Wearables are increasingly advanced and increasingly popular (the market is expected to be worth $8.36 billion by 2018), but are they as helpful consumers hope? A group of scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch wanted to find out whether wearable activity monitors live up to their promises – and if they could be…

Downloading e-books for you Kindle from someone other than Amazon could actually be putting your account at risk, according to German researcher Benjamin Daniel Mussler. Apparently a security flaw allows malicious code to be added to the e-book's metadata, code which activates when you open up the Kindle Library web page, giving it access to…

So it's official, something to do with the future of Windows is going to be announced on the 3oth September as a special event hosted by Microsoft. While most people are focussing on the possibility of Windows 9, the announcement of Windows Phone 9 alongside it is a distinct possibility. But if not, sources are…

Apple might often be seen as a big bad corporation that is trying to exploit consumers into earning it revenue, but it turns out that it does have a sense of morality, and as Tim Cook explained in an interview he believes that users have a right to privacy. In the second part of his…

There have been rumours that Microsoft would be unveiling the newest version of Windows on 30th September, but now that the company has sent out invitations it's official. Taking place in San Francisco, Microsoft is expected to be showing off project Threshhold, aka Windows 9, and since the invite mentions that Microsoft will be telling…

Internet piracy is easy, e-book piracy is even easier because the files are so small and the publishers haven't got round to tackling it in the same way that record companies and film studios have. Well Harper Collins is taking some steps to try and curb the problem by adding digital watermarks to its e-books. Known…

Phones 4U went into administration a couple of days ago, primarily down to both Vodafone and EE severing their ties with the high-street store. Well now it appears that both Vodafone and EE were considering a takeover of the company earlier this year. According to Sky News Vodafone and EE were talking to Phones 4U as…

If your name's not down, you're still coming in With 90 per cent of LFW shows being streamed live online this season, actually being there isn’t nearly as on-trend as it used to be. Which means your new excuse is 'oh of course I was invited – but who needs the hassle of the crowds…

Those of you who have been waiting for the iPhone to include NFC are likely thrilled that it's a feature that's going to be included in the iPhone 6, and quite rightly. There's only one problem, though. It's going to be restricted to Apple Pay, and developers are only going to have limited access to…

For those of you who don't know, Cortana is the Windows Phone virtual assistant. She's like Siri, but is generally considered as being far superior that what Apple has to offer. Rumours have indicated that Cortana would be making the jump to desktops with Windows 9, and these screenshots seem to confirm it -- as…