Get Apple iOS 6.1 NOW

Apple today appear iOS 6.1, which is accessible via over-the-air download. The amend extends 4G LTE abutment to 36 added carriers, bringing the absolute to 70. High-speed abstracts is aswell accessible to 23 added carriers for iPad. Apple already supports LTE in Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States, a part of others. New advantage extends to Denmark, Finland, Italy, Philippines, Switzerland and some Middle...

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How to Get a Nexus 4 Today Even Though Google’s Shopping Cart Sucks

Ok,so you want a Nexus 4. So did I.  But navigating directly to Google’s Play Store will probably leave you tearing your hair out since the server keeps on crashing.  I know, it’s an The infurating experience, especially seeing as Google owns farms and farms of servers.  Unfortunately, a few hours have passed since the Nexus 4 went on sale, so shipping time has increased from 1 to 2 weeks, to 2 to 3 weeks.  Anyway, you best...

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iPhone 6, iPhone 5S Images Leaked RUMOR

With Apple always in the news about what’s on the horizon and what they have in store for the technophiles and gadget-gatherers, it’s no surprise that photos of their alleged new devices are always in the news. Well, the latest bit of “rumor” comes in the form of something a bit more tangible, say, a photo of two alleged Apple devices, presumably the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6. 9to5Mac spotted the images over at NowhereElse.fr, a French tech website...

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Apple Updates iPhone new Software

New software update has been unleashed for iPhone and iPad users, adding new features and extended functions to existing features. According to USA Today the new software update adds features like being able to order movie tickets using Siri, directly from your iPhone. Apple has also increased the download and data access speeds from a number of U.S. based carrier companies and services. They also increased data access with other carriers as...

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iPhone 5 4G Only Available Via Vodacom

If you live in South Africa and you want access to 4G carrier capabilities for your iPhone 5, you’re out of luck if you aren’t on the Vodacom train.New Zealand focused site, Tech Central, unleashed some news about the availability of 4G LTE connection rates in South Africa and it comes with a bit of silver lining, acknowledging that the 4G capabilities are now present in the region but only from one carrier, creating a bit of monopoly on the...

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iPhone Users Payed More For Apps Than Android Users

New market data from the Taiwan Digital Convergence Development Association located in Taipei, Taiwan, shows that 70 percent of mobile phone users in Taiwan use smartphones. What’s more is that 86.1 percent of the iPhone users admitted to downloading paid-for apps, where-as 69.8 percent of Android users said they purchased apps for their smartphone. The Taipei Times has a rundown of the numbers and it’s quite consistent across the board, as...

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BlackBerry Z10 release Tomarrow

Good news for BlackBerry fans: the new Z10 will appear on (virtual) shelves the second it's announced to the world along with BB10. The story according to Vodafone's internal materials, which are telling stores that they can start allowing customers to part with their hard-earned cash in order to be the first to own the new wave of BlackBerry handsets at 5PM GMT. The source comes from an anonymous tip to The Verge, which has been sent the guidance...

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Doctor Says Apple iPhone Can Save Lives

The iPhone has been used lately for more than just typical web surfing and app use. In fact, iPhones have become quite popular for medical purposes. According to Dr. Eric Topol from an enlightening segment on Rock Center with Brian Williams, the iPhone can be used to help monitor vital parts of someone’s heart health to save a life, such as the mounted sensor that can help prevent patients from succumbing to a heart attack. Apple Insider has...

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Bumpin’ Uglies Launches For iPhone 5

Ham in the Fridge is a new kid on the block when it comes to unleashing new apps for iOS and their first independently developed game, Bumpin’ Uglies has officially launched for Apple’s mobile handsets. The game is a minor physics-based puzzle adventure title that sees players having to guide their ugly little, cute mutants through various traps, devices, obstacles and more in a total of 45 increasingly difficult levels. Bret Hummel, President...

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BlackBerry Z10 to cost £480 unlocked from Carphone Warehouse

 We know what RIM's flagship BlackBerry Z10 smartphone will look like, what it's capable of and when it'll be launched. Now we've got the first indication of how much it will cost. If leaked inventory shots prove to be accurate, the first handset to run the BB10 operating system will cost just a score short of 500 nicker, to use the parlance of our southern brethren. Engadget has received a photo, claiming to be a shot of Carphone Warehouse's...

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Cracking Sands Brings Kart Racing to Apple IOS

A new game from Polarbit aims to rekindle some of that good old fashioned combat kart racing that Mario and Wacky Wheels made famous and it’s available right now for iOS. After beating out top tier games like Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja and Civilization on the charts for various other platforms, Polarbit wants to try their hand at basking in the success of the iOS with their latest release. Players will be able to create their...

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Sony Xperia Z – The ultimate super phone

The Sony Xperia Z touched down in style at CES 2013 in Las Vegas with a fabulous 5-inch full HD display, powerful quad-core processor and stand out 13MP camera. With so much on offer we've rounded up the best features of the Sony Xperia Z for you to digest as your leisure. The ultimate viewing experience The Xperia Z pulls in expertise from Sony's TV, camera and computing divisions to deliver a phone with a beautiful, full HD 5-inch display.Sony's...

