Looking at my mobile phone usage I can tell that I use the phone primarily for making calls and sending the occasional SMS. I do not use Internet, apps or other fancy stuff that smartphones ship with these days. If I had the choice, I’d buy a phone that comes without camera and all the [...]

Categories: Google Android, Mobiles

If you look around the world at the moment you will see anti-capitalist demonstrations everywhere.  Here in the UK, the historic St Paul’s Cathedral in London, which was built in 1677 and was the wedding venue for Diana, Princess of Wales is currently closed for the first time since the second world war because of [...]

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When it comes to TVs, we are really getting spoiled these days. Never before have we had access to the kind of vibrant picture quality that we can find on the market today. And, even better, they are sleek, elegantly designed units that can be fitted into virtually any space, thanks to ideas like flat [...]

Categories: Hardware

If you ever wondered who Apple consider its biggest rival the answer probably lies in the dutch judicial system with an injunction the company has brought against Samsung. In the documents reported on today by Cnet, Apple is trying to ban, so it would seem, every Samsung smartphone and tablet product including the Galaxy Ace, [...]

Categories: Apple

Samsung’s new Series 5 Chromebook is one of the very first devices to market running Google’s own Chrome OS, a Linux variant cloud-based operating system that is essentially just a web browser and nothing else.  I’ve been testing and living with the Chromebook for a few days now and have already written about my thoughts [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome, Linux

Today I took delivery of a review Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, one of the first of the new breed of netbook running Google’s Chrome operating system.  I’ll write up a full review of the machine next week but it’s only fair that I try an experiment and see if I can actually live with Chrome [...]

Categories: Google

Have you ever wanted a laser printer at home, or even a wireless laser printer, but not had the money to be able to afford one?  Well things have changed radically in recent years.  When I bought my first last printer in 2003 it cost me £400 (around $550) for a basic colour model.  It [...]

Categories: Hardware

You might remember last month I reviewed the very sexy little Samsung Series 9 Ultraportable, their “Macbook Air killer” and absolutely loved it.  The latest box to arrive at my door from the company contained something very far removed from the Series 9.  This time they’d sent their top of the line RF711 gaming laptop. [...]

Categories: Hardware

Last week I reviewed the Samsung Series 9 laptop and you can read Part 1 and Part 2 of my reviews here. Today the review unit goes back but I thought it appropriate to write a follow-up to the review as this laptop has actually had quite a profound effect on me. Let’s start correctly, [...]

Categories: Hardware