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Unless you've been living under a rock for the past few weeks, you'll have heard about Microsoft's return to the mobile phone space with Windows Phone 7. And boy, have they returned. Combined with the hardware of the HTC 7 Trophy, it delivers in spades. Initial impressions were good; not only am I fond of the mini-tablet format, the design
Samsung announced the TicToc MP3 players back in July but they've only recently started shipping in UK. Aimed unashamedly at a young female audience, coming in blue, pink, black and Hello Kitty variants, this is a fashion accessory as much as an music player. I'll try to get in touch with my feminine side to give the TicToc a fair
The Plantronics .Audio 1100M is a simple USB VoIP telephone handset optimised for use with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Lync 2010, though it will also work with Skype and other softphone applications. Habitual users of these systems will recognise the benefit of having a dedicated handset rather than relying on speakers or built-in microphones. As you'll see from the photos,
To describe the Buffalo DriveStation Quad as merely an external hard drive would be doing it a considerable injustice and likely to miss the point. This is an external drive on steroids and with attitude. To start with, you'd be hard pushed to call it portable. It's 14.9 cm wide, 15.4 high, 23.3 cm deep and weighs somewhere in the
Having won the format wars, Blu-ray is the hi-def standard; USB3 ports are appearing more regularly on motherboards and 3D is definitely flavour of the month. So it's not entirely unsurprising that Buffalo has brought out an external drive that brings all three together. The BR3D-12U3 Blu-ray drive was released back in September and brings together all the latest technologies
I’ve been using Android for a while now and feel I’ve been using it long enough to make some meaningful observations. I like Android. It’s quick. It’s powerful. It has some astounding voice recognition capability built right in that even the iPhone can’t touch. For example, hold down the search button and when the voice search box pops up say
I just finished listening to the unabridged Audible audio book version of “The Man Who Lied To His Laptop” by Clifford Nass and Corina Yen. After many years of working as a software interface design consultant, Clifford Nass has developed the theory that human brains cannot completely and fundamentally distinguish the difference between interacting with people and interacting with devices.