HTC to bring Desire 500 mid range smartphone to the UK in August

Some big-ish news from HTC this morning. The Taiwanese maker has just announced that its mid range smartphone - HTC Desire 500 model will go on sale in Europe, including the UK, from later in the month. Features-wise the Desire 500 looks like a contender with a 4.3-inch screen,1.2GHz quad-core chipset, win cameras (8MP and…

Aha! Create your own Alan Partridge radio show with Radio Alan the iPhone app

Aha, you can't move for Alan blinking Partridge at the moment what with his new film Alpha Papa hitting the cinemas today. The legend that is North Norfolk Digital's finest broadcaster is also eying up your iPhone too. For launched today is the the official Alan Partridge app, Radio Alan: The Alan Partridge Player which…

Nokia phablet (and tablet) coming in September?

Nokia is one of the few makers left that hasn't delivered a phablet phone with a screen bigger than five inches. The serious gossip is that is about to change with some pundits predicting that the Finnish company will announce its first big screen mobile next month. A source has told My Nokia Blog that…

YO! Sushi's Robot Drone flying waiter

This is really something else. In fact it had me checking the date to ensure that it wasn't from April 1st. Anyway everyone's favourite Japanese food emporium YO! Sushi has unveiled the iTray, a flying robot that takes food directly to diners. It sounds like its customised Drone quadrocopter - that one from Parrot I…

Sky adds new +HD box and £10 streaming gizmo

A couple of big-ish announcements this morning from Sky TV. The satellite TV broadcaster/broadband provider has announced the imminent arrival of a new Sky+HD box, with integrated wireless facilities and a Now TV £10 box that enables viewers to watch on demand services. The announcement of the new box was included in the company's financial…

Watch out chubby dogs! Here comes Fitbark, a fitness tracker for canines

Are you concerned that your dog is looking a little on the chubby side? Well no worries because some enterprising New Yorkers and our pals at Kickstarter are coming to the rescue. After fitness tracking devices for humans like Fitbit and Jawbone we may soon have a versions for dogs called FitBark. Basically it is…

Dailymotion debuts innovative iPhone video editing app

Here's an interesting move. Dailymotion, which as you may or may not know is the second most popular online video portal after YouTube, has released an iOS app that let's the user shoot, edit and upload HD video. The idea is that if you use the app it will optimse your videos so they look…