Archive for January, 2012

Mastercard Exec Hints iPhone5 Will Have NFC

A MasterCard exec has hinted that the iPhone5 will have NFC (Near field communication) built into it. Discussing the companies goals recently, Ed McLaughlin was asked about NFC adoption in 2012 and may have unwittingly let slip that Apple is finally going to introduce the technology. "The timeline is always as rapid as it makes [...]

Android Malware – Effecting Millions Of Users Worldwide

The largest-ever Android malware campaign may have duped as many as 5 million users into downloading infected apps from Google’s Android Market, Symantec said today. Dubbed “Android.Counterclank” by Symantec, the malware was packaged in 13 different apps from three different publishers, with titles ranging from “Sexy Girls Puzzle” to “Counter Strike Ground Force.” Many of [...]

Samsung Galaxy S Advance Coming Soon To @ThreeUK

The Samsung Galaxy S Advance will be coming soon to the Three network they announced today. This is yet another edition to the Samsung Galaxy range, and at first glance there isn’t much to visually separate it from other Galaxy S handsets. The Galaxy S Advance runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and has a 1GHz dual-core processor and 8GB internal memory [...]

Giveaway: Speck iPad CandyShell Wrap

To help with the aftermath of Christmas, we’re giving away a few items we have here at Tech on the Go – the first being a Speck iPad ‘CandyShell Wrap’ case. This is a hard case that fully protects the iPad (1st gen), and has a folding style screen protector that becomes a stand when [...]

Brits Spend Twice As Long Shopping Online As On The High Street

A recent study from Basekit.com shows that Brits twice as long shopping online, and average of over 2.4 hours, as they do on the high street where they only average 1.2 hours a week. This time is mostly spent researching and buying lower value items, for more expensive things the high street still has the [...]

Sky Anytime+ Updated With New Features And Partners

Sky has announced they have updated their Anytime+ service to with new partners and extended availability. Both BBC iPlayer and ITV Player will be available on the service, bringing the library of content from both services to the Sky platform on demand. The ITV service will go live from tomorrow with the BBC coming on [...]

Nokia Lumia 910 Shows Up On Dutch Website

The Nokia Lumia 910 has been rumoured as a European upgrade to the Nokia 900 announced in the US at CES2012. The 900 originally shown briefly on the Carphone Warehouse site with a June release date was quickly pulled and was then followed by an Eldar Murtazin  tweet stating that a Lumia 910 with a [...]