Nigella Lawson has teamed up with Random House to produce a cookery iPhone app that can be controlled by voice. Containing 70 recipes and 40 minutes of video content it clocks in at a pricey £5. Called the Nigella Quick Collection all the recipes are done in six steps or fewer, and users can move…

It might be, it might not be, but the very words new iPhone are enough to get us hungrily devouring some low-res jpegs and speculating like crazies. Engadget picked up a few pictures claiming to be the new iPhone, from an anonymous source who snapped pictures of a device found lying on the floor of…

Lots of small social networking groups based around Ning web-software look set to close after announced an end to their free services hitting May 4th. Ning is focussing on their paid-for services and shutting down the free elements of their site. Hosting a social network on the premium model currently costs $10 - $25 a…

Japo-Swedish company Sony-Ericsson saw its focus on expensive top-end handsets take it back into the black last week. The company turned a profit (21m euros) for the first time in six quarters. Looks like their Android-based Xperia range could be one of the factors helping their resurgence. The number of handsets they sold fell, but…

Facebook announced that they're taking their "like" button to the rest of the internet. Websites will be able to embed a content-sharing button that will post a webpage to Facebook if a user clicks on it. It's a mechanism similar to Digg or Twitter. The move will be revealed at the Facebook conference in San…

In the winter I spend my time writing about warming devices. Things like the lunchbox warmer or the hamburger-shaped hand warmer (which provoked an existential crisis in me back in Nov 09). Now the summer has come, things are heating up (sort of) outside, and USB cooling devices are on the table. And on your…

I'm a big fan of Google apps - gmail, Picassa and google documents, but I've never got into using the calendar. Some of my friends do. But despite the fact that I'd love to have a useful web-based calendar I just zone out when I look at the interface. Do you have to be one…

Your iPhone already comes with a web browser - Safari - so why would you want to download another browser app? Well - because it's better. The Opera Mini Browser shot to the top of most downloaded lists in iPhone app stores in 22 countries after it was released on 12th April. There was speculation…