Author: Alex Lowe

Windows 10 now has 27 million installs and already 3.7% market share

Windows 10 is doing extremely well at the moment, with being only just two weeks into the new operating system being available, today it already has 3.78% market share – it’s working its way to be a huge hit. Originally launched two weeks ago on the 29th July, two days later we reported that 14m people had already downloaded it. Opinion: Windows 8 sucked. Back in April 2013, statistics revealed […]

Microsoft Translator comes to iOS and Android

Microsoft is ready to take on Google Translate with their own system called Microsoft Translator which is arguably better designed and it also has support for the Apple Watch as well as the Android Wear system. It can also translate words that are spoken into the watch, which is so useful when travelling. Microsoft Translator also has support for over 50 different languages: Arabic, Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese(S), Chinese(T), […]

Apple Music already has 11 million members

We are just over a month into Apple Music, the company’s new competitor to Spotify has already had 11 million members sign up. Eddy Cue has been speaking to USA TODAY regarding the service. “We’re thrilled with the numbers so far.” – Eddy Cue Eddy Cue has also said that 2 million people have chose the family plan for six people which is $14.99/£14.99. Another plan for $9.99/£9.99 which is […]

Pei Wei now accepting Apple Pay, in the US

Pei Wei is now accepting Apple Pay, Apple’s mobile payment system is now live in their restaurant locations across the US. Last week Pei Wei announced that it is now accepting the payment system from the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch. The restaurant launched support for Apple Pay back in July to test it in sixteen restaurants in Phoenix, the restaurant chain is now confident that it will be successful […]

Smartphones are now the most popular way to view the web in the UK

The UK are now using smartphones more than laptops and desktops to browse the internet. Since last year usage of smartphones has grown for people using their phone for web browsing. The average amount of time a day someone spends using their phone primarily for web browsing is one hour and 54 minutes a day. 66% of all UK adults now own a smartphone Ofcom conducted a study to determine how […]

Dr. Dre’s next album, Compton – is exclusive to Apple Music

Dr. Dre is launching his next album, which is the first album from the rapper since 1999, which is 16 years ago – with the launch of The Chronic: 2001. The next album which is titled Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre is launching this Friday exclusively on Apple Music and iTunes, which isn’t surprising as Dre now works for Apple. The album is based on the N.W.A film that Dre is working on […]

EE Power Bars overheating, recall now live

A few months back, EE introduced its free charger for customers and as it turns out, people love free stuff as it went out of stock then after a wait it became available again. Although recently the Power Bars have been overheating and exploding, with one medical student being left with burns on his hand while it was charging. It has become so bad that EE is now recalling the […]

New laptops from Acer rival Chromebooks, but run Windows 10

Acer is entering Google’s territory with its new Cloudbook laptops which are very similarly priced and specced. Not long ago HP entered the really cheap Windows laptops with the HP Stream 11, now Acer is not only competing with HP but Google as well with its Chromebook devices. The two new laptops are named the Aspire One Cloudbook 11 and 14 which run Windows 10 and are powerful enough to run the […]

PlayStation Plus members will be able to vote what games will be free

For people who don’t know what PlayStation Plus is, it is a membership system for PlayStatin users, they can pay per moth for a free game a month. The system costs £4.49 per month and like Xbox Live is needed to use most of the console features; such as playing online, automatic upses and discounts. Now Sony is adding something extra for members, the ability to vote which games are […]

Opinion: Windows 10 is good for Microsoft and this can only get better

So Windows 10 launched last week and as it turns out, it’s a massive hit, with 14m people downloaded it within 24 hours, partly because it is free. But with this post, I wanted it to be part review, part information on why Windows 10 is good for Microsoft. 10, 9, 8… So Windows 10 is actually going to be the last version of Windows, which is a surprise, but […]