Month: April 2010
Gallery: iPad magazines
This post is written by guest blogger D. Salmons from TestFreaks.co.uk. Check out the site if you are looking for anything from LCD TVs to vacuum cleaners. The Apple iPad promises to shake up the e-reader market. Suddenly there is a popular tablet style device that can serve as a great medium for magazines in…
Ten best Ovi apps for Nokia phones
As an app store it's often overlooked but Nokia's Ovi apps are installed on thousands of popular phones and since we've been getting all loved up with Nokia on ShinyShiny this week, we thought we'd round off with a Top Ten Nokia Ovi store apps gallery. A few reservations though: not all apps are compatible…
How Facebook and Apple are edging Google out of the centre of the web
Facebook, Apple and Google are three tech companies at the top of the foodchain. But while Google produces the odd flop every now and then... Orkut? it has always seemed completly unassailable in its core territory - the search engine. But two developments in the past week have shaken that hold by suggesting shifts in…
Farmville locks out users who won't hand over their email addresses
Popular Facebook game Farmville has caused outrage among users who have found themselves locked out for refusing to hand over access to their email accounts to the game. According to a tip from @subangel on Twitter: "anyone who hasn't given farmville access to their email address on FB is now blocked from accessing the game…
A Win for Windows 7 as Microsoft OS beats Mac's Snow Leopard in awards
Windows 7 got a boost from the Techradar Awards this afternoon after it trounced its rival Apple's Snow Leopard Operating System to win the software category. Okay so Apple did win 8 out of the 17 awards including the Essential phone of the year for the iPhone 3Gs, so Steve Jobs won't exactly be crying…
eBay's Fashion Outlet shows Auction Site is more about TopShop than attic junk
EBay made its name as the place where people sold weird stuff they found in their attic for £2.50 and buyers engaged in bidding wars for vintage records and err, seashells that look like ears. But eBay today has shifted pretty far from its early image and now over half of items on sale are…
Layar opens up a store for Augmented Reality apps
Layar has just introduced a partnership with PayPal which will let publishers and creators on Layar charge for their online experiences. They've set up a store where customers can buy Augmented Reality layers and publishers can sell them. Layar announced the change on a blog post. Berlitz Guides, the City Guides company, have already leapt…
Sky News will launch in HD on Election Night: prepare for highly defined beads of sweat
Sky will turn its news channel high definition on UK election night, presumably hoping to make each bead of political sweat more highly defined and clearly visible. The move to HD news broadcasts was always going to come and the election night is a high-profile time to make the change. The shift will come at…
Siri – voice controlled virtual assistant app – bought by Apple
We covered Siri the personal assistant app a little while ago in Siri: the virtual assistant iPhone app that we want in the UK and news has just come that the start-up has been bought out by Apple. Siri listens to your voice and follows out commands when you speak to it in a certain…
Five ways HP's takeover of Palm will affect Palm users
Business analysts think that HP's takeover of phone-manufacturers Palm makes sense. But what do the Palm-loving public think? Palm whose flagship handsets are currently the Pre and the Pixi, was a techie darling back a few years ago, but last turned a profit in May 2007. HP "the world's largest computer company" is looking to…
