Month: November 2011
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 12 Gifts & gadgets for coffee lovers
Some see coffee as necessary fuel to get them through an early morning, others love the stuff and become very defensive when anyone around them suggests that tea is just as good. Pfft, what an insult to the die-hard coffee fan. Earlier in the year we wrote up a list of ten cool coffee gadgets…
No surprise as Ebuyer website crashes during £1 Cyber Monday sale
Today is Cyber Monday, seen by some as a brilliant day to buy discounted products online and others as a silly marketing ploy to take advantage of frantic shoppers post Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Regardless of whether you hate it, love it, or just see it as a crazy phenomenon from the US, many retailers…
APP OF THE DAY: QVC introduces live TV streaming to your mobile
Shopping channel QVC has introduced a new live TV streaming element to its mobile application, which allows users to quickly and easily see what's happening on the channel while they're on-the-move and then buy any of the products they like the look of all from within the app itself. You simply turn on the application…
APP OF THE DAY: St John Ambulance First Aid app to help with winter health emergencies
Apps don't just have to be about finding discounts, tweeting and playing Angry Birds, over the past few years we've heard reports of doctors using them on a daily basis and normal people turning to a seemingly useless application in a medical emergency with life saving consequences. The way they're so easy to use and…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: The best Android tablets for every taste & budget
Over the past few weeks we've learned that a large proportion of the nation really want an iPad this Christmas, but it's definitely worth checking out the huge range of tablet PCs that are running on Google's Android operating system too. If you're buying for a die-hard Apple fan then you may find that nothing…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: 10 Luxury gadgets & accessories for girls
For most of us Christmas shopping isn't just stressful because we have to carry lots of bags around, wrap everything up and then transport it across the country before the festivities begin. It's just so damn expensive. If we don't spend crazy amounts on loved ones we feel like we're just not good people and…
Shopcade: Social shopping harmony or an excuse for spam?
Shopcade is a new Facebook application, which allows users to shop and then share their recommendations among their networks. The Shopcade model certainly makes sense, a recent study by YouGov found that more than half of UK social media users aged between the ages of 18 and 54 are influenced by their friends and family…
eBay launches Christmas boutique & UK's first QR code shopping experience
Over the past few years we've seen QR codes everywhere, on food, clothes and even gravestones. Yes, we said gravestones. Well this Christmas, we'll be seeing hundreds of them on all kinds of clothes, gifts and furniture items, as online marketplace eBay intends to use them to make shopping even easier in its festive pop-up…
APP OF THE DAY: Etsy app makes vintage & craft shopping even easier
Etsy, the home of craft-lovers, vintage finds and quirky creations, has launched a new iPhone app in time for Christmas to make browsing, selling and shopping through the online marketplace even easier. Etsy gets a lot of stick from certain critics who suggest that most of the items are just a little bit rubbish (check…
The nation wants an iPad for Christmas, AGAIN
Last year we reported that all the UK wanted for Christmas 2010 was an iPad. Well, it seems not many of them had that festive wish fulfilled by good ol' Santa, as more than a third of the nation are after one again this year. According to research from VoucherCodes.co.uk, the iPad is the UK's…
