Stuart Miles News Archive

Sony Ericsson Rachael hitting 3 November

Sony Ericsson is expected to announce the "Rachael" handset on the 3 November.

Although the company has yet to officially confirm the news, it has started a teaser campaign for the handset on its website.

"Sometimes there’s a thin line between the...

PHOTOS: Sony S-Frame DPP-F700

Sony has recently announced a new digital photo frame with a built-in printer, but what does it actually look like in the flesh? Pocket-lint was on hand to snap a photo gallery when it made a quick pit-stop in New York.

The new Sony digital S-Frame DPP-F700 is...

RC helicopter rig flies your camera sky high

A new camera rig for your DSLR camera or camcorder is hoping to take your photography airborne thanks to a little help from a remote controlled helicopter.

Called SkyShutter, the custom built remote controlled helicopter allows those looking to create aerial photography...

PHOTOS: Canon EOS 1D Mark IV

Canon has only just announced the new EOS 1D Mark IV, but that hasn't stopped us from having a brief play with the new camera when it made a quick pit stop in New York City on Friday at the PDN PhotoPlus conference.

The big, and we mean big, new camera is described...

VIDEO: Sky Player for Xbox 360 walk-through

We've already seen Sky Player in Windows 7, but now you can see it on the Xbox 360 ahead of the official UK release on Tuesday 27 October. 

The 8-minute video, sent to techtv101.com, details the channel selection process and what you can expect from the service...

Apple says Windows 7 support by year end

Apple has said that it will offer Windows 7 support for users who want to dual install the new Microsoft operating system on a Mac by the end of the year.

"Apple will support Microsoft Windows 7 (Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate) with Boot Camp in Mac...

Twitter expands Lists availability

If you've just accessed your Twitter page and seen that you now have the ability to create and manage lists, then you are one of the 5% of Twitter users that Twitter opened up the service to.

"We are expanding availability of Lists to 5% of users and will work...

VIDEO: Apple "Broken Promises" ad attacks Windows 7

Apple just couldn't resist taking a swipe at the launch of Windows 7 with its latest advert that many say are getting tired.

This time Apple play the "broken promises" card with PC claiming that it's the best yet, before Mac claims a spot of déjà vu.

There...

Windows 7 Whopper celebrates bloatware

How do you celebrate the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 in Japan? Team up with Burger King of course to offer the Windows 7 Whopper.

The burger of burgers, features not one burger, but of course seven burgers in a bun in what is no doubt a gut busting experience.

On...

DROID by Motorola officially outed...

So much for a teaser campaign, Motorola has just gone live with full details of its yet unannounced handset the Droid thanks to a slip up from the website team.

The microsite, which has since been pulled, offered, albeit briefly, a plethora of details no doubt...

Movember 2009: Join our TechMo team

Men of this world, this is your calling, your calling to sign up to become a real man, the kind of man that can present the news (Ron Burgundy), the kind of man that can be a private dick (Magnum PI) and not laugh about it, the kind of man....

Okay you get the...

Amazon Kindle International edition gets price cut

Amazon has quietly dropped the price of the Kindle international edition by $20 to bring it in line with the original Kindle price in the US.

UK customers wanting to sign up for the ebook reader that was announced just weeks ago, and only just available this week,...

Windows 7: Which version should you get?

With multiple versions of Windows 7 available to buy depending on your needs, which version should you be opting for when it comes to upgrading or starting afresh? Do you really need to opt for the Ultimate edition or will the Starter version do you? Let's try and navigate...

Facebook touchscreen homepage launches

Facebook has released a new homepage for users of touchscreen phones that can't or don't want to be burdened with downloading a dedicated app.

The new homepage, available at touch.facebook.com has been optimised for handsets like the iPhone and Android powered...

Arcam irDock promises clean sound

With over 21 million iPhones sold and probably over 100 million iPods, Arcam is hoping to tap into the still growing number of Apple fans with a new dock it claims is the best yet.

The Arcam irDock is, as explained by a spokesman for the company, "a chunk of cast-alloy...

Adobe Lightroom 3 beta released

Adobe has announced the availability of Photoshop Lightroom 3 as a free download for photographers to try. 

The new application, which allows photographers to catalogue their photo collections as well as perform basic editing processes to their pictures will add...

Molyneux: Project Natal support for Fable 3

Gaming maestro Peter Molyneux has officially confirmed that the next version of Fable, Fable 3, for the Xbox 360 will be Project Natal enabled.

"Fable 3 will have Natal support. Is that an announcement? #molyneux", Nicholas Lovell, founder of Gamesbrief, non-exec...

Google Social Search brings your friends to the search engine

While Google waits to implement Twitter search functionality into its organic search it is testing yet another social element; Social Search.

The new offering, which will launch in Google Labs shortly, promises to allow users to see results for queries from people...

Google shouts "me too" with twitter search deal

Google has moved in to steal Bing's thunder by announcing it will be adding tweets to its search pages.

"At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged",...

Seven reasons to buy Windows 7

After all the hullabaloo, Windows 7, Microsoft's new operating system, is now here. Finally you can now officially ditch Windows Vista or Windows XP once and for all. But why should you spend £79.99 on getting it? Here are seven reasons why you should and one reason you...

Star Trek's Tricorder on route to becoming reality

The Star Trek Tricorder, a device that allows medics to check their patients in the field in the sci-fi TV show, took a step closer to becoming reality today thanks to a new device being shown off by General Electric in the US.

The device, which is a cross between...

Twitter comes to Bing

Microsoft's digital head Qi Lu has confirmed, as rumoured earlier today, that it has signed a non-exclusive deal with Twitter and Facebook to provide status updates to its Bing search engine.

The two new services will allow users to use Bing to search tweets in...

Twitter and Facebook Status updates coming to Bing

Microsoft is about to sign up both Twitter and Facebook in a non-exclusive deal to help improve the Bing search engine.

The deal, which will see both sites integrate their real-time feed of status updates into the Bing search engine is, if true, expected to give...

Apple Remote gets updated

Apple has quietly updated its dedicated remote control on Tuesday to a new more metallic design to fit in with the iMac range.

The new remote, which is used for controlling your iPod or Apple's FrontRoom app on the Mac, will offer the same functionality of the...

Sonos hints at more speakers beyond S5

Sonos has hinted that it could make more dedicated all-in-one speaker systems for different situations in a "fire side chat" with Pocket-lint.

"It is possible", said Thomas Cullen, one of the co-founders of the company, when Pocket-lint asked him about the possibility...