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The UK’s most popular lefty(ish) newspaper, The Guardian, has created an iPhone app and made the unusual decision of charging users a one-off fee of £2.39 fee to download it. …
Guardian newspaper charges for iPhone app Read MoreAlways one of the first programs to get installed on any Windows machine we get our hands on, CCleaner is a superb system optimisation and privacy tool that comes with …
CCleaner freeware system optimisation tool: review Read MoreTech twitterers went totally ape over the weekend as details of what is said to an interesting new handset from Google leaked out. Followed up by the usual blurry photo …
The Google Phone is coming and it’s called the Nexus One. Probably. Read MoreFor reasons best kept to himself, the former ice-cool frontman of the seminal 60s band the Velvet Underground has released the $1.99 ‘Lou Zoom’ app. It doesn’t do an awful …
Lou Reed releases Lou Zoom iPhone app. We’re waiting for the fun. Read MoreNoted notebook and PCs manufacturer MSI have announced the UK launch of their new touchscreen PC, the Wind Top AE2020. A rather attractive looking all-in-one number, the AE2020 multi-touch PC …
MSI’s Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one PC looks good for £600 Read MoreBeing able to pick up a smartphone with your Baked Beans and Cornflakes still seems a bit weird to us, but Tesco shoppers will soon be able to lob an …
Tesco reveal iPhone pricing plans, available Dec 14th Read MoreAimed at hardcore users, the ludicrously named HootSuite for the iPhone offers a ton of power features for folks who simply can’t stop a-Twittering. Unlike other iPhone Twitter apps (and …
HootSuite iPhone Twitter app welcomes compulsive Twitterers Read MoreA study has found that Americans spend around 11.8 hours a day consuming information in one way or another, and that collectively adds up to 34 gigabytes and 100,000 words …
Americans consume 34 gigabytes of information per day: study Read MoreYou would have thought that the prospects of getting any usable data from a hard disk that has spent six months on the seabed would be precisely zero, but a …
Hard drive survives six months at the bottom of the ocean Read MoreEver keen to come up with new ways to present newspaper content online, Google has conjured up a new experimental project called, Living News. It’s currently only using content from …
Google launch Living Stories – a new way to read news Read MoreGoogle Chrome is finally available for shimmying onto shiny Macs with a long overdue beta release of the browser for Mac users. It’s been a mighty long wait for Apple …
Google Chrome browser gets Mac beta release Read MoreGoogle are slamming out the treats in a veritably festive flurry at the moment with an exciting new application called Google Goggles being released for the Android mobile platform. The …
Google Goggles: mobile searches by camera Read MoreGoogle has announced a new search service that serves up a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web, incorporating near-instant updates from web pages and social networking partners. …
Google adds live Twitter and blog updates to searches Read MoreThanks to Google’s panoramic Street View feature, surfers can now amble around the streets of Pompeii, and check out the town’s statues, temples, villas and theatres. The search engine’s free …
Stroll through the ruins of Pompeii with Google Street View Read MoreIf your poor piddling netbook is flapping, floundering and becoming formidably flummoxed and foxed when it’s asked to play back YouTube videos, help is at hand in the shape of …
YouTube introduce stripped-down Feather service for weedy netbooks Read More