App of the Day: TubeTap – get your money back on delayed Tube rides

One for the Londoners this - but the principle could be applied anywhere with a transport system that has some kind of we-won't-make-you-late guarantee. Transport for London - who run London's tubes and buses have a money-back guarantee that they will refund your journey if they make you late. Maybe you knew that - but…

iPad 3 now not expected until 2012

It only seems like yesterday that the iPad 2 arrived, but already there is plenty of talk of its successor. And if you are hanging on for iPad version three (better screen? faster processor? higher res camera?) you might have a little longer to wait. According to DigiTimes, a shortage of Retina Displays (as seen…

Is Football gossip ruining Twitter? And, if so, what we can do to stop it

Yesterday the longest running transfer saga in British history - Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas' move to his home town team Barcelona - finally reached its messy conclusion with the talismanic Gunners captain going for £35 million, a few interesting add on clauses and a sigh of relief from thousands of British Twitter users. For much of…

Apple's prestigious new store opens for business in, err, Basingstoke

Big news from Apple today. It has announced the opening of a new UK Apple Store. And in keeping with its policy of choosing high profile, upmarket, prestigious locations for its stores, this new one is in, wait for it, Basingstoke. Now Basingstoke is a lovely place with an architecturally interesting modernist town centre, but…

Five Game-Changing Motorola Phones

In many ways it has been Motorola (and not Nokia or even Apple) that has lead the way in mobile design. Since the late nineties it has delivered an array of game-changing handsets which have been hugely popular and very influential. So with the deal with Google in the can now, here's five mobiles that…

What the iPad looked like in 1994 and why it took nearly 20 years to arrive

Take a quick peek at this video which was on the AllThingsD site earlier today. It was created by the newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to show how one day newspaper content would be displayed on tablet style mobile PCs. If you listen to the commentary you'll find the predictions unerringly accurate. 'Tablets will be a…

Google buys Motorola – so what now for LG, Samsung and HTC?

So today's shock story is that Google is buying Motorola, well the handset division Motorola Mobility, for a whopping $12.5 billion. That's a 60% premium on its closing price on Friday and represents quite an investment. The interesting bit for me though is where does this leave Google's Android partners like HTC and Samsung? Is…

Google buy phone-makers Motorola for $12.5 bn: WHY?

In a surprise move, Google have forked out $12.5 for American phone-maker Motorola. Massive. And very unexpected. So we guessing it's because Google want to start making phone hardware as well as the Android software that goes inside them. We imagine they've noticed Apple's enormous profit margins - $7billion out of $28billion earnings last quarter…