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Words fail me on how much I love this tablet. I will say I'm slightly Google-biased, as I've owned Android phones before they were cool (and since), I use all their services (including Google+. Yes, there are people on there), and Google sent me a FREE Chromebook to beta-test it a year or two ago. So, yeah, I'm a little biased... =) BUT, I've waited to buy a tablet. There's 2 iPads (both 3rd gen) in our house, and I do like them, they're worth the $500. However, it's not fun to just play with it. You need apps. Then, apps aren't really fun unless you get the paid version. Then, a $500 tablet becomes $50 dollars more, just to get some basic apps and games! Plus, it's cumbersome and weighty, so if you're playing a game, you'll be sitting it in your lap within 5 minutes.

Saturday, hence I'll take the opportunity to rant about a neat, yet quite useless iPhone app called Beer O'Clock. This one's definitely not designed to increase your productivity - rather it's made to remind you how much time is left till your next beer. Hmm, in that sense it can actually do something to help you achieve more every day, right?

Nimbuzz is a powerful, versatile, fun, and easy-to-use text and voice chat application that lets you connect to virtually every major IM service. Nimbuzz puts MobileMe, AIM, GoogleTalk, Skype, MSN, Nimbuzz's proprietary service, and even Facebook right in your pocket, with excellent results.

Kerry Ritz is in Soho, London. His colleague Ross is in Newcastle. So there's not much reason to consider ringing Ross, to ask if he fancies a quick drink after work… but then Kerry knew that anyway from the display on his phone.

As a self-confessed Apple fan boy, I own an original 2G model - such as was my impatience in waiting forever for it to arrive in Australia (like every other bit of technology of course).

The iPhone DevTeam has released a new version of Yellowsn0w, their free unlock hack software for the iPhone 3G.

The iPhone Dev Team (not the Cupertino version) plans to release the first ever software-based unlock application for the iPhone 3G on New Year's Eve.

New app Security Cam from Crowded Road ($0.99 iTunes link) has had a long journey to the App Store. Its creators tell us the app was first submitted to Apple back in December of 2008, where it remained in review purgatory before finally getting approved earlier this week.

Apple iPhone is the most popular smart-phone on the market today. And this is so for a good reason: its incredible technical capabilities and endless supply of apps are so far unsurpassed by the competition. But iPhone comes with a significant cost. Besides paying for the iPhone you are also obliged to get quite expensive plans with only a few preselected network carriers. This can be a significant problem for your budget. But now there is a definite solution for this problem.

If you're dreaming of Netflix for your iPhone, good news: you're just a jailbreak away. Hacker Knisitruck says that the existing Netflix iPad app is secretly a universal binary and can be easily ported to the iPhone with a few simple steps.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and it only makes sense both mobile carriers and manufacturers show their loving with some generous deals. Remember how vocal T-Mobile was about its 'free smartphone offerings' for the upcoming special day? We aren't sure if AT&T's recent announcement is intended along the same lines, but unlimited calling to any mobile number only calls for attention.

Apple has gone out of their way to point out the cons of multi-tasking background applications - a claimed 80% reduction in battery life while on standby with a single 3rd party IM client enabled. Push Notification, likewise, has been promoted by Apple as providing a single point of coordination for 3rd party alerts routed through servers on Apple's end.

Over the last year we've hounded the Gmail team on whether one was on the way, and the answer is-in typical Google fashion, that there will be no discussion of products that have not been announced.

Following in the footsteps of PC classics like Doom, Myst, and SimCity, Sid Meier's legendary Civilization just landed in the App Store.

BARELY a day after telco SingTel released its pricing plans for the much-anticipated iPhone 3G S, would-be customers ran into problems trying to pre-order the phone.