Nokia today announced the end of its Ovi mobile services brand, starting today and slowly phasing out over the coming year.
All Ovi‘s products – including maps, email, music, an app store, and more – will continue to operate, but now simply under the Nokia brand name.
In an official announcement, Nokia’s head of marketing Jerri
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French car maker Renault has unveiled a low-cost electric car for British drivers.
Trouble is, the £6,690 ($10,876) car doesn’t come with a few basic essentials. Like a battery. Or doors.
Called Twizy, the miniature automobile carries a driver and one passenger for as much as 60 miles before it needs a recharge. Waterproof coats …
Filesharing service Limewire will pay the record companies that took it to court $105 million. The two sides reached a settlement after five years of legal argument.
A consortium of 13 companies was suing Limewire for copyright infringement on a “massive scale”, and accused it of being responsible for as much as a billion dollars in …
Osama bin Laden was a prolific user of email for many years, evading the global intelligence community by using simple, cheap tech: USB sticks.
His system depended on couriers who would use internet cafes, checking in to his anonymized email accounts and copying incoming messages to a simple USB memory stick.
They’d take he stick …
Bloggers at Google-owned blogger.com were locked out of their blogs for a number of hours overnight, apparently after a behind-the-scenes update that went awry.
Users were warned on Monday that there would be an hour-long outage on Wednesday, for maintenance. But according to Netcraft, the site went down on Thursday and has largely
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There comes a time for many amateur photographers when they decide to abandon easy-mode point-and-shoot cameras, and switch to a proper DSLR.
That’s when the learning starts.
And it’s not easy to get your head around the complexities of taking good pictures. It’s not just understanding exposure, shutter speed, aperture and so on, but
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In news that won’t surprise anyone who’s heard of Moore’s Law, researchers concluded that solid-state Flash storage (SSD) drives will finally break into the mainstream next year.
You can buy Flash drives for your laptops right now, but they’re still more expensive that their old-tech, moving-parts hard disk counterparts. But not for
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Passwords are such a pain. They’re so essential to modern life, but no-one likes using them, or remembering them, or inventing new ones.
Biometrics company Hoyos says it has the solution, with a little hand-held gadget called EyeLock.
Hold it in front of your face, and it scans and recognises the unique patterns in your iris. Once it
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The UK government wants to radically re-invent itself on the web, and it’s just taken the first step on that path with the release of a site called alpha.gov.uk.
Like any alpha, it’s a bit rough around the edges. That’s the point. The team that built it want British citizens to give it hell, and tell them how it …
Twitter image service Twitpic today apologized after an update to its terms and conditions implied that it claimed ownership of all images uploaded to its servers, and could sell them on without the original photographer’s permission.
After a day of protest online, Twitpic rushed to amend its terms page, and said sorry to users on its …
Need a laptop? Mainly for web stuff?
How does $20 per month sound?
That’s the deal reportedly about to be announced by Google any moment now.
For your $20, you’ll get a Chrome laptop – a cousin of the experimental CR-48 notebooks the company was handing out a few months ago (see Doug’s review of one here).
It will be a cheap …
NASA is considering its weirdest space mission yet – sailing a robot boat on the methane lakes of Titan, Saturn’s sixth and largest moon.
The project – which we like not just for its ambition but also for its codename, “TiME”, which stands for Titan Mare Explorer – is one of three on a shortlist for launch in 2016.
Titan is big, …
