Author: Alex Lowe

Samsung will let you delete bloatware, in China

Samsung has always had an issue with crappy software being included with its phones, in fact most of the Android phones have this issue apart from the fantastic ‘stock’ Android devices from Nexus or Motorola. But recently, China has had recent lawsuits over whether or not bloatware should be included in phones, but as a decision hasn’t been made, Samsung isn’t waiting around, it’s taking action now. Samsung will start […]

Amazon is offering £10 off any £50 order today

Amazon for one day only is offering £10 off any order that is over £50. So if Prime Day wasn’t up to scratch for you, this should be good. The offer is only available in the UK and it is only on for one day. This deal is to celebrate being named the top retailer in the UK, a survey was performed with 20,000 by Havas to determine the best […]

BMW is now paying i3 owners to charge at non-peak times

Owners of the BMW i3 electric car will start being paid by BMW if they only charge it during non-peak times to help the overall usage of electricity be reduced. The BMW i3 can be charged at home or at places where it can be powered up quickly. This new trail is running from July 2015 to December 2016 within California. How does it work? BMW will have the ability to […]

So far, 14m people have upgraded to Windows 10

Windows 10 is here, and we are just two days in and already, 14 million people have upgraded. Looks like the idea of free has paid off and a lot of people took the opportunity to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Demand for free Microsoft got this right as in the first 24 hours, 14 million people downloaded th latest version of Windows and I think that a lot […]

Fallout 4 won’t support mods

At E3 this year, we had a few surprises, but one of them was that the upcoming Fallout 4 would be supporting user mods on PC and Xbox One, but now we know that that won’t be happening at all. The reason behind this is, according to IGN that the tools to make the mods don’t actually exist. Bethesda Softworks’ has said that the team working on the game is currently focused on making the […]

Samsung Galaxy S6 sales were disappointing, so it will be discounted

This seems to be a recurring trend with Samsung as of late – disappointing sales. The company’s predictions for the second quarter of this year were correct, it didn’t make any of its goals for sales and the overall profits dropped. The profits for the company dropped by four percent to $5.9 billion and the mobile division of Samsung dropped to $2.4 billion, which last year was $3.8 billion. To remedy this, […]

Virgin Media fibre coming to Leeds, UK

Virgin Media is expanding it’s super-fast broadband to UK city Leeds. Just last month the company installed the service in its first UK city and now Leeds will be the next for a huge expansion of £3 billion. Manchester was the other city that Virgin Media has already expanded to, although BT using Openreach has a good eighty percent of the market in the UK covered with fibre. Virgin Media […]

Poll: Windows 10 is here, but what do you think?

So this week, Windows 10 was launched but we would like to know if you are planning to upgrade, have upgraded or any other comments from the readers. We have covered Windows 10 extensively since it was announced and those post will be included below the poll to take a look at. [poll id=”3″] Windows 10 will use peer-to-peer networks for updates Windows 10 is to be the last version of […]

What is Amazon Prime?

Amazon Prime is effectively, a premium membership to Amazon which gives you access to unlimited free one day delivery as well as a streaming service, photo storage, Kindle Owners Library and a music streaming service. Amazon Prime is £79 per year and back in the early days of 2007 it used to be £49, but with the additions of other services this was to be expected. What comes with Amazon Prime? […]

Amazon Video bringing Top Gear back in 2016

Amazon have signed a deal with the former Top Gear team earlier this morning to bring the show to Amazon Instant Video in 2016. Earlier this year in March, Jeremy Clarkson was sacked from the BBC due to a fracas with the show’s producer and since then a large amount of speculation has been surrounding whether it will return. Clarkson said in statement: “I feel like I’ve climbed out of […]