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Image via CrunchBase Steve Jobs has released a statement clarifying his opinion on Adobe’s Flash platform and it’s place on the web / mobile: Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe [...]

Hosted in San Fran, this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference will be hosted on June 7 – 11. It was reported earlier in the month that Apple had reserved June 22 at YBCA, it was rumoured that this may be the date for WWDC, but industry analysts insist this date was too late in the month. Apple tend to host WWDC in early June. That leaves the iPhone announcement. Could Apple [...]

On the corner of Berwick Street today, in the old Tiscali HQ, TalkTalk opened their swanky  new office space. They’ve setup several floors of high-tech goodness. The ground floor is a walk-in PC zone. Think Apple Store, but instead of iMacs they have rows of desktop PCs with large monitors running Windows 7. This floor is for the general public – to play around on the web (you can only [...]

GiffGaff is a ‘people powered’ mobile operator, running on the o2 network here in the UK. Last night they launched an updated website, with their brand new tariffs. Among these new price-plans is a very exciting £35 a month for unlimited everything: calls, texts, data. On top of the already great perks offered by these guys (free GiffGaff-to-GiffGaff calls/texts, free data until [...]

Image via Wikipedia So here in the UK we’ve become accustomed what’s known as the ‘Apple tax’. Whenever a product is launched in the UK, we always see a significant price increase compared the US price. It has been argued that our higher prices are down to extra costs, such as customs and VAT. To this way say: nonsense! As an example, we worked out the cost of an imported [...]

This may come as no shock to you, but Apple have announced today that the International launch of the iPad will be put on hold for another month. Meaning we’ll be receiving the iPad a full 2 months after it’s US debut. Not even a week ago, during a Q&A session after Apple’s iPhone OS 4.0 announcement Steve was asked “Will iPad’s success impact its international [...]

When Twitter founder Jack Dorsey first announced Square mobile payment system, I thought it was a brilliant idea – and it still is. Being able to accept credit card payments on the go, no matter where you are, with an iPhone/iPod/iPad – fantastic. Square officially launched yesterday (on the iPad, initially) and the technology is already outdated. Square relies on the old fashioned [...]

Model: Alienware M17x Manufacturer: Dell Price: ~ £800 / ~ $800 Available: Out now ‘Gaming-on-the-go’ has a whole new meaning, thanks to the Alienware M11x from Dell. Find out what we think of this micro gaming machine after the jump.

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ background is as multidimensional as the visions he helps create. In the 1990s, he authored patents on both video compression and 3D visualization techniques, and in 2001, he made an influential computational discovery that cast doubt on Gutenberg’s [...]

Model: Alienware M17x Manufacturer: Dell Price: ~£2,000.00 Available: Out now Alienware have done it again with their most powerful portable gaming machine, the M17x. We recently got our hands on this gargantuan gaming machine and put it through its paces. Hit the jump and check out what we thought of the M17x.