Why? Because gaming on the iPhone was nothing but an afterthought for Apple, when the iPhone launched back in 2007 the device had no support for installing apps at all until hackers developed third party apps on jailbroken devices.

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As the saying goes, “You wait ages for one bus and then two come along at once.” Yes, YouTube’s Leanback isn’t the only big screen TV anymore, as Vimeo has launched its own viewing experience, succinctly called, “Couch Mode.” As the name implies, it’s all about watching from the comfort of your own sofa, using a 10-foot interface, allowing you to simply enjoying watching videos without having to squint to read a small UI.

So, what does it do? Well, it continues in the same fasion with what you can do with the desktop version of Vimeo, ie, you can like clips, save them to your Watch Later playlist, and get extended information on them and other users. While Vimeo has optimized the experience for Google TV and it’s HTML5 and CSS3 heavy, that does not automatically mean you can’t access it from the desktop or your HTPC. All you need is Chrome or Safari with navigation taken care of using either keyboard/mouse. It’ll start playing the moment you get there, and will continue to play through your choice of collections without interruption.

If you’re lucky enough to have a Google TV or computer hooked up to your big screen, or even just a massive monitor, then you should definately visit Vimeo.com/CouchMode and take if for a spin.

A Federal judge in New York has issued an injunction on Limewire that will essentially shut down the company in it’s current form and leave it’s owners liable for millions.

LimeWire is one of the world’s most popular p2p file sharing program’s mostly down to the amount of illegal music files available on it, something the owners have never really tried to block. Read more »

Since last year when some bloggers noticed a few suspicious slides during Microsoft PDC 2009, there has been speculation about the arrival of Windows 8 in 2012. At the time, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky was rather quiet about the issue, but it seems someone over at Microsoft Netherlands has decided to spill some beans.

The final paragraph of the post is the most interesting (even if you don’t know Dutch you can certainly see Windows 8). The text translates not too great in Google Translate, but the bare essentials are:

But it will take about two years before Windows 8 will be for sale.

Did you know that YouTube offers an online version of Trivial Pursuit? For a regular pub quizzer like myself, I admit that it’s rather addictive!

Each round consists of three questions, and one “Bet on Me” card. The three questions are trivia questions, which can be challenging:

• Fire > Sports and Leisure: Which sport is played by New Zealand’s “Wellington Firebirds”?
• Winter > Science and Nature: Which famous groundhog has been predicting the length of winter in Pennsylvania for more than a century?
  
• Lost and Found > Entertainment: From what city did Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 depart when it crashed on a Pacific island in the TV series Lost?

Of course, I knew those answers, but I didn’t write them here, so that I wouldn’t spoil it for you. But the fourth card is the most fun, to be fair; it’s the Bet on Me card, which shows you a YouTube celebrity (Chocolate Rain, anyone?) along with a question that they were asked. You then have to guess whether or not they got the answer right.

You get casino chips every time you get an answer right. At the top of the board, you can see the overall tally – The People’s Chips vs. YouTube Chips. So far, The People are winning!

Alex Miller, a 12-year-old from San Jose, California, just cashed a $3000 check for finding a buffer overflow bug in ‘document.write’.

The bug, which was was the major security issue fixed in this week’s releases of Firefox 3.6.11 and 3.5.14, was apparently discovered after he spent “about 90 minutes each day for 10 days.” I.e., he went through code for 15 hours and made $3000, or $200 per hour. At his age, I was still drawing Ninja Turtles.

If you think you can do better, just head over to Mozilla Developer Central. Check out the Firefox source and start looking. After all, this article is just a Mozilla publicity stunt, but I still am impressed that a 12-yr old knows this much about code (even though he lives only a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley and was probably teethed on UNIX manuals!)

For those of you who follow the iPhone Jailbreak Scene, the highly popular Pwnage Tool used to jailbreak the iPhone, iPod Touch and even the iPad now has the ability to Jailbreak Apple’s latest Apple TV 2G model and the first ever third party app is here already!

With the doors to third party developers now open, the creators of NitoTV have jumped in with an App already. Read more »

Amazon takes another step toward reality, with its Kindle e-book platform soon allowing users to lend books to one another for a limited amount of time. The loan will be up to 14 days at a time, and you won’t be able to read the book while a friend is borrowing it (as would be the case in “the real world”). Not all books will support lending, however. It’s entirely up to the publishers and other rights-holders, in a similar system as Google Books operates I guess. Amazon hasn’t set a launch date for lending, but it’s due out “later this year.”

In the meantime, Amazon are making newspapers/magazines available across Kindle apps on all platforms, not just on Kindle devices. Starting with iOS devices in the next couple of weeks, Amazon looks set to get into the iPhone and iPad periodical business.

Microsoft has just made PC gamers very happy, with a relaunch of their Games for Windows Marketplace after a considerable amount of pressure from PC gamers.

The heavy pressure came on Microsoft after Gamers believed that Microsoft had put all their gaming focus into the Xbox platform and forgotten about their needs. Read more »

EA have just acquired mobile game publisher Chillingo for a very nice 12.6 million pounds (approximately $20 Million USD for you American folk).

Chillingo is most famous for being the publisher of the mobile smash hit Angry Birds on the iPhone that has been near the top of the charts ever since its launch earlier this year, Angry Birds has recently been released on the Android platform aswell for free. Read more »