GetTaxi is now available on Android, iPhone and BlackBerry and is London’s first free new generation taxi app.

How does it work?

GetTaxi enables people to hail a taxi from their mobiles and allows you to track your taxi on a real time map and pay by credit card, cash or account straight from your phone. It is the only app of its kind available on all three major mobile platforms. It is easier and quicker  to order a licensed London Black Taxi, with no charges above the taxi meter, no credit card fees and a user-friendly set of features making it the coolest way to get a black cab:

· Order a taxi in just a tap: no more stroppy call centres, irritating hold music or mysterious whereabouts of the taxi

· See the taxi making it’s way to pick you up on a real-time map, from the office, pub or club

· Get the knowledge on your driver: see your driver’s photo, phone number and registration number sent straight to your phone, for complete safety and peace of mind

· Cashless cabs: Pay for your GetTaxi ride directly through your pre-registered credit card for free

· No card handling charges – and no late night fumbling for coins, looking for cash machines or your card

· Receive email receipts to easily expense your GetTaxi journeys through your company

· Share your journey with your friends through Twitter and Facebook

· Rate your Taxi driver and see their overall star rating

The GetTaxi mobile app automatically geographically locates the passenger via GPS and issues their request to the closest available taxis via GetTaxi’s special TFL approved driver units. It brings easy, super-safe and innovative digital taxi ordering to the masses, putting the user in control.

Get Taxi will also soon launch TaxiMiles, rewarding people for the trips they take and sharing the app with friends. Points are redeemable against a variety of gifts, and can also cover free taxi rides, rewarding users in three levels of usage: Newbie, Pioneer and Evangelist.

The Corkcicle is the perfect solution for wine lovers who want to maintain their wine at its optimum temperature.

No more messy ice buckets or ice cubes in your chablis with the Corkcicle you chill your wine from within. It looks like an icicle with a  cork on top (hence the name!) that is filled with a thermal gel. Store in the freezer and when you open chilled wine, pop in the corkcicle and it will maintain the temperature for an hour. Once you’ve finished drinking just rinse and pop back in the freezer for the next time. You can even use it with red wine too. Perfect wine every time.

Price £19.99

For more details go to www.corkcicle.com

Each week you can pick a new track (your “jam”), which is optionally shared over Twitter and Facebook. Your friends will similarly be recommending tracks and you can listen to them all in one set list – a kind of mix tape for the 21st century. You can also listen to a random jam, drawn from the thousands on the site, or a popular jam, which has had the most listens this week.

One downside of the site is that the list of songs is not comprehensive, but this has been nicely sidestepped by allowing subscribers to also select their jam from YouTube music videos, widening the selection considerably.

A brand new version of the  BeachBuoy 100% waterproof phone case has been launched by Proporta specifically for use by mountain bikers. Easily attached to the handlebars of a bike, the new BeachBuoy BikeMount allows cyclists to use any smartphone securely with a biking app such as ViewRanger, keeping it 100% waterproof whatever the weather. Compatible with all smartphones the BikeMount makes using your phone whilst cycling, easier and safer than ever before.

Price £17.95

The programme is today launching a competition to design a ‘skin’ or outer cover for the radio, which is open to design students across the UK-based universities and colleges as well as amateur designers and Today listeners. The competition was announced live on-air this morning and will now be open for a period of four weeks, with entries accepted until 5pm on Friday 11th May.

The radio will then go in to production and is expected to go on sale in late Autumn for a limited period.

To receive a full design brief and terms and conditions, entrants should email today@bbc.co.uk to with the header ‘RADIO DESIGN’ in the subject of the email.

The designs will be judged by Ceri Thomas, Editor of Today, Deyan Sudjic, Director of The Design Museum, Sarah Montague of the Today programme and Stevie Spring, Chair of Trustees for BBC Children in Need.

Harrods now stocks Capulet’s luxurious clutches and wristlets for iPads,iPhones and Amazon Kindles. Just in time for summer, the range features some hot new hues including Sunset Red, Seashell White and Powder Blue to ensure an on-trend, fresh summer look.

The range includes the Olivia and Eve clutches. The Olivia clutch has room for an iPad, whilst the Eve clutch has room for an Amazon Kindle. Capulet handcraft all of their clutches in England using only luxurious Italian and French leathers. The fit and finish of these clutches is uncompromising in their quality and finish.

The range is available now with prices starting from £144. Customers canfind Capulet’s products at Harrods’ Knightsbridge store or online atharrods.com.

The Sonicwalk is a portable, lightweight sound system that you wear like a backpack. It comes with 2 speakers built into the straps and it’s great for listening to your music when exercising without the need for headphones plugged into your ears. Simply connect your mobile or MP3 player and tuck it into the soft neoprene pocket in the strap. Slide your arms into the loops and start listening while you run, cycle or even ski. Crank up the volume from the controls on the straps too and if you are out and about at night it also has a battery power LED stip built into the back so you can be seen. Neat and compact and also safer and more comfortable that wearing headphones.

