Month: August 2013
Top Gear trounces Andy Murray and The Apprentice on the BBC iPlayer
The BBC has just published its performance pack figures for the iPlayer for July and it is very good news for messrs Clarkson, may and co. In spite of July being the month in which Andy Murray won Wimbledon and the corp debuted new series of popular programmes like Luther and The Apprentice, Top Gear…
Has LG confirmed a smartwatch and Firefox OS phone?
LG's Bulgarian head of mobile communications, Dimitar Valev has been talking about what the company has lined up for the future, and unless the Korean maker is going to solely focus on the Bulgarian market there are some exciting products in store. In an interview with Bulgarian website Dnevnik.bg Valev confirmed that a tablet and…
Samsung Galaxy NX camera lands in the UK for £1299
Good news for high-end photographers who need to keep connected. Samsung has announced that the Galaxy NX, which it bills as the world's first 4G interchangeable lens Connected Compact System Camera (CSC), is about to go on sale in the UK. The phone/camera hybrid will cost around £1299 from Jessops and Currys with selected online…
LG drops the world's slimmest and most high res smartphone display
We are only just getting used to Full HD displays on mobile and now LG has come and upped the ante even further. The Korean maker has just announced that it has developed the world's first Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440) smartphone display - this makes it four times higher res than standard HD. It…
80s pop legend Prince hits Twitter (and he is good for a retweet too!)
Now here's one person you wouldn't expect to see on Twitter, yep Prince the squiggled one of yore who has in the past railed against the web even telling the Daily Mirror back in 2010 that he thought the Internet was over. He has also apparently intended to file lawsuits against eBay, YouTube and the…
Five Flip phones that changed the world – Motorola StarTAC, Sharp GX10 and more
There was a time when we couldn't get enough of flip phones, or clamshells as they sometimes got called this side of the Pond. In fact in the US in the mid noughties no serious business exec would be seen without a flip dangling from their belt in a novelty style holster. Well now it…
Gif of the day – Ed Miliband gets egged. Plus best of British politician egging videos
No matter what you think of the Labour leader watching him get egged today in South London, is, coughs mildly amusing. He is also the latest in a very fine line of polticians to get egged and quite frankly not get the yolk. Here is how John Prescott responded to an egg a few years…
O2 unveils UK 4G package – lots of freebies and add-ons
After EE and Vodafone O2 has finally released details of its 4G offering and once again - like its rivals - it is tempting early adopters with some impressive freebies. Firstly the roll out for the service will start on August 29 (the same as Voda) and 4G tariffs will start at £26 a month.…
Nokia's budget 4G phone – the Lumia 625 – gets UK price and launch date
Nokia's budget 4G smartphone, the Lumia 625 has been given a UK release date and a price. And it looks like it will be one of the best value smartphones out there too. It will certainly be the cheapest 4G phone around for a while and a star for 02 and Voda's new 4G networks.…
Some of the coolest Apple iPhone 6 prototypes you'll ever see
We have seen shed loads of Apple iPhone 6 - for want of a better word - imaginations, but these from artists Michael Shanks, Ali Rahmoun and Sebastian Scheer are among the best we have ever seen. They have all been posted on new-ish art/image site Dribbble which is attracting a lot of attention at…
