New Google doodle for celebrate 25 years of discovery

Google is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Buckyball – the discovery of Buckminster-Fullerene molecules?- as an interactive Google Doddle on Saturday.
Visitors to Google.com and Google.co.uk will see the second “o” as a small moving ball before turning into a buckyball when you move your mouse over it.
Users can then spin the newly formed molecule to their hearts content. Clicking on the logo take you to a search for “buckyball”
A?fullerene?is any?molecule?composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow?sphere,?ellipsoid, or?tube.
Spherical fullerenes …

3m downloads of new iTunes 10

Apple has said that 3m people have downloaded its latest version of iTunes 10, however only a third have signed up to its new Ping social service within the music software.
Over 1m iTunes users have signed up for it’s new Ping social music service within iTunes just 48 hours after it was launched on Wednesday but the take up looks even worse when you take into account the other 159m users of the iTunes yet to have a go.
“One-third of the people who have downloaded …

Put Wednesday in your calendar

Apple has stated on it’s website that the latest iPhone / iPod touch update, iOS 4.1?will be available in the UK on Wednesday 8 September.
The date, which has appeared on the Apple iPhone update page detailing the new features of the new iOS 4.1 means that iPhone users keen to update don’t have long to wait.
The new iOS 4.1 announced at Apple’s Special Event on Wednesday 1 September will bring a number of new atures to the iPhone and iPod touch models.
Users can expect to get …

Arkanoid meets Tetris meets the human body

Ever wondered what it was like to be an antibody? No, we don’t suppose anyone has but if you’ve ever felt like trying to visualise the fight your little microscopic guys were up against to keep the threat of infection at bay, then we reckon it probably looks something like this.
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Antigen

Format
Android

Price
Free

Where
Android Market

?
Antigen is a where Arkanoid meets Tetris inside someone’s body cavity. You are a little square-shaped antibody with four different surfaces which house four different lock and key mechanisms for …

No, that’s not a Gordon the Gopher reference

You may remember back in May, Pocket-lint told you all about the BBC’s new iPlayer platform that was being launched in beta form. You may have even tried out the beta version for yourself (8-10 per cent of viewers did apparently).
And now, the beta stage has nearly come to its end, and we’ve been informed by the Beeb that the stable version of the revamped service will be going live early next week -? meaning a new looking BBC iPlayer for everyone logging …

Third parties ready to take advantage of Apple’s new feature

One of the cool demos that Steve Jobs put on at the Apple special event on Wednesday was showing off the revamped Apple streaming service AirPlay (formerly AirTunes).
And, thanks to a page on the Apple website, we know that third party speakers will be a feature of AirPlay and that audio giants such as Bowers & Wilkins and Denon are waiting to get on board.
But it seems as if the first speaker out of the block may come from iDevice specialist …

Arkanoid meets Tetris meets the human body

Ever wondered what it was like to be an antibody? No, we don’t suppose anyone has but if you’ve ever felt like trying to visualise the fight your little microscopic guys were up against to keep the threat of infection at bay, then we reckon it probably looks something like this.
?
Antigen

Format
Android

Price
Free

Where
Android Market

?
Antigen is a where Arkanoid meets Tetris inside someone’s body cavity. You are a little square-shaped antibody with four different surfaces which house four different lock and key mechanisms for …

Keep your iDevices secure with these accessories

Monday morning is set to be one of the busiest days on the road, with the kids going back to school, according to satnav giant TomTom, who has reported that “there were 702 more miles of traffic and 297 more traffic incidents compared to a typical Monday morning” on the equivalent Monday last year.
So, to make that journey a little less stressful, you could invest in one Griffin’s latest iAccessories.
First up we’ve got the Griffin Window Seat, which is basically a satnav style holder …

Arkanoid meets Tetris meets the human body

Ever wondered what it was like to be an antibody? No, we don’t suppose anyone has but if you’ve ever felt like trying to visualise the fight your little microscopic guys were up against to keep the threat of infection at bay, then we reckon it probably looks something like this.
?
Antigen

Format
Android

Price
Free

Where
Android Market

?
Antigen is a where Arkanoid meets Tetris inside someone’s body cavity. You are a little square-shaped antibody with four different surfaces which house four different lock and key mechanisms for …

No, that’s not a Gordon the Gopher reference

You may remember back in May, Pocket-lint told you all about the BBC’s new iPlayer platform that was being launched in beta form. You may have even tried out the beta version for yourself (8-10 per cent of viewers did apparently).
And now, the beta stage has nearly come to its end, and we’ve been informed by the Beeb that the stable version of the revamped service will be going live early next week -? meaning a new looking BBC iPlayer for everyone logging …