You may be thinking what the hell is Ginx? Well it is going to be the UK’s first Television channel purely based on video gaming. The channel will be broadcasting game reviews, latest game trailers, behind the scenes documentaries and other glorious gaming themed content. So it should be great for just tuning in and [...]

Xbox live gold users may want to try and grab a good deal on a 12 month subsciption sometime before the 1st of November as Microsoft are making plans to increase the price of the subscription service. The price increase will see a 1 month Xbox Live gold subscription increase from £4.99 to £5.99 and [...]

If you’ve been testing out Facebook Places (like a hell of a lot of my “friends” have been doing), you may have noticed that the Places icon looks like the digit four in a square. Is this a blatant ” f*** you!” to Places rival Foursquare? Is Foursquare so synonymous with location-based check-in services that [...]

Now this is rather interesting: The main issue though, as TechCrunch quite rightly spots, is the advertising: does every page refresh count as an ad impression? Will slower typists incur more screen refreshes? By the same token, surely real-time results like that will stress out Google’s servers (chewing through the bandwidth), especially as search results [...]

Today I have some products I received from ZZCASES. These guys were extremely kind in sending out some cases for me to review. Here, I unbox and give you a quick run through of the cases: First up are 2 Candy style bumpers. These are just like the Apple Bumper cases. They come in a [...]

Latest reports from a Taiwanese newspaper report that Apple are planning on releasing a smaller version of the iPad this Christmas. Some of the details released include that the new smaller iPad will feature a 7 inch LCD screen when compared with the current iPad which has a 9.7 inch LCD screen. We will just [...]

Plenty of Internet users have made their map software trace messages across roads, but Nick Newcomen is the first to actually drive the routes and map them with a GPS. He travelled over 12,000 miles around the United States of America, starting from Texas, to spell out “Read Ayn Rand”. His work is now the [...]

I’m in a small minority of Internet users who adore Google Books – I’ve used it, and continue to, for references in college dissertations and even leisurely reading fiction. There are loads of books and magazines available for perusal on Google Books, but many complain that the web interface is a bit lacking. Admittedly, it’s [...]

A new virus has just hit handsets running the Android mobile operating system that is capable of stealing your money. The SMS Trojan was discovered by Kapersky Labs, and hits users by disguising itself as as a mediaplayer that, once installed, will send out premium rate text messages to expensive numbers, hitting users with an [...]

BSkyB, the owner of the Sky TV brand and a large share of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, has claimed that Skype’s trademark application is too similar to the Sky TV signature. Apparently, BSkyB even has consumer research to back up its claims. It’s worrying to know that people actually get Skype and Sky confused. And [...]