How many gadgets have you got from 30 years ago? Maybe an old VHS handed down from your grandparents hidden in your loft? Which ultimately underlines quite what an amazing piece of engineering the Space Shuttle is (soon to be was). Sure it has had some significant revisions along the way, but if you compare…

What with negative press about its prospects, some scary new rival handsets and the odd bad vibe about its new Playbook you might have thought times were tough for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. Apparently not as they have just tweeted that the company has added more than one million subscribers in Europe, the Middle…

Did you know that you can access the voicemail of your mobile from another phone? Well after the revelations about phone hacking over the last few months most people do now. But for many people it came as a shock to find out that accessing phone messages in this way was possible at all. However…

We're used to seeing white goods and TVs as prizes in lotteries. But a new British Lottery seems to have gone too far by offering a baby. Okay, not an actual live one, but all you need to make one, minus a womb. (You have to provide that bit yourself.) It's a lottery specifically focused…

Spotify, the award-winning music service from Sweden has finally broken into the US market after years of negotiation with record labels. Will their subscription-based model topple the Apple iTunes? I think Apple should be getting worried. Though Apple first broke a psychological boundary by getting music fans to pay for something virtual - a file…

Almost inexplicably, Google have actually created something really cool in the social space and for the first time in about 7 years Facebook is not the most exciting social network in town. Yesterday's Facebook announcement about being able to chat to your grandad on skype but in facebook left tech world feeling distinctly underwhelmed. Techies…