Technology

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 […]

What is Beats 1?

Ok, at the end of June – Apple Music launched for iOS, Mac and Windows. Apple Music is a simple concept, you pay up £9.99 per month and you get access to 30m+ songs to stream and download. Just like Spotify. But something that was also included is Beats 1, this is a very different concept to what any streaming service is offering with radio. With Spotify and iTunes Radio […]

Motorola unveils three new handsets

Today, Motorola released three brand new phones; two new Moto X models and a refreshed Moto G. The Moto X flagship now comes in two different varieties, the Moto X Style and the Moto X Play. The Style looks to be designed to compete with the iPhone 6 and the Play may take on the iPhone 5c or Samsung Galaxy S6 Active. All three handsets look very good and well […]

Windows 10 Mobile may come later in November

Windows 10 for PCs may be available today but for users with Windows Phones, the wait may be a bit longer for the new operating system update – as long as November say some sources. Microsoft have said that the delay is because they are pushing the update to the mobile carriers in the summer and then users will see Windows 10 Mobile later in the year. Windows 10 Mobile is […]

Windows 10 is coming July 29 – how to get prepared

Windows 10 is set to launch this week on Wednesday 29th July, a full nine months following the original announcement of the new operating system. But first let’s clear up why anyone should upgrade to Windows 10. Why upgrade to Windows 10? First of, it is free. Now this can have downsides as free stuff isn’t always the best, but Windows 10 is free for all Windows 7 and Windows […]

China isn’t banning gaming consoles anymore

China has long had a ban on gaming consoles in the country, but last year it was lifted for companies registered within Shanghai. Now, the Ministry of Culture has now allowed companies to sell consoles. China now uses a large amount of smartphones led recently by Apple as the country has become a large market for iPhone – for some people a smartphone is their only device for TV, gaming, […]