Category: Email
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Spinal Tap invites press to Google/Android music event – Music Store and ‘Free Song of the Day’ coming Wednesday?
After much talk of Google tuning up for a music venture an invite to an exclusive Android event in Los Angeles on Wednesday 16th November has been sent out to the American press – issued by Nigel Tufnel, the lead guitarist of 80’s metal movie band Spinal Tap! The event will be streamed live…
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Motorola MotoKey goes live – Social savvy pocket pal for young mobile owners
Motorola has just outted the MotoKey – a simple and social mobile phone aimed at casual users and youngsters and coming with a dedicated Facebook key. The new preview page on Motorola’s website reveals the new pocket pal running on a simplistic operating system. With a lowly 64MB of RAM, the MotoKey Social won’t wow…
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Update: Google’s official statement following Gmail drop from Apple App Store
The iPhone and iPad app for Google’s Gmail service has been pulled from Apple’s App Store today following reports that the software spawned errors in the notifications system. The app was launched just yesterday and early adopters of Gmail on their Apple gadgets were confronted with the message “no valid ‘aps-environment’ entitlement string found for…
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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 now set to launch in February
Delayed tablet update is available now to developers
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Google ‘leaks’ new Gmail design in YouTube video
Google has prematurely outted its latest tweaks to the Gmail email service in a video now appearing on company sibling site YouTube. The video’s host details the new changes to a messaging system including refreshed interface which is ‘clean’ and ‘simple’ and follows in the footsteps of the existing Gmail’s Preview style. Customisation is also…
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Google Buzz to shut down for Google+ progression
Google+ has claimed its first victim in the never ending social networking war, but unfortunately for Google it is a home defeat, as the company has announced plans to ditch its poorly pledged Google Buzz initiative that it launched last year. With Google+ seemingly taking leaps and bounds forward every week, it was time for…
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China Blocks Access to Gmail App and Android Market
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China has enforced a block on both the Gmail and Market apps for Android devices, rendering both apps to be almost useless on millions and millions of smartphones and tablets in the country. It’s no secret in the tech world that China dislikes Google. The nation has enforced strict censorship laws on the hugely popular…
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Google Docs app redesign makes things easier for tablets
If tablets have thrown up one major problem to website and app developers, it’s this: how do you make something functional and easy to use on on a touchscreen device? It’s an issue that Google’s clearly been thinking about of late, as it’s just added another app to its list of redesigns: Google Docs. Don’t…
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Virgin Media’s budget mobile packs a punch for under a tenner!
Virgin Media has outted an affordable little number to suit anyone’s budget. The VM560 is created by Alcatel and is part of the ‘One Touch’ range and brings the price of owning a socially-enabled mobile down to only £9.99. Add an initial £10 top-up and this Pay As You Go mobile is still comes…
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Gmail, Google Docs and Calendars now available offline
Google’s rolling out its top free services offline from this week
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Skype aquires GroupMe – Multiperson text-based chat to rival Google+
Skype has just announced its purchase of GroupMe, a mobile group texting service – which adds another social weapon to the arsenal against Google. Working much like the Huddle feature on Google+ for mobiles, GroupMe brings friend together for multiperson conversations using text-based “chatting” allowing easy organisation of get-togethers and keeping everybody involved “in the…
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Looted Laptop thief found using hidden tracking software!
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There has been a lot of media coverage of the recent Riots that have happened around the UK, with Politicians looking at the banning of social network sites, due to their involvement in the organization of some of these riots. There was also one poor guy who was arrested for trying to set up a…