January 30, 2009

Rude apps banned from App Store

Ever since the iPhone was brought out by Apple they encouraged developers to produce their own applications and sell them through the App Store, which many have done very successfully, but this success has also interested those developers who like to produce rude apps.
These applications take many different forms, some are amusing and funny, but [...]

January 28, 2009

Coffee no go for pregnant mums

Coffee should be off the shopping list for pregnant mums as recent research has revealed that it could increase the possibility of their babies developing cancer.
It is the caffeine in the coffee that causes the problem. As it is thought that caffeine can damage the babies DNA while it is still in the womb. This [...]

January 26, 2009

Apple celebrating 25 years of Mac sales

For twenty five years, the Apple Macintosh has been on the shelves of computer stores and things could not be any better for Apple, but it was not always like that.
The original Mac was a 128K machine launch on the 24th January 1984 and although Lisa was launched a year earlier, it is the Mac [...]

January 22, 2009

Brits shopping for foods they do not like

In a quest for a healthy life style, many people in the UK are forcing themselves to go out shopping for foods that they really do not like simply because they are taking notice of the claims that these foods are the healthy option.
Millions of people are trawling the supermarket shelves for liver, marmite, lentils [...]

January 20, 2009

Microsoft accused of monopoly in Europe

It seems like an age ago when Microsoft were first accused of having an monopoly when it comes to their browser Internet Explorer, for most people this was cleared up a long time ago by the authorities and by Microsoft themselves.
However it would seem that in Europe this is not so and the European Union [...]

January 16, 2009

Good night’s sleep saves hundreds in cold remedies

Over the winter months consumers spends millions if not billions of pounds on treatments for colds, which for most of the time will not do anything to cure the cold, other than make the sufferer feel slightly more comfortable.
However, researchers have found that although there may not be a cure for the common cold, there [...]

January 14, 2009

Japanese try new products to stay young

The Japanese have always had some strange shopping habits, well they would appear to be strange to us, and to them they are perfectly normal. However, sometimes they get into something that promises to promote not only beauty, but health too.
There a growing number of what are being called Beauty Restaurants, this is where these [...]

January 13, 2009

McDonalds doing well

There has been a huge turnaround at McDonalds recently; they have changed the decor in their restaurants and the menu too. This has had a huge effect on the turnover of the company, which at one time were struggling in the face of other competitors.
Yet this has been a quiet revolution within the fast food [...]

January 9, 2009

Scientists working on a love spray

There are always many products around that claim to attract the ladies. However, like the ambitions of the ladies men that like to use these products normally fail to deliver the goods, which is probably a good thing in the end.
Nevertheless, to make things worse for the women out there, scientists are working on developing [...]

January 7, 2009

Cars to get microwaves

This just cannot be a good thing, a new product is about to hit the market and will no doubt change the way people choose to eat while on the move. This product is a 12 volt microwave; it plugs into the cigarette lighter and will mean that hot meals are a reality for drivers.
In [...]

January 5, 2009

Vinyl records sales soar

For most people the thought of buying a vinyl record is something that happened around twenty plus years ago, but with the introduction of digital recordings, the famous black vinyl records began to fade away into the history books.
 
However, as with many products, if they are good enough they just keep coming back and this [...]