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Acer Liquid E1 gushes into view, brings Jelly Bean

Acer has announced a new midrange Android smartphone called the Liquid E1.  it comes with Android Jelly Bean. The Liquid E1 has a 4.5-inch screen with a 960 x 540-pixel resolution, which is nowhere near as sharp as the Galaxy S3 or iPhone 5. Inside is a dual-core 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. On the imaging side, there's a 5-megapixel camera and a 0.3-megapixel front-facer. So while the specs are solid, it's very much...

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Apple Concept Video Shows a 4.8 inch iPhone Mockup

With rumors of a 4.8-inch iPhone on the horizon, a Russian site decided to create a mockup video of what they think it would look like.They created the concept from the details of the ‘iPhone Math’ rumors (iPhone Math? Really?) as well as staying with the present Apple design parameters of current models. In other words it looks like an iPhone 5, except with its been lengthened and widened to accommodate the bigger screen. The device has a 4.8...

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Twitter beefs up embedded tweets, short videos could coming soon

Meanwhile reports on Wednesday suggested that Twitter is about to launch a short video service as a (sort of) rival to Instagram. Twitter bought up the Vine service, a New York based start-up that was yet to launch, in October last year and now the Australian Financial Review reckons it will be relaunched Down Under in the coming weeks. The idea behind Vine was to display portions of video recordings, trimmed down into six second clips, like so,...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 range could arrive at 2013

Samsung may be prepping not one but four tablets for MWC 2013, ranging from a budget 7-inch slate all the way to a premium device. SamMobile, a site which has seen some rumours become reality in the past, has spoken to its "Korean insider" who said that Samsung's plans for new 7-inch and 10-inch slates are set to form part of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 range. The source claims the tablets are currently being built under the codename Santos, but...

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 photo leak

The Samsung site SamMobile published an image on Tuesday of what appears to be the Galaxy Note 8, the 8-inch Note successor that will bridge the gap between the Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy Note 10.1. The photo shows a large-looking white tablet with several specifications listed under the Spanish-language word "especificaciones." These specs include an 8-inch 1280 x 800 display, 16GB of storage with a microSD slot, a 1.6GHz quad core processor,...

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Firefox OS it is not for you [yet]

A lot of love for Firefox, and for the good people of Mozilla: the web might be nice now, but if they hadn't come along and fought Microsoft today's internet would be marginally less fun than getting punched repeatedly in the face. The problem at the turn of the century was that developers were coding and for and testing on just one platform, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and ignoring everything else. "To the codemobile" Mozilla shouted. "We...

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Windows Phone 7.8 due to roll out on Jan 31st

The Windows Phone 7.8 update will arrive on handsets such as the Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 800 by the end of the month. Handsets stuck on Windows Phone 7.5 have not been treated to the plush Windows Phone 8 OS which is reserved for new handsets. Version 7.8 their only salvation, but it's been slow coming. UK carrier O2 tweeted last week: "The 7.8 Windows Phone update will be released by the end of January and will be available via Zone." Microsoft...

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Control your paswords between comptuers and devices

Most people today are using more than just their computer to log into online services making it much harder to manage and store all your passwords between multiple computers, cell phones, and tablets. The service known as Dashlane helps solve this problem by making it easy to store, change, and share all your online passwords between all types of computers, cell phones, and tablets. In addition to managing your passwords the service can also...

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How do I enable Autofill in my browser

Click on the "wrench"   or "Menu"  icon in the top right corner. Click Settings At the bottom of Settings, click Show advanced settings... Click Manage Autofill settings under Passwords and forms. In the Autofill settings window, click the Add new street address button. Fill out all address settings you wish to be saved and click ok. Once complete try out your Autofill using the below example test form. To enter the values double click...

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Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts

Knowing at least some of the Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts will make your Windows 8 experience much more enjoyable. Try to memorize these top Windows 8 shortcut keys. Press the Windows key to open the Start screen or switch to the Desktop (if open). Press the Windows key + D will open the Windows Desktop. Press the Windows key + . to pin and unpin Windows apps on the side of the screen. Press the Windows...

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How Do I Add Text Shortcuts to the Windows Run Dialog Box

Windows comes prepackaged with a ton of handy run-dialog shortcuts to help you launch apps and tools right from the run box; is it possible to add in your own custom shortcuts. The Question SuperUser reader Nic finds the run-dialog shortcuts to be handy and wants to expand upon them. When I hit Windows+R, I can type in calc and get a calculator really quickly. Same thing for mspaint. My question is, how do I adjust this...

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Solid state drive pricing dropped 38% in 2012

Solid state drives had a big year in 2012; not because of any controller breakthrough or performance barriers tackled but rather the fact that pricing dropped significantly over the past 12 months. Per gigabyte pricing for flash-based storage is still a great deal higher compared to spinning media but on average, you can expect to pay about a third less for an SSD now than you would a year ago. The median price for a consumer-grade SSD last January...

