Spotify Explain: Why we cut the Free Service..

At the beginning of May, Spotify changed the terms of their Free account and made a lot of people upset. We got a bunch of comments on our articles about the changes so we decided to interview Spotify about why they'd done it, and whether they still believed in their Free service. It was the…

Denmark Ban Marmite! Which Danish tech brand should we ban in retaliation?

Vitamin B, Schmitamin B. The Danish ban on Marmite for containing too many vitamins has been rightly read as an affront to national pride. Any non-Brit who disses our favourite brown salty paste is disrespecting Britannia. Which of these Danish technology brands should we boycott in return? Which of these Danish technology brands should we…

Windows Phone Mango: 10 Things You Need To Know

Only 7 months after Windows Phone 7 was released, comes Windows Phone Mango. Their vow to base the phone around: communications, apps and web is not mind-blowing but we really liked what we saw. In many ways it dots the is on Windows Phone & and delivers a really polished top-of-the-market mobile OS. Key feature…

Supermarket Sat-nav installed in giant Essex Tescos

If you've ever banged your head on a trolley after spending hours roaming the aisles like a crazed thing looking for sultanas, or just got lost in a giant supermarket.. you might be interested to hear that a giant Tesco's in Romford is thinking of installing a sat-nav system in the shop. The proposed supermarket…

iPad Usability: 10 Things You Need To Know from the Nielson Report

The guru of web usability - Jakob Nielson - has turned his probing tactics to the iPad once again and done a deep report into how people use it and what apps and websites work well on the 'Pad, and why. The report tested 26 iPad apps and 6 websites and examined closely how its…

MP busts the super-injunction and names Ryan Giggs. But is Twitter safe?

I guess it's one-nil to free speech and the power of the internet, but uncovering an alleged affair at the bottom of the super-injunction vs Twitter court case just makes it seem a bit tawdry. MP John Hemming used Parliamentary privilege to publicly air the worst-kept secret of recent months - that it was Ryan…

Smart Pyjamas monitor how well you're sleeping: SleepShirt

When you wake up, you usually have a good idea of how well you've slept. But if your nightshirt had been monitoring exactly how well you'd slept, kept a record of it, and then transmitted it over to your computer... You'd have a much better idea of how well you'd actually slept. That's a thing…

Gaga album goes for 99 cents: Amazon undercuts iTunes with swinging discount

Never afraid to slash prices to gain a quick sale, Amazon have turbo-boosted their music service into the popular consciousness by offering a $12 discount on Lady Gaga's latest album - Born this Way. And it only cost $13 to start with. Amazon boast that consumers will get savings of $12.87 compared to buying all…