Popular coffee chain Starbucks is installing a payment system in iPhone app form to more than 700 of its branches across the United Kingdom and Ireland, following a very successful roll-out in the United States. The Starbucks payment app for the iPhone and iPod Touch will be launched on January 5th next year and will allow customers to pay for their ordered items via their...

Video streaming site YouTube has launched its new movie rental service in the United Kingdom, featuring thousands of movies including Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. British film fans can now rent new movie releases for £3.49 and older movies for between £2.49 and £3.49 through YouTube. The move puts Google to...

OnLive, the cloud gaming service that lets users stream games over the internet, has been released in the United Kingdom today, marking its expansion overseas since it launched in North America last year. The service that was launched in the country is much more advanced than the US launched. Now, the gaming service features more than 150 games and is available on connected...

Three out of four (around 73 percent) internet users in the United Kingdom interact on social media platforms, a study showing social networks’ impact on people has revealed. A study conducted by InSites Consulting, a market research firm that has offices across Europe, show that about 73 percent of British internet users use social networking platforms, like micro...

Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC is releasing the HTC Sensation XE, the first in a line of smartphones that features the Beats audio technology, in the UK next month. The company claimed that the Sensation XE smartphone will feature a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and an extended battery that will boost the phone’s battery life and performance further than previous...

Online retail site Amazon has started taking pre-orders from Sony’s upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld gaming console. The retailer seemingly released the PlayStation Vita’s release date and its price in the United Kingdom. Although the Amazon UK site did not give away any more release information aside from the device’s price, the US Amazon site stated...

OnLive has announced that its OnLive Cloud gaming service will be launched in the United Kingdom on September 22th. The cloud-based gaming service allows users to play games on tablets and HDTV sets without the need of a gaming console or DVDs. Originally launched in the United States last summer, the gaming service enables users to play popular titles though a broadband...

According to a study by telecommunications watchdog Ofcom, a lot of people from the UK are addicted to their smartphones, with it being used for 24 hours a day. The study show how the devices are quickly changing people’s social behavior. The research showed that more than one third (37 percent) of adults and majority of teens (at 50 percent) say they are highly...

Sony has already stated that it is planning to launch its new handheld gaming console, the PlayStation Vita this year, but they have not announced a specific release date. Just recently, an “upcoming releases” flyer from Blockbuster U.K. has been leaked, which has seemingly confirmed the PlayStation Vita’s release date. The document was forwarded to gaming...

Today, search engine cgaint Google is celebrating the 200th birthday of Sir George Gilbert Scott, a British architect who designed the Foreign Commonwealth office in London, with its Google Doodle. The doodle features Sir George Gilbert Scott’s most successful project, the Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras Station. The building’s windows replaces the letters...