Price £89.99 Available from www.firebox.xom

The Samsung Exhibit II 4G measures 4.54 inches by 2.35 inches by .45 inches and weighs 4.1 ounces. It comes with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery (1500 mAh Li-ion) and has up to 5.5 hours of talk time and up to 15 days of standby time.

It runs on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread Operating System and has 4GB of internal memory, 512MB RAM and a microSD slot that has the capability to support up to 32GB of external memory. The Samsung Exhibit II 4G is 3G and 4G capable. Accessing the Internet will be a breeze with the lightning-fast 1Ghz processor.

You will easily enjoy your favorite photos, videos and games with the high-resolution display. The 3.7-inch WVGA display has 480×800 pixels. The smartphone has a built-in front-facing camera so you can take advantage of video chat. It also as a 3-megapixel camera with LED flash, 3x digital zoom, auto focus and face detection.

Another great feature you are sure to enjoy is T-Mobile TV. This allows you to watch live TV, news, sports and stream popular entertainment on demand straight to your Samsung Exhibit II. The smartphone also has one touch access to the Android Market. You have direct access to thousands of useful and fun apps like games, social networking and on-the-go shopping. You can customize your phone and have everything you need at your fingertips.

Swype is another feature of the Samsung Exhibit II. It allows you to send messages faster and easier on your touch-screen device. You simply slide your finger over the letters that make up the word you want to spell.

The smartphone also has USB tethering so you can use your device’s data connection to access the Internet on your laptop. You can even turn your phone into a mobile hotspot. By adding the Smartphone Mobile HotSpot service to your phone you can share your phone’s high-speed Internet connection with laptops, iPads and other Wi-Fi enabled devices.

There are many other great features of the Samsung Exhibit II. So it’s safe to say the Android-powered smartphone is one of T-Mobile’s best prepaid phones.

In many areas of my life, I can be pigeon-holed – I’m a liberal, a geek and a technophile.

But when it comes to which flavours of technology I subscribe to I can’t be pinned down. Of course no-one is fanatically pro-Microsoft any more but nor am I an Apple diehard. I appreciate the pros of Android openness but I also understand the cons.

This approach has many benefits, but it does have one disadvantage. Unlike the Apple only extremists my iPad and phone can’t work together. They can’t run the same software and I can’t take advantage of the really neat Scrabble feature where you can use your phone as a tile rack.

In fact I have not only an iPad and a Nexus One (Android) phone but also a windows netbook and even a MacBook for video editing. And I need to use the same software across all of them.

Luckily we’re starting to see lots of solutions that let us do exactly that. Dropbox allows me to seamlessly copy files and is now even integrated with many apps such as iTalk for the iPhone.

There are also many note sharing systems starting to arise, and the one I’ve found that suits me best is Evernote. Recommended by a colleague who uses it for work meetings (high praise indeed) I can take and sync notes across my iPad, Android phone, laptop, desktop and Mac. Phew!

Ten years ago Sky+ launched, changing the way the nation watches television. Sky+HD continues to innovate and it is now used over one billion times a month to record programmes and series at the touch of a button, and to pause and rewind live TV in over 8.3million homesacross the UK.

To celebrate the anniversary, Sky has launched ten limited-edition 1TB Sky+HD boxes exclusively designed by some of Britain’s most high profile fashion, fabric and jewellery designers including Matthew Williamson, Richard Nicoll, Agent Provocateur, Celia Birtwell, Julie Verhoeven, Solange Azagury- Partridge and Farrow & Ball.

The Collection:

The dazzling collection, is available via www.sky.com/designerboxes priced at £49 for existing Sky customers upgrading to the HD pack or £149 for new customers joining with the HD pack.

The full range features creations from:

· Agent Provocateur

· Basso & Brooke

· Celia Birtwell

· Farrow & Ball

· Jay Jay Burridge

· Julie Verhoeven

· Matthew Williamson

· Richard Nicoll

· Roksanda Illincic

· Solange Azagury- Partridge

What the Sky+HD 1TB box does:

This exclusive collection not only offers quirky, eye-catching gadgets to liven up any living room, bedroom or study but also gives people flexible control over a wide choice of programmes from Sky.

Sky+HD also gives access to over 50 HD channels, lets people record up to 240 hours of HD or 740 hours of standard definition programmes, and enables viewers to record two channels while watching a third recorded programme at the same time or even set the box to record something from a smart phone or iPad while on the move – 2 million customers now use this remote record function.

The box is also 3D-ready, so anyone with a 3D TV can watch Sky 3D at no extra cost with a subscription to Sky World HD. And with Sky Anytime+ you can choose from a huge library of TV programmes, box sets and movies to watch on demand.

Since it launched in 2001, Sky+ has revolutionised the way we watch TV and is now used more than 35million times a day, making it easy for viewers to record on-the-go and catch theirfavourite TV programmes when they want.

More than 8.3 million homes now have Sky+. That’s more than those with cats (5.7 million) dogs (5.8 million) and even children (7.7 million)!