Blackberry's parent company RIM have announced that their extremely popular BBM application will come to Android and iOS later this year. No windows phone mention though. For a long time BBM has been exclusive to Blackberry's devices, with lots of users in the UK this is an interesting move. According to RIM's CEO Thorsten Heins the Blackberry 10 platform is good enough to cope without the exclusivity of BB ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The upcoming iPad 3 has received extreme anticipation due to the rumours surrounding the iPad 3's retina screen. This was rumoured before the iPad 2 launch as well but its much more likely to happen this time, with Android Tablet manufacturers sporting their Full HD+ screens as CES 2012. Furthermore the casing is purported to be around 1mm thicker due to an increased battery size, to deal with the larger di ...

Gorilla Glass 2 to make a CES 2012 Landing! Corning, the manufacturer of Gorilla Glass is set to make its debut of its next-generation Gorilla Glass 2 at next week's Consumer & Electronics show (CES 2012). As you might have guessed the first-generation Gorilla Glass was featured on popular devices like the iPad, iPhone, Android and HTC smartphones and even the Kindle Fire. It seems everyone is excited t ...

While devices are getting more powerful batteries aren’t getting any bigger, and thus battery life for numerous devices such as phones and tablets, is not as long as it used to be in the pre-smartphone era. With phones barely lasting a day; an external battery is a must for long trips. The two leading external batteries at the moment are the: HyperJuice Micro and the Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation. So here ...

Autumn term is here once again, meaning thousands of young hopefuls from around the UK and beyond are flocking to their university of choice. Although my time as a student may have sadly come to an end, I can offer my advice in at least one way – with a rundown of the three applications and services that made my three years of studying a bit less painful. In fact, as if that wasn’t kind enough of me already ...

Now it's time for Apple, famous for having the mentality that they have invented everything, to step up their attack in the land of the rising sun. For it seems that Apple are suing Samsung (who are Korean) in Japan over similar patents patterning to the iPhone and iPad. So, same old same old really. The Galaxy S, a clear annoyance for Apple who have a history of trying to ban the phone worldwide because of ...

Due to an on-going patient dispute with Apple, Samsung today have pulled the new Galaxy Tablet 7.7 from the IFA electronics fair in Berlin. On Friday a court in Dusseldorf upheld a request from Apple to ban Samsung from selling the product in Germany. This is another blow to Samsung operations in Germany after the Galaxy tab 10.1 was pulled by the courts in August. In a press release by Samsung a spokespers ...

Amazon Tablet to sell for LESS than the iPad? Amazon have recently been rumoured to announce their Amazon Tablet at a much lower price than the current tablet leader: the iPad. According to leading sources, Amazon will release its cheap tablet in September or October time which will seriously undercut the expensive competition currently held by Android and Apple. Amazon is already somewhat known for selling ...

"I've just learned that my new £500 gadget will be updated next month and now I don't like it anymore." It's a predicament that wouldn't seem out of place on reddit's First World Problems board, but it's also one that many of us have likely experienced. From the moment you purchase a piece of modern technology, and with each day that goes by, it's only a matter of time until the inevitable happens - an upgr ...

Amazon's upcoming tablet has been appointed an October release date with 3 Million units projected to ship at launch New rumours have surfaced that the Amazon tablet will be arriving this autumn. According to reports from Taiwanese news sources, Amazon's sister company Quanta, the company responsible for manufacturing the company’s Kindle device are producing their first tablet with three million units repo ...