Monaghan claim Ulster honours
Monaghan were crowned Ulster champions for the second time in three years after holding on for a 0-11 to 0-10 victory over Donegal in Clones.
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Zimbabwe tie T20 series
Chamu Chibhabha hit a career-best 67 as Zimbabwe beat India by 10 runs at Harare Sports Club to draw their Twenty20 series 1-1.
Mourinho wants one more signing
Jose Mourinho says Chelsea are looking to make one more signing this summer, but are not interested in Barcelona forward Pedro.
Jacklin backs Monday finish
Tony Jacklin believes the R&A were left with no option but to extend the 144th Open into a fifth day following severe weather disruptions at St Andrews.
Phone Week: In pictures: a history of half a decade of Nexus phones
The evolution of the Nexus: introduction The Google Nexus phone has, in many ways, helped revolutionise the mobile market in much the same way that the Apple iPhone has. The Nexus devices may not have set the world alight in terms of sales, but they have served as important reference points for Android manufacturers. And some of them have been rather good. Apple’s iPhone has undoubtedly been the catalyst that
Phone Week: An Apple for teacher: how tablets are changing education
A brave new world “If you’re writing poetry, write it. Don’t type it in just because you can.” The classroom is changing, as new technologies dramatically alter the learning for both teachers and students. And at the heart of this change is the tablet. You might not think of the classroom as a key market for big companies such as Apple and Google, but according to research conducted by the
UK High Court outlaws CD and DVD ripping again
Remember last October, when it became legal to copy your own CDs and DVDs for personal and private use? It was a surprising victory for common sense in our modern digital age. Well, it didn’t last long: the High Court has now overturned that ruling after a challenge from musicians union Basca and industry outfit UK Music. Put your ripping software on standby again. So having legally paid cold hard
10 very old apps that still (somehow) work on Windows 10
Introduction Perhaps it is a testament to Microsoft’s legacy that some popular applications that date from the late 1990s can still run on its latest OS, Windows 10. The operating system, which will launch on Wednesday 29 July, has already been tested (and been seen running) on some very, very old and very, very slow hardware. Many will describe such exercises as utterly futile, and those same people will likely
Phone Week: Your house is getting smarter – and your phone is the brain
The future of your home Smartphones are nice and feature-stocked these days, but we know what the phone buying hoardes are like: everyone wishes they did more. Sure, you can tweet from them, but we want them to be able to cook us dinner and take the robot vacuum for a walk. The good news is that’s a future which may be closer than you think. We’re already on our
Manage, meddle or magnify? China's corporate debt threat
Beijing may have averted a crisis in its stock markets with heavy-handed intervention, but the world’s biggest corporate debt pile – $16.1 trillion and rising – is a much greater threat to its slowing economy and will not be so easily managed. Corporate China’s debts, at 160 percent of GDP, are twice that of the United States, having sharply deteriorated in the past five years, a Thomson Reuters study of