Rule Britannia: so we might have allowed the USA to declare independence back in 1776, but y'know what? We have an actual club for companies that are over 300 years old, and still in the hands of their rightful owners. America, you could be both those things if you hadn't thrown a stroppy fit at us way back then. Read More >>

Android haters are always quick to jump on the bandwagon of fragmentation, claiming that the Android landscape is actually just a crater-strewn land of old and new versions of the OS. They're wrong. Some interesting stats show that almost 90 per cent of Android devices are running just three major releases of Android. Screw you, iOS. Read More >>

So, did you know that Bill Clinton couldn't even keep track of the US nuclear codes, let alone his mistresses? According to a former US General, Clinton managed to "misplace" the codes for a matter of months, something described as "a big deal". That's a teensy bit of an understatement. Read More >>

For all of next week, if you dare show your face on the internet you're going to be slapped -- hard -- by more Consumer Electronics Show news that your poor brain can stand. Yet, over the years, some significant stuff has still managed to wrestle its way through the metric tonne of crap that also gets released. Read More >>

You're probably as confused as we are about what day it actually is, but we can confirm that today is Friday, and that means IT'S THE WEEKEND! Read More >>

Here's an interesting one. Spotify's had a music store in UK for ages now, first provided by 7Digital and then later its own, but now it's suddenly stopped letting people buy music from it. Is this permanent, and does anyone really care? Who actually buys stuff with a Spotify Premium account anyhow? Apparently Spotify's streamlining. [Spotify via Pocket-Lint] Read More >>

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than a UK electronics store. We've all been there. The stench of mouldy '80s carpet. The constantly-whining theft alarms. The cheap plastic pedestals which seem to bio-degrade in your hands. The display phones and tablets without Wi-Fi connection; cameras with depleted batteries; everything thrown around on the shelves seemingly at random, like cars being sold by some deranged salesman who decided to take out the wheels and engines and scatter them all around the showroom in the least convenient way possible. Read More >>

There was a bit of a panic in the internet security world yesterday when Google revealed that a couple of completely random and totally dodgy Turkish websites are in possession of incredibly valuable digital certificates that can trick your browser into giving away all your Google details to some stranger. Needless to say, Google's security bods were in a bit of a tizzy. Read More >>

Oh boy, the Sony leaks just keep on a-comin. According to Taiwanese site SonyXP, the Xperia Z (a.k.a. 'Yuga') will run you a sweet £400 when it starts shipping in early March. Although that's a king's ransom compared to the bargain-bucket Nexus 4, it's actually cheaper than Samsung's Note II, but packing properly high-end specs. We could have a new winner in the phablet market. [SonyXP via Techradar] Read More >>

Last night, London-based makers of popular Linux OS Ubuntu, Canonical, unleashed a mobile version of Ubuntu which also provides options to dock and give you a desktop experience. Even if it ultimately doesn't work, this is an important innovation because phone/desktop hybrids are quite possibly where the future of computing lies -- one device to rule them all, one device to--oh, you get the idea. Read More >>

Yeah, I know: you're back at work, hungover, tired, still picking bits of turkey out of your teeth. The world sucks right now. But at least there's some medical justification for you feeling like a pile of crap -- Seasonal Affective Disorder. Read More >>

Ever bought someone the wrong book, or DVD for Christmas? Or how about the wrong gadget? According to Britain's search results, loads and loads of people just plain bought the wrong Apple product for their loved ones. That's because everyone wanted a Nexus 7, right? Read More >>

Dance, Twitter-Roach, Dance! If you're a big insect rights campaigner, look away now. An evil supervillain masquerading as an "artist" is finding new and convoluted ways to control (using Twitter no less) insect minions to do her dastardly bidding. Read More >>

With Christmas and 2012 well and truly behind us, we welcome 2013 with the results of our most recent Shooting Challenge, the subject of which was simply 'Christmas'. Read More >>

CES is so close we can almost touch it, but Sony seems to have jumped the gun a little, leaking official press shots of the two phone/phablet things it's probably going to debut in Las Vegas next week. Steady on there boys, just a week more to wait. Read More >>