Here’s my Top 5 Tips for taking Tech on Holiday. 1. GET INSURANCE, and double-check it, and then check it again. Being the sensible chap I am I knew it was a smart move to get Insurance, particularly as I was taking an array of pricey tech gadgets, including a £839 laptop, Kindle and my…
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Why well targeted online advertising benefits you
Firstly, Google doesn’t care about you. I’m sorry, but they really don’t care that you just looked at My Little Pony, watched a cat video on YouTube and then read an article on “10 ways to know if you can satisfy a woman”. Google deals with vast amounts of data about billions of people worldwide….
What would you do with $97.7 Billion Dollars?
Apple Inc has a lot of cash, it’s now the biggest public company in the world with ridiculously huge revenues from all the massively over-priced products brought by their mindless Apple fanboys… Not that I’m bias. But they now have a dilemma, they have a huge pile of cash and need to spend it (lucky…
A Day In The Internet
Ever wondered how many statuses are posted every day? Or how many emails are sent? How about how long it takes the average person to “take care of business”? Check out the cool infographic below for some fun facts about the everyday goings on online…
Review: LG Quantum Windows Phone
I had the chance to test out the LG Quantum C900 for a week and I have to say I was impressed. The Design: This is one of the few Windows Phones with a full hardware keyboard (although not currently released in the UK) and feels fantastic to hold. With a sleek rounded design and a…
Live London Underground updates on Google Maps
Google have now incorporated live service data for the London Underground from TFL (Transport for London) into Google Maps. If you’re like me and plan out your journey using Google Maps this is a great tool not only including live tube time data, which now also accounts for line closures and delays as well as…
Google Multitask Mode – Get more done!
Google have launched a great new tool called “Multitask Mode” which allows you to be more productive online with multiple mice so you can actively perform numerous tasks at once. Yes, we know this is an April fools – But fun isn’t it? 😉
Review: Nokia Lumia 800
The Nokia Lumia 800 is the first Nokia handset to use the awesome Windows Phone operating system with some impressive specs such as 16GB internal memory (a big improvement on 512MB on my android) and 512MB SDRAM it’s a big improvement on Nokia’s seen previously. I’ve now been using the Nokia Lumia 800 for a…
Twitter Verified FAKE @Wendi_Deng (“wife” of Rupert Murdoch)
As mentioned yesterday Rupert Murdoch has recently joined Twitter, and an account claiming to be his Wife was also mentioned in most news articles as giving him advice on using the service. https://twitter.com/#!/Wendi_Deng/status/154204551690457089 I have just stumbled across the account again where it now shows that it was in-fact *NOT* the wife of Rupert Murdoch….
Rupert Murdoch starts Tweeting
It seems no one can resist Twitter, even 80-year-old Rupert Murdoch wh o is now tweeting under @rupertmurdoch, it seems he started tweeting on New Years Eve and has been regularly updating with fantastic drivel that only a multi-zillionnaire media-tycoon could. It’s interesting to see Murdoch on a social media platform which has undoubtedly played a key role in much of…