Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
When Michael Jackson died on June 25, millions of people flooded onto Google News to find the latest information about what had happened. The spike in traffic was so massive that Google suspected a malware attack and began blocking anyone searching for “Michael Jackson.” It’s a funny story, but it illustrates how the Web is changing. People increasingly turn to the Internet for up-to-the-minute information about, well, everything—blog postings about celebrity antics, status updates from friends, and pictures and videos of political events as they unfold, like the protests over the Iranian election
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Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
The LG Xperience is a 20 ft road show trailer full the entire range of LG TVs, (including the designer small screen TVs and the award winning PS8000 Plasma TV series ), and staffed by experts to take you through their features, such as the benefits of 200Hz / Freesat HD and DivX HD playback. Many stores don’t offer satellite feeds and accessories to fully demonstrate these features but we have a motorised satellite feed to show them off to their full extent
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The LG Xperience Roadshow is back on the road
Yesterday Orange announced that the LG GD910 Watchphone will go on sale in its Bond Street Station shop next Thursday! (27th August) Available for a limited time only, consumers will be able to purchase the ultimate James Bond accessory for £500. Fortunately purchases are limited to one per customer, so we don’t have to worry about them selling out in seconds and then all turning up on ebay for twice that! The combination of voice activated command, VGA camera and Bluetooth technology mean you’ll never have to raise a finger to make a call again… just turn your wrist and talk away. AND the handmade timepiece is designed for the image conscious too with eight different watch faces – one to suit your every mood or crime-busting outfit
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LG GD910 Watchphone on sale from next week!
We got hold of some new videos produced by Cnet , in association with LG, which discuss the merits of LG’s newest handsets, the Arena KM900, Crystal GD900 and ViewtySmart GC900: Visit LG’s Arena KM900 microsite for more information on what the phone has to offer. Visit LG’s GD900 Crystal microsite for more information on the handset and it’s unique touchpad. Visit LG’s Viewty Smart GC900 microsite for more information on the Viewty Smart’s cutting edge camera and software
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Cnet Videos for the LG Crystal, Arena and Viewty Smart
In association with AVForums in association with LG are pleased to announce that the first Calibration workshops for Enthusiasts will be held on the 17th and 18th of September 2009. The two day workshop covers practical calibration skills for enthusiasts. Members who attend the workshop will leave with knowledge of full display calibration and hands on experience, so they can be confident in correctly calibrating their own Displays.
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AVForums Calibration Workshop: Full Details Announced
LG Electronics has won four awards in the 2009 EISA Awards . LG took top honors in four categories winning European Best Value LCD TV 2009-2010 for the SL8000, European Best Value Blu-Ray Player 2009-2010 for the BD390, European HT System 2009-2010 for the HB954PB and European Green Mobile Phone 2009-2010 for the LG Arena. This is not the first year that EISA has recognized LG innovations; we took home three awards both in 2006 and 2007 too
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LG win 4 EISA Awards including the Green Mobile Phone Award for the Arena KM900!
While trying to find more information on the meteor shower I was promised last night but didn’t see, I came across this gorgeous video on YouTube today. In the words of Tony Darnell, who scripted the narration and shared it with the world: I’ve recently discovered an animation that was rendered using the measured redshift of all 10,000 galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. I’ve written a short script that leads you through a quick history of both deep field images and this video ends with a fly-through of the Ultra Deep Field
You may remember a few weeks ago Chris announced our new LG TV ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ thread on the LG sponsored section of the AV Forums . Well, the FAQs were so well received we thought we should add them to the blog, and you can now find them here! The FAQs cover the most common issues that new plasma, LED & LCD TV owners come across, and will be developed over the coming months to take account of more detailed or technical questions. If you have any suggestions please leave a comment!
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Official LG TV FAQs now available on the blog
Have a look at the image below – No doubt, you recognize them all, and already familiar to which service or site they represent. This is a snapshot of the icon set which was recently released by Woo Themes , and to bring this to us they collaborated with South African artist – Alex Latimer – to create a very unique hand-drawn icon set which is reminiscent of Alex’ signature drawing style. This set has almost all the social media icons you will ever need, covers almost all of them.
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Hand-Drawn Social Media Icon Set for your website
As everyone knows September’s Vogue is the biggest fashion issue of the year, outlining all up and coming styles, everybody get ready to welcome back leather, tweed and velvet. On top of September being the bumper issue Vogue has organised for all the top global shopping cities to take part in an event that celebrates buoying the economy with a spot of retail therapy, the event, “ Fashion’s Night Out “, will take place on 10 th September. Shops that are included in the event are Alexander McQueen, Topshop, Prada, H&M, Gucci, Selfridges and M&S, all these stores will be selling the limited edition t-shirt (modelled by Sienna Miller), 100% of the money raised will go to Crisis, the UK charity for the homeless
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Late night shopping with a difference….thank you Vogue!
For Death Cab for Cutie chords & lyrics, CLICK HERE ! By Chris Moore: This one gave me blisters on me fingers and numbness in me thumb (thanks to all the sliding up and down the guitar neck, the barre chords in the progression, and the fact that I didn’t really know the lyrics to the verses before playing it tonight), but it was all worth it, for all two minutes of it. And, quite a number of takes of this simple little song later, I know the lyrics by heart! “The Sound of Settling” is the second single from Death Cab for Cutie’s fourth album, Transatlanticism . This is the album that my sister, Jaime, strongly recommended I hear if I hear nothing else from the band. Seeing as how this is one of those “I’ve heard of them, but I haven’t heard any of their songs” bands for me, I picked it up on sale and enjoyed it. Apparently, it was the first album that frontman Ben Gibbard felt was a truly serious, well put together record.
