Posted: 15th Feb 2012
There are lots of reasons why many of us are choosing to use tablets over laptops these days. Despite being less powerful, tablets are lighter, more convenient, always on and brilliant for taking a quick snapshot with. There’s one drawback, however: they don’t connect up to a printer quite as easily as a laptop. Don’t [...]
Posted: 14th Feb 2012
Ever wondered what happened to the bright new future where by 2012 we’d all be commuting by jetpack and riding our hoverboards to the beach? It’s been a long time coming, but over at the New York Toy Fair Mattel has just announced it’s planning to have a working replica of Marty McFly’s gravity defying [...]
Posted: 13th Feb 2012
Google’s Chrome browser is now more popular than Firefox, and it’s won fans not just because it’s faster and – reportedly – more secure. It also has better add-ons, which is bad news for Firefox which virtually invented the idea that a browser could be something more than just a window for web pages. Browser [...]
Posted: 10th Feb 2012
Later this month, it’s expected that Microsoft will release the final public beta version of its next generation operating system, Windows 8. According to industry insiders there’s a good chance a ‘Consumer Preview’ will be available for download from Microsoft’s website on 29 February. Windows 8 builds on the success of Windows 7 by adding [...]
Posted: 10th Feb 2012
Want to know what your contemporaries are reading? Amazon published its official bestseller lists for Christmas on the Kindle this week, showing us what people have been downloading to their e-readers during the busiest period ever for the devices. The rather surprising news – given that ebooks now outsell real books in the Amazon warehouse [...]
Posted: 8th Feb 2012
Microsoft has announced that it is relaunching its famous Flight Sim franchise at this month, and that gamers will be able to download the new version absolutely free of charge to enjoy at their leisure. Flight Sim was, for many years, considered the ultimate game simulator. Fans of the series who fancied themselves as pilots [...]
Posted: 8th Feb 2012
Digital video is great. No mucking about with lost or scratched discs or waiting for out of stock films or shows to go back on the shelves. Just click and you’re off, watching a TV re-run from your hard drive, family films captured on camera or the latest movies and network releases streamed straight from [...]
Posted: 6th Feb 2012
How safe is your smartphone? The defining ability of a smartphone is to be able to download useful apps and information quickly and cheaply wherever you are in the world. But their greatest strength could be their biggest weakness. Just as the rise of the desktop PC and internet were marred by the proliferation of [...]
Posted: 3rd Feb 2012
You’ve probably never heard of Mobile World Congress (MWC), and it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if you hadn’t. Just a few years ago, the trade show – which takes place in Barcelona every February – was a relatively low key affair which was only really interesting for mobile networks looking to bag a bargain [...]
Posted: 2nd Feb 2012
Social networking giant Facebook has filed for its its Initial Public Offering (IPO), which means that for the first time shares in the company will be available to trade on the stock exchange. Potential investors are combing through the details of what’s on offer, but if it goes ahead as planned it will be the [...]