To cries of ‘surely not’ from men everywhere, a new survey has revealed that women are more practical when it comes to gadgets than men. The survey, conducted by the Gadget Helpline, found that women tended to be more practical when it came to gadget related problems than men, and were more inclined to simply read the instructions rather than rely on their supposed genetic ability to fix technological issues. (more…)

A limited roll-out of the BBC’s iPlayer service will begin on free satellite TV provider, Freesat at the end of this month, with a full service scheduled to be launched at the start of next year. The new service will allow people to access the full iPlayer site through their TVs rather than their computers. (more…)

Google Wave, the application that promises to revolutionise collaborative work and communication between friends and colleagues, has received a practical endorsement from members of the scientific community, who are already using it to work together on collaborative projects. (more…)

You might expect a video streaming site that recently revealed that it is getting one billion video views a week to be making money hand over fist though it hasn’t quite been that simple for video streaming leader, YouTube. The site has struggled to make a return appropriate to its size for years now, actually, it’s failed to make any profit at all. (more…)

Search engine market leader, Google has decided to enter the online music market, launching a service that aims to help people find and buy music online. Cynics may point out that there are already one or two services around that do this, namely a little known service called iTunes though Google believe that their service will finally be the break through service that offers a viable alternative to illegal downloading and file sharing. (more…)

Some of you may have noticed a new thing that the Google homepage has started doing when it loads up. Last week, some users began to see only the search bar when they loaded the page, no logo and no surrounding links, these would then fade in slowly after a couple of seconds. (more…)