Posted: 5th Jan 2012
Scourge of the encyclopedia industry and provider of comprehensive knowledge to all, Wikipedia has announced that it’s annual fundraising drive throughout December and November has raised a record $20m, enough to guarantee the site’s existence for another year. Anyone who’s used Wikipedia – which is more or less everyone – throughout the last couple of [...]
Posted: 4th Jan 2012
With games consoles, DVD players, set-top boxes, audio amplifiers and all manner of motion sensing inputs, the area around your TV might well be starting to resemble the cockpit of a space shuttle. All those flashing lights and whirring fan noises can be distracting if you’re just trying to watch a movie. Hope may well [...]
Posted: 29th Dec 2011
What will the New Year bring to the gadget lover and technology fan? We’ve gone out and scoured the news to find out what’s buzzing and hot and found five top technology toys that you really do want to sink your teeth into. ASUS Transformer Prime This is the bigger, better and more powerful brother [...]
Posted: 28th Dec 2011
Just come into possession of a shiny new Android tablet? Some people seem to think that the most popular mobile operating system in the world is difficult to understand or use, but it takes moments to master and once you get the hang of it is more versatile and easy to customise into the way [...]
Posted: 27th Dec 2011
For those of you who don’t know what Kinect is, it’s best described as a full body motion controller. You attach it to your Xbox 360, and it watches you and other players looking for recognised hand gestures and motions. With a bit of practice, you’ll never need to pick up your controller again – [...]
Posted: 23rd Dec 2011
Tired of Angry Birds clones and wish you could play high definition PC and console games on your tablet this Christmas? Streaming games firm OnLive has launched the app for you, bringing the latest ‘real’ releases to both iOS and Android over the net. OnLive’s service differs radically from traditional games in that it doesn’t [...]
Posted: 22nd Dec 2011
Apple may have stolen the headlines with its voice controlled virtual assistant Siri, but its limited to the iPhone 4S at the moment and not – by itself – worth buying a new phone for. Good news then from Google, which is apparently working on a natural language assistant of its own – codenamed Majal [...]
Posted: 20th Dec 2011
Got an iPhone, iPad or iPod? Did you know that you can now sync all you music between your desktop PC and your mobile devices using the built-in iTunes application, regardless of whether you bought the song through iTunes or not? It’s all thanks to Apple’s new iTunes Match service, which has been available in [...]
Posted: 19th Dec 2011
Social news app Flipboard was named Apple’s ‘App of the year’ in 2010, but it looks like 2011 was an even bigger year for the company. It’s just announced two big milestones: firstly that it now has over five million subscribers, and secondly that its new iPhone app was downloaded over a million times in [...]
Posted: 16th Dec 2011
There’s just a week of shopping left to go until Christmas, and while you’ll no doubt still be grabbing gifts up until the 24th in store, you’re running out of time if you want to buy something online. Stuck for ideas and having a last minute panic about presents for your loved ones? Here’s our [...]