HP says webOS tablet due for early 2011

When HP acquired Palm earlier this year, it was quick to announce that it would make good use of the webOS platform in powering several mobile devices. One of which would.. more

Orange fixes 3G connection problems

A number of Orange customers have been experiencing serious problems with their mobile broadband connections this week. Some users experienced major surfing slow-downs and in some cases, a complete failure of.. more

Intel boosts security with McAfee acquisition

Intel has made a move to buy security and anti-virus specialists McAfee for the tidy sum of $7.7 billion. The security industry is a booming one, what with the increasing proliferation.. more

Fringout preview available for Nokia users

Fring has announced fringOut which allows users to call any phone, anywhere in the world from 1 c/min. A preview of the service is available for Nokia Symbian users to try out but it will be rolled out to other mobile platforms later. fringOut is.. more

Polaroid announces non-geeky 3D glasses

Polaroid Eyewear has joined up with RealD to launch 3D specs designed to be more stylish and more effective than the current ones available. The Polaroid Premium 3D Glasses have a curved-lens design and use the same ThermoFusion Technology used by the company to produce.. more

Froyo for HTC Desire on Vodafone and Virgin soon

Both Virgin Media and Vodafone will be rolling out Froyo, version 2.2 of the Android operating system, for the HTC Desire smartphone in short order. Virgin Media announced via Twitter that the over-the-air update to 2.2 will be on its way early September. The HTC.. more

Bing’s London Underground FAIL

Microsoft are pushing hard with their Bing search engine, with a range of TV adverts supposedly showing how superior Bing is to rivals, specifically Google. Unfortunately, the Bing team does not appear to have checked their results before promoting them on TV. For example, Bing.. more

Apple app Director sells own toilet humour apps

Apple’s App Store bears a distinct quantity over quality theme, and there are a number of rather base apps for its various iGadgets which appeal to the lowest common denominator. Indeed, it turns out some of these have been developed by the chap who’s head.. more

UK is a nation of computer and TV zombies

The latest research from Ofcom has found that UK citizens spend almost half their waking day looking at monitors, TVs or mobiles. The average Brit spends just over seven hours per day texting, surfing the net, playing games, listening to the radio or watching TV.. more

Facebook is going Places with location sharing

Here’s a new feature, brought to you by Facebook, which will have privacy activists breaking out in cold sweats, rashes and multiple other undesirable symptoms, no doubt. The social networking site has just cracked the champagne bottle and launched a new service called Facebook Places... more