Today popular music service Spotify made a quick announcement on its blog to launch a new Spotify Community area of its main site, called community.spotify.com/. The Spotify Community is a huge forum giving users a place to talk about everything from issues logging into the streaming service to general chit-chat about music: "You can use…

New stats published by Gartner today reveal that Google's mobile OS now accounts for more than half of the total smartphone market share. The smartphone market made a big jump in growth during Q4 2011, with a 47.3% year-on-year increase seeing smartphone sales hit the 149 million units mark in the last quarter of last…

We've seen features and reviews about a new to-do list app for the iPhone and iPad called Clear all over the web today, so decided to fill it full of our mundane morning tasks and find out what all the fuss is about... What's Clear? Clear is essentially just a very simple to-do list application…

Chatty voice recognition assistant Siri may have accidentally said a little too much this time, according to a screenshot on 9to5Mac, which shows she plans on widening her language skills and learning Japanese. How clever. For a while now we've heard rumours that Apple has been set to launch the handy speech recognition tool in…

To bring a bit of cute, retro fun to iPad gaming, ThinkGeek has this week unveiled its latest product, the iCade 8-Bitty controller. YES, it's only for the geekiest of gamers, but we're tired of jamming our hands onto touch screens and sometimes just want it to be like it was in the old days,…

If you're hooked on Angry Birds 99% of the time, then the other 1% you spend stalking people on Facebook can now be taken up by the crazily addictive bird hurling game too. Rovio made the announcement for the long-awaited Angry Birds for Facebook this week and you can already play it over at apps.facebook.com/angrybirds/…

Yesterday Samsung revealed the Galaxy Tab 2, a tablet powered by Android Ice Cream Sandwich and the follow up to the company's original 7 inch tablet. Despite running on the latest build of Google's mobile OS, it doesn't differ too much from its predecessor, its still sporting a 7 inch screen (at 1024 x 600…

Although it's not our social network of choice right now (sorry angry Google+ advocates who like to leave a LOT of comments), we are big fans of Google's social network here at Shiny Shiny and see it has a lot of potential for individuals and brands alike. However, we've heard a lot of users complaining…

OK, OK, that may be a little bit of an overreaction and we KNOW in many ways it's a ridiculous holiday. However, Google's doodle today is pretty damn cute and it's guaranteed to put a smile on your face whether you're loved up or single today. It's a short but sweet animation from Michael Lipman,…

Even though it's February and the days are slowly getting longer, many of us are still finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning without pressing the snooze button for the 4,598,438th time. In order to make the waking up, getting up and starting the day ritual a little bit easier, one…