UK Daily Deals Aggregator Coupobox Sells Up To DealCollector In Another Sign Of Consolidation

Today comes news of a small but indicative acquisition in the area of daily deals: the UK-based deals aggregator Coupobox has been bought by rival site DealCollector for a song: the price was in the "lower six figures," according to Stavros Prodromou, the founder and former CEO of the company.

The acquisition

Kabel Deutschland sets record with 4.7Gbps download speeds

About a year ago, Arris teased a system capable of 4.5Gbps downloads, and while that technology was in the proof-of-concept phase last June, it’s beginning to look more like a real possibility. German network provider Kabel Deutschland just notched a new download speed record using Arris’ C4 CMTs and

Google World Wonders Project takes you to Earth’s treasures in glorious Street View vision (video)

Google has already been taking us to exotic locations through Street View, but now it’s hoping to enshrine the most famous places on Earth through the World Wonders Project, one car (or trike) at a time. A total of 132 sites, ranging from natural landmarks like Yosemite to much more synthetic constructions

Insomniac Games Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault coming to PS3

It’s hard to believe that the unlikely crime-fighting duo Ratchet & Clank are about to celebrate their 10-year anniversary. First launching on the PS2 in 2002, the series has grown to become one of Sony’s most powerful franchises. It’s also one of few third-party platformer franchises

Sony’s PlayStation Vita has a YouTube app headed its way by the end of June

Assuming all that gaming, Facebooking and Tweeting isn’t enough action for your PS Vita, Sony announced tonight it will get a YouTube app by the end of the month. The company’s US blog hasn’t posted any pics yet, but Engadget Japan has a few screen grabs of what it will look like. Check after the break

Upscale London boroughs say no no no to BT’s broadband revolution, ugly green boxes

Between all of the delays, disappointment and a general lack of availability, many Brits can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to getting up to speed with fast internet — but this time it could be their own fault. BT’s fiber optic rollout plans came to a screeching halt in Chelsea and Kensington

Google image search results crammed into picture dictionary

Though not quite a replacement for Mountain View’s ill-fated dictionary, this 1,240 page tome contains the first Google image search result for each word in a run-of-the-mill dictionary. With a PHP script, London-based artists Felix Heyes and Ben West scraped the image from each search and compiled an

Fact Checking: Has Mobile Traffic Really Surpassed Desktop in India?

One of the most interesting statistics in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends presentation was that in India, the world’s second largest Internet market, the Mobile Web surpassed the Desktop Web during May 2012. A closer analysis reveals that a) mobile only passed desktop during weekends; and b) India’s mobile

Georgia Tech develops poultry deboning robot / chicken nightmare machine

If you have any chickens in the house, you’re going to want to keep them away from the computer. Georgia Tech researchers have developed the device that will haunt their feathered dreams. The prototype Intelligent Cutting and Deboning System has a built-in 3D vision system in order to help it cut and

Battlefield 3 premium online service tipped

If you liked the thought of playing Battlefield 3 online for free (Xbox Live Gold fees excluded), and you liked the notion that everyone you were playing against was on the same field as you, you might soon be kissing those memories goodbye. According to a leaked document found on Neogaf.com, the game