British Gas and Vauxhall Ampera (which has just won car of the year) have teamed up to produce an electric vehicle with an enhanced ownership experience. In a nutshell British Gas has created a home charging solution which is said to significantly reduce Ampera’s (EV car) charge time, making it around a third faster, as it allows the Ampera to draw 16 amps of charge (compared with the regular six or ten amps normally available to householders.)

We all love using our favourite gadgets, be it consoles, computers or charging our iPads/Smartphones, but I don’t know about you but there is always a niggle at the back of my mind as to how much Electricity it’s costing me.

Plusnet, the Sheffield-based broadband provider, has announced that it is to sponsor the new series of Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 5.Celebrity Big Brother returns on January 5th for a second run, and Plusnet will sponsor the three week run. Plusnet credits will appear on Celebrity Big Brother and CBB's Bit On The Side, with additional branding online and on short-form content at the official Facebook site, as well as on mobile and iPad.

You may or may not know that energyshare (made up of it's founding partners River Cottage and British Gas) are currently promoting their new initiative called the energyshare fund, which was designed to encourage and empower people to take control over their energy use and costs.

HTC, the Taiwanese mobile phones manufacturer, has a new mobile phone coming out soon called the HTC Radar. Featuring the latest Windows Phone 7.5 operating system the HTC Radar was designed to help users keep in close contact to people and information that maters to them the most. In order to do this, HTC created their social-centric People Hub.

The Blackberry Curve has been one of the bigger success stories of the now world famous range of phones and, since its first incarnation was released in the middle of 2007, it has been one of the most popular entry level phones on the market. It has several features that make it stand out from its rivals and combine with the great hardware – including the famous QWERTY keyboard – that you would expect from a Blackberry handset to make a very accomplished phone.

Over the years, the mobile phone retail market has proved to be one of the most diverse and difficult audiences to satisfy. With people from all walks of life demanding different features on their phones, it can be very tricky to rely on one brand to provide what any given customer needs.

Haptics is the science of tactile feedback and it is leading the way forward in the development of tomorrow’s touchscreen mobile phones. As well as reacting to touch, the touch screens of the future will apply a range of sensations to the user to create a different kind of virtual reality.