Mobile Technology, Smartphones and Connectivity
If your computer or laptop is a little sluggish, there are a couple of very quick fixes to give it a shot in the arm. In this short guide, we’ll give you the basics: Step 1: Tidyup Assuming you have a Windows machine, you’ll find it’s probably riddled with loads of temporary files and unnecessary…
Happy New Year to our regular site visitors – we hope 2013 is a good one for you! As we do each year, our podcast team has taken a look back at the last twelve months of technology and put together an Audio Guide to 2012. If you’ve not listened to our podcast before, we’d…
All good things must come to an end, and the recent arrival of iTunes 11 seems to have put an end to the very handy little utility that was the “iTunes Library Updater” This handy free app offered a one-click way to re-scan your iTunes music library, add any new files found in your specified…
OK. I admit it. I’ve had enough of seeing the following error message on my iPhone 4S: The mail server “mail.xxxx.com” is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings. Every time that I open the Mail app on my iPhone, I see this message at least half a…
Last month, we reported that Blackberry’s 7 inch tablet device had been slashed in price, down from £399 to just £169. This nifty little tablet is still on offer at that massively reduced price, and has just got even more attractive thanks to a free software upgrade. Blackberry Playbook Summary Rather than running the Apple…
News of two top offers on SIM cards, but only for a limited time… Here’s a look at two offers released today: Free SIM Cards O2 have a fantastic Free SIM card offer on for the next few weeks. Order a free SIM card with free unlimited calls and texts to o2 customers when you top…
Fancy the idea of getting Siri on your mobile phone, but don’t have an iPhone 4S? Well, move over Siri, as Evi is here, and she runs on a much wider range of smartphones and tablets. Evi, created by developers True Knowledge, is a credible rival to the voice recognition service for iOS, known as…
When the Blackberry Playbook tablet launched last year, the UK retail price for the 16GB version was £399. You can now get this nifty tablet for just £169. Although this is a pretty powerful little tablet, it’s not caught the public’s imagination, and so Blackberry dropped the price last year. They’ve now slashed the price…
Broadband in the UK is about to get a little bit faster, as Virgin is planning to double the speed for many of its customers in the next 18 months. Virgin Media, operator of the UK’s cable TV and Internet network is planning to double the download speed offered to customers of its 10Mb, 20Mb,…
With the start of a new year, it’s time to take a look back at the last year of tech news, as well as reflect on what might be in store for coming twelve months of UK technology. Rather than reading our wander back through a year’s worth of tech news, have a listen to…
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