Apple has kicked off its annual 12 Days of iTunes giveaway on Monday 26th December with a free Coldplay album for UK iTunes users.

Those who download the 12 Days app will be offered the chance to download the bands EP from the iTunes Festival:...

Fancy using your computer on your iPad? LogMeIn has released a new app for the iPhone and the iPad that allow you to do just that as long as your computer is on, connected to the Internet, and of course running its new software.

The new app...

Google has said "Happy Holidays" with a new Christmas inspired Google Doodle that is slowly rolling out on Google search sites around the world.

Popping up in New Zealand and Australia, where at time of writing it is already Christmas Eve,...

Got a Samsung Galaxy S? We've got bad news. According to Samsung your phone won't be getting Google's new Android operating system Ice Cream Sandwich.

Why? Well according to Samsung the phone just isn't powerful enough to run both Android 4.0...

Google has released its Santa Norad tracking tool once again so you and the little ones can see Father Christmas' progress around the world as he works his way to your house and your Chimney. 

The Santa tracking tradition has grown over the...

Boxing Day sales are likely to get off to a strong start if new data released this week is anything to go by.

UK retailers should expect over 95m visits to their online stores on Boxing Day in the UK from people hunting out the best sale deals,...

That bar at the top of your browser, yep the one with the url of this website in it. How often do you actually type an address in there? Seems the majority of Internet users don't bother at all instead preferring to enter website names into Google.

Monitoring...

700,000 is a big number. It is also just so happens to be the number of Android devices around the world that are activated every day according to Google showing you just how popular the OS has become.

"There are now over 700,000 Android devices...

Will you be checking your emails over Christmas? Volkswagen, the German car maker has come up with a novel idea to ensure some of its German employees get a much needed break, by not delivering their email to their BlackBerry smartphones when they...

Are you a Sony Ericsson Xperia Play owner? Good news if you are, OnLive, the streaming gaming service has just confirmed that your phone is one of the new smartphones now supported meaning you can game games like never before. 

"The OnLive...

Nokia's move to ditch Symbian completely might not be complete finalised just yet; however, that hasn't stopped the Finnish company from ditching its name in the latest software update planned for February.

"The all new Nokia Belle (previously...

The Kindle iPhone and iPad apps have been given a major overhaul, with Amazon updating the iOS app to version 2.9 and bringing in new Kindle Fire-like features in time for the Christmas season.

The iPad version gets a new design for magazines,...

With RIM's stock at an all time low, it is no surprise that sharks look to be circling the mobile phone and tablet maker. However the interest, it seems, is coming from those you wouldn't, perhaps, expect. They're some of the biggest fish around.

According...

There were more than than 1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion) playbacks on YouTube in 2011, but what were the 10 videos that we, as a global audience, watched the most? What were the videos that just had to be shared? 

YouTube has released the top...

We've all seen Point Break, the night surfing, the excitement Keanu enjoys going out with Patrick Swayze, but they didn't have anything on this.

To mark the start of summer, Strongbow in a marketing stunt joined forces with surfing filmmaker...

Google Nexus S users, check the update option on your phone, you might just have a nice surprise. Google has announced that over the coming month you will be getting Ice Cream Sandwich.

"We're rolling out Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, to...

Research In Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry smartphones, has confirmed that its next generation of smartphones running the new recently announced BB10 operating system, won't be with us until the end of 2012. 

Blaming availability...

Asus has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it will be launching the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime in the UK for a price of £499. It will be on sale in January.

The price will not only include the tablet, but in perhaps a surprise move, also the...

Google's Chrome browser already does it, but now Microsoft Internet Explorer browser is to offer automatic updates so users don't have to bother wondering whether they have the latest update or not.

"Today we are sharing our plan to automatically...

Smartphones are so easy to use even Lizards are getting in on the action to keep themselves entertained.

We've seen the videos of toddlers using iPads, cats and dogs riding robotic vacuum cleaners, but what about the one where the Bearded Dragon...

Sky has announced that it is continuing its partnership with Sir David Attenborough with a new three-part natural history series which tells the story of the remote Galapagos Islands.  

Galapagos 3D, which is scheduled to air on Sky 3D in late...

Google has released its annual zeitgeist of the world's top searches for 2011 with Rebecca Black's Friday toping the bill as the number one rising search around the world.

But it is not just the YouTube hit sensation we searched for, but mainly...

Remember the Facebook Timeline feature announced in September that would allow you to see a timeline of your Facebook status updates all the way back to when you were born? Well the feature has finally started rolling out.

“We announced...

Nokia has announced the Nokia Lumia 710 will launch in the US on T-Mobile on 11 January 2012 for just $50.

The new Windows Phone 7 smartphone, first announced in the UK in October at Nokia World promises to bring Windows Phone 7 to the masses...

The Galaxy Nexus has gone on sale in the US ending numerous rumours as to when it was going to be available to Americans keen to get the new Ice Cream Sandwich powered phone from Google and Samsung.

The new Android 4.0 phone, which will come...