Although it was not the first e-reader, there are still some excellent electronic books to be bought, the Kindle has been an overwhelming success and no doubt the marketing strategy of Amazon has made the device a market leader. However, news has reached us from a Reuters report, who have cited a source with “direct [...]
Gadgets Archive
13th March 2012
Apple iPad initial pre-orders sold out
The latest Apple iPad is launched here in the UK on Friday and reports suggest that it is already sold out before it actually arrives! If you were to order an iPad today it is going to take three weeks before it arrives with you and as things are at the moment, this delay could [...]
2nd March 2012
Budget phones for 2012
Whilst the iPhone may have captured the headlines in 2012, it’s not generally a handset aimed at the budget end of the market. However, users looking to pay less than £100 for a handset off the shelf in 2012 will be spoiled for choice anyway. For example, the Nokia Lumia 710 uses the user-friendly Windows [...]
22nd February 2012
Sony PlayStation Vita
The new Sony PlayStation Vita is due to hit the streets on February 22nd and early reports suggest that the new hand held gaming device is going to be a hit. Portable gaming was thought to be a thing of the past, but this is far from the truth when you consider how easy it [...]
19th February 2012
Apple to announce iPad3
For all those people who cannot get enough from the Apple stable, news is on the wires that the company is to announce a new iPad on Wednesday March 7th, all according to the Apple blog iMore. This blog site has been pretty accurate in the past and so we have to believe that, unless [...]
9th February 2012
Kinect for Windows
Microsoft has launched a version of Kinect, its voice and motion-controlled sensor, to work with Windows-based PCs. It joins a previous version which was designed for the company’s Xbox 360 games console. This is all new hardware, which allows it to track movements as close as 40cm away, compared to 50cm on the original model. [...]
27th December 2011
Top of the Christmas list
The iPhone 4S, which was released in October, made up a quarter of all handset sales in the four weeks before December 9, according to market research firm GfK, closely followed by Samsung’s Galaxy SII which was the second-best selling phone in the week up to December 9th. However, a big disappointment for Nokia’s new [...]
19th October 2011
Kindle hits Amazon profits
The kindle has been a huge success, but the tablet which stores hundreds of books which can be read electronically has hit the profits of the giant online retailer. The company, the world’s largest online internet retailer, said third quarter net income was £40m down. It was during this period Amazon launched the Kindle “Fire” [...]
16th October 2011
Table salt increases disc space
We are all demanding more space on our disc drives as we gather and store more information, a simple solution seems to have been found by scientists in Singapore who have developed a surprising use for ordinary salt that they say could help deal with the increasingly quantities of data that companies and individuals require. [...]
5th October 2011
Bowers and Wilkins C5 premium headphones
Bowers and Wilkins is a premium hi-fi brand whose name was made for many consumers by the award-winning Zeppelin speaker, since updated to include the wireless Zeppelin Air. This strikingly designed iPod dock has established the 45-year-old British company as a powerful company with real audiophile credentials and a cutting edge technology. The new C5 [...]