Month: July 2015
How to prevent deaths from TVs tipping over
In Association with TV Furniture Direct After last week’s news that Ikea’s MALM drawers killed two toddlers in separate incidents, industries have gone into overdrive about re-affirming the safety of their products or adapting them to be safer. Ikea's own advice is to use wall-anchoring kits to prevent tip over hazards, but a fact that…
Yahoo launches messaging app to compete with WhatsApp, Snapchat
Not sure the world exactly needs a new messaging app. But that's exactly what it does have now thanks to the launch of Livetext. Having decided to refocus its brand on mobile and video after losing ground in the search engine market, Yahoo (when did it drop the exclamation mark?) unveiled its new messing app to a…
Guess who’s back – Clarkson, Hammond, May sign Amazon Prime deal. But no Stig!
Well it was only a matter of time and it was really only a two horse race between Amazon and Netflix (with Sky coming up on the outside maybe). But Amazon has confirmed a deal with Top Gear’s former presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to create a new car show exclusively for…
GMB Union sues Uber over drivers’ rights, health and safety standards.
The GMB Union is suing online taxi service Uber claiming it is not providing basic workers' rights to its drivers, such as holidays and a minimum wage. It also claims the company doesn't adhere to health and safety standards, including making sure drivers take a break or work a maximum number of hours per week.…
Design of the day: KEF Egg speakers
These look quite cool. They are the latest KEF Bluetooth design and they are called - appropriately enough - EGG speakers. Designed as a complete plug and play speaker package - with built-in amplification and DAC (Digital-to-Analogue Converter) - the speakers are compatible with high resolution music thanks to a 96kHz/24-bit USB input. With their compact,…
OnePlus 2 to launch on August 11th – and it looks very promising
The OnePlus One smartphone was undoubtedly one of the most talked about mobile phones of 2014, becoming the smartphone of choice for those power users who were after a premium Android phone for a fraction of the cost of a Samsung model. However, there was just one problem: getting hold of one. Originally Chinese firm OnePlus used…
First impressions of Apple iOS 9, what can you expect?
In association with Voucher Bin The public beta of iOS 9 began on 9 July 2015, the first time this early access to a release has happened. So what can you expect from iOS 9? Whether you’re new to Apple products, or an aficionado, you will want to know what the future looks like for…
BBC micro:bit computer – free to every year 7 child in UK from October
The BBC has unveiled the micro:bit, a pocket-sized codeable computer (pictured above) with built-in motion detection, compass and Bluetooth technology, which is to be given free to every child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK from October. That's approximately 1 million units. A collaboration between 29 partners, including Lancaster University, Barclays, Samsung and The…
EE unveils the first sub-£50 smart phone, the Rook. That’s over 10 times cheaper than an iPhone 6
Remember when smart phones were luxury items that people aspired to maybe own one day. Well those days are well and truly gone and suddenly £500 plus for an iPhone seems ridiculously expensive indeed. OK the £49.99 Rook from EE lacks the sex appeal of an iPhone 6 perhaps. But given it's less than 10…
Carphone Warehouse poll shows we are selfie obsessed – 14.5 million selfies a day
Well we probably didn't need a survey to tell us. But anyway there was one and of course it showed us we are indeed a selfie obsessed nation. According to the research, commissioned by Carphone Warehouse, 14.5 million selfies are now taken every day in the UK, with 4.3 million being shared via social media.…