The National Trust has launched a free iPhone app to help you find your nearest place to visit, wherever you are in the country. With hundreds of properties and many of the UK’s favourite coast and countryside locations in our care, the app gives you the chance to find basic information about places, opening times, ...

We posted some pictures a while ago of the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 and today we are lucky enough to find some more. The guys at  Blackberrysync.com have managed to get some nice new shots of the device and I must say its looking pretty nice. We don't know a tonne about the 9100 although it will have 3G unlike its predecessor, the Pearl 8100. At Mobile World Congress RIM were reluctant to d...

Starting immediately, Microsoft is promoting alternative browsers to millions of Windows users across Europe. One of the top alternatives in the Choice Screen is the innovative Opera browser. "200 million Europeans now have a chance to find a new browser. We are convinced that people who try Opera will see that our product is better, because it is fast, powerful, easy to use and has the best... [

If you ever lose your phone, you'll want to find it or make sure that if it's truly lost, you can protect your private information.

You'd be hard-pressed to find a gadget that makes you feel more like a secret agent than the Swap Signature, a watch that doubles as a mobile phone and camera. Its interface is disappointing and it's expensive, but its call quality and photos are surprisingly good3 Vote

If you like real estate information, Zillow data on 95 million properties is now available for Android an Droid smartphones. The Zillow Android app is handy for home buyers and sellers and gives Zestimates, searches for homes for sale/rent, shows maps, and gives curbside view of homes. Voice search makes it easy to find information. Zillow Android App Features: Map Search and GPS: The app uses And...

Michael Scott points us to a rather surprising (given the source) piece in Ad Age asking if copyright is "the buggy whip of the digital age." Of course, most regular Techdirt readers will not be surprised to find that I agree with that statement wholeheartedly. It's a tool for a very different system that isn't needed. If anything, I'd argue the situation is worse than with buggy wh...

The other day, we took the Windows Phone 7 Series emulator out for a spin, only to find that access was quite limited. We were able to navigate some of the settings and use the web browser, but the Start screen and other components were quite bare which kind of put a damper on all the fun. That disappointment didn’t last long as Dan Ardelean has ... Related Posts GDC: Windows Phone 7 Series: Live...

Alright house flippers, you can now download the utterly-useful Zillow application for your Android smartphone. The free app uses your GPS to find houses on sale or for rent around you, and it pulls in a bunch of estimating data. The app will be compatible with voice searching, and youll be able to pull up home ...

AppBrain.com, website to find apps from the Android Market and sync downloads to your phone, launched a spam filter for many of the crap apps found in the Market. When asked how the idea came about, Uwe Maurer of AppBrain quotes: We decided to do something about this. We filter spam applications out of the listings on