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Villarenters.com launches iPhone app
Choosing the perfect villa for your holiday can be overwhelming. However the new iPhone app from villarenters.com makes it simple by offering six categories: luxury, beach, party, retreats, gastro and staff picks.
Sony broadens choice of SD memory cards
Sony has expanded its family of premium-quality memory cards to meet the growing needs of today’s digital imaging users.
Mobile phone app helps ethical shoppers
barcoo is a new mobile phone app designed to empower ethical consumers, as well as encourage a new generation of ethical shoppers. Free to download, barcoo includes all the traditional features of a barcode scanner as well as a new traffic light rating system for environmentally and health conscious shoppers.
Kingston Mini Fun USB flash drives
Kingston Digital has announced the new Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun Generation 2 (G2) USB Flash drive. The latest Kingston release features great colours, a rubber casing and a miniature size, reviving one of Kingston's favourite designs.
Brits confused by their cameras
Over a third of Brits (37%) are under using their cameras, more so than other technologies such as mobiles or laptops, according to research from Samsung. A quarter (24%) admit to feeling worried when they press a button which produces a display they don’t recognise and just over one in 10 (13%) say they are so confused by their cameras that they hand it to someone else to take the shots!
Riskmas time, mistletoe and crime
Laptops, consoles and cameras were top of the burglars' Christmas list last year as criminals cashed in on empty homes and newly-bought presents.
SWISS launches smartphone app
SWISS now offers an application for use on BlackBerry smartphones. The new app enables users to make a SWISS reservation, check in, check the status of their flight, and more, while they’re on the move.
Brits to splash out ahead of January VAT hike
Over 13.75 million UK adults (28 per cent) say they plan to go on a shopping spree in the next few weeks in advance of the increase in the standard rate of value added tax (VAT) on 4th January 2011, according to new research from Santander Insurance UK.
O2 launches hunt for the world’s favourite Angry Bird
O2 has launched the biggest bird search since Tweety and Sylvester to discover just which Angry Bird is closest to the country's heart.
DigiPoS launches MobileShopper
DigiPoS, leading hardware and solutions provider for retailers, has launched its mCommerce ecosystem, called MobileShopper. A first for the retail sector, the Smartphone based application, which presently runs on the Apple iPhone will soon be available on Google Android and Blackberry.
Christmas TV despair drives Brits to online gambling
The number of people gambling online over Christmas looks set to rocket as the TV networks schedule nothing but repeats, repeats, repeats.
£1.4 billion to be spent on tablet computers this Christmas
New research from independent price comparison and switching service, uSwitch.com, reveals that 8% of consumers - potentially four million - are planning to buy a tablet computer over the Christmas period, at an estimated total cost of £1.4 billion or £353 per device. Unswayed by the VAT increase, a further 21% of consumers intend to buy a tablet within the next year.
iPhone app puts car rental at your finger tips
Find the cheapest car hire deals worldwide in no time with the new free CarHire iPhone application, available from Apple’s App Store today. Developed by popular car hire comparison site carhiremarket.com, the CarHire App allows you to access over 130 suppliers in 195 countries within seconds, whether you are at home packing your case or already on the beach!
Barclays CFD and spread trading app for iPhone
Barclays Stockbrokers, UK online execution-only stockbroker, has announced the launch of its first app for iPhone.
Mums on standby to capture every moment
A staggering 82% of mums film their children going about their lives up to six times a week.