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The Laptop Sessions: “The Sound of Settling” (Death Cab for Cutie Acoustic Rock Cover Song)
Last week the BBC announced the results of an Ofcom review which suggests that we Brits are more willing to tighten the purse strings on our holidays and meals out than on spending on communication technology! The watchdog’s annual report says spending on mobiles, the internet and TV is regarded as a higher priority than almost anything except food. In a poll of 862 people, over 40% said they would save on holidays and eating out and 19% chose spending on mobiles.
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British costcutters say no to restaurants but yes to new mobiles!
Following on from my post a couple of weeks ago about the LG 42LF7700 has been shortlisted for TV of the year in the T3 awards (!) we now have a button: If you’re a fan of LG’s TVs please do vote for us – it’s for your own good too, there’s a random draw of all voters with cool prizes , including Tom Tom GOs, a Humax Foxsat-HDR box, Internet Radios, a Dyson DC16 Car and Boat – one lucky voter has already won a PS3 for their troubles!
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Vote for LG in the T3 Awards and maybe get a prize!
Following on from Chris’s post on Monday about LG’s new deal with Channel 4, we now have some of the new TV spots for the other LG handsets; namely the GT505 Pathfinder, available only on Orange, and the GT500 Puccini, which is exclusive to T-Mobile. Both phones have some impressive selling points – 3″ touchscreens with a 400 x 240 pixel display, 5 megapixel camera, WiFi and 3.5G and GPS. And the GT505 also comes with applications for social networks like MySpace and Facebook and a 30-day free trial of WisePilot® for LG , a navigation system with voice instruction and a choice of 2D and 3D mapping
If you’re a regular reader you’re probably already aware that LG have a sponsored LG LCD, Plasma and HDTV Owner’s Forum over at the AVForums . We’ve recently added in some new functionality to the forums, which are full of information on all screens from the 2009 LG LCD, Plasma and other HD TV ranges and helpful hints from fellow users – but now you can also rate our LG TVs to let us know what you like and what you want more of! We really value feedback from our customers and your opinions can help us to improve our products and services to you
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How do we rate?
Today Formula One and LG announced a new partnership, for a very cool music event – F1 Rocks ! F1 ROCKS™ Singapore with LG spans three days from September 24th-26th, adding to the unique FORMULA ONE™ night-time grand prix weekend. F1 ROCKS™ fuses the world’s most popular annual sporting series with the most iconic music stars to create an unrivalled experience for FORMULA ONE™ and music fans alike. Some of the biggest global superstars on the planet, including multi award-winning artists; Beyoncé, Black Eyed Peas, ZZ Top, Simple Minds, N*E*R*D and Chinese pop legend Jacky Cheung will perform for the first F1 ROCKS™ live at Fort Canning Park, Singapore.
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Beyonce to headline F1 Rocks Singapore with LG
The HP Pavilion DV3-2150US 13.3-Inch Form HP. Buy HP Pavilion DV3-2150US 13.3-Inch Entertainment Laptop the new dv series is defined by fluid, modern lines and metalized finishes with surprising innovations inside and out. The dv3 series Imprint pattern provides interesting contrast to the liquid appearance of the metallic finish
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HP Pavilion DV3-2150US 13.3-Inch Entertainment Laptop
LG research reveals the need for consumer education re the Digital Switchover • 87% of West Country consumers claim to know what the Digital Switchover is, yet 50 per cent subscribe to the major myths • 30% of people claim they don’t know how to judge if a TV is ‘digital ready’ • 45% of people want to receive high definition programming as part of their digital package if it doesn’t cost more • ‘Silver 60s’ claim to be the most educated about the Digital Switchover and the most prepared Berkshire, 30 June, 2009 – New research launched today by LG, reveals that 87% of consumers in the West Country believe that they know what the Digital Switchover is, yet 50% still subscribe to the three most common myths concerning the change from analogue to digital broadcasts – including having to upgrade their home entertainment equipment, paying more for programming, and losing channels. Exeter, parts of Devon, Somerset and Dorset started to switchover from 6 May, while the remainder of the region will experience the transition between 1 July and the middle of August 2009. Although the majority of consumers are convinced they are prepared for the switchover, 45% are unaware of when the switchover is happening.
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The Digital Switchover Myths: Research Results
I have a feeling you’re going to be pleased with this exclusive preview because when we launched the LG Arena TV advert on the blog back in April we discovered that there were a fair few people who were fans of the scene stealing dancing baby. Well for those of you, like MEGAFLATHEAD, xx123RockOn123xx and oconnorthelegend who wanted an extended cut, LG have gone one better – especially for you, Boogie baby has his own video! What more could you want to set you up for the weekend? Boogie Baby will be unleashed upon the world next week, but until the weekend he’s exclusively ours, so enjoy!
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LG’s Boogie Baby is on the loose!
I recently became aware of the Worldwide Photowalk , it’s a brilliant idea – Photowalks are “a social photography event where photographers get together, usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town, to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers” they are free to take part in and open to anyone – although, for practicality all walks are limited to a maximum of 50 people per walk. Q
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Worldwide Photowalk