According to reports, Google is in “late stage” talks to acquire the much loved Twitter. This originally surfaced Thursday on TechCrunch citing two unnamed sources. Twitter lets people post short 140-character messages (micro blog, if you will); people often subscribe to follow the stream of these tweets from acquaintances and, increasingly, companies and celebrities. Twitter has experienced tremendous growth over [...]

OK, so last week we saw many Google Street View images surfacing on the web, the funny, the embarrassing and the damn right disgusting. Well now residents of Broughton in Buckinghamshire have chased a Google Street View camera car out of their village for fear of envading their privacy. Paul Jacobs – a local resident spotted the car entering the [...]

Following on from my top 10 twitter backgrounds last week, welcome to our next installment. After spending something like a month in twitterville I am beginning to get a sense what works, what doesn’t and what is just a complete waste of time. So here is my ‘how to be productive on twitter’, or maybe a more apt ‘how to [...]

It’s official: Skype for the iPhone is currently available in the US Apple App Store for free. Planned to be only available while using Wi-Fi, and not on 3G, it seems users running the iPhone beta 3.0 firmware can use the phone over 3G as well. However frequent crashes and poor audio do seem a problem for these users. Users [...]

Twitter and Vodafone have just announced their partnership to bring SMS tweets and alerts to your mobile phone. Exclusively for Vodafone UK customers, the two giants have signed an agreement allowing customers to send and receive SMS updates at no additional cost. Sending tweets from your mobile will be part of your normal text messaging bundle with Vodafone (no extra [...]

I know, about time. Actually a router that you don’t need to hide under your desk. The Ericsson W30 Data Router (left) and Ericsson W35 Data and Voice Router (right) are based mainly upon 3G technology but can also use HSPA / UMTS / GSM data and push it out over WiFi and Ethernet, as well as share a USB [...]

In theory this could change the way we buy and play games forever. Never buy a games console or top end PC again. How? Using ‘Cloud Computing’. OnLive is a streaming games concept that allows you to play the latest PC games at blistering speeds without the need of a £2k + PC, infact you may not need a PC [...]

As we can’t really control what interesting things pop up from day to day we have decided to add a few new features. The first one, after my addiction to twitter is going to be TwitterTuesday (genius I know!!). I am going to ease you in slowly and have chosen my top 10 twitter design backgrounds; Over the past few [...]

Update Turns out the app store has had a change of heart and now accepted tweetie 1.3. Oh well nice free media coverage there!! Original Great article over at Engadget about Apple’s Appstore failure again in rejecting the latest version of tweetie, Why? Because apparantly offensive language can be seen if you search for it or if another user types [...]

YouTube have blocked premium music videos to UK users after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the PRS (Performing Rights Society). Thousands of videos were made unavailable to YouTube users from late yesterday Steve Porter, head of the PRS, said he was “outraged… shocked and disappointed” by YouTube’s decision. In a statement, Mr Porter said the move “punishes [...]