iHobo, the iPhone application that puts “a homeless person in your pocket” has today returned to theApp Store, bringing with it features that help users better understand the issues homeless people are suffering, integrating social support and easy ways to donate to homeless charities. The free application, whichoriginally launched in May 2010, let users take care of a virtual homeless young person for a period of three days, requiring their decisions to determine the iHobo’s future....

Well I don’t know how long this one will stay available but as M.I.C gadget is based in China, you may be able to get one for a while. The iHub is a USB hub that is designed to look like it was made for your Apple laptop or desktop. In fact it’s extremely reminiscent of the plastic Macbook. The iHub is an un-powered USB hub with a light up Apple logo, just like the back of your laptop....

I have a dilemma. I both love and hate Ikea’s latest audio gadget, its picture frame speakers. Over the past few years, Ikea has been working with Sonos to producea range of Symfonisk speakers. The philosophy behind these have been bringing audio into everyday items. And, when I first heard aboutthe just-announced picture frame speakers, I gushed with excitement. The idea of populating my house with them made me tingle. Imagine it: music pouring from every wall, a veritable cathedral of sound....

Despite best efforts to bring legal media streaming and downloading to the online masses, the illegal downloading of movies has risen 30% in the past five years,reportsthe BBC. The research was carried out by Envisional, an Internet consultancy firm. And its figures show that the top five box-office movies were illegally downloaded 1.4m times in the UK last year, costing the industry an estimated £170m. But it’s not just feature-length flicks that are popular with the pirates, as there has been a big rise in TV shows being downloaded illicitly too, rising from under a million in 2006 to around 1....

Here’s an audacious plan – package up apps containing old films that you don’t own the copyright to, place them in the iTunes App Store, hope no-one notices and reap the profits while you can. That’s what one enterprising Ukrainian has admitted to in aBBCreport today. “Of course, I do not have any license agreement”, the programmer explains. “This is all very simple. The companies, who can have complaints, submit them to Apple and Apple notifies me that they have to withdraw the application....