A new research project at the London School of Economics has spawned an interesting iPhone app called ‘mappiness which aims to chart personal happiness.
Only spotty intern reporters from the Lower Grimthrope Weekly Gazette still use tape recorders for interviews because digital is where it’s at baby- and to underscore that point, Olympus have just shunted out their latest voice recording gizmo, the LS-5.
Android emerged the big winner as global worldwide smartphone sales soared 50 per cent during the second quarter, according to the bean counters at Gartner.
Vodafone has announced that it will be undercutting Apple’s prices and selling the iPhone 4 on prepay for as ‘little’ as £480.
Like a DIY addict on a long Sunday afternoon, Google continues to polish up the GMail experience and introduce shiny new features, and the company has just announced that it’s bolting on more drag and drop functionality to its phenomenally popular GMail browser-based email client.
Anxious HTC Desire users on the Orange network waiting to see when they can get grab a slice of the Froyo action should be relieved to hear that the network has announced that the update in the next four weeks.
Skype has suddenly become a lot more useful, with the company releasing an updated iOS 4-ready version of VoIP app for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 which is capable of multi-tasking.
What better way to start a Monday than sit through this delightfully mad animated cartoon by the Taiwanese outlet NMANews, telling the recent story of the troubled iPhone 4 launch through the medium of Star Wars.
Steve Jobs stars as an evil overlord behind a reality distortion field, while the video gets progressively madder over its two chaotic minutes.
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We have to say we weren’t too impressed by Apple dragging other handset manufacturers into their press conference yesterday – the issue was about the iPhone 4 dropping calls, not the performance of their competitors’ phones – and both Nokia and RIM have responded angrily.
We’ve been wanting this feature for ages, so it’s good to see Goggle on the case and adding the ability to include rich text signatures in GMail.
Top camera tech site DPReview has rummaged into a big bag of cameras to find out which are the hot superzoomin’ cameras of the summer.
No less than nine cameras were assembled for examination, with the full line up being made up of the Canon Powershot SX20 IS, Casio EX-FH25, Fujifilm FinePix HS10, Fujifilm FinePix S2500HD, Kodak Z981, Nikon Coolpix, P100, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ38, Pentax X90 ad Samsung WB5000.
HP has now completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, and have confirmed that they plan to get stuck into their lovely webOS mobile operating system and slap it in new tablet computers and netbooks.
It seems that even Apple’s cunning plans sometimes go awry, and the official word is that anyone wanting to bag themselves a natty white iPhone 4 is in for a bigger wait than expected.
After the relentless horrors of Vista – an operating system so annoying that we came close to lobbing our PC into the canal in frustration – we’ve rather enjoyed our time with Windows 7, finding it to be stable, reliable and pleasant to use OS.
Don’t you sometimes wish that the pet pooch would inadvertently put its claw straight through the ruddy iPad screen, or perhaps the distraught moggy would go berserk and scratch the display into an unusable mess on a feline frenzy of frustration?
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