Posted: 10th Apr 2012
In many ways, online social media can seem distinctly anti- well, social. Where’s the human interaction when we’re all tapping away at phone screens or laptop keyboards? As last year’s London riots showed, however, what’s really interesting about social media is where the offline and online worlds connect. Take your home town, for example. You [...]
Posted: 9th Apr 2012
Remember Dr Dolittle, the children’s character that could talk to the animals? By the end of this year there’s a good chance that we’ll all have the power to communicate with non-humans, only it’ll be your home appliances rather than the cat you’re talking to. We’re already part way there. Famously, there’s Apple’s Siri. This [...]
Posted: 7th Apr 2012
Sony has announced that the videogame Journey has been the fastest selling title on its PlayStation Network (PSN) to date. It’s beaten every other title in the seven year history of PSN, Sony’s virtual shopfront for downloadable games, and won more industry plaudits for its makers That Game Company. What makes it even more astonishing [...]
Posted: 3rd Apr 2012
We always knew that the 2012 Olympics was going to be a high-tech affair, with billions of pounds of investment in the network infrastructure around the new stadium and events, and today the BBC has given us a first taste of quite how futuristic coverage is going to be. It will be offering 24 high-definition [...]
Posted: 28th Mar 2012
The Galaxy S2 smartphone from Samsung has been consistently more popular than the iPhone, and with good reason. It’s exceptionally slim, very fast and has a gorgeous AMOLED screen with vibrant colours that’s easy to read in broad daylight. The only downside to the Galaxy S2 is that it ships running Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread [...]
Posted: 23rd Mar 2012
In his budget speech on Wednesday, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced plans to invest £100m in superfast broadband for 10 major cities in the UK, with another £50m earmarked for 10 smaller cities. The money is there to help the UK catch up with other countries, where average broadband speeds are much higher. [...]
Posted: 22nd Mar 2012
How much does a ‘free’ app on your smartphone cost you? It could be a lot more than you think, both in terms of money and convenience. A recent story by BBC News highlighted the fact that free apps, which raise money for the developer by downloading small advertisements to the corner of your screen, [...]
Posted: 19th Mar 2012
Thanks to the meteoric rise of the media tablet and smartphone, the traditional PC or laptop is no longer the device of choice for browsing the web, checking emails, watching YouTube and so on. We’ve learned that a smaller, touchscreen device with native apps is far more intuitive for browsing the web. Soon, however, we’ll [...]
Posted: 13th Mar 2012
You may not realise it, but your life is slowly collapsing into your mobile phone. Not literally, you understand, but in the sense that before too long you’ll be able to leave the house with your mobile phone and nothing else, if that’s what you wish. Whether it’s Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7 or [...]
Posted: 9th Mar 2012
First they took over our tablets. Then it was our public holidays. Next they moved in on our movies. Now, nothing short of intergalactic domination will sate the appetite of the frustrated flutterers. We are, of course, talking about Angry Birds, the casual gaming phenomenon that has gone from a simple 2D iPhone puzzler to [...]