Want to find out just who keeps putting binbags and rotting mattresses outside your door? Or who keeps chucking litter over the hedge? Perhaps rigging up some private surveillance cameras would help. Yes. I realise that sounds a little extreme. But the makers of Jabbakam, a security camera based system that enables multiple users to…

As we all patiently twiddle our thumbs waiting for Facebook to unleash some incredible news about how it's going to skewer location, and let everyone know just where you're updating your Facebook status from... This article from back a few months ago provides an interesting little sidelight on the hot topic of location. And whether…

If there's one thing people like finding out about, it's themselves. So iPhone app TrakIt is probably onto a winner with their tracking yourself app. It doesn't really do very much apart from provide a format for you to track things in: helping you help yourself, you know. Describing itself as a "unique Goal Setting…

So it's not just Wired and the FT that are getting iPad editions, Kent on Sunday has become the first British regional paper to make an edition specially for the glossy Apple tablet. Perhaps, stories of how a Schoolgirl became the latest victim in a "tortoise theft racket" weren't what Steve Jobs had in mind…

New to Nokia's mid-range X series comes the X3 - a slim, perky consumer phone with a touch screen and a slide-out keyboard. Costing 125 euros (£103) it's likely to be on sale from September. From the touch screen you can control widgets, the alarm and music for example, and the slide-out keyboard allows for…

Well I hoped we'd moved on from the days where your accent could hold you back at work. Where people would pass you over for promotion because you said your "a" like "eh" and not like "ah", but for those of you with offices still stuck in the Victorian era, there is an app to…

Will Facebook add location features tomorrow? They're certainly going to tell us something and it looks like the announcement of location features will be on Mark Zuckerberg's speaking notes. It's likely that it will plug-in with existing location-based mobile networks Foursquare and Gowalla. Though how exactly no-one is quite sure. Before the announcement lands at…

Facebook Questions could get a bit more like Hot or Not as pictures are introduced to the app in the next few weeks. Currently questions are largely text-based, with the asker allowed to fit one picture in the question. The asker can provide answers to choose from, but only text ones. Anyway looks like Facebook…