Apple has unleashed a day of Black Friday discounts. Today you can save £81 on an Apple computer or £35 on an iPad, with free delivery. Huh. That’s not so much Black Friday as drizzly-grey Friday. This week is popularly quoted as the busiest week of the year for online shopping as shoppers buy presents …

Three years is a long time in the tech world, but it’s the blink of an eye in tellyland. In the 20-teens we’ll still be watching EastEnders and shouting at Match of the Day on (what’s left of) the BBC, but the screens we’ll be viewing them on could be very different. The connected home will finally come out from …

Tablet lovers will soon be spoilt for choice, as ViewSonic joined Samsung in offering an alternative to the so-far so dominant iPad. To be revealed at IFA in Berlin alongside the eagerly awaited Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Viewpad 7 will also be a 7-inch touch screen tablet running the Android 2.2 Froyo OS. It will carry a front-facing VGA camera, …

As Research In Motion waits for its PlayBook tablet to counter incursions onto its enterprise turf by Apple’s iPhone and iPad gadgets, some of RIM’s enterprise sales force have apparently decided not to wait–they’ve defected to the competition. Stuart Weinberg of The Wall Street Journal did a little sniffing around on LinkedIn and discovered that in the last year and …

Despite some initial bugs, the Samsung Galaxy S is a fantastic smart phone, especially since its recent update. So why not show it some love with a heap of great accessories? Although you won’t have the choice of swag you do with the iPhone, at least Samsung tends to put out some very cool official merch, from cases to cables. …

Apple has snuck a feature into iOS 4.2.1 to ward off iPhone jailbreakers, while we could be seeing its next major update as soon as mid-December. Apple has put a baseband requirement into the iPhone’s software, according to BigBoss. This means the main part of the OS will check the baseband firmware, which controls the cellular radio, and if the signature doesn’t …

Real Racing is the iPhone’s answer to Gran Turismo, a super-popular driving game that offers one of the most realistic motor racing experiences on any mobile platform. And it doesn’t look like we have long to wait for a sequel. Created by Flight Control creators Firemint, Real Racing 2 is set for release next month. Although it’ll run on low-performance …

The Android Market is introducing content ratings for all apps. All existing and future programs and games must add an age rating: either All, Pre-teen, Teen or Mature. This is a response to criticism that the Android Market is perhaps a little too open, although one of its attractions is the fact that it isn’t as closed off as Apple’s …

The Google Nexus S been pictured and prodded, but until now we haven’t seen what the Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS it’s running looks like. That’s changed, thanks to some slightly blurry pics sent to xda-developers.com by an unnamed source. The Samsung-built handset looks identical to the phone Eric Schmidt waved around a couple of weeks ago, which was almost certainly the …

It’s all fun and games bickering about whether Mac is better than PC, or Nokia is better than Android, but it’s easy to forget that here in Blighty we have it pretty good when it comes to technology. In northern India, religious leaders have banned unmarried women from using mobile phones, while large cameras have been banned in Kuwait. The …