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Budget iPhone to go back to plastic Apple

There's a growing voice saying Apple is working on an entry-level iPhone and the latest report suggests it will ditch the fancy glass finish for a more economical plastic chassis. Apple is no stranger to the use of plastic on its phones as it used the material on its handsets up to the iPhone 3GS, with the well known glass-metal combo only coming into effect with the iPhone 4. Now Digitimes has spoken to one of its infamous "upstream supply chain...

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Facebook sees 600,000 drop in UK users in December

The UK could be falling out of love with Facebook if the latest figures are to be believed, suggesting a 600,000 strong exodus from the social network in December. Although it's normal for there to be a dip in December usage, the UK was the only country of the top ten Facebooking territories to see a significant drop over Christmas. That's according to Social Bakers' stats - and it's worth bearing in mind that figuring Facebook user data from...

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Facebook Graph Search is filter-friendly Facebook search

Facebook introduced its new social network search tool today, dubbed Graph Search. With search engines and phones and mobile OSes all mooted, the internet may have got a little bit carried away with speculation ahead of Facebook's big event today. Instead, we're looking at a powerful search tool that uses specific filters to help you navigate through all the billions of photos, people and connections housed on the site. Graphic Facebook...

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Facebook to launch search engine today

Facebook is busy "building" something that will be revealed at an event later today, and the latest reports suggest that it could be a search engine. "What, no Facebook phone?" we hear you cry. Given the dearth of leaks, we'd say new hardware is unlikely to be unveiled today - not to mention the fact that Mark Zuckerberg publicly stated that knocking out a handset would be the "wrong strategy" for the company. No phone But something big is...

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Judge Denies Apple’s Ban Request And Samsung’s Mistrial Request

In the wake of the Samsung-Apple trial both companies have been petitioning for demands. This week two of them have been denied.In addition to the settlement of $1 billion, Apple wanted Samsung’s infringing products taken off the market and banned. Samsung, meanwhile, wanted the whole tria thrown out for supposed jury misconduct. US District Judge Lucy Kohhas published her decision on both filings. They’ve been denied. Samsung was...

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iPhone 5 Silently Launches in More Countries

Apple’s iPhone 5 has officially launched in more than 100 different countries but the ones that broke the 100 mark were barely mentioned in the news. CNN reported on the remarkably low-key events surrounding the December 21st launch of the iPhone 5 in many key Asian and African countries. Some of the unpopularized countries to receive the iPhone 5 last Friday included Barbados, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Egypt, Guinea,...

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New Solar-Powered Case Charges iPhone Without Cables

Need to keep your iPhone charged but you don’t want to stay near a wall outlet? Well, no problem, the new solar-powered Flipside Case from Justice Frangipane will keep your iPhone charged while mobile. Mobile Magazine spotted the new case from Justice, noting the snazzy design that is both sporty and attuned for gaming needs. The flexi-case makes it both desirably modern for keeping your iPhone safe, while also being able to bend and tweak...

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iPhones Drive p New York City’s Crime Rate

Apple products are so popular that they’re actually driving up the crime rate percentages in New York City. According to BGR, they’re reporting that the New York City Burroughs have all seen a major increase in theft thanks to Apple’s products…an increase just north of 40 percent. Paul Browne, the New York Police Department’s top spokesman commented about the increase in criminal activity within New York.  ”Overall crime in the five...

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How to get free remote access to your PC or Mac

Go anywhere and do anything using free remote access to any PC or Mac from LogMeIn Free. Live your life your way - secure in the knowledge that you're never farther away from all your information than the nearest internet connection. How many times have you wished you could just get your hands on your computer - whether to access a critical piece of information, update a file, show a friend your most recent video or offer IT support? Well, with...

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Hands on: Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro review

Microsoft isn't ready to talk about the exact launch date for the Surface Windows 8 Pro, as the Windows 8 version of Surface is going to be called, but we have had a chance to use the Surface Pro and to try out the new pen. Microsoft also wouldn't let us take any images of the new device during our preview here at CES 2013 and it isn't giving any additional details about price, battery life or the internal components beyond what we already know:...

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Facebook tries out yet another profile redesign

Facebook has begun rolling out a new Timeline layout which groups all your friends' public communiques on one side of the wall while other bits and pieces are locked to the other. This makes the whole thing look a bit less 'timeline-y' but does mean a cleaner, easier to read layout without any danger of you missing anything on your own wall. Sorry, timeline. Thing. Whatever. Wait a minute, you're thinking. This isn't a CES 2013 story! And...

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Huawei Ascend W1 Windows Phone sneaks out at CES

While the CES 2013 press conference was all about Android, the expected Huawei W1 Windows Phone was unveiled on the sly, and has now been confirmed by the brand. The Windows Phone 8-powered handset comes with a superbly uninteresting spec list, which thankfully has been dubbed 'entry-level' on the pricing scale to avoid being plopped in the also-rans bin. Update: O2 will be the first to range the phone in the UK, with the Huawei Ascend W1 release...

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