Blog Entries by Melanie Hick from 08/2011

Cheap iPhone 4 'Coming Within Weeks'

Posted 08.23.2011 | UK

Suppliers to Apple Inc have reportedly begun production of the lower-priced iPhone 4. The Reuters news agency cited two sources working with the s...

Cheap HP Touchpads On Sale In UK

Posted 08.23.2011 | UK

HP's August 18 bombshell announcement that it would kill off the HP TouchPad tablet has sent tech bargain hunters out onto the street. The abandoned t...

UK Tech News Blast: Angry Birds, Watch Top Gear on Facebook, Touchscreen MacBook

Posted 08.23.2011 | UK

Welcome to your daily blast of tech news from around the web. This is where the tech conversation starts. Today, we're talking gaming, BBM's superi...

Twitter Founders Launch New Start-up: Lift

Posted 08.24.2011 | UK

Twitter co-founders Biz Stone, Evan Williams, and longtime sidekick Jason Goldman, recently shifted their focus away from the micro-sharing service pr...

Samsung Galaxy Phone Banned In 32 European countries

Posted 08.24.2011 | UK

Apple has won a preliminary injunction in a Dutch court preventing Samsung from selling its Galaxy smart phones across Europe, including the UK. T...

UK 3G Mobile Coverage Map: Do You Live In A Black Spot?

Posted 08.24.2011 | UK

In results that will not surprise UK mobile phone users, the BBC's 3G mobile phone reception mapping project has revealed patchy reception across the ...

Tim Cook: A Firsthand Impression Of Apple's New CEO

Posted 08.25.2011 | UK

I'm going to tell you about the first time I met Tim Cook and why, from that day forward, I have never once worried about Apple post-Steve Jobs. ...

Tim Cook: 'Top 5 Things The New Apple CEO Must Do'

Posted 08.25.2011 | UK

1.) Maintain a positive relationship with Steve Jobs: No matter what happens, that's an important part of his job. Because if he doesn't do that, it's...

UK Tech News Blast: Russian space ship lost, Hubble's replacement revealed, A3 tablet

Posted 08.25.2011 | UK

Welcome to your daily blast of tech news from around the web. This is where the tech conversation starts. Today, we're talking the first ever mappi...

Shutting Down Facebook and Twitter Is Wrong

| Posted 08.25.2011 | UK Tech

Shutting down social media during riots is nonsensical and if the UK government decide to take that course, I won't believe it.

Steve Jobs: Fashion Choices Of A Renegade Billionaire (Photos)

Posted 08.25.2011 | UK Tech

Steve Jobs has passed away today, after stepping down from the helm of Apple in August. Here we take a look at the sartorial choices of a man who made...

Diamond Planet Found In Milky Way (VIDEO)

Posted 08.26.2011 | UK

Diamonds, or rather diamond planets, are an astronomer's best friend. A once-massive star that's turned into a small planet made of diamond is what as...

Eric Schmidt, Google Executive Chairman, MacTaggart Lecture (LIVESTREAM)

Posted 08.26.2011 | Huffington Post

Eric Schmidt, Google executive chairman will deliver the MacTaggart lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival at 6:45pm...

Google TV UK Launch In 6 Months: Report

Posted 08.26.2011 | UK

The "Google TV" innovation will also mean that viewers can watch material from catch-up services such as BBC iPlayer and ITV Player on their main TV s...

UK Tech News Blast: NASA Moon Launch, China's U.S. Web Hacking, HTC Sense First Look

Posted 08.26.2011 | Huffington Post

Welcome to your daily blast of tech news from around the web. This is where the tech conversation starts. Today, we talking the next NASA moon laun...

Beyonce's Pregnancy Breaks Twitter Record

Posted 08.30.2011 | UK

Beyonce’s baby revelation at the VMAs over the weekend produced Twitter's highest ever tweet per second rate. Some 8,868 tweets per second appeared ...

Fake-Tan Implant: Safe Tanning Without The Sun

Posted 08.30.2011 | UK Tech

Scientists have created an implant that delivers a golden tan without the risk of sun exposure. The implant is no bigger than more familiar contracept...

Hubble Telescope: Latest Images

Posted 08.30.2011 | UK Tech

NASA's Hubble telescope has been sending us detailed images from space for 21 years. Here are the latest images. It's not exactly a point and shoot ca...

Internet Could Run Ten Times Faster With Graphene

Posted 08.30.2011 | UK

Internet connections could run ten times faster than current speeds, according to research published in the journal Nature Communication. Universi...

Sony 3D headset: 750 inch screen in your living room

Posted 08.31.2011 | UK Tech

Sony are set to to release a 3D headset that will deliver a 750 inch screen to your living room. The brand promise a high definition movie theatre-lik...

New HP Touchpad Release: Will HP's Touchpad Live On?

Posted 08.31.2011 | UK Tech

HP's UK offices have confirmed that they company will produce one last, limited edition run of Touchpads to meet demand. Last week we covered the run ...

Hubble Movies Show Star Birth For The First Time (VIDEO)

Posted 08.31.2011 | UK Tech

The Hubble telescope team has just released the first ever videos of stars like the Sun being born. Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubbl...