Steve Jobs biopic jOBS premieres in January, and the first official picture of Ashton Kutcher as the Apple founder has been revealed. In a pose reminiscent of a real photo of Jobs, Kutcher hangs out in a cubicle next to an Apple II and a poster of IBM slogan ‘Think’. Filmed by little-known director Joshua …

If you want to view The Hobbit as it’s meant to be seen, head to your local Vue. Vue has confirmed 29 cinemas that will show The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in HFR at 48 frames per second. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has filmed his three Hobbit films at a frame rate of 48fps, twice the rate …

Texting is 20. The world’s first text message was sent on this day, 3 December, back in 1992 — but as social networking and IM apps take off, is the era of the humble text over? 22-year-old British engineer Neil Papworth sent “Merry Christmas” from his computer to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone on Vodafone two decades ago today. Short Message Service was …

Let’s fly, let’s fly away… and without having to print anything first. Virgin Atlantic is the first UK airline to be added to Apple’s Passbook app, which stores tickets, vouchers and other bumf on your iPhone or iPod touch. Virgin Atlantic offers a booking service and the option to save your boarding card on your Apple device. By checking in online and …

Nokia’s planning an Android phone? “Oh no it isn’t!” says a Nokia boss, in true panto-season style. A Nokia job posting calling for Android expertise has set the rumour mill twirling faster than a fairy godmother’s wand. But Doug Dawson, Nokia’s boss of talking to the press, has squashed claims the Finnish phone-flingers are planning to switch from Window Phone …

You want to watch some telly on the Internet — but where do you start? Netflix? Blinkbox? iTunes? LoveFilm? A nifty service called Oric aims to cut through the confusion, making it easy to find your favourite shows like Homeland, Peep Show and The Big Bang Theory, often for free and all in one place. The folks behind Oric started …

Microsoft has pronounced a price for its professional high-end tablet. The Microsoft Surface Pro will start at £560 when it arrives in the new year. That’s the US price, though — UK prices have not been announced. American tablet fans will have to pay $899 (£560) for the 64GB version or $999 (£622) for the 128GB model — and the …

A new BlackBerry has been revealed — but it’s not for you. Unless you’re a developer that is, because the new Qwerty-packing phone is a prototype for people to test their apps with the next-generation BlackBerry 10 software. Unveiled by BlackBerry-builder Research in Motion at a developer event in Bangkok, the testy phone has a Qwerty keyboard and will be …

In an odd step backwards, Lovefilm Instant is ditching Doctor Who and more than 60 other TV programmes. Lovefilm Instant allows you to stream movies and TV shows from the Lovefilm catalogue, for £5 per month. While every film and show can be sent to you on DVD, only selected films and TV can be watched instantly — but it …

Android continues to dominate the UK phone market, despite the coming of the iPhone 5. Apple makes a third of phones sold, but more than half of phones flogged in the UK run Google software — while BlackBerry has experienced another disastrous dip in sales. New phone figures from the numbercrunchers at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech reveal that the iPhone 5 …