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The iPhone 5 Marketing Experiment Continues!

Rob Shoesmith’s iPhone 5 experiment is really beginning take off, and the man himself has released a YouTube video listing, in-depth, the wealth of gadgets that he’s obtained thus far. The eleven-minute video appropriately demonstrates the level of response that he has received, as Rob is now in receipt of donations from well over thirty [...]

Guest Post – 3G: Curb your enthusiasm

This is a guest post by Julia Kukiewicz editor of news, reviews and broadband deals site Chooseisp.co.uk, which also covers mobile data including mobile broadband for iPad. 02 – The best of a bad bunch? Even for technophiles – not unused to looking behind the headline hype – the results of Ofcom’s latest mobile broadband [...]

iPhone 5 – A marketing experiment with a twist!

  The face of the experiment – Rob Shoesmith himself With the inevitable announcement of the iPhone 5 release date just around the corner, thousands are setting their plans into motion to obtain their handset on day one. One such individual is Public Relations and Marketing Expert Rob Shoesmith, who is hoping to be the [...]

Review – Databar XXS – the smallest USB device yet!

  Memory sticks, data pens, USB keys and flash drives. The terminology that we use for such devices varies greatly, but there’s one overwhelming constant between them all that just can’t be ignored – they get a pretty bad press. Prone to corruption, theft or good old-fashioned physical damage, they don’t have the strongest rap-sheet [...]

Mark the impending Royal Wedding with your iOS device

Technology has an uncanny ability of working its way into any public development, and the impending Royal Wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton is no exception. Contrary to the outlook that some UK residents hold towards Royal affairs, many in the US are quite intrigued by such developments, and thus new, exciting and approachable [...]

Turn your CV digital, with MediaPad Pro

How do you promote your work, or list your accomplishments? The marketing style you adopt may very well depend on your target industry, but if you’re planning on working in the digital realm, then self-publication is very important – a bog-standard CV just isn’t going to cut it anymore. There are a few clever souls [...]

VaultPress – Automated WordPress Backup

Things go wrong. Data get’s deleted. Mistakes happen. I trust you’ve read my review of Recuva, and thus you backup your computer’s data religiously, not only to a second hard-drive but also to the cloud. I can also only presume that you afford the same treatment to those excruciatingly important data files of your WordPress [...]

Feature – is Firefox 4 up to scratch?

It’s been a busy few weeks for browser development. With Internet Explorer 9 released on the 14th March and Firefox 4 just a few days ago on the 22nd, competition to control the browser market has peaked. And in light of my recent overview of IE9, it seemed appropriate and somewhat necessary to give Firefox [...]

Feature – The failings of Internet Explorer 9

I’ve long been a fan of Internet Explorer. Sure, it’s taken a few knocks here and there on the issues of security and performance, and lost a considerable share of the browser market as a result, but for a program that’s bundled with Windows, it’s fairly robust. As IE was one of the first tools [...]

A Prayer Unanswered?

Eighteen months ago, application developers MEDL Mobile unveiled their latest project – affectionately called a ‘Note to God’. The idea originated from Allen Wright, a teenager from Sacramento, who submitted his design for an iOS application through MEDL Mobile’s App Incubator. It’s been a huge success ever since, and Allen even became an overnight mini-celebrity. [...]