Month: October 2011
10 gruesome gifts for Halloween: Walking Dead, MorphSuits, World War Z
BOO! Not as scary over the internet is it? OK, so we may not be able to give you a fright with words quite as well as Poe or Lovecraft, but we can definitely point you in the right direction…
HTC will be serving Ice Cream Sandwich to plenty of their Android smartphones
HTC have now confirmed that many of their handsets will be making the jump to the new Android version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) operating system. After a fair few Android-upgrade hitches in the past, HTC took a fair amount of…
GoPro HD Hero2 camera launches
GoPro have released the follow up to a their popular HD Hero camera, the HD Hero2. A small, action-orientated camera whose predecessor is a regular now on Hollywood sets, the HD Hero 2 offers 11MP still images and an image…
Was an Apple TV set Steve Jobs final "one more thing"?
Walter Isaacson's biography on the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hits stores today, and with it comes some tantalising tid-bits on what the Apple main-man was working on shortly before his death. While many assume that the iPhone 5…
Siri creator quits Apple
Dag Kittlaus, CEO and co-founder of Siri, the voice control technology that dominated the iPhone 4S launch, has left Apple. Siri along with the team that helped build it were bought by Apple in 2010, with the voice-activated personal assistant…
Netflix launching in the UK and Ireland in early 2012
Netflix, the popular movie streaming/borrowing service, is setting sail across the pond, ready for a UK and Ireland launch early in 2012. Hitting the UK and Ireland in a "streaming-only" form, with no physical movie rentals (at least initially), the…
HANDS-ON: What do AKG's K3003 £1,000 earphones sound like?
Do you remember being a kid and walking past a toy-shop, pressing your nose against the glass and staring longingly at the most expensive LEGO set in the window? That's the memory and feeling that AKG's K3003 earphones inspire in…
Google launch Android film rental store in the UK
Google have opened the doors to their Android digital movie rental store for UK users today. After the service having been available in the US for some time, British film buffs can now borrow any of 1,000 flicks from the…
Steve Jobs vowed to destroy Android with "last dying breath"
Steve Jobs' competitive drive is well known, but today his disgust towards the Android operating system has been fully revealed by his official biographer, Walter Isaacson. Seeing Android as a "grand theft" of ideas pioneered by Apple's own iOS mobile…
3D video recording headed to the Nintendo 3DS
A new update is heading to Nintendo's 3DS handheld gaming console that will give gamers the ability to use the machine's dual-camera system to record 3D video footage. Though there's no news on the format that the recorded video…