So it’s official -- with the news that HMV has gone into administration, very soon we’ll have no way of buying music on the high street. While I feel bad for those affected by the closures that are set to come, forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for the demise of HMV (and with it the last of the big record stores). As my fellow commenter Eadingas phrased it in a previous Spiels From "Them Below", “The high street electronics store as we know it is dying, and not a day too soon.” As a music fan and musician, I feel the same way about high street music retail. Read More >>

Apple, and every other phone manufacturer for that matter, has a bit of a mess on its hands. Because the various 4G LTE networks are using sorts of different bands all over the globe, the 4G iPhone 5 we'll get will only work on EE's 1800MHz network, and not on the likes of O2 and Vodafone, who will be hamstrung with 800MHz and 2600MHz. Read More >>

Four HUBO robots have been taught how to drum about as good as Ringo ever managed, with accompanying synthesised speech letting them sing along to a Beatles classic in the modern 'auto-tune' style favoured by today's talentless musical youth. Read More >>