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Steve Jobs, Apple's iconic leader, has sadly passed away at the age of 56 after several years fighting pancreatic cancer. Nobody has had as big an impact on the technology industry as Steve Jobs. His ever-evolving vision for the future of personal computing inspired us growing up and still shapes the way we live our lives today, more-so now than...

Geeks, hipsters and film buffs prepare to yourselves: Nike may very well be launching the iconic 'Air Mag' automatic lacing trainers, as featured in Back to the Future II. OMG! The future you've all been dreaming about may be hours away. Two days ago the following YouTube teaser video 'Titled McFly's Closet' was posted online by a certain...

Ever since Google teased us with the promise of offline google apps during their annual Google I/O event in May, we've been waiting patiently for this announcement to hit the web. As of today - and through the power of HTML 5 no less - you'll be able to access your Gmail accounts offline via the fittingly titled 'Offline Google Mail' app that's...

Have you come across any security holes in Facebook lately? Ok chances are you haven't, unless you're the kind of person who goes looking for them that is. If you are the kind of person who goes looking, then you could make yourself a pretty penny by notifying Facebook and receiving a reward for your efforts. In the last 21 days Facebook's...

On July 1st 2011 Hewlett Packard launched the webOS based HP Touchpad, designed to mark HP's arrival in the tablet market thanks to last year's Palm acquisition. No more than 6 weeks later HP announced plans to abandon all smartphone, tablet and PC production starting with the Touchpad, which would be discontinued, effective immediately. The...

Blue Planet Software might be a company you've never heard of, but they own the rights to the most popular game in history. Yes, you guessed it, Tetris. Blue Planet have joined forces with the mobile division of Electronic Arts to bring you Tetris for Android! Could this news get any better? Yes it can... Tetris is available now on the Android...

When Apple first announced plans for iCloud and iTunes Match back in June, many people were disappointed by the fact that the cloud-based music service wouldn't support music streaming to your iOS devices or iTunes equipped computers. Instead, you would be required to download albums or individual tracks locally to you mobile device or computer...

If reports from both the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail are accurate, then Google TV is on the way to the UK within the next 6 months. The service combines TV broadcasting with the Internet, enabling users to search and browse the web and even stream video content onto the TV, rather than simply relying on the limited channels provided by...

Business Wire are reporting that Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, whilst recommending Tim Cook (previously the company's COO) to take his place. Jobs will continue to serve Apple as chairman of the board. This comes as a complete shock and no doubt many people will be concerned about his physical condition as he has looked very frail in...

More Google+ updates are headed your way today, some of which you may already have experienced, but for those of you who haven't, lets take a look at what's new for Google's social network... Scrolling Tweaks for the Google+ Bar and navigation Header. Scrolling down the Google+ stream is a regular occurrence for most users, especially with...