As an IPhone 3G user, I have been looking forward to the OS3.0 software upgrade for weeks. What has not been made abundantly clear through Apples usually flawless marketing is the distinction between the release dates for the software upgrade and the new IPhone 3GS handset. Lets set the record straight: IPhone OS3.0 is out June 17th (today) and Im currently anticipating its arrival as this written. Friday 19th June sees the equally anticipated arrival of the IPhone 3GS. In essence, this means that current users of the IPhone 3G will be able to benefit from some software tweaks on...

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The social media world is buzzing again today with the announcement of Googles latest addition to its family of products, Google Wave. Google Wave is set to be a new real-time communication platform that will be thrust upon us in the latter part of 2009. Lets try and summarise this in a nutshell:

What is Google Wave?

Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It is a Web 2.0 mash-up of instant messaging, E-mail, web chat, wikis, project management and social networking. As such, all of these features have been neatly combined into one delicious melting pot. It stimulates discussion between...

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The New York Times recently reported that Twitter would soon be launching an official TV show. Twitter has today responded to these reports, stating that a Twitter show is firmly in the pipeline. Twitters commander in chief Biz Stone has confirmed that the company has signed a contract with production company Reveille and Brillstein to put the wheels in motion on a TV project. However, Stone was quick to emphasise that this is not an official Twitter TV show. The agreement takes the form of a non-exclusive contract and as such, there are a number of companies working on productions...

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Know your ARM from your elbow? If so, you may suited to become the latest of Mr Jobs many, many disciples based up at Cupertino cloud 9. That is if quickly snapped-up info from our keen eared friends at macrumours is anything to go by.

You may remember my blog from earlier this week, when I took pleasure in divulging the latest of the more credible speculations on the specifications of the highly anticipated new iPhone. Well today it seems we have another tasty nugget of insight into the pixie dust inside the must-have gadget of this summer.

Apple has...

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The people at YouTube are today citing some pretty mind boggling video upload metrics. We already understand there has been a 53% increase in online video usage. What is quite striking about these latest statistics is that the collective YouTube community are now uploading an astonishing 20 hours of video every minute of the day. That equates to a dazzling amount of user video upload, almost 4 years of footage every day!
YouTube are also implementing some quirky new features into the site in order to stimulate increased social networking activity between users. As illustrated below, this comes in the...

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It seems that the water-walking gods of Cupertino have shone upon us, and blessed us mere mortals with a glimpse of fruits soon to bear from the great Apple tree of awesomeness. But before we suckle on the teat of Steve Jobs gospel let me pay reference to appadvice.com who are currently experiencing server outages due to the influx of traffic to their site this morning.

At this point given a view of new technology I would compare said tech with a competitor. Here I feel this is a waste of time. Over the last year or so watching...

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There are some really interesting add-ons and widgets that can be used in conjunction with You Tube. Some are designed solely for ones personal amusement and entertainment; others fulfil a slightly more useful purpose, whilst others, such as the ones that allow you to download clips, are just downright illegal!

This week, the buzz is around a particular application called Yooouuutuuube. This ridiculously named little application lets you arrange tens and even hundreds of YouTube videos into rows and columns to create a mosaic effect. All you need to do in order to create your very own psychedelic masterpiece is to...

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Waracle Ltd are proud to announce the start of a new SMART feasibility project, funded in partnership with The Scottish Government. Waracle will be spending the next six months developing its patent pending RT2 'geo-location' methodology. Without sounding too technical, this methodology will hopefully allow us to determine the geographical whereabouts of an individual computer user across a network, with a greater degree of accuracy than any other software application. If successful, the technology will be utilised to prevent online credit card fraud, assist emergency services caller location and deliver location aware marketing content online. Watch this space for...

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Being a self confessed PHP-geek Im confident about my knowledge of PHP and whenever something bizarre like this crops up it reminds of the nature of PHP being open source and something born out of community rather than a corporate affair. This by no means implies that PHP is an underdog to such a system as this really is the first time I have ever encountered a scenario where something doesnt really work as it should. When I used to a lot of coding using Microsofts DirectX platform half finished and wrongly documented functions where just the norm. You learned...

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