Month: July 2012
TECH PENTATHLON: How to stream the London 2012 Olympics – websites, smart TVs, apps and set-top boxes
Today sees the penultimate instalment in the Tech Digest Tech Pentathlon series. As we're gearing up for the Olympics, we've already highlighted five of the best Olympic apps, some of the best Olympic gadgets hitting stores and also how to…
HTC Facebook OS phone lining up 2013 launch
New whispers of a HTC/Facebook mobile hardware partnership have been stirred up by Bloomberg. They're reporting that the two firms are gearing up to launch a handset by 2013 that will run off a custom Facebook-focussed operating system. Facebook are…
Cheapest Microsoft Surface tablet to be insane $1,000, £650?
Microsoft, say it ain't so! The Surface tablet is one of the most promising devices we've ever seen come out of the Redmond giant's stable, being their first own-branded piece of hardware. But all the goodwill Microsoft gathered after its…
Sky planning US push with new Roku investment?
Roku, the leading streaming set-top box provider in the US, have received a major investment push of $45 million from News Corporation and BSkyB among others. BSkyB's investment has sparked suggestion that the company are looking to expand Sky's offering…
Razer Ouroboros gaming mouse can be customised to fit your hand
Razer have just revealed a new gaming mouse that can be fully customised to fit each individual gamers hands. Set to rival the similarly customisable Cyborg R.A.T line, the Ouroboros is designed in such a way as to be perfect…
Valve's Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 "a catastrophe"
Gamers looking forward to installing Windows 8 on October 26th this year may get second thoughts after Microsoft's new operating got a strong talking down from Valve's Gabe Newell, one of the key brains behind the massively successful Steam downloadable…
Have Apple pulled the plug on Safari for Windows?
If you're reading this post as a Windows user on Apple's Safari web browser, you may be about to become one of a dying breed; it appears that the Cupertino company have pulled support for the Windows version of their…
Fujifilm Finepix F800 compact pairs apps with wireless image transfers
Fujifilm's latest compact camera, the Finepix F800, has a few tricks up its sleeve that should see it stand out from the competition when it hit shelves this September. As well as packing in a 16-megapixel BSI EXR-CMOS sensor and…
Onkyo reveal Spotify-streaming CR-N755 Mini Hi-Fi receiver
Onkyo have just revealed the CR-N755 Mini Hi-Fi receiver, which niftily offers networked music streaming, including Spotify playback, among its list of features. Once configured alongside a user's home network, the CR-N755 can access Spotify playlists, Last.fm, AUPEO!, and vTuner…
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria to land on 25 September
Blizzard have announced that Mists of Pandaria, the long-awaited fourth expansion pack for giant MMO World of Warcraft, will launch on September 25th. The expansion pack adds the new Pandaren playable race, a new continent to explore, new character classes,…