BlackBerry Curve 9360 hands-on video preview

It has been a tough few months for RIM, the makers of BlackBerry, with the poor sales of its tablet and the fuss around Messenger and the riots. It is a good bet that this little model will get the company back on track. Aimed more at the coporates than the kids the BlackBerry Curve…

Facebook Places killed off: An Obituary

In a fortnight of dramatic tech-world revelations, Facebook have tried to bury this little story - they're killing off Facebook places - the location service on mobile which lets you check into where you are. What happened to LOCATION as the next big thing for social networks? If the biggest social network in the world…

HP Touchpad Fire Sale shows one way to beat the iPad – price slashing

Turns out HP have stumbled across one way to beat Apple at its own game: selling tablets for half of cost price. Since HP decided to ditch their hardware division they've put their Touchpad tablets out for £89, approximately half of what it costs HP to make the devices - estimated at £180. It's a…

Five reasons you NEED Tumblr in your life

Tumblr has long been considered the quirkier, more informal little brother of the dull and text-heavy Wordpress. However, as more individuals, brands and even publications have started tumblogging over the past few years, bringing the grand total of Tumblogs to more than 27,000,000, it's clear it has a lot of benefits and a lot of…

Facebook vs. Twitter: What if you could only pick ONE?

Don't worry. It's hypothetical. Unless our daily social media intake suddenly starts to get rationed, which in light of recent events isn't that hard to imagine, then it's not a decision anyone would have to make any time soon, but what if you did have to choose just one, FOREVER? Granted some people prefer LinkedIn…

Three Instagram photo app rivals for the iPhone

There are now more than seven million users actively sharing photos on the Instagram platform, manically applying grungy, retro filters left, right and centre, which is a pretty impressive stat considering the app was only launched onto the iTunes app store late last year! Dedicated Instagrammers will cite a number of reasons as to why…

Is it REALLY worth subscribing to Spotify?

Spotify is increasingly becoming a love-it-or-hate-it kind of service, much like Marmite or the Twilight franchise. In my experience, those that avoid it tend to fall into one of two, or both, of these categories: "My music taste is just so obscure that Spotify doesn't have any of my favourite tracks." "I'm not paying money…

VintageJS – online retro (Instagram/Hipstamatic style) image editing tool

This was always going to happen. Following on from the success of Hipstamatic, Instagram and all those other filter-based photo apps comes a new website that lets you create a retro image from any photo online. It is simple stuff too. You visit the site, upload your image and then mess with a series of parameters…

The top ten magazine and newspaper Tumblr blogs

You'd be forgiven for thinking Tumblr is just a crazy world of GIF images and cheesy quotes, but as we've seen in the past from our Top ten Tumblr blogs you should be following and Top 20 Tumblrs posts, it can be much more than that with the right person (or brand, or magazine, or…