Our world is full of brands.

Some are the small, agile, niche brands that inspire die-hard loyalty from their followers. Others are the enormous, faceless powerhouses, who stomp all over international borders and trade agreements with the sole...

We like to think that we’re a pretty astute bunch here at Pocket-lint, so when we see a cast-iron, guaranteed, future-proof investment idea, we jump on with both hands.

This is about as good as it gets. Forget cash, forget commodities,...

Here’s a new map of the London Underground.

“What’s wrong with the old one?” I hear you ask. Well. Not much. It’s iconic, easy to understand and has won more design awards over the years than any other map, anywhere...

What a week. Anybody who thought the phone hacking scandal was a salacious storm in a celebrity teacup has had to have a radical rethink in the past 5 days.

When the news broke on Monday that the alleged hacking of people’s voicemails...

Probably one of the best things the Internet is used for by many people, is recommendations. Whether it’s the best films, the coolest cars, the funkiest cocktail bars, the cheapest prices on 42-inch 3D plasma TVs, whatever, a few clicks will...

How do fancy 24 hours of the best mash mixing you can find? From the DJ team who practically invented the musical genre, comes a new internet radio station featuring 24 hour-long mixes for you to stream or download.

The Belgian duo, otherwise...

As we sit here writing this, we can glance over to one wall of our office and see our music collection. Our entire musical life sits there on the shelving - from the first single bought, the first album cherished, right through to the first compact...

It is actually possible for one brand to own a font. Some of the most iconic logos in history consist of fonts that were cut specifically for the job. Designers would’ve spent weeks hand crafting every verve, every angle, every square millimeter...

Whether the purists like it or not, Photoshop is the photographer’s friend. If you trawl the web you can find hundreds of arguments raging about whether digital enhancement is a good thing. But the same sorts of arguments raged about digital...

NFC. Three little letters that we’ve talked about before . Three little letters which hold an enticing future for the mobile phone operators and manufacturers.

Why? Because they represent yet another way to make those little boxes of...

It’s hard to believe now, but once upon a time, one of the most honourable things to do was to leave things to the nation in your will. The great and the good would bequeath their riches, their houses and their precious artefacts to us. You and...

This is a site that got a mention in the latest episode of Top Gear and for once, it’s quite a find.

If you’re not a petrolhead, you can probably turn away now.

But, if you’re into all things motor, www.howmanyleft.co.uk,...

Walk into any decent bookshop and you’ll be surrounded by great writing. There’ll probably be a fair amount of dross too, of course, but if you know where to look you’ll never be disappointed.

But where exactly should you...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Not the best way for any writer to open, but the most suitable utterance I can conjure when I think about what lies at www.flaminglunchbox.net/curvy.

It was sent to me a couple of days ago and my life...

Wow. It’s not often the boss sends over something and describes it as “stunning” (it nevers happens when I’ve filed anything, that’s for sure…) but he’s not wrong here.

Nokia...

If I were a betting man, I would‘ve said that, based on the weather forecast in recent days and weeks, this was likely to be the only Wimbledon game being played this week. But the changeable weather conditions that we’re so famous for...

In the past hour I’ve had two cups of coffee, one bowl of Shreddies, one fairly tedious journey to the office, two “I should have brought an umbrella” moments and a fairly heated argument with one of those charity muggers.

That’s...

Banks. They’ve come in for quite a bit of criticism in recent times. Rightly or wrongly, they’ve become the villains of the financial situation engulfing the globe and are almost universally painted as only in it for themselves.

So...

Regular readers will know that we love a price comparison site. We really love a voucher code too. More than anything, we adore cashback on anything we buy. 

So, when we heard about www.ilovecashback.com (talk about a Ronseal URL!) we sat up...

The nation has gone mashup crazy thanks to Chris Evans and his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show. Party Ben’s seamless melding of Every Breath You Take by the Police and Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars has taken the airwaves by storm.

It shows...

If somebody were to ask you where yesterday had gone, what would you say? Would you have a scientific answer? A spiritual one? A metaphysical, existentialist theory that would make the inquirer ponder the very nature and existence of...

A couple of weeks ago we pondered whether there was a way to spend your well deserved holiday caravanning, without losing your credibility. It seems it’s possible. Just.

Camping hasn’t suffered from that particular problem for quite...

Japanese food is a bit like Japan itself – famous for certain things, but nobody really understands the whole thing. Say “Japan” and people think ruthless efficiency, technological excellence and superfast trains. Say “Japanese...

One thing that we should perhaps spend a bit more time thinking about is whether we use all this amazing modern technology to spend too much time looking forwards. We seem to be obsessed with what we might be able to do next month, next year, or in...

Deep down inside all of us, there’s a sneaking desire that one day, many years from now, people will build museums in our honour or name streets after us. You know, just to acknowledge our contribution to society and all round awesomeness. That...