Author: Stuart
Stuart is formerly a Technology Production Editor for The Evening Standard and lives in Battersea
iPhone location services are no threat to Chinese national security, says Apple
Apple has refuted Chinese claims that the location tracking features of its smartphone should be considered a threat to the country's national security. The controversy blew up over the weekend when China’s state-owned television channel, CCTV, warned that location tracking tapped into sensitive location data and could even compromise state secrets. The report criticised the…
Create your own Top Trumps card with new app
Games company Winning Moves is letting fans create their own digital Top Trumps cards with the newly-launched app Top Trump It. The free app features more than 30 themes, allowing users to customise their cards with anything from football or romance to music or comics. The company says that to create a customised Top Trumps…
Is Microsoft really going to force people to use Windows 8?
The Windows operating system has been around for quite a while now - the first iteration, Windows 1.0, was released all the way back in 1985. The current version is the somewhat unpopular Windows 8 – many people have stuck with Windows 7, which was released in 2009. Now Microsoft has announced that it is set…
Bell Labs pushes 10Gbps over copper phone lines
The imminent death of the copper cable appears to have been greatly exaggerated. To paraphrase a certain character from Monty Python and The Holy Grail: "It's not dead yet." The BBC reports that researchers at Bell Labs claim to have set a new broadband speed record of 10Gbps using traditional copper telephone lines. In…
Battery breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting smartphones
As new rules come into force about proving your phone is actually a phone when you catch a plane, there is good news for people worried that their battery may well give out on the journey from home to the airport. Beacon News reports that a team at the energy storage technology company AdvEn Solutions…
UK aims for 100% superfast broadband coverage by 2017
Sick of slow downloads and constant buffering while trying to watch a TV show on the iPlayer or Netflix? Well, the internet in the UK should see some improvement over the next few years. The government has today said that it aims to achieve 100% superfast broadband coverage in the UK by 2017. Communications minister…
UK digital banking reaches £1bn a day
Remember the very, very old days where, if you wanted to get money out of your bank account, you had to walk into a building and conduct a conversation and a physical transaction with an actual human being? How those times have changed - most of us now do pretty much all our banking online…
Netflix wants to PAY someone to watch TV shows and movies
It's everyone's idea of the dream job - being paid to sit around at home all day in your underwear, watching as many TV shows and movies as you please. Well, now Netflix is looking to make that dream come true. The internet streaming service is looking to hire "taggers" for the UK and Ireland.…
Potato salad Kickstarter raises more than $50,000
We normally see the likes of crowdfunding service Kickstarter used to fund the production of films, novels, apps and so on. But one enterprising American has taken to Kickstarter to raise funds to make ... a potato salad. And what clearly started as a joke appears to have taken on a life of its own.…
LG’s G Watch goes on sale in UK and rest of world
Korean electronics company LG has announced that its first Android wearable device, the G Watch, is now available to buy throughout the world, from Google Play and "key" retailers. G Watch is one of three Android Wear smartwatches announced in June at Google's annual I/O conference, with the other two coming from fellow makers Motorola…
