It's been revealed, in the footnote of the press release announcing the Xbox 360 price cut, that the forthcoming Facebook and Twitter applications for the console will require a Gold subscription - which is already required for playing games online.

Apple is saying that it has confirmed Spotify's iPhone application. A spokesperson for the company told PaidContent UK:

"The current status as of right now is it's been approved and we hope to add the app to the more than 65,000 apps on...

If you've got an iPhone, and you suddenly get a hankering to buy a song in the middle of nowhere, then you're fine - just head to the iTunes music store, put in your password, and you'll be listening in no time.

US Android owners have got...

The London Bus iPhone application, which promises to tell you where your nearest bus or tube stop is, has been updated to add augmented reality overlays for the iPhone 3GS.

When you turn it on, you can wave the camera around and it'll overlay...

Orange has finally launched the LG GD910, better known as the watchphone, which it's been teasing all year. The wristset went on sale first thing Thursday at Orange's Bond Street Station flagship store.

The queue doesn't look like it was...

Firebox has announced that it's now selling Rovio's Wi-Fi robot. The toy comes with full Wi-Fi functionality and can be controlled with any computer, laptop, smartphone or PDA in the world, as long as it has a web connection.

It also contains...

Radiopaq's custom-tuned earphones, which are built specially to accentuate the dynamics of different music genres, are now available in a version with iPhone compatibility.

What that basically means is that the earphones now come with an...

There's a whole load of people who're still using Firefox 2, despite the vastly superior version 3 having been released more than a year ago. Mozilla's security team wanted to know why, so they did a survey of people who consistently declined updates....

Universal Music Sweden has admitted that Spotify makes it more money than iTunes does. "In five months from the launch, Spotify became our largest digital source of income and so passed by iTunes", said Per Sundin, managing director of Universal Music.

If rumours are true, then the next version of OS X - Snow Leopard - contains baked-in antivirus software. A screenshot has surfaced of a DMG downloaded by Safari being stopped in its tracks by the operating system.

The dialog box names the...

Razer, the company behind a number of gaming mice and other accessories, has announced a mouse specially designed for MMORPGs - the Naga.

It's got a whopping 17 buttons - left and right click, scroll wheel, the regular forward and back buttons...

Bose makes headphones of all types - on-ear, around-ear and in-ear. The company has already converted its on-ears to a mobile version with a mic, and the around-ear headphones also come in an aviation version that also includes a microphone.

Bose has added a third model to its range of QuietComfort headphones. The QuietComfort 15s join the QuietComfort 2 and 3 in offering noise cancellation, but Bose reckons this is the "best noise cancelling headphone" that the company offers.

Denon has dropped us word of a mini system that it'll soon be launching which measures just 25cm x 25cm. The D-F107DAB+ can play back from CD, iPod, USB drive, FM, AM, DAB and DAB+, and has - according to the company - "musical fidelity that you would...

In the last few days, Spotify has quietly upped its annual subscriber price, from £99.99 to £119.88. Now it matches the cost of subscribing monthly, which is £9.99 every month.

We inquired with the company as to the reason behind the move,...

Apple's plastic MacBooks, which haven't been changed since May 2006, are due to get a refresh if rumours are accurate.

AppleInsider is reporting that the entry-level machines, which are the best-selling Macs ever, will be getting a design...

Peter Andre will be pleased - McAfee reckons that Jordan is the most dangeous celebrity to search for on the web in the UK. Users who go Googling for Jordan have a one-in-six chance of hitting a site festering with viruses and malware.

Jude...

Bob Dylan has admitted that he's talking to "a couple of car companies" about becoming a voice for satnav systems. The music legend revealed the news on his BBC 6Music show, where the theme was "street maps".

He did a few samples for the...

Almost a year to the day since Roxio Creator 2009 was announced, the company has announced the launch of the 2010 edition of the software.

Roxio Creator 2010 does mostly the same stuff as its predecessor - you can edit video, make music,...

The Pirate Bay, having seen its connection terminated by a Swedish court yesterday, is already back online and running normally. As previously reported, Stockholm's district court instructed Black Internet to take the site off the web under threat of...

An intern at the Mozilla Foundation by the name of Felipe Gomez has, in a spare lunch break we assume, built a multi-touch interface for Firefox and produced a video showing the cool stuff that you could do with such a technology.

He demonstrates...

Teufel has announced a set of speakers for home cinemas called the Theatre 80. It's a 5.1 surround system, and Teufel says it "maintain(s) a balancing act between technical performance and economical pricing".

The Threatre 80 works with any...

Yahoo has announced that it's upgrading three of its most-used products - Mail, Messenger and Search. "The evolution you see today reflects our focus on enabling people to connect with what matters to them most", said Ari Balogh, Yahoo's executive vice...

A few specs have leaked out for the forthcoming Sony A500 and A850 DSLRs. Neither has been officially announced, the the entire manual of the A850 has leaked online, and some of the details of the A500 have also shown up and appear to be realistic.

Microsoft has launched a phone application called OneApp that it hopes will allow emerging markets - i.e. the third world - to access Twitter, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, and other applications on their mobile phones.

It's designed...