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Alcohoot are offering free beer for visitors to their stand at CES (booth 74549). On the surface, it's a cheap trick but as they sell breathalyzers there's a certain relevance to it. No doubt the merit of personal breathalyzers will continue to be debated for years to come but focussing on the technology, Alcohoot have produced a portable breathalyzer that plugs into
Google is about to close Google News Spain. This change will only affect that one particular version of Google News. The reason has to do with a new Spanish law that will go into affect in January of 2015. Google will also be removing Spanish media outlets from Google News. The new law requires Google to pay for using publisher's
Just a quick one. If you are in the UK, there's £100 off a Motorola Moto X as a Cyber Monday discount. Registration opens at 8am on Monday morning and closes at noon on Tuesday, though Motorola suggests that it's "while stocks last". Successful registrants will be emailed a promo code to get £100 off devices through Moto Maker, though
From the level of press coverage, it's very easy to think that the only smartphones on the market have huge screens and price tags to match. If it's not an iPhone 6 Plus or Nexus 6, it's not worth talking about. Contrary to the column inches, there's a wide selection of phones that have smaller screens for less cash which
Over the past few days it has come to light that Google was blocking all bit.ly links as if they were malicious. That quickly became a real problem around the web, as many services use the URL shortening service. This made things even harder for folks using the ever-growing Chromebook platform, as there is no way around a problem such
Google has made some changes recently in an effort to fight piracy. They have released a 26 page PDF titled How Google Fights Piracy that you can read if you want to know all the details. The key point seems to be an effort to highlight legitimate resources where people can legally purchase (or rent) music, movies, and other digital
When it comes to developing for Google's favourite operating system, Android fragmentation is often bandied around as an issue for app developers. But how bad is it really and what's the impact? Fortunately you don't have to make do with my wild guesses and assumptions as Smashing Magazine have a done a comprehensive critical analysis of testing done by app