The show is the UK’s leading consumer technology event and the destination for those obsessed with all things gadge!      Play with thousands of products from over 280 international exhibitors many of which are being shown in the UK for the first time. Get hands-on with the best new tech!  Whether in our Music or Game Zone or on our Test Track the Gadget Show Live gives you the perfect opportunity to ...

Angry Birds breaks 20 million downloads mark and counting... The latest instalment to the hugely successful Angry Birds franchise has hit an all-time high with a whopping 20 MILLION downloads of the new Angry Birds Space during the first week on the App store. The games developer, Rovio while launching Space on Thursday 22nd March revealed also that Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio have ...

Apple made official their plans for the $100 billion cash hoard they've amassed in quarter after quarter of profits that totaled over 13 billion in calendar Q1 this year. A $2.65 dividend will be issued starting later this year with buybacks for the next three years. The news out of Cupertino comes after several months of investor uncertainty regarding cash on hand and the company's plans for the money. Pri ...

The iOS 5.1 update promised earlier today has already begun being released across iPods, iPhones and iPads (which are compatible, of course). The update hopes to brings a bunch of bugs fixes, extra Siri support, a redesign of the camera app (good!) and many other new, but small, additions. This is a quick roll-out, and great news for all those people who love software updates! Stay tuned for more tech cover ...

At the Apple announcement in San Francisco today they announced the new iPad. The iPad will cost the same as the iPad 2, (£399 16GB WiFi plus £100 to double the memory) as a well as offering the same storage. Apple paraded the vast array fo new features on the iPad and of them they concentrated on six. The first feature to be announced and probably the most anticipated was the Retina Display, which we have  ...

The iPad 3/HD event starts later today at 18:00 GMT, 10:00 PT in the USA. We'll be covering it remotely the best we can so be sure to stick here for the latest apple news, coming straight from the announcement! See you later! ...

The 5 best apps for the iPhone The iPhone was first unveiled by Apple supremo the late Steve Jobs in 2007 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. The iPhone 4S, a fifth generation smartphone, came out in October 2011 and typifies the sorts of technology on board these multimedia-enabled devices. With music, video, stills camera, media player and web browsing capabilities, and much else besides, t ...

The long awaited iPad 3 has been all but confirmed for release in March/April after apple issued the press with images of the invitation for the event, showing a SUPER-HIGH-RES display!!! Any doubts about a retina display iPad have been sunk. The quote on the invitation is, "We have something you really have to see. And touch." This is probably the least mysterious invitation from Apple in the last few year ...

Continuing on from recent rumours and pictures surrounding the iPad 3's A5X Processor, and other numerous things, these pictures showing the iPad's (maybe?) retina display seem to follow suit. These photos were posted on a Chinese forum, showing very blurry images of what may possibly be the iPad 3's retina display in production! According to the thread starter, the displays are being manufactured by Samsun ...

A picture of an iPad 3 logic board has purportedly leaked showing an Apple A5X processor has been announced, the processor carries a new aluminium heatsink suggesting a higher clocked version. What it is  is still a mystery to us and will continue to be so until the announcement next month. What we can be sure of though is an upgraded iPad is coming soon! The logic board was found by Sas126 on Weiphone. Gaz ...

Rumour has it that the next incarnation of iOS will receive - along with numerous other features - rich text formatting for the well known "Notes App". This is much needed love for the app, considering how much more attention it would get from users if it came bundled with these alleged upcoming features. According to some, the features will include the ability to make bullet lists, underline text and also ...

Apple: nearing 25 BILLION downloaded apps!     Apple has recently announced that it is nearing 25 BILLION app downloads in the time the App store on the iPhone and iPad has been running. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Apple is turning to its usual trick of promising a HUGE prize giveaway of whoever is the lucky one to download the 25th billion app from the App store. In a press release, App ...

Completely out of the blue Apple released the developer preview of Mac OSX Mountain Lion. This surprise announcement is still a mystery to most people; this is the first time Apple has just plain released something with no build up what so ever, strange huh? Anyway the latest update promises improvements to Lion, in a Snow Leopard esq format. I'm sure you'll notice a theme soon! Furthermore I think I should ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that the long rumored iPad 3 will feature LTE cellular data support on carriers Verizon and AT&T in the US. LTE, short for Long Term Evolution, promises data throughput of 100 Mbps and beyond. The service has already been widely deployed in the US, but has only seen limited testing in the UK ahead of the spectrum auction, expected in the fourth quarter of 2012, that will ...

It has been speculated for a while now that Apple will launch a smaller version of its highly successful iPad to got head to head against the cheaper Kindle Fire, which has eaten into its market share to some extent. The cheaper kindle offers significantly less functionality than the iPad, and so will this smaller iPad. According to the Wall Street Journal this Apple tablet would have the processing power, ...