While the Nintendo Wii has had this segment of the market cornered for some time, Microsoft is developing a camera-only motion control system for the Xbox 360 called Project Natal (still a working title), and is now officially joined by Sony in the console gesture control arms race.

The TomTom Car Kit and the Magellan Premium Car Kit are two devices that fill the same very small niche. With such similar functionality and performance, we decided that it all comes down to form factor. With that in mind, we put these two iPhone accessories side by side to see how they stack up.

The inevitable Merging of the traditional tv and the internet has not been lost on Google. Already taking a hold over every market on earth, they have yet to enter the tv or online tv market. But now they have partnered with Dish Network, and are trialling a new search service that makes finding your tv shows from both the internet and tv much easier.

An odd lot, those Android modders. Clearly bored, one of them tinkered with Android a bit until it responded to the accelerometer all the way round. So now, whenever you turn your T-Mobile G1 round, the display turns too. But not just between portrait and landscape modes – all they way round, turning your homescreen completely upside down.

A convicted sex offender was today sentenced to life imprisonment after admitting the kidnap, rape and murder of an English teenager Ashleigh Hall he had met on Facebook.

Is it our imagination, or have an unusually high number of so-called “sexy” apps started to appear on the Android Market this last week or two, ever since Apple launched its POWER-MAD attack on all sex-related apps on its App Store?

Only belatedly are publishers confronting the implications of the digitisation of literature.

For the tinkerers and testers, 2010 is shaping up to be a perfect year. Almost every desktop and application we can think of is going to have a major release, We've selected the few we think are worth keeping an eye on and that can be installed easily.

There have been many renders of what the new Apple iPhone 4G will look like, but have you ever seen one that made you stop what you were doing and just laugh. Well this is just what happened when I came across this photo of the smartphone that has just been stretched.

Lawsuit over smartphone-related patents could be bad for consumers, bad for smartphone makers, and even bad for Apple, too.