I was recently fortunate enough to bag myself a HP TouchPad for £90 during the fire sale. I had always been interested to see the device since seeing the ‘hands off’ demos that were given at the tech trade shows. To me, the device had some really nice differentiation to the other tablets on…

News just out today is that Microsoft have made an unsolicited, all cash purchase ($8.5B) of Skype’s business to create a new business unit within Microsoft where Skype’s CEO, Tony Bates will become President of the business unit and report directly to Steve Bullmer. Microsoft have communicate via a joint webcast that they are…

Who would have thought it! We booked this week away nearly 2 months in advance and out of the 7 days that we were in North Wales, 6 of them were 100% blue-sky-days. That’s right, I said North WALES!

Through-out the month of January 2011, Runkeeper are giving away the Pro version of their mobile client (Android and iPhone iOS) for nothing, a saving of $9.99 for each version. I’ve been using the free version of Runkeeper on my Nexus One for the past 9 months and have been very impressed with the…

 Not much seems to have happened over the past few months with FTTC: BT Openreach continue to rollout of exchange/cabinet upgrades as per their schedule Plus.net are still in trail mode and you can not order a FTTC service straight from the customer support team (you can however still get on their trail once…

I’ve been trying for some time now to spruce up this site to make it a little more graphical and catchy.  One thing that I have wanted to sort is the creation of an official icon that will be used by Apple products when someone created a shortcut to this site and places is…

I have been more than happy with the FTTC service that I’ve had from Plusnet on trial for the past few months now; even with the 20Mbps download cap that they placed on the service to start with. During my activation day, Dave (from Plusnet) rang me to check that everything was up and…

A small selection of the photos that I took of 14 riders during their 4 day, 261 mile charity cycle ride for Marie Curie and the RNLI from the Leasedrive Velo offices in Crowthorne to the Le Mans 24 Hour race circuit. More info on the riders and event are available here: http://bit.ly/9Ne3Ut But…

It was a few days ago now but I finally gave up waiting for Google to send me the update for my Nexus One that was running build number ERE27 of the Eclair 2.1 version of Android and took the plunge with a file from the Internet that would manually get me updated to…

It looks like the day has final come.  Reports are surfacing amongst other less important news today (iPhone 4 release day) that owners of the Nexus One are being prompted to say that there is a system update available for them to download.  Froyo (Android 2.2) is being released to the general public! At…