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Unofficial iphone store – Cydia

Unofficial iphone store – Cydia

Cydia, (unofficial software installer for jailbroken iPhones), has always the best place to pick up unauthorised applications for your iphone due to Apples odd, (well monopolised) approval process. Now Jay Freeman (Cydia creator) is going to step a little further into Apples world of trouble and offering jailbreak developers the chance to sell their creations for real money and take [...]

Spotify Customer Details Stolen

Spotify Customer Details Stolen

Those good guys over at free streaming music site Spotify have been targeted by Hackers. Details including e-mail addresses, dates of birth and billing addresses, were all stolen. Any credit card information is thought to be safe at present due to being held by a third party The breach seemed to be at the tail end of 2008, but has [...]

Quadcopter Wi-Fi

Quadcopter Wi-Fi

Students led by Professor Andreas Mitschele at the Ilmenau University of Technology have designed and tested new quadcopter robots as a mean of setting up Wireless networks ad-hoc and in minutes with the aim of being deployed in the event of disasters when normal infrastructure has been destroyed. Multiple robots can

Blackberry App World

Blackberry App World

Ok remember the the new app stores, Microsoft’s ‘Windows Phones’ and Nokia’s ‘Ovi Store’ well as expected Blackberry have released details of their new upcoming apps store, dubbed ‘Blackberry App World‘. Marked as ‘coming soon’, App World will supply games, social networks, personal productivity applications and more which prices from free, then jumping to £2.59 in the UK or $2.99 [...]

$5 million for toys.com

$5 million for toys.com

Wow! Toys r Us have just paid a whopping $5 million US dollars for the domain toys.com and I am not even going to like to it!!! Amazingly not the most expensive domain by any strand of the imagination, sex.com went for $14 million back in 2007 and porn.com for $9.5 million. Money doesn’t buy you visitors though, I have [...]

Faster UK Broadband gets the go ahead

Faster UK Broadband gets the go ahead

Regulator Ofcom ruled today that it will present “no regulatory barriers” to the development of super-fast broadband infrastructure. This will allow BT (among others in time) to go ahead with the planned investment of £1.5bn in the fibro optic network, giving up to 20 million UK homes access to high-speed internet. The network would see the installation of fibre-optic cables [...]

TweetaWatt – Green Gadget of the Year

TweetaWatt – Green Gadget of the Year

Last week saw the New Yorks Greener Gadgets conference? Well for all you twitterati out there, the design award winner was Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone’s Tweet-a-watt. The service, which automatically updates Twitter with your power usage via wireless (exciting tweets I know!), just beat the coin-operated electrical piggy bank…

Twitter Upsetting some users….

Twitter Upsetting some users….

A chosen few twitter accounts and seen huge jumps in followers over the past few weeks. A select number of already high profile Twitter accounts have been blessed by being named in the “suggested users” feature for new subscribers. As part of the sign-up process, new users are now shown a featured list that includes a wide variety of popular [...]

Firefox for Mobiles

Firefox for Mobiles

Firefox have released the first beta of their new mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. Currently only available on the Nokia N81 and N800 tablets. Features include;