Apple
Inside the temple: Why Apple Store staff lie, a bit
There's a cute little expose on Business Insider today from an Apple store employee revealing that a) they lie to customers; and b) that homeless people often come into the store to play on the Macs and sometimes switch...more
Cheapest computer in the world? £36 Userful computer to be unveiled at CeBit
The smart way to drive down computer prices for places that use a lot of them is to have several monitors to one hard drive. It reduces the cost to a fraction of buying individual ones. The latest company to...more
Don't rely on Google Calendar today - service is experiencing blips
Suddenly noticed that your google calendar is blank today - and for the rest of the week..? Best double check that you actually have nothing on, because Google Calendar is experiencing problems today, and affected users are finding that...more
IPad
IPAD 2 COUNTDOWN : seven days till iPad 2 released on 2nd March
The iPad 2 will be released on the 2nd March in San Francisco according to an announcement from Apple today. Tim Cook, chief operating officer of Apple, will take the place of Steve Jobs who is off recovering from...more
Apple
Has UK love affair with the iPhone peaked? Knocked out of the top five
Cheap Android smartphones have pushed the iPhone4 out of the UK's top five phones, in figures released for last month. The HTC Desire now tops the leaderboard as the UK's most popular phone with the £450 iPhone4 down at...more
Apple
iTunes is about to sound a (24) bit better
Apple is bumping up the quality of music available on the iTunes store according to CNN. Apparently Apple and other digital music services are in talks with record labels to improve how digital music sounds. Currently studios record sound at...more
Features
Blog about Rape Culture in Gaming points up who the real Trolls are
There's a lot of anger on the internet. But while some of it is stupid and much of it is poorly expressed, there seems to be a big difference between the normal for-and-against-debate that is the meat of comment...more
The Facebook Break-Up Notifier: Helping you make the most of your opportunities
You know when you're single and you have a list of people of people that you sort of fancy and you kind of keep a list of them in your head and occasionally check their Facebook profile just to see...more
iphone
We might have to wait till September for the iPhone 5...
Usually, regular as clockwork, an new iPhone will come out in June/July. Like the cherry blossom or the summer holidays, Steve Jobs will pop on stage with a black poloneck and some even shinier and even slimmer variation on...more
IPad
Turn your iPad into a laptop: Dexim launches its iBluek Keyboard:
Ever felt that the iPad was missing a certain something? One of those.. oh yes, keyboards? Obviously Steve Jobs left it out on purpose when he designed the Apple tablet, but some uses still hanker after the keyboard functionality....more
Spotify
Spotify valued at $1Billion: Scandi start-up reaches the big time
Music streaming service Spotify has just been valued at $1 billion according to Sky News. Facebook backers DST and Kleiner Perkins are two of the big investors willing to bet that that sum is accurate and put their money behind...more
Phones
Three quarters of Londoners don't want mobile access on the Tube - survey claims
Well, it seems like we don't want this fancy schmancy £100 million mobile network on the London Underground after all. GoodMobilePhones.co.uk polled 1,094 Londoners and found that a surprising three quarters of them were against it, despite the advantages...more
Anna Leach
Mobile World Congress 2011: The five big trends from the gadget fair
Five things Mobile World Congress has taught us about what's going to be big in 2011. ONE: Tablets You may have heard about these before - but It looks like some of them are finally emerging from the shadow...more
Blackberry
Speak into new Blackberry app Navita in English and it'll translate it into 49 languages
I'm all in favour of translator apps - and this new addition to the Blackberry store has a few features that make it stand out from the pack - voice translation; support for 50 languages and integration with email...more
Mobile phone apps
The Condom Finder is an app
A ground-breaking condom-finding app has just been released on the iPhone and Android stores by New York City health officials who hope the informative app will increase safe sex in the city. Using GPS or a manually-entered address, the...more
Gadgets
The USB Aquarium: Plug some fish into your laptop
It's received wisdom that electronic devices and water do not mix. If you've ever got any of that stuff on your laptop or dropped your iPhone in a latte - you'll know what I mean. However Brando are always...more
Six ways that TV should use social media
Anyone on Twitter will have noticed that it goes ballistic when a big TV show is airing. In the UK that could be Xfactor, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding or even just a particularly strange interview on the news....more
A girl called Facebook: Egyptians name daughter after social network
It's normal to name children after national heroes, so I guess it's no surprise that an Egyptian man has named his daughter - Facebook. "Facebook" Jamal Ibrahim is the full name of the girl born last week. Facebook was...more
Features
The art of videogaming: Cory Arcangel breaks it down to the pixels with new Barbican show
With today's graphics technology, video games can look like proper works of art. But it wasn't always like that - do you remember the old, basic-looking Atari games, or even the clunkiness of the first Super Mario? Brooklyn-based artist...more
