Here we’re all big users of Google Mail, why? For all the same reasons you like to use it. About 6 months ago I stopped using a non web based email client and I haven’t looked back, well until I saw this video. Somehow the new Outlook looks a little more functional and a little more social. I’m going to go to the office tomorrow take the trouble to setup Outlook to sync with my Google [...]

File sharing copyrighted material is now as old as Napster which turns out to be more than 10 years old, where did the time go? Anyway I digress, last night the recording industry vs people report that the RIAA were throwing literally millions upon millions of dollars to recover tiny amounts in damages from the likes of you and I. Image via Wikipedia In 2008 it is reported that their legal [...]

Facebook will add a ‘panic button’ application for U.K. users which will report child abuse to Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). Facebook had initially resisted the idea, but finally agreed after months of negotiation with the CEOP, BBC reported. Facebook was under pressure from just about everyone after a 17-year old girl was lured to her death [...]

Windows mobile developers have a reason to smile as  Microsoft  has released the developer tools that should enable content creators to write apps for Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform, Microsoft on its part is hard at work with Windows Phone 7, in preparation for the new platform’s launch that should take place towards the end of the year. This build of the Windows Phone 7 developer [...]

VOIP leader Skype and popular mobile app Fring are on the war path. The two companies have been attacking each other on their blogs today over missing Skype functionality in Fring. They both agree that Fring’s iPhone 4 two-way video calling feature, which used Skype, no longer works. Fring says Skype blocked its access to the Skype API and then threatened to sue. In a press release,  [...]

iAds have landed and they are ringing the bells of the cash registers for developers/media owners. One reported on hacker news earnings on their first day of $1,372.20. That’s a fair chunk of cash when you consider the effective cost per thousand (eCPM) ad displayed worked out at $147.55. Based on the chart above the developer (publisher/media owner) has shown the iAds on their app a total [...]

Apple is leaving no stone unturned to sell its tablet device, the iPad maker is apparently buying Google AdWords ads targeting potential buyers of the Dell Streak and HP Slate. The screenshot above was captured after we did a search for ‘Dell Streak’ on Google.co.uk . As you can see, Apple is trying to capture the attention of Dell Streak searchers by buying text ads on Google, in an attempt [...]

Apple iPad’s success had reinvented and redifined Tablet PC market and it was a matter of time before its competitors launched tablet devices, Blackberry maker and market leader in smart phones Research In Motion was rumored for quite some time now to be on its way to bring a BlackBerry tablet to the market,the speculation got strengthened  following fresh reports on Internet primarily a research [...]

After the initial heart rendering iPhone 4 commercial few months ago, Apple has posted four new TV commercials to entice people to buy the new iPhone 4, heavily promoting FaceTime, a feature typical to the new smartphone which allows device owners to carry out video calls over a Wi-Fi network. // The new ads are heavy on melodrama, bordering on cheesy.  Apple’s sole intention with the new ads [...]

If you always wanted to create your ideal Android app for yourself , but were limited by your coding skills, here is your chance. Google has unvieled a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. With App Inventor, you can build just about any app you do not need to be a developer for that. App Inventor requires zilch programming knowledge [...]