As the icy November winds howl over your keyboard, and you stop being able to use the enter key properly because your little finger has basically frozen stiff.. wouldn't it be nice to have some way of keeping your hands warm - like a sort of glove-shaped electric blanket? Breathe deeply. The time has come.…

Can this poor man ever escape? All he wanted to do was make commercially successful music in the late 80s and early 90s. Other retired rock and roll stars get an easy ride, some royalties money, a holiday home and a few tours. But for Rick Astley, British singer who had a hit in 1987…

A silicon valley company have set up a mobile phone network - it's smart, user-friendly and it aims to change what we expect from phone networks - forever. Yes, Forever. In the rapidly morphing world of telecomm it's sometimes hard to categorise the new products that crop up. Ribbit is one of those services. Part…

Today's meme can be best described as... Mashing up the bad bits of one social networking site with the bad bits of another social networking site to make something mind-bogglingly dystopian. Social networking? More like terror networking. The single and best example of this I have come across is Facespace a truly genius concoction of…

Another day, another iPhone skin, this time it's matte and embossed and in three different colours: Onyx (black), Cosmo (pink) and Ice (white). Cosmo works best with a white phone of course. The iSkins aren't chunky phone-swaddling protectors but they do offer increased protection as well as an interesting feel and the look, which I…

New software from a little Washington state company could upset computer giants Apple and Microsoft by letting users pick'n'mix their operating systems. Parallels launch their Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac today - and it allows you to run Windows seamlessly on an Apple Mac computer. Not only can you switch screens from the Mac OS…