I’ve been asked several times by some of my readers, when they see some of my desktop screen shots, what the little Google symbol is that I have in my task bar and how it got there.

This is by far one of the handiest tools I have installed on my computer. I use it all the time, and it uses hardly any resources. What it does is allow you to search the web and your computer simultaneously. To start searching you can simply click the Google icon or a really …

It was bound to happen and at last it has, the pricing for the Google Phone has been leaked. Gizmodo managed to get their hands on the alleged landing page for the Google Phone – Nexus One.

According to the page, the Nexus One will be available for $530 Unlocked and it will be offered subsidized by T-Mobile for $180 when you sign up for a 2 year contract. The plan consists of 500 minutes of talk time, unlimited text, data, and mobile to mobile for $79.99 a month.
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It looks like it’s coming, theres not much longer to wait now, for the official unveiling of the Google Phone R.1; The Nexus One.
Or at least that’s what we all hope this press conference is all about. We previously brought you the news courtesy of Engadget, that the Nexus One would be available from January 5th. Low and behold today Google announced an Android Press Conference in Mountain View January 5th.
With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur …

A ray of rumors have been cropping up on the web in the last few weeks, claiming all sorts of things about the 4th generation iPhone.
According to these rumors, the next generation iPhone will have a 5 mega pixel camera and it will debut on 28th June and have larger memory capacity’s.
You can read more about how these rumors came about at Macrumors, where they discuss how they’ve discovered that the 4th Gen iPhone is already being tested with certain apps.
We also made a post about the new flash memory drives Toshiba have …

While the music industry has had it’s fair share of controversy over the Christmas number one this year, it seems that a little controversy has helped Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to grab this years number one all platform game.
This is the 6th Week that COD has been top of the charts and broke several records with its release.
On the other hand, games for the Wii have been dominant, taking 6 of the top 10 positions in the Christmas rankings. These games included Nintendo’s very own Wii Fit Plus, …

The guys over at Engadget have done it again and managed to get their hands on the official specs for the eagerly anticipated Nexus One, also known as the Google Phone. They now have the full list of specifications but the bad news is it sounds like it will be only available to “Invited Users” as of January 5th. Details on the invitation process are yet to be announced but we do know that Google is giving out the invites.
See Below for the list of specs, all courtesy of Engadget:

Microsoft’s court battle with i4i has been going on for some time now, since August the small Canadian company i4i has been a constant pain for Microsoft and now the US district court has sided with i4i. Microsoft will have to stop selling copies of Office and Word from 11 January, after its appeal against a patent infringement ruling failed.
In August 2009 the US district court ruled against Microsoft for infringing a patent from i4i in its 2003 and 2007 versions of Office and Word. Microsoft appealed the decision as expected but yesterday …

Vodafone have finally announced that the iPhone will be available on it’s network from the 14 of January 2010. This brings the total number of carriers of the iPhone in the UK to four.
Guy Laurence, chief executive of Vodafone UK, said that the company had been preparing its network for over a year to handle the introduction of the iPhone.
The cheapest tariff available is £30 a month for 24 months, plus additional handset charges ranging from £59 (iPhone 3G 8GB) to £239 (3GS 32GB). A 1GB data allowance is included, …

While Apple continues to dominate in the smartphone and MP3 player market, they are also dominating in product searches. According to Hitwise, The Apple iPhone is the most searched product in the UK with 1.75 percent of all product searches and 14.01 percent of all mobile phone searches during the week ending December 5.
And the second most searched product? The Apple iPod Touch with 1.29 percent of all product searches. The smaller iPod Nano, placed 9th in the list with just 0.5 per cent of searches in the run up …

While there hasn’t exactly been huge demand for 3D TV’s and movies at home, it seems the entertainment industry wants to push 3D technology out to us. The specification for 3D Blu-ray has been finalised and what’s even better is your PS3 will support it. All 3D blu-ray movies are also backwards compatible, which means you can watch them in 2D until you have got around to buying a 3D TV.
3D Blu-ray will display full high-definition 1080p video to each eye, encoded in the new Multiview Video Coding (MPEG4-MVC) codec and …