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Google Voice Search now lets you enter the Konami Code for ‘unlimited free searches’

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 1:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Shareables

The infamous Konami Code, a sequence of button inputs that unlocks secrets and cheat modes in classic games such as Gradius, Contra and Castlevania, has achieved folklore status on the Web. It’s been used as an ‘Easter egg’ on sites such as Digg and Facebook, but as TechCrunch reports it’s now been quietly introduced for Google Search. Just hit the microphone icon and say this all-too familiar button combination out loud: “up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right”. Google will then kick into gear and say: “Cheat mode unlocked. Unlimited free Google searches.” This doesn’t actually mean anything –…

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Dual-screen YotaPhone now available in the UK – new European markets and the Middle East to follow

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 1:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Updates, UK

The dual-screen, e-ink display-equipped YotaPhone from Russian handset maker Yota Devices is now available to buy in the UK via its website. We knew it was due to hit the UK’s shores soon, but weren’t sure exactly when. Today, as it turns out, is the day that you can snap one up for £419. A spokesperson for the company confirmed that it would also be on sale in Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Nordic countries and the Middle East in the coming weeks. It has been available in Russia, Germany, France, Austria and Spain since December last year. While the device certainly is a…

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Titanfall for Xbox 360 delayed again, will now launch on April 8

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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Futuristic and kinetic first-person shooter Titanfall is an important title for the Xbox One, so it should come as no surprise that Microsoft wants to prioritize that version over the PC and Xbox 360 versions. The latter has already been delayed once, but publisher Electronic Arts (EA) today announced that it will be pushed back once more. Instead of March 28, the first-person shooter will now launch on April 8 in North America and April 11 across Europe. Admittedly it’s only a two-week delay, but for some mech fans that’s akin to pushing Christmas back to January 8. In a blog…

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SumAll adds ‘Auto-thanks’ and ‘Throwback Thursday’ engagement tools for Twitter and Facebook

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 12:41 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, Social Media

SumAll’s data-driven decision making tool for marketers now has two new features designed to increase brand engagement via social channels. The first is ‘Throwback Thursday’, which allows users to automatically republish a post from one year ago on Facebook “in order to maximize popular content”. The second is called ‘Auto-thanks’ and does as its name suggests – sending an auto-thanks message whenever a brand’s followers comment on or Like a post on Facebook, or whenever a tweet is retweeted on Twitter. These can be sent in public or private messages. Both features are live now and accessible through the “list view” tool in…

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Google brings the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 to eight new European countries in the Google Play store

Mar19
by on March 19, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Product Launches

Google has given us an avalanche of news to grapple with this week, and with broader availability for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon. Quietly, the company started offering its high-value smartphone and tablet in the Google Play store for eight new markets last night: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. That’s almost double the number both devices were offered in before. Europeans now have a fair number of announcements to celebrate. Google Chromecast launched in the UK and nine other European markets today, and both Google…

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