Plans to equip the London Underground with Wi-Fi for the London Olympic Games in 2012 have started with 16 underground stations switching from private Wi-Fi usage reserved for staff use to public access this week. One of the first stations to receive the upgrade was Charing Cross, the BT Openzone trial has been reported as a great success and it has now been rolled out...
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The battle between Sony and hacker George Hotz, AKA Geohot, is still in full swing with the technology giant accusing him of fleeing the US in a bid to escape the legal charges they are trying to bring against him for hacking their PS3 firmware to allow people to download or use copied games and homebrew software. Sony filed complaints at the San Francisco courthouse...
When you decide to purchase a new television there is a lot of information out there and a lot of potentially confusing facts and figures. For this reason we have listed here some of the top features to help you decide. Size The first question you have to ask yourself is how much room you have to fit it into, and then whether a giant screen will fit in with the...
The internet changes all the time, doesn’t it? Today’s success story is tomorrow’s sob story and nothing stays the same for more than a week, isn’t that right? Well, actually it appears not to be the case anymore. The stunningly popular mini blogging site Twitter has just celebrated its 5th birthday, and that made us wonder whether some other things have been...
The latest offering from Spec draws from a case they made for the original iPhone. This iGuy has been made for the iPad 2 and will make displaying and handling the tablet a whole lot of fun, granted it’s not very portable but it sure looks cool. The iGuy is available in blue, green and yellow and is made from a robust foam that Speck say make it ‘kid friendly’,...
A couple of days ago we covered a story surrounding a controversial app offering a ‘cure’ to homosexuality. The app named ‘Exodus International’ was created by Ministers from an organisation with the same name. This prompted a human rights group, Truth Wins Out (TWO) to start a petition on the site change.org. TWO felt that the app clearly broke Apple’s own guidelines...
Those of you hoping to pick up the Apple iPad 2 on Friday 25th March might be a little annoyed to learn that an embargo of 5PM seems to have been put on the device. Earlier reports suggested that stores would open their doors at 9am and buyers would be able to purchase it from then onwards – not so according to Metro although other reports suggest otherwise. Alas Apple...
A recent study by Dialtosave.co.uk has shown some interesting changes in users requirements when choosing a mobile contract. The study used data collected from February 2011 and compared it to the same time in 2010. A whopping 51% of all customers opted for 300 inclusive minutes per month, half the average of last year where users opted for between 600 and 1000...
Technology and automotive manufacturers in Japan have and will continue to face extreme difficulties in the aftermath of last weeks Tsunami. Rolling power outages, reduced workforce and demolished infrastructure has resulted in factory closures or diminished production capacity. Analysts and industry experts have predicted that this will have a knock on affect to supplies...
The UK (and the rest of the world) is just one week away from the official release date of the Apple iPad 2 and many people are asking, when can I pre-order one? Well Amazon have recently updated their UK facing site will a splash page featuring every iPad 2 model that will be available on the 25th, this is not solid proof that the retail giant will allow pre-orders but...