Author: Alex Lowe

Sony’s new smart light will turn on the TV

Sony does like to experiment with lighting technology and the latest model will actually be in production and this new product from Sony Japan is part of the Life Space UX project a team within Sony which makes light speakers, projectors and other lighting technology but this latest light is capable of taking out certain tasks as it connects to WiFi. It also has a number of sensors built in […]

Periscope videos are now embedded in Twitter feeds

Periscope, Twitter’s own live streaming service now finally plays and streams directly from Twitter. Before this change, if someone who you’re following went live then to even watch the live stream you had to open up the Periscope app and then watch it, now with this new update for iOS users the Periscope streams will appear directly within the Twitter app and interact with it. Periscope statement: “For broadcasters, this means […]

Aaron Sorkin and Kate Winslet win at the Golden Globes for ‘Steve Jobs’ film

Earlier this week, it was the golden globes and the highly doubted film Steve Jobs won won awards for Kate Winslet who played Joanna Hoffman and Aaron Sorkin who wrote the film. Danny Boyle’s film actually picked up around half the awards that it was nominated for at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. Last year when the film was in cinemas, it had an ambitious release and that didnt really fair […]

iPhone 7 might have wireless Beats earbuds included

Over the past week or two the rumour mill has been churning out the speculation that the next iPhone, the iPhone 7 will be drastically thinner, waterproof and also something which is most controversial – drop the headphone port. To also aid this rumour, 9to5Mac have reported that Apple may be working on a special wireless version of Beats earbuds to complement the iPhone 7, according to the site the […]

New WiFi standard 802.11ad is three times faster than normal WiFI

At CES this week TP-Link unveiled the first consumer router which has the brand new 802.11 standard running at a whopping 60Ghz, the conventional bands used in the hoe environment are 2.4GHz and 5GHz maxing out at around 1,300mbps using 802.11ac. This new standard unveiled by the WiFI Alliance back in 2014 runs at a much higher 60GHz and supports around 7.2Gbps at short distances, basically in the same room with […]

9 years ago today, Apple unveiled the iPhone

Back in 2007 – exactly nine years ago today Apple made history, unveiling the very first iPhone which may look a bit restricted but back then Blackberry ruled the smartphone market, so this entry from Apple was a big change. Steve Jobs famously took to the stage and said these words “A revolutionary mobile phone. A breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod. A phone. And an internet communicator. An iPod. […]

Oculus Rift will be shipping in March for $599

We’ve been waiting a long time for the price of the Oculus Rift, in that time Facebook acquired the company behind it and it’s gone through a number of revisions. But this week at CES the price has been revealed for the Oculus Rift headset which will cost $599. For that you do get the headset as well as a Xbox One wireless controller. To even fully use the Oculus Rift, […]

Snapchat will close lens store, even though sales were good

The filters that Snapchat added to the app back in November have proved extremely popular, it was reported that the company was selling around 10,000 lenses every day, but for some reason Snapchat has made the decision to close down the store on Friday 8th Jan, in order to focus more on the advertising side. Even with the story closing, companies such as Beats will still have exclusive lenses, which they are paying […]

Facebook Messenger now has over 800 million users

Facebook Messenger is company’s almost separate service, because as of late the service is technically like a separate service as it doesn’t require a Facebook login anymore, only your phone number. But now the team has announced that Facebook Messenger now has over 800 million users actively using the service, back in June 2015 Messenger had around 700 million users. Facebook Messenger really is acting like a separate service, with […]

Windows 10 Mobile is available, in Germany

Windows 10 Mobile has been a long time coming, with the desktop equivalent the company managed to be on time for the release, July 29. However with Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone users have been waiting quite a number of months now but some users in Germany shouldn’t have to wait too long now as T-Mobile Germany has announced that the update to the phones will be updated soon to the […]