Today I ended up in a mall and decided to take a look in the tech section of John Lewis and to my surprise I found the Acer Iconica. I had a play around with it for a quite  few minutes, I couldn’t resist the two touch screen goodness. It was good fun to play [...]

This is excellent news and seems to be hot off the presses; Microsoft will soon be bringing Streetside to Europe. The information has come via the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones who linked to a new site microsoftstreetside.co.uk which was only registered 5 days ago. I, of course, might have been somewhat blind and not seen this [...]

The BBC have today announced that it is launching a new feature that will allow users to find videos from other broadcasters and Video on Demand vendors. This is great news for the people of the UK and I look forward to using this. Broadcasters will have their schedules shown in the widget on the [...]

Today Windows Phone 7 will be demoed at 50 Orange shops across the UK for anyone who wants to see the devices in action and find out more about them. As part of this demo Orange are also doing a special deal on the HTC 7 Mozart which sees the device on sale for nothing [...]

I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that there will be more to Monday’s announcement than just Windows Phone 7 news. I have written an article on Neowin in which I discuss how I think Zune will be going international imminently. It is from the fact that I, and seemingly many people around the world, can [...]

Yesterday I attended Microsoft’s “Xmas in July” event in the Saatchi Gallery in central London in which many of Microsoft’s consumer products were being demoed. I went to the event with my brother so that I could get a purely consumer perspective on what Microsoft had to show. First off my brother and I entered [...]

Microsoft UK have just announced a new partnership with the supermarket chain Sainsbury’s in the UK bringing a refreshed look and more content to food.uk.msn.com. What this partnerships for MSN is “a mouth-watering mix of Sainsbury’s recipes, great in-store offers, cooking tips and advice for all tastes and budgets, seasonal food ideas, help with planning [...]

For the past month or so Windows has teamed up with Sky and toured universities around the UK informing student just how great Windows 7 is and how they can access Sky through their PC. This is a great way to increase mindshare of Windows but there is much more to Windows Access All Areas [...]

I can’t stand the program myself and it only got worse last year when my Student Union President was on the show but the for benefit of those out there who might like the show and also like Microsoft’s Photosynth technology the new Big Brother house has been photosynthed so you can get a look [...]

Well it looks like I will have to pay a visit to London this month as Microsoft will be giving out free ice creams around the British capital via the Bing Ice Cream van. Microsoft have a Bing map which you can follow where the Bing Ice Cream van will be during the month. I [...]