Google will be letting people personalise the iconic Google Search home page by allowing them to add pictures of their own choice as the background. Called Freeze-Frame, the picture-adding function will be rolled out over the next few days, starting in the States. A small button will appear at the bottom right hand side of…

Steve Jobs loves HTML 5. We know that. He's probably got HTML 5 pjs and HTML wallpaper, he probably dreams in HTML 5. He's sure it's the future of the web, and you'd be hard pressed to argue with Apple's captain. And as if to prove a point Apple today revealed a web-showcase of just…

Hark! I bring you worrying news from the colonies. It would seem AT&T is to ditch unlimited data from its mobile tarriffs. The much maligned American mobile network is often critised for its abyssmal coverage and poor capacity. Seemingly it makes O2 look like the future, which is certainly saying something. Under AT&T's new tariff…

Nokia maybe getting hammered in the smartphone stakes at the moment (at least in the UK and US), but they keep delivering the goods on cheapo mobiles. Exhibit A is their new C1 and C2 budget mobiles which both sport some intriguing features. Costing a purse-friendly £25, the new C1's headline shout is that its…

While we hope you haven't exactly been holding your breath, the good news is that online music service Rdio - which you may have heard about way back in 2009 - has finally arrived. Well, in the US, anyway. But according to their blog this Spotify rival will be available in other parts of the…

It's long been a dream of mine to play bowling using gnomes as skittles. Sadly gnomes don't actually exist, and using children might be construed as "cruel" or "distasteful". Luckily for us, the lovely people at I want one of those have released a six pin gnome bowling kit! Joy. Of. Joys. Now I can…

Passive energy harnessing. Prepare to hear those three words a lot over the coming few years, and prepare to see more products like this one released today: The Nokia Bicycle Charger DC-14. A natty little phone-holder and bottle dynamo that fits on your push bike and charges your phone while you roll. It'll only start…

Here's some news we have been waiting for. The Parrot AR Drone Augmented Reality iPhone remote controlled Quadricopter, which was such a hit at CES this year, is going to reach the UK very soon. There's a launch event scheduled for the end of the month and we guess it will be in the stores…

In the last few days there has been an engaging discussion online about whether publishers need to bother with iPad apps. Cast your mind back a few months and the iPad was being presented by both Steve Jobs and bigwigs in the publishing industry as the saviour of magazines. Publishers would be able to deliver…