This week Spotify has unveiled the Guilty Pledgers app, a service that allows music fans to donate money to their favourite charity in exchange for adding their guilty pleasure tune to a party playlist. The idea behind the app (that works from within Spotify's desktop app) is that Spotify users will sign up to throw…

Twitter has gone all technical on us to prove just how HUGE Ellen DeGeneres' selfie tweet from the Oscars really was. According to a blog post by Michael Fleischman, Twitter's Head of Media Science, from Sunday at 5 p.m. ET until Monday at 5 a.m. ET, tweets about the Oscars were viewed more than 3.3…

Launched today, SquareOne is another mail app that's here to save the day and clear up all of your mess. The iPhone app is solely compatible with Gmail and works by getting you to divide your emails up into groups. It helps you out with some suggestions to start, but then you can reposition and…

Facebook Messenger, the social network's popular app that allows users to send messages to their friends for free, is now available on the Windows Phone platform. There's nothing particularly new or exciting about the Windows version of Facebook Messenger and it has many of the same features as Android and iOS Messenger that we're all…

Just as we were starting to place bets on which the best fitness wearable of 2014 would be - I was going for Moov, FYI - along comes Atlas, a fitness tracking device that looks good and monitors your activity, but also analyses your form and performance levels to make your workouts more awesome. As…

Instead of giving up chocolate or alcohol for Lent (assuming you want to take part in the archaic act of giving up luxuries for weeks on end all in the name of religion), why not try something a little different this year. We all know what's good for us when it comes to giving up…

When the Samsung Galaxy S5 is released in April, it'll be packed full of premium apps and subscriptions worth well over $500, according to a new site on the Samsung website called Galaxy Gifts. Although for many users the apps still may not be enough to justify the Galaxy S5's (still undisclosed) price tag, but…

Microsoft's new voice-activated personal assistant, called Cortana, is expected in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update and The Verge got its hands on a set of leaked images that reveal the Siri clone is a small, blue animated circle (nothing like the AI woman also called Cortana who features in the Halo game series). Although…