Do we really need an app for that? Speech Timer the iPhone app

Bored of listening to over-long speeches? Putting up with lengthy monologues at presentations, meetings or weddings can be a little frustrating when the speaker is neither Barack Obama nor Steve Jobs or perhaps your beloved brother. Well you can't stop a tedious talker with your iPhone, but you can now, thanks to a peculiar app,…

Review: the calorie-counting sleep-measuring KiFit Armband

It's always interesting to know stuff about yourself, how many steps you walk, how many hours you sleep or how many calories you burn when you go for a run. And we've just been testing out a device that tells you exactly that, the KiFit armband. Billed as "the most intelligent calorie management system in…

iOS4: what the new iPhone 4 is like on the inside

It's got an i infront of its name and it lets you multitask. 4 years after the first iPhone, you can check the news and your email - at the same time on the iPhone's new Operating System, the iOS4. Other key features includes folders which let you flick between open apps and in a…

iPhone 4G: Ten Things You Need To Know

After puffing the iPad, making cracks about the people who couldn't attend (Gizmodo among others, we wonder why) and telling us all about the app store (15000 apps submitted every day..) Steve Jobs launched into a description of the new iPhone. Despite all the cynics out there, we were literally on the edge of our…

Farming on new iPhone 4: good god

Okay, so I know 2 million people like Farmville and everything, and yes I number some of my friends among those rice-enthusiasts but at one of the hottest tech announcements of the year, do we need Mark Pincus on-stage telling us about "Farming" for iPhone...? I was close to sustaining brain injury from face-palming so…

Cats for Cuts: Twitter's mature response to the budget deficit

Nothing like a silly cat joke to defuse the atmosphere of economic doom that is swamping the United Kingdom. We're all worried what David Cameron's spending cuts will hit - jobs, schools, hospitals- but instead of giving into anxiety, some people are taking active measures to improve the situation. Okay, not the economic situation, but…

The Poshest iPhone app in the store? Veuve Clicquot presents The Season

Veuve Clicquot, the premium champagne brand have released an iPhone app. Where beer has iPint, Champagne has... The Season. I can't say this is the most imaginative app functionality that I have ever seen, but if you are likely to want a concierge-delivery of Champagne while lolling around the Veuve Clicquot sponsored Polo final, then…

Nokia C3 – a Blackberry for kids – out in two weeks for £109

Nokia's cheap cheerful, social-networking C3 will be available on the Nokia UK online shop sim free for £109 from 18th June 2010. Built a little like a Blackberry with a QWERTY keyboard, a tracker pad and a widget-filled screen, the C3 is billed as an affordable smartphone aimed a younger audience. The C3 has one-touch…

It's back: second Motorola Milestone is all about the video

It's back - but it's slimmer, all touch-screen and will wire up to your TV. The Android Motorola Milestone XT 720 has had a few updates and will coming out in the UK in the next few months. The camera has been ramped up significantly - it's now 8 megapixels, has an xenon flash and…

Poll: Stephen Fry's most beautiful tweet – is it really that beautiful?

So in what is admittedly a rather silly competition, Stephen Fry has chosen one tweet as The Most Beautiful Tweet in a contest sponsored by the Hay Festival. That tweet of resounding beauty? It was by a Canadian called Marc McKenzie and it went: "I believe we can build a better world! Of course, it'll…