After much speculation and some rather public toing and froing, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is finally coming to the UK. Just in case you didn’t already know, the Galaxy Tab is a new tablet device running the Honeycomb version of Google’s Android operating system which has been designed specifically to take … [Read more...]

A couple of weeks back I noticed a banner within Apple’s iBooks for P.D James books. Normally such a banner takes you to an custom designed author page with a large selection of books. The P.D James banner took you to a page with just ONE title - The Acts of the Apostles. I checked back a few days later and … [Read more...]

Back in January I bought A Murder Of Quality from iBooks. Like a number of John le Carré’s novels it has since changed publisher and I’m no longer able to re-download it without paying again. On the surface that probably sounds quite fair, it’s easy to argue that the currently listed version isn’t the one I … [Read more...]

Let me start by applauding the FT on what looks like an excellent web app to replace its previous iPad/iPhone app. The background to the launch of the app is set out in our news story so I’ll skip past that and move on to why I think the FT is one of the few titles which will enjoy any real success with web … [Read more...]