In case you didn’t already know, Amazon really wants you to know about the features on its Kindle Fire. After touting earlier this week highlighed applications, we have one more reason to consider the 7-inch device. According to a follow-up to Wednesday’s press announcement, Amazon also plans to offer support for Hulu Plus and its …

I love Android. I love it to bits. It’s lighthearted, ludicrously flexible, and boasts the best tech mascot since Tux the Linux penguin first waddled into our hearts. Google’s quirky OS makes the tech world a brighter place, and can provide the perfect antidote to the stern rigidity of Apple. But Android has a serious problem in the way it …

Skylines According to a report at The Next Web, Apple’s iOS devices, including iPhones and iPads, account for at least 39 percent of the photo traffic on Twitter. Photo search engine Skylines has constructed a breakdown of the various platforms and clients that post photos to Twitter, showing that despite iOS 5’s relatively young lifespan it is already the seventh-largest …

As more tablets are released, manufacturers need to continually come up with good reasons for consumers to buy their latest device. Whether they do this through price, features, or a unique design, with a $200 tablet like the Kindle Fire out there, tablets will need a hook to keep consumers interested. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus‘ hook is Peel, …

Amazon is planning to take on Siri with a rival voice service. The bookseller and maker of the Kindle ebook reader has bought voice assistant Yap, potentially helping the Kindle Fire Android tablet challenge the iPhone 4S and iPad. Siri is the personal assistant in Apple’s new iPhone 4S, answering questions you pose by speaking into the phone. Yap, on …

Though it’s not the only portable projector on the market, Brookstone’s Pocket Projector for iPhone 4 seems to be one of the more elegant options for portable large-format viewing. The slide-on docking case includes the projector unit, which makes setting up a presentation or video-viewing session quite easy when you’re on the go. The 15-lumen LED lamp will give you …

Mere weeks after iOS 5 touched down, the next version is here, ready to cure any battery issues you might be having with your brand new iPhone 4S. Or at least, that’s the claim. It’s ready for download now, though if you haven’t already upgraded you’ll have as long and drawn-out a wait as some did with iOS 5, considering …

If you’re sick of having to carry around two smartphones, one for work and one for your personal life, there are options coming that will save you grief and the need to carry multiple devices everywhere. One such product is the VMware Horizon Mobile solution. Basically, this platform enables a user to run a “phone-in-a-phone,” meaning both work and personal …

Ask Siri what it is and it’ll say a humble personal assistant. Ask Jon Briggs, the man who lent his voice to the service, and he’ll say it’s a “game changer,” reports The Telegraph. Briggs, a former technology journalist who fell into voice work, has spoken for the first time about hearing his voice on the iPhone 4S. He recorded …

FaceTime is potentially one of Apple’s game-changing products. It provides users with an easily accessible way to video chat with anyone on an iOS device or a Mac. Here are some great tips to get the most out of this great technology. FaceTime is a proprietary, open-source video communications device developed by Apple and released in June 2010. It is, …

Cash-strapped wireless subscribers can now get unlimited everything smartphone service for less than $20 a month. So what’s the catch? And is it really worth it? That’s the question I help answer for one reader in this edition of Ask Maggie. Indeed, Republic Wireless’s $19 a month plan requires customers use Wi-Fi wherever they can. While this may be a …

Right. Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve got the lowdown on some new LG gear not set to go on show until January. So keep it to yourself. The 2012 CES Innovation Awards have been handed out, bringing us news on a couple of rather tasty products, reports The Verge. Not only is there are insanely thin TV, there’s also an …

The Nokia Lumia 800 has people “looking at Nokia with fresh eyes again”, according to a new video showing how the new Windows Phone was designed. The video goes behind the scenes at Nokia’s London design studio — not a million miles from CNET Towers, as it happens — where a “SWAT team” of industrial design and user experience bods …

Michael Abbott, the CEO of carrier-backed mobile payments joint venture Isis, has an interesting take on rival Google Wallet: “It’s the best thing that could happen.” That’s not the sort of thing you would expect to hear from the head of a venture that is planning to roll out its own mobile-payment system, designed to allow consumers to tap their …

A quarter of iPad owners only use their iPad once a week — and some don’t use it at all. According to new figures, 26 per cent of iPad users only use their Apple slate once a week, and 1 in 10 say they may not pick it up at all. Less than half of owners, 42 per cent, say …