Google doodle celebrates St Andrew’s Day

Google’s latest doodle celebrates the fact that November 30th is St Andrew’s Day, the patron saint of Scotland. The search engine’s logo has been decked out in tartan, with the L.. more

Vodafone announces cheaper data roaming in Europe

Vodafone has made a customer pleasing move when it comes to data charges for those going abroad. Customers surfing in Europe – the net that is, not the waves – will.. more

Gartner revises PC sales forecast down slightly

The bean counters at Gartner have been revising their predictions of PC shipments for this year and next. And the movement is a downwards one, but not by all that much,.. more

Windows Phone 7 off to a limp start?

As Microsoft has yet to release any sales figures for its Windows Phone 7 handsets launched last month, you’ve got to wonder if the fact that no initial indication has been given is a sign that things haven’t gone so well. You can bet your.. more

Edinburgh Zoo’s penguin cam proves a snowy hit

With the snow falling heavily in many parts of the UK, and particularly in Scotland, Edinburgh Zoo was closed today due to the bad weather. However, staff at the zoo decided what with it being shut, they’d let people know about the penguin cam on.. more

University of Glasgow unveils free IP offer

The University of Glasgow has instigated an innovative move to make some of its intellectual property (IP) available to businesses for free. While the university still maintains a range of commercial deals, nestling alongside these will be the new free scheme, which is called Easy.. more

Highland Council website offline after flooding

Websites of both the Highland Council and University of the Highland and Islands (UHI) are apparently offline after flooding hit a building in Inverness housing their internet servers. It comes at a time when most of the UK, not least the Highlands of Scotland, remains.. more

Two Billion Covered by 3G and 4G Data Services

Latest figures from ABI Research indicates that there are currently more than 500 3G network commitments, and over 300 WiMAX and LTE announcements worldwide. This equates to more than two billion of the world’s population being covered by high-speed data networks. The demand for speedy.. more

We are stealing from Techwatch.co.uk!

We is stealing content from Techwatch.co.uk, adding our own ads, thumbing our noses at Google, Yahoo, and Bing! We think this is a big joke because we can then add our own Adsense around the content we steal. We is bright, this was Stevie’s idea,.. more

Sky News Arabic to launch in 2012

BSkyB will launch a new Arabic language news channel from 2012, it was announced today, under the provisional title of Sky News Arabic. The channel will be free-to-air, available worldwide, and broadcast over the full 24 hours. The new channel will be a join 50-50.. more