artist or album among their peers.

17 August 2005, 10:43

Gadget fans warned to beware of thieves

News Gadget fans are being warned to take more precautions when using their MP3 players and mobile phones in public by a new government advertising campaign. The common sense message of the 'keep it safe' campaign warns people not to leave their mobile...

10 October 2006, 11:34

Irate football fans spammed takeover lawyers

News Infuriated fans of the club attempted to overload the firm's servers "by sending a large quantity of large emails," over the months that Allen & Overy were representing Glazer, according to Mark Andrews, infrastructure developer with the firm.

22 September 2005, 10:24

News.blog: Apple fans start iPhone 3G queue

News The queue for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form on Friday -- an entire week before the device goes on sale. The queue outside of Apple's Fifth Avenue store, covered first by GearDiary and then Engadget, apparently hasn't been formed by iPhone co...

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7 July 2008, 10:21

Podcast fans favour Apple and Star Trek

News To whom should you be targeting your podcasts? Apple users, Trekkies and maybe Nike lovers, according to a new survey. Macworld is the No.most-visited content site by people who download audio podcasts, according to media research group Nielsen...

13 July 2006, 11:19