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A girl has been hit with a staggering £3,800 mobile phone bill, just by using Facebook. The Metro ran a story that said Casey Snook was sending updates to friends as she enjoyed a holiday in the Big Apple. She was visiting landmarks such as The Empire State Building, Times …

The Apple Store is celebrating their 5th birthday and the company are giving away 5 applications and games, free of charge to everyone. Apple have grown in the last 10 years to the world's most successful technology company. In 2007 they launched their first mobile phone and it was an …

The Samsung Galaxy Note III as been the subject of many rumours recently and the latest indicates that a full HD display may be coming. According to the Korean manufacturers site the device has been officially listed, as well as some details of the screen. The information was seen by …

Microsoft are having an interesting year. They have seen Google and Apple stake a claim in the mobile device and internet services market. Yesterday they announced a thorough reorganisation at the software company around devices and services. It is true that the bigger the company, the more convoluted the staffing …

Nokia has just unveiled the Nokia Lumia 1020.  Boasting a second generation 41 megapixel sensor, it reinvents zoom, enabling people to discover more detail than the eye can see. With Nokia’s innovative PureView technology, including optical image stabilization, the device is able to produce some of the sharpest images possible …

Desura might often find itself playing second fiddle to Steam and second fiddle to GoG and second fiddle to Origin and second fiddle to GameStop's Impulse… which I suppose makes it fifth fiddle, but that doesn't mean it's not important or valuable. Why else would the developer of Second Life, …

The Humble ebook Bundle II is still going apace, despite not selling quite as many as the average gaming bundle. However now, if you pay above the average, you'll get a few extra ebooks added to your library, including volume 0 of the XKCD comics. The basic stack of ebooks …

The global PC market shows no sign of stabilising, latest reports from Gartner show that 76 million units were shipped in Q2 this year. This is down 10.9 percent from the 85.3 million systems shipped in Q2 2012. This is the fifth quarter highlighting continued declining shipments. The Gartner data …

The University Of Southampton have recently developed a new storage medium which is said to offer both long term data storage and outstanding data density. The new tech is said to resemble the ‘memory crystals' shown in Superman films, so it has been given the nickname ‘Superman memory crystals'. Right …

The Wall Street Journal have said that Google will be spending a whopping $500 million marketing their flagship smartphone of the Motorola Mobility unit. This figure is greater than the marketing budgets of both Apple and Samsung, the smartphone market leaders. The Moto X phone is due out sometime in …

A year has passed since the government accused Apple of conspiring with major book publishers to raise E-book prices. A Federal judge has said that Apple played a ‘central role' in the price fixing when the iPad launched in 2010. The government was able to show that Apple and the …

Microsoft has today changed over all of its Xbox Live prices, from the traditional Microsoft point system, to dollars and pounds – depending which part of the world you reside in. However, this has resulted in some countries – the UK specifically – being hit with price rises for everything. …

Poor THQ. It struggles to stay afloat throughout 2012, finally announcing at the close of the year that it'll be shutting up shop for good, and it can't even rest peacefully in the grave. Along with several other creditors, Sega has announced its intention to sue the bankrupt publisher for …

BMW may be known for their luxury cars and to a lesser extent for their work on the Thermaltake Level 10 computer cases, but they have turned their hand to improving first class seating on aircraft. For those of you rich enough to afford first class aircraft travel, you may …

Amazon are due to release new Kindle Fires later this year, based on release dates for the previous two years. A new report claims that the new Kindle tablets will be improved. BGR leaked the news that Amazon will be releasing upgraded versions of their three tablets – The Kindle …

Dropbox was launched in 2007 and has become one of the most popular online share platforms. The company now claim they have more than 175 million users worldwide. The company are not resting on their laurels and they plan to replace your hard drive. DropBox CEO Drew Houston spoke to …

Apple have decided to withdraw their case against Amazon over the use of the ‘AppStore' name. Apple originally filed the case in March 2011 complaining that Amazon were using the term ‘AppStore' for their mobile software developer program and its plans to use the term for the online store of …

Yesterday, we heard from one professional League of Legends player, about how he felt that managers were one of the biggest problems with Esports teams, especially his old one, MRN, which had been plagued by a manager that was unscrupulous with his money. That manager, Phan has now expressed his …

While there are plenty of articles out there about whether zombie outbreaks could happen, or why they would fail immediately, there's not many kicking around that specifically address recent PS3 exclusive, The Last of Us and its particular brand of zombification: the cordyceps fungus. [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baOlT-1yY4A'] That's what Vsauce3 looks …

For each generation of good idea, there needs to be a seed: An injection of high-profile capital that energises the market and fires the imagination. With The Cloud, that investment could well be from Microsoft. KitGuru pulls out the trusty old abacus. People have been talking about the cloud for …

Reports issued in the past show that the average mobile phone contains 18 times the level of harmful bacteria as the flush lever in a mens public toilet. Whatever report you may read, it is clear that a mobile phone is far from clean. Corning, famous for their Gorilla glass …

While we might all be aware of Microsoft's efforts to take over the living room viewing experience and Apple's plans are all too obvious with the AppleTV, no one quite expected Sony to be doing something similar – or at least that's how it appears, since the Japanese firm just registered …

Professor Erik Asphaug from the University of California in Santa Cruz will be explaining a new theory at a conference about the moon, held in the Royal Society this September. He believes a smaller ‘twin' moon was once orbiting the Earth, but it survived only a few million years before …

Not exactly a tech story, but I saw this in the Metro paper today and I was literally stunned at the images. Brahim Takioullah’s feet are the world's largest, measuring 38 cm (1ft 3in). They are four times the length of those of 19 year old Jyoti Amge, the world's smallest …

Iker and Guillermo Echeverria have showcased their new VUHL 05 supercar. The car was presented to a select audience at England's Royal Automobile Club. The new car has been described as a ‘dual purposed street track racer', designed along the same principles as the iconic Ariel Atom. The car features a …

Microsoft are closing down their MSN TV service, a service which was known as WebTV. This service was one of the first to offer Internet access via a television set. It will close down on September 30th after being acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for $425 million. The original WebTV …

If you want to own a vintage computer there are sometimes auctions on ebay, but the end prices are high enough to give your bank manager palpitations. The MITS Altair 8800 for instance – when one of them pops up on ebay the closing price will frequently be well over …

While we've heard all about America's PRISM internal and external spying and we know a bit about Tempora, the British variant and we know about illegal spying in New Zealand thanks to Kim Dotcom's troubles with the law, it seems English speaking countries aren't the only ones having their rights …

One of AMD's larger graphics partners, Sapphire, has just announced that it has a new tier one distributor, which should mean it's easier than ever to get your hands on an AMD GPU – and therefore hopefully forces a bit more price competition between retailers. “But who is this mystery …

Very few things are cooler than a laser gun. For decades they have been in the dreams of sci-fi geeks the world over. How about the man who recently built a Laser Gatling Gun which features six 1.4 watt class 4 lasers. The aluminum body spins a turret inside, housing …