Month: November 2014
Amazon Prime now gives you unlimited cloud storage for photos
Amazon Prime is possibly one of the best deals out there, £80 a year for free next day delivery, as well as unlimited access to Prime Instant Video and Prime Music. It's now much better because, effective immediately, Prime members will get unlimited free cloud storage for their photos. Prime Photos is being described as a…
Shakespeare’s Globe launches new VOD service, Globe Player
Picture the scene: -But soft! What light through yonder breaks? -Oh yeah, that’s my laptop – I’ve been binge-watching the Bard all night. An unlikely scenario? Not if the brains behind Shakespeare’s Globe theatre have anything to do with it. They’ve just launched a dedicated video-on-demand platform, the first theatre in the world to do…
A Russian memorial to Steve Jobs has been taken down because Tim Cook is gay
Last year a group of Russian companies known as ZEFS erected a six and a half foot tall iPhone-shaped memorial to Steve Jobs outside of a St Petersberg college. Now that statue has been taken down by the same group, all because Tim Cook publicly came out as gay. According to Re/code the move was…
The iPad Pro could be thinner than the iPhone 6 Plus
The larger-sized iPad Pro is something that has been rumoured to be on Apple's plate for quite some time, and despite the fact that it didn't get announced alongside the iPad Air 2 and Mini 3 the rumours are still coming. This time suggesting the device will be super-thin, and come sporting stereo speakers. According…
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is in development, code-named ‘Project Zero’
We all figured that the Galaxy S6 was in development over at Samsung labs, but it's always nice to have confirmation. According to the folks over at SamMobile, the phone is in development and is code-named 'Project Zero'. You might not have paid much attention to phone code-names in the past, but this one definitely…
It’s Equal Pay Day 2014: Sorry women, you’re working for free until January
Unhappy Equal Pay Day! Yep, as The Telegraph reports, today marks the point in the year after which women are effectively working for free thanks to the gender pay gap. (Thanks, gender pay gap. You’re too kind.) What’s more (or as it turns out, less), the gap has widened since last year, adding three more…
Skype’s real-time translation tool is now in an open preview
Whether it's Hitchhiker's babel fish, or Star Trek's universal translator, mankind has often dreamed of being able to converse with someone speaking a totally different language to us. Recently Skype showed off a piece of software that would allow people to converse in real time whilst speaking two different languages, and soon that feature will be available…
PayPal now lets you pay for things two weeks after you ordered them
In the same way that you don't really pay for items you stick on your credit card until the bill arrives, PayPal has rolled out a new system that won't see you pay for your orders until two weeks after you make them. It's called Pay After Delivery. The system is quite as simple as…
Text with care: Research shows a rise in mobile phone-related accidents
It’s official: technology is dangerous. According to new research, we’re all fumbling, bumbling, and stumbling our way around, so distracted by texting or tweeting that we hurt ourselves and our mobiles. A cross-Europe survey from mobile insurance company SquareTrade found that in the last couple of years, 37.2% of smartphone users in the UK have…
This is Microsoft’s first post-Nokia smartphone, the RM-1090
We knew that Microsoft is ditching the Nokia brand in favour of its own name, and now we get to see what the company's first Microsoft branded phone looks like. Meet the RM-1090. The handset has popped up at the US FCC and in China, coming with a 5-inch quarter HD display, dual SIM capabilities,…
