High-quality, high-definition videoconferencing is coming to the living room, but consumers should expect to pay top dollar for it. Tomorrow not one but two major technology companies will be announcing new videoconferencing products for the home. Cisco Systems, which already has a well-established telepresence line of products for large companies, and Logitech, which makes Webcams …

The Nokia N8 isn’t even in the shops yet, but contract tariffs are already being cut, with £25 per month two-year deals from Vodafone and Orange on Phones4u now giving the Symbian 3 smart phone for free. Before the N8 shipped, the only way that you could get the smart phone for free was if you signed up for a …

Google Goggles is now part of Google Mobile App for iPhone. Google It’s been almost a year since Google released a beta of its Goggles visual search app for Android phones, and now it’s time for a new milestone in the product’s life cycle: Google Goggles for iPhone. Google Goggles (spell that 10 times fast) creates a visual search out …

SAN FRANCISCO — In addition to the trio of new Android handsets for AT&T, Motorola also announced two new Android phones for Verizon Wireless. They are the Motorola Droid Pro and the Motorola Citrus. The Droid Pro is different from both the Droid X and the Droid 2 in that it is a candy-bar-style device with a QWERTY keyboard on …

Skype has finally brought its full-fat VoIP goodness to Android. The popular service has officially launched an app for phones running Android 2.1 and higher, including the HTC Desire — but it doesn’t work on the Samsung Galaxy S. Skype details appear in your contacts book so you can see whether your friends are available and call them right from your address …

Yahoo Up until this morning, Android users in need of up-to-the minute finance information were best served by the Google Finance app. Now, Yahoo’s aiming to offer another easily accessible option with its own popular Finance app, which finally made its way onto the mobile OS earlier today. Yahoo Finance for Android appears to carry over many of the most …

If you need proof of the iPad’s unmatched acumen as an e-book reader, look no further than Smashing Ideas’ smashing version of the H.G. Wells classic, “The War of the Worlds.” The landscape-oriented app presents the full text of Wells’ chilling novel, with side-by-side pages that, to me, seem more book-like than if the words stretched from one side of …

Windows tablet PCs could be in shops before Christmas, according to Steve Ballmer. The Microsoft muckamuck told London students that the company has “done work on a Windows tablet, and you’ll see slates with Windows on from this Christmas.” Ballmer dropped the hint in a presentation on cloud computing right here in Blighty at the London School of Economics. The …

Not long ago, I wrote an article aimed at helping music fans enjoy free audio from a variety of online streaming sources. Of course, I’m a firm believer in using the Internet to discover new music. But there is a threshold between discovery and entertainment for many listeners, and I think paying for a subscription music service is a great …

If you’re old enough to remember the crackling loading screens of the ZX Spectrum, take off your trousers and put a towel down, because you can now play its pixellated genius on your futuristic iPhone. For the princely sum of 59p in the iTunes App Store, you can buy the ZX Spectrum: Elite Collection (Vol.1), an application that emulates games …