In the booming arena of mobile phone gaming, girls outnumber boys. Only just - by 53% to 47% - but the edge is significant because the figures are the other way round in traditonal gaming on consoles like the Xbox or PS3. According to research by Flurry Analytics on RWW, the mobile social gaming audience…

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 death metal music on full blast. We say they lie to customers - we mean that…

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 market this technology is Userful Corp which has come up with a $59 desktop computer…

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 entries in their calendar have been removed, that they are unable to access their G-cal accounts…

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 liver illness. Related: #CES: mock-up iPad 2 gets techies frothing Tim Cook - the man taking…

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 number 6. The reason for the iPhone's faltering sales seem to be all about price and…

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 24 bits but then knock the sound quality down to 16bits to press it on…

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 boards and the vicious rantings of the troll. Troll comments fall on the same lines Let's…

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 if they've broken up with that girlfriend/boyfriend and potentially would be interested in making love…

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 the iPhone. Steve is off ill at the minute - a real tragedy - but it…