Sky’s chief engineer, Chris Johns, has hinted we could see Sky television in 3D by the end of this year, Rapid TVNews reports — much sooner than previously suggested. Speaking at the annual Digital Television Group conference, Johns said Sky is planning to “build a content library over the coming year”. Although we’ll see a …

Nokia boss Anssi Vanjoki may be halfway out of the door, but it’s clear he won’t be firing off a CV to Samsung, Motorola or HTC anytime soon. The frank Finn reckons manufacturers adopting Android are “peeing in their pants”. Vanjoki told the Financial Times that adopting Google’s mobile operating system is a short-term measure that will lead to problems …

The Beeb is beaming into your Bravia. The iPlayer catch-up service has been added to Sony’s Bravia Internet Video service. You can see BBC shows, listen to radio programmes and watch films shown on the Beeb this week directly through your Bravia — no set-top box required, as long as the TV includes Freeview HD. Compatible models include the Bravia …

You may have noticed that your Twitter apps have stopped working. If your apps are giving you gyp, here’s why: it’s all to do with a change to the way Twitter lets you log in. Why the change? Twitter cleverly gained traction by opening itself up to third parties to make apps and services that expanded on the site’s core …

Sky has announced three limited edition Sky+HD boxes. Designed by Wayne Hemingway, Gerald Scarfe and Phil Daniels, the 1TB HD+ PVRs celebrate the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup. Red or Dead head fashion designer Wayne Hemingway harks back to 1966 with his box, celebrating England’s only World Cup win. Illustrator Gerald Scarfe gives us a characteristically creepy football-headed fan, also …

PC World has opened a digital locker that streams your movies, music and photos straight to your Apple iPad. iPad Media Streaming gives your iPad 100GB of extra storage accessed via the Web, on top of the 16GB or 32GB built-in to Apple’s tablet. Back up your computer’s files to the 100GB storage and it can be accessed from your …

If you thought the Apple iPad couldn’t get any cooler, wait until you see the FridgePad. You can now adorn your fridge with more than rude poetry and colourful letters, as the Woodford FridgePad sticks your Apple tablet to the chiller door. Although you might be desperate to stop your iPad from overheating, we don’t recommend keeping it in the …

The Apple iPad has arrived in the hands of reviewers. With three days to go before the US launch, reviews have appeared from a carefully selected band of US journalists who’ve been using the iPad for about a week. The verdict? Unsurprisingly, the crack corps of Apple-selected newspaper reporters give the multimedia tablet a resounding thumbs-up. The Wall Street Journal‘s …

A new front is opening in the war between BlackBerry and Apple. Apple’s iPhone has hit BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion where it lives — in the smart-phone market — but RIM is taking the fight to Apple with an iPad rival. Unfortunately, RIM-watchers have spotted that the company has snapped up the domain name blackpad.com. You read that right: the …

Apple has punted a whopping 2 million iPads in the two months since the tablet went on sale. This despite numerous delays to the European release, with Apple’s factories struggling to churn out enough of the much-hyped tablets to meet demand. The iPad went on sale last Friday in Europe, Australia and Canada in a frenzy of excitement from the …