Archive for April, 2011
App review: Seamless for iOS and Mac (video)
If you’re the kind of person who’s always listening to music and wouldn’t be caught dead headphone-less, pause that song for a quick second and check out Seamless. This lightweight app links your iPhone‘s Music player to iTunes on your Mac in a pretty clever — not to mention Cupertino-esque — fashion. The whole crux [...]
Read moreFCC opens floor for public comment on AT&T / T-Mobile deal
Since the world’s engineers haven’t yet come up with a way to read minds over the internet (or at all, last we checked), we’re not sure what you think about the proposed marriage of T-Mobile to ATT. We’re pretty sure you do have an opinion of some sort, though, and if you want it to [...]
Read moreWanted: a replacement for an Amstrad Emailer
For the past 10 years or so, my 92-year-old mother has happily used an Amstrad Emailer to keep in touch with her far-flung family. Now Sky is discontinuing the Emailer service, so we are looking for the simplest email alternative. She does not have broadband or Wi-Fi, and the Emailer was such a cheap solution, [...]
Read moreWilliam and Kate bring BBC site to its knees
The popularity of the royal wedding proved too much for the BBC website which crashed on Friday under sheer weight of traffic. Users reported on Twitter that they were unable to watch live streaming of the ceremony from Westminster Abbey. It also affected some of the corporation’s other online offerings, such as live coverage of [...]
Read moreEarly smartphone market data shows Nokia falling, Apple and RIM growing
Although we won’t have figures from analysts for the size and shares of the smartphone market until later in May, we can make some estimates from numbers that have already been reported. One of the most reliable sources of information about the size of the smartphone market is actually Nokia‘s quarterly reports: it’s got an [...]
Read moreSouth Park takes a poke at Apple controversy
South Park returned to US television on Wednesday night and wasted no time tackling the controversy surrounding Apple and its alleged “big brother” tendencies. The sharply satirical and topical animated show, now in its 15th season, latched on to the recent revelations that Apple’s iPhone and iPad keep track of everywhere you go, and stores [...]
Read morePSN: hackers claim to have 2.2m credit cards
Hackers in underground online forums are claiming to have access to credit card details stolen from Sony‘s PlayStation Network in mid-April, though security researchers say it is not possible to verify the claims. The online discussions centre around a haul of 2.2m Sony customer credit card numbers that are claimed to have been copied during [...]
Read moreSidekick 4G review
It’s been nearly two years since we last reviewed a T-Mobile Sidekick, and it would be a vast understatement to say things have changed. Then, they were designed by Danger and manufactured by Sharp, and were the messaging phone of choice. Today, following fiasco and failure, the Sidekick empire is in ruins. But good ideas [...]
Read moreTomTom data used to set police speed traps
Dutch drivers might have wondered how it was that speed traps were always in just the right place to catch speeders. It turned out to be simple enough: if they owned a TomTom, their in-car satnav was spying on them, and the aggregated data about cars’ speed was being sold via the government to the [...]
Read moreLego Pirates Of The Caribbean preview
The Lego video games series must be the envy of many developers in the industry. While other companies fall over themselves to produce the next mega-selling casual/hardcore crossover hit, Traveller’s Tales has quietly churned out the gaming equivalent of a chain of Pixar movies. Buy it from DS PS3 PSP Wii XBox 360 Lego Pirates [...]
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