Month: September 2011
APP OF THE DAY: Inside Nature's Giants (iPad)
Ah; now this is pretty much everything I like to see from an iPad app! Educational, interactive, packed full of video and beautifully presented, Inside Nature's Giants has it all. Including the innards of a giant squid. Nice. Not for…
FIFA 12 skills and tricks guide: Make your mates look like mugs
Football. It's a beautiful game, and each year EA Sport's FIFA footie titles edge a little closer to perfection. From screaming 30-yard shots to darting runs down the wing, new physics technology and player weighting systems make this year's…
Is a Kindle Phone the reason Amazon may buy webOS?
It's turning into quite a busy week for Amazon. Not content with just launching a slew of new Kindle eReaders and their first tablet device in the shape of the Kindle Fire Android-based slate, they're now rumoured to be in…
Canon on the hunt for Europe's best new photographer
Fancy yourself as a whizz behind the lens of a camera? Then Canon have an opportunity that may be right up your alley. The photography giants are launching the Canon EOS Adventure, a Europe-wide competition as much about inspiring up-and-coming…
Going underground: We7 Music Map takes inspiration from the Tube
Popular music streaming service We7 is going underground as the company prepare to relaunch this week, creating an interactive Tube map-like playlist based on the artists and tracks that have been most popular over the past year. Each line, laid…
44% of new UK smartphone sales are Android
All eyes may be on the impending iPhone 5 launch next week, but at the end of the day sales speak louder than an updated spec sheet. So what have the UK smartphone-buying public been spending their hard-earned dosh on?…
iPhone 4S to ship in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB sizes?
Choices, choices, choices; that's what you'll be getting from Apple's expected smartphone launch next week if the latest round of rumours prove true. Not only are there tipped to be two models launching (the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 4S),…
Incoming HP CEO will have a $1 salary
In these hard economic times, we're all having to make a few sacrifices. I'm now eating Tesco's own-brand caviar, and have managed to cut down to just four bottles of champagne a week. HP's new CEO Meg Whitman is feeling…
Faster web browsing expected from HSPA+ ready iPhone 5
The iPhone 5 will be thinly cased in gold, with a bigger diamond-set screen, forged in the fires of centre of the earth itself. Or that's what you'd hope for given the fervour building up around next week's expected…
Review: TomTom GO LIVE 1000 £199
If you do a lot of driving like I do then you need a decent sat nav that will not only get you from A to B, but will make sure that you get to B before A has…