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HOST OF CELEBRITY NAMES JOIN IN WITH THE CAMPAIGN What do Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Dr Dre, Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have in common? The answer is that they're all celebrities who have thrown themselves head-first into a seemingly unassuming 'challenge' that has turned into a true viral phenomenon in recent weeks: The ALS Association's Ice Bucket Challenge. The premise is simple enough: you're a prominent public figure who agrees to have a bucket of ice water poured over your head, having the event recorded so that it can be witnessed by YouTube viewers around the globe. In the process, you also nominate three of your friends to be subjected to the same treatment. But of course, as tends to be the way with these things, this…

WHY THE FAIRER SEX IS IN LOVE WITH iOS Have you ever wondered how the various smartphones and tablets on the market fare among the sexes? Perhaps you've pondered whether it's the iPhone that really rocks a girl's heart, or instead a rival from Samsung or Nokia? Are certain devices seen as inherently 'feminine' or 'manly', and if so, why? If these questions have ever intrigued you, then you may be interested to read the recent evidence suggesting that women really are in love with Apple and iGadgets. Cache-cleaning firm KS Mobile conducted a study into the gender biases towards various phone manufacturers, and found that Apple was the preferred mobile handset provider for 45 per cent of women polled. There wasn't any location bias to this, either - across every region…

HOW YOUR iPHONE IS FAR FROM JUST A PRODUCTIVITY TOOL When you reach into your pocket and pull out your iDevice, what do you think you're holding? Is it a mere phone or tablet, good for phoning and/or emailing friends above all else? Or do you particularly prize your iPhone or iPad as an Internet-ready device, perhaps using it to watch YouTube or Vimeo footage? Of course, there are loads more potential applications for the humble iDevice, some better known and less unusual than others. But if there's anything you might have noted about those we have suggested above, it's that they're a little... how shall we put this... sedate. They don't get the pulse going too much. However, there's a reason why iGadgets are so ubiquitous - they really…

PLENTY TO SAVOR AT LATEST CELEBRATION OF TV GREATEST The Primetime Emmy Awards... it's been going in some form since 1949, and it's very much to the world of prime time television programming what the Grammys is to music. Across the United States, people of all ages and backgrounds tuned in to NBC to see what television programs and actors on this occasion had claimed the coveted gongs of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. For the 66th running of the Awards, which was held on Monday, August 25, 2014 at the Nokia Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, certain things were familiar and other things definitely weren't. THE MORE FAMILIAR THINGS... So, what hadn't altered too much? Well, the award categories were as comprehensive as ever, covering the likes of…

ORIGINAL MOVIE WAS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON You might have thought that any family film aims to be charming, but it's difficult to think of a family-friendly flick in recent years that has quite so widely enchanted people as Dolphin Tale. The 2011 film, directed by Charles Martin Smith and starring Nathan Gamble, Harry Connick, Jr., Ashley Judd, Kris Kristofferson and Morgan Freeman, was inspired by an actual bottlenose dolphin called Winter. Winter was born in 2005, resides at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is instantly identifiable by the lack of her original tail, which she lost due to its entanglement with a rope attached to a crab trap. The incident means that she is now fitted with a prosthetic tail in order to swim naturally. The dramatization of…

USING YOUR iDEVICE 'ON THE GO' Anyone who has been on holiday anywhere, ever, for even the shortest period of time, knows how easily things can go wrong. Maybe you've got a string of anecdotes of your own to tell. Perhaps you have tales of missed flights, hotel check-in problems, an inability to access your work emails from Barbados, and more besides? To be fair, though, any issues you may have experienced in recent years 'on the go' might not be quite so profound as those that you will have encountered just a few decades ago. These days, it seems that even the remotest parts of the world aren't too far from a Wi-Fi hotspot or seven, and that's without even considering how monumental an impact the smartphone and tablet…

MAIN SLATE SELECTION NOW CHOSEN Who doesn't appreciate a film festival? If you're a cinema fanatic, you've always had a good choice of such events here in America, with the Sundance and Toronto festivals being the perfect place to discover what you'll be chomping on popcorn to for the year ahead. However, let's not forget another of the must-see events in this vein, the New York Film Festival. It's back on the streets of the Big Apple from September 26 to October 12, for its 52nd running - so what better time to reflect on the delights of an event that has been described by Indiewire as "the grand daddy of American festivals"? Indeed, it's been running since 1963, with the showcased films being selected by the city's Film Society of…

FACTORS POWERING THE MOBILE FITNESS REVOLUTION The summer is a tricky time for many of us. No, we aren't referring to all of that money you blew on watching the United States' admittedly impressive show at the soccer World Cup, or even the need to slap on the sun cream or duck for cover in the continuing heat waves. What we're referring to, is the fact that this is the midpoint of the year and your New Year resolutions might not be working out as you'd have hoped. After all, what's probably the trickiest New Year resolution of all? Something even tougher than getting that longed-for promotion or even patching up relations with the mother-in-law? We are, of course, talking about getting fit. If you're like anyone else, you've probably…

WHAT YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE SOCIAL NETWORK You might think that you know Facebook like the back of your hand. After all, you may be on the site every day, perhaps sending a quick message to your friends, keeping abreast of the latest events and/or debating a certain thorny topic on one of the seemingly infinite interest groups. It's such an intuitive platform, and seems second nature to many of us now - as standard a part of our lives as our jobs and family. But how much do you truly know about this most ubiquitous and unavoidable of social networks? Do you know how it really started out? Are you aware of some of its astonishing growth figures? What about its major features, or the company's recent acquisitions?…

iPHONE 6, WATCH AND APPLE PAY ALL BREAK COVER Tuesday, September 9 2014, at 10am PDT. Finally, we had a date and date for what could surely simply be described as "the big one" - quite a term, given that the world had already seen quite a few "big ones" from this particular source. Those of us who are 'in the know' when it comes to all things tech - and that seems to be almost all of us, these days - have seen events like this before. We've read all of the chatter on the rumor blogs beforehand, contemplated what we might expect to see ourselves, talked about it with friends and all manner of other things. Yes, that's right, we're talking about the latest major Apple launch. And…

THE CELEBRATION OF A TRUE ITALIAN ICON Show business is notorious for chewing up and spitting out all manner of even the very greatest talents. So many have come and gone, which makes it all the more remarkable that one particular cinema icon is celebrating her 80th birthday. That's right: it's none other than Italy's very own movie jewel, timeless beauty and eternal diva Sophia Loren, who marked 'many happy returns' on 20th September. As you'd expect of such an internationally enduring symbol of beauty and talent, Loren didn't mark the milestone any old way: she did so with a book of memoirs reflecting on her astonishing rags-to-riches story. It's easy to forget, after all, that Loren was born in poverty in 1934, the daughter of a frustrated actress exasperated…

'EDM' FINALLY BREAKING THROUGH IN THE UNITED STATES Are you partial to a bit of EDM? Let's correct ourselves there: if you're into EDM, or electronic dance music to give it its full moniker, then "a bit" of it probably isn't good enough for you. For those in the United States who like to play as hard as they work, there's often nothing quite as fabulous as EDM. I EDM is a term applied to a broad range of percussive electronic dance music genres, generally produced for nightclubs and other dance-based entertainment environments. Of course, electronic dance music in general is nothing new. Some might say that it was truly born when legendary disco producer Giorgio Moroder and vocalist Donna Summer decided that a dance song could make perfect commercial…