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Is the golden age of Twitter over? Why nobody retweets anymore

‘My very best gag about [X] and not a single retweet? You lot don’t deserve me!’ – another day, another person on my timeline. They may seem cheerfully self-deprecating, but under the faux outrage of those tweets there bristles a real insecurity (I’ve decided) about their place on the platform, and the future of Twitter. After…

Twitter’s in-tweet buy button goes live today

It's been speculated about for quite some time, but today it has become official -- you can now buy products from within Twitter at the click of a button. For the time being, only a select number of artists and brands will be able to sell you things through Twitter itself. Examples include Burberry, (RED), and…

Apparently this is the upcoming BlackBerry Classic

BlackBerry were surprisingly quiet about their upcoming mobile offerings during IFA, which was a bit of a surprise considering they do still have plans to release smartphones in the future. But as the mobile world is, this information gets leaked sooner or later, and pictures of the upcoming BlackBerry Classic smartphone. Coming from China's Weibo forums,…

Microsoft is rebranding its Bing apps as MSN

MSN almost died a death when Microsoft went ahead and introduced Bing to the world, it was Bing this, Bing that, and of course the selection of Bing apps that a lot of people would say mean things about. Well it turns out that MSN is making a comeback, and Bing is fading a little…

How you can buy the Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact

We saw the Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact officially unveiled at IFA last week, but Sony was notoriously tight-lipped about when it will be available and how much it will cost. Fortunately, the information is now available thanks to our lovely phone networks and retailers. Phones 4u Phones 4u has revealed the most about both…

Ikea’s ‘bookbook’ spoofs the typical Apple advert

You know how Apple's adverts are, the calm voices describing all the new features that the phone has to offer. Well Ikea have come out with their own version advertising the 'bookbook' aka its latest catalogue. So what does the 'bookbook' have to offer? It's totally wireless and you don't have to worry about recharging.…

ChitChat is like Snapchat for voice mssages

Snapchat is great for sending pictures without having to worry about deleting them later to save space on your phone. It's also great for sending things you'd rather people didn't have a choice in saving. ChitChat is utilising the same formula and applying it to voice messages instead, so you don't have to deal with…
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Retro without the rummage: how to buy vintage clothes online

Vintage shopping can be wonderful, and awful. For every perfectly-tailored gem you dig out from the back of a dusty rail, there are usually several hours of exhausting, disappointing rummaging and trying on polyester frocks that don't stretch across your boobs. But thankfully that doesn't have to be the way anymore – because unlike our well-dressed…

Amazon’s Fire Phone is coming to the UK this month, will be an O2 exclusive

Amazon's Fire Phone has been out in the US for a couple of months, and now it's been revealed that it'll be available in the UK later this month exclusively on O2. Originally speculated in the Financial Times, and Gizmodo UK claims to have had the news confirmed by a trusted source. In case you didn't know,…

Samsung claims curved TVs are the future

I'm under the opinion that curved TVs are a passing fad, much like the 3D TVs that have been on sale for the past five or six years. Samsung's Global President for TV, Kim Hysuk, has different ideas -- he envisions a day when all TVs are curved. Apparently the newly available bendable screens will…