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TheOonawants to be every kind of stand your phone needs. It’s a simple design with a central pillar that you can attach two suction cups and base to in a variety of different configurations. Depending on how you attach them you can make the Oona a bedside stand, windshield mount or tripod adapter for your phone. Although the Oona is demonstrated here on an iPhone, it’s actually compatible with any phone that has a flat back surface for one of the suction cups to attach to....

Last month wereportedthat Apple’siTunes Uservice had surpassed the 600m downloads mark, 300m of which were in the past year alone. And now it seems that The Open University in the UK is leading the university pack, notching over 40m downloads,reportsthe BBC. iTunes U is basically the iTunes Store but for education, distributing information such as audio and video from lectures to learners around the world, meaning that universities and colleges have a single home for all its digital content....

We’ve seen a whole bunch of games created in or ported to new browser technologies lately. But what about the original DOOM, one of the most ported games of all time? DOOM has finally been portedto HTML5 and JavaScript, joining the growing club of games that showcase the incredible opportunities of new web technologies, each one putting another bullet in Flash’s dying chest. Agent 8 Ballwas the first of these new generation games we covered at The Next Web....

For the life ofAustralia’s National Broadband Network project, the official line has been that it’s not technically possible for NBN Co to filter the Internet, as a wholesaler of “layer two” Internet services. The insistence that the Australian government’s broadband corporation isn’t capable of performing filtering is meant to help us swallow the bitter pill that is Labor’s Internet filtering project. The government’s filter is meant to make child pornography inaccessible, making pedophiles harder to track and catch, and (as proven in trials) blocking hundreds or thousands of websites belonging to innocent people and businesses....

Social distribution of content by casual users is such a powerful catalyst for traffic growth that there is not a single publication that does not want to harness it. But with every strength comes a weakness, and the desire for increased social reach has led to a new reality of web design: over subscription, or the over socialization of design. Yes, you know what I am talking about, the annoying spammy reminders of websites to subscribe, and distribute their content (often in a surreptitious manner) that seem to scream that you are not so much a reader than as a potentially tweeting, ‘liking’ tool that they can use....