Oli Sparrow
I have been interested in technology and gadgets since I was very young and started messing around with building computers not long after I learned to walk. My personal gadget vice is for mp3 players and earphones, on which I spend an inordinate amount of money as well as time researching.
Articles by Oli Sparrow
Facebook Users’ Home Addresses To Be Made Available
Facebook users’ home addresses and mobile phone numbers are being made available on a development platform according to a developer within the...
Over 5 Million Beatles Tracks Downloaded On iTunes
Over 5 million Beatles tracks have already been downloaded on iTunes, less than two months since the band’s back-catalogue was made available for sale on...
One In Ten Children Are Video Game “Addicts”
Nearly one in ten children are video game “addicts” and will be left with the problem, new research has revealed. A two-year study of more than...
AMD CEO Departure Due To Mobile Policy
The departure of AMD’s chief executive Dirk Meyer was partly due to the company’s board disagreeing with his strategy concerning the mobile market,...
EA CEO Claims Cloud Gaming Is Not The Future
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello has announced that he thinks cloud-gaming is not necessarily the future, and that games issued on disc are still the best...
Liquid Lenses Could Revolutionise Digital Photography
Smartphones and digital cameras look set to benefit from a recently-discovered fluid management technique used to make liquid lenses. Engineers at Rensselaer...
NHS Offer Remote Patient Monitoring
NHS patients with chronic heart problems are taking part in a remote monitoring trial, run by Wakefield District Community Healthcare Services (WDCHS). The...
No Saudi BlackBerry Web Filtering
Saudi Arabia has not asked Research In Motion (RIM) to filter Internet content accessed through BlackBerry devices in its country, sources have...
Google TV Finally Jailbroken
Google TV has been jailbroken by the GTVHacker dev team using a combination of software and hardware hacks. In a 6 minute video posted on Youtube, the group...
Motorola Has Big Hopes For Xoom Tablet
Motorola has big expectations for its new Xoom tablet, and is planning to sell around 1 million of the devices before April 2011. The American company is...
T-Mobile Halves Mobile Data Limits
T-Mobile is set to cut its monthly mobile data usage allowance limit from 1 GB to 500 MB from 1 February. The company’s customers will now only be able...
Hackers Target North Korean Social Media Accounts
South Korean hackers have taken over social media accounts associated with the North Korean government, using them to post negative comments and videos about...
Spotify Arrives On Logitech Squeezebox
Logitech announced today that it has come to an agreement with Spotify to make the popular music-streaming software available on its Squeezebox network music...
Gingerbread Seen Running On iPhone 3G
Hackers have managed to get Android 2.3 Gingerbread to boot on a jailbroken iPhone 3G. A Youtube video shows the Android OS running on the 3G, but it takes a...
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Backs Kinect PC Support
The Xbox 360 Kinect controller could soon be given official PC support, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said. The BBC asked in an interview whether the popular...
