Improve efficiency – switch off your smartphone
by on May.20, 2012, under iPhone news
The ‘always-on’ connectivity of email on smartphones has become a life-destroying monster. You need help… One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: “Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it.” And it applies in spades to the kind of instantaneous, always-on connectivity that many of us now enjoy, courtesy [...]
Apps Rush: London 2012 Official Join In App, Schemer, Facebook Pages Manager, Score! Classic Goals and more
by on May.19, 2012, under iPhone news
What’s new on the app stores on Thursday 17 May 2012 A selection of 21 new and notable apps for you today: London 2012: Official Join In App The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG for short) has launched its first app: an official guide to joining in this summer’s [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III for AT&T SGH-I747 and T-Mobile SGH-T999 confirmed
by on May.18, 2012, under Smartphone news
It’s no secret that the Samsung Galaxy S III is headed to the US, where it should be available starting June. However, no US mobile operator has confirmed that it would offer the new high-end Android ICS handset. Still, it looks [...]
London Olympics 2012 diver Tom Daley to launch iPhone app
by on May.18, 2012, under iPhone news
The latest iPhone news: British 18-year-old who made the finals in Beijing aims to raise awareness of the sport British Olympic hopeful Tom Daley is hoping to cash in on his rising celebrity status with his own iPhone diving app launching on Friday. The Tom Daley Dive is aimed at his estimated 1 million fans [...]
iPhone news: Rebuild; iSlash – review
by on May.15, 2012, under iPhone news
Rebuild brings a new twist to the zombie genre while the multiplayer option brings an element of Jenga to iSlash Zombies are rarely a sign of originality in a game, tending to signify the last gasp of a desperate developer – but Rebuild (app store, Sarah Northway, £1.99) is different. This indie title was originally [...]
Upstream in the meme: why Siri calls the Lumia 900 the ‘best phone ever’
by on May.14, 2012, under iPhone news
You have to delve quite a long way into the simple answer that Siri gives to get to explain why it says Nokia’s new Lumia 900 is the best phone. The reasons are illuminating, though Why is it that when you ask Siri “what’s the best cellphone ever?” (or “best mobile phone ever” or “best [...]
Free iPhone news: O2 first-quarter profits fall by almost a third
by on May.12, 2012, under iPhone news
The latest free iPhone news: Telefónica-owned mobile network’s year-on-year operating profits fall to €334m as it struggles to retain iPhone customers The mobile network O2 has suffered a dramatic 33% drop in profitability in its UK business as it battles to retain lucrative iPhone customers. Until October 2009, O2 was the only network in the [...]
Rebekah Brooks’s missing BlackBerry message puzzles IT experts
by on May.12, 2012, under Smartphone news
Sample of computer forensics experts dispute how ‘message from David Cameron’ could have been lost in copying process Rebekah Brooks’s BlackBerry puzzled a number of experts on Friday. Specifically, they couldn’t understand how a process that is carried out routinely – creating a copy of all the files on the device, or “imaging” – could [...]
iPhone news: Apps Rush: The Silver Goat Movie, Storypanda, City A.M., Princess Petal, Total Film and more
by on May.12, 2012, under iPhone news
What’s new on the app stores on Friday 11 May 2012 A selection of 16 new and notable apps today: The Silver Goat Movie The Silver Goat claims to be “the first film in the world exclusively created for iPad”, shot in London by filmmaker Aaron Brookner. The plotline promises “a psychological romance fused with [...]
Now 4 billion people know the joy of txt
by on May.06, 2012, under Smartphone news
The humble SMS is 20 years old… and a far more important invention than the flashier inventions that have followed it Here’s a question: what’s bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it’s very low-tech and doesn’t need a smartphone or even an internet connection. And this year marks its 20th birthday, which means [...]


