There have been some very significant changes to the mobile phone business in recent times. There was a time when you needed to produce a vast range of handsets that did pretty…
Category: General Tech
Five years of the Apple App Store and we all get presents
Do you remember the world before the APP Store? They have become so much a part of the digital lives of so many people, that it is hard to remember what it…
2013 Retina MacBook Pro with Haswell Tipped for Summer Launch – Modest Benchtest Scores
If there’s one thing we know for sure about the 2013 Retina MacBook Pro, it’s that it will launch this year and most probably by the end of the summer. The fact…
Apple Pro users not feeling the love: MacBook Air stealing attention
Apple Inc. has always been very careful about identifying the different type of users of its products. Recently some users have been getting more love from the company than others. Take the…
IPhone 5s, probably a software rather than hardware update?
Since the 3rd incarnation of the iPhone the release of updates has followed a tried and tested pattern. So we know iPhone 3 leads to iPhone 3s and iPhone 4 to iPhone…
New iPad 5 in September. What is there to be excited about?
Apple Inc. has the leading product in the tablet market with the iPad. They were the first out of the starting blocks into this new and now huge market for computers you…
UK Businesses asking to be hacked?
Are British businesses simply asking to be hacked? Okay… So not in the literal sense, however a recent study by the Institute of Engineering and Technology found that the majority of businesses are not doing…
Apple denied iPad mini trademark
Apple have been in the news a lot recently for court battles surrounding patent disputes, they are also well known for the ability to have the simplest things trademarked (such as the…
Astronaut Holds Live Reddit Chat 220 miles Above Earth
A Canadian astronaut has held a live web chat via Reddit from space. Chris Hadfield, who is set to take command of the International Space Station next month hosted the web chat…
Technology Startup Accelerator Seedcamp Expands
Seedcamp, a London based technology startup funding company has expanded both its geographical and financial outreach in an attempt to diversify the range of startup companies it invests in. The changes will…
IBM’s Watson to be used for Cancer Research
IBM’s super computer ‘Watson’, which has been developed to be fluent in all languages, is to be used as a tool for medical diagnosis in America. Watson is famed for beating the…
Toyota Unveils Self-Driving Car Previews
Car giant Toyota has given a sneak preview of plans to introduce self-driving car technology to improve road safety. A video clip was posted on the Lexus (a division of Toyota Motoring)…
Communications Data Bill May Face Lib Dem Objection
According to BBC party sources, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is set to oppose the controversial draft Communication Data Bill. This decision is suspected to coincide with the release of a report…
World’s Oldest Computer Brought Back to Life
The world’s oldest computer has been rebooted – 61 years after it was built. The Harwell Dekatron, more commonly known as the WITCH, was built in 1951 to replace staff at the…
Space Shuttle Atlantis Makes One Last Trip to Retirement
The Kennedy Space Centre has waved goodbye to the space shuttle Atlantis as it made one last 10 mile trip on Tuesday (6 November 2012) to a custom-built museum where it will…