Matthew Bolton is a writer and wastrel currently residing Bath. He has been writing for LatestGadgets since late 2009 and has previously plied his trade at magazines including PC Plus and MacFormat, as well as TechRadar.com, TerminalGamer.com and various other websites. Matt lives life in the pursuit of better digital experiences, finding this both hugely fulfilling and a massive waste of time. This is probably best demonstrated by the fact that he own both an HD-DVD player and a Blu-ray player, as well as all three home consoles. At any given time you can generally find him chewing the fat about the latest games and gadgets to anyone who'll listen - most commonly his pets. Matt is also a big sports fan who supports Northampton Town football club as punishment for his sins in a previous life. He has spent several years selling and fixing computers and feels your pain as both a shopper and a retail worker. You can follow his occasional happenings on Twitter @matthewbbolton

iPhone OS 4.0 finally brings multitasking and six friends

Apple has unleashed an enormous update for the iPhone and iPad with its 4.0 software. Boasting 100 new user features and 1500 APIs for developers, the new software will be made available as a preview to developers today, with a launch this summer for the iPhone. iPad users will have to wait until the autumn for their update. Some new user features include a 5x digital zoom, Bluetooth keyboard support,…

Highlights from the Game Developer’s Conference 2010

The 2010 Game Developer’s Conference in sunny San Francisco has just finished, with a record-breaking 18,250 attendees from the gaming industry. GDC isn’t the place you tend to see big new games announced, but sometimes you do get a glimpse into the technology of titles yet to be revealed. Too much goes on at a conference of this size to recap it all, and a lot of it is pretty…

Round-up: The best of CeBIT 2010

CeBIT has once again graced Germany, and there was all sorts of technology on display. Granted, most of it was tedious or irrelevant, but there were plenty of diamonds shining in the teutonic rough. Very kindly, we’ve sifted through the chaff and have found you five pieces of tasty, tasty wheat. Oh, now, stop your thanks. We not heroes, but it’s nice of you to call us that anyway. Asus…

Auto Trader iPhone app: Number plate recognition in your pocket

Auto Trader seems to understand the point of having an iPhone app. The easy way out would have just been to make an app that let you browse their current listings in a fancy touch shell, no different to a website, but that’s not what these guys did. Instead, we’ve got a clever app that makes the most of the hardware available. Available free from the iTunes store, the famous…

Microsoft Courier ‘digital journal’ rumour round-up

With the iPad lumbering over the hill to general release and hundreds of other other tablets looming on the horizon, we’ve been eagerly anticipating seeing some more details of the Microsoft Courier concept that appeared back in September on Gizmodo. This time it’s Engadget who’ve gained some information from a “trusted source”, and it bodes well for Courier becoming an actual physical product, as opposed to some abstract videos on…

Magneat wrangles your cables back to tidiness

We like gadgets, here at Latest Gadgets. They’re sort of our raison d’être. I have our slogan – Life needs gadgets – tattooed on an unusual part of my body. Try to guess which bit; I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. This obsession means we also like to look out for things that make gadgets better. A useful peripheral for our computer, maybe. A fancy tripod for our camera, perhaps….

Samsung first to mass-produce 3D panels

Things are getting serious when it comes to 3DTV, with pretty much all the big companies showing off 3D-ready TVs at CES. Samsung seems to be beating them all, though, by actually ramping up full production of 40-inch, 46-inch and 55-inch 3D panels. Samsung is producing standard LCD panels as well as LED panels, presumably meaning there will be 3DTVs available for a range of budgets. The 3D technology at…

Nanopoint announce USB 3.0 PCI-E card

Got lots of high definition video stored on your computer? Current USB speeds aren’t ideal for transferring large files, but they’re getting a serious upgrade. USB 3.0 offers theoretical transfer speeds of 4.8Gbps – a ten-fold increase over USB 2.0’s 480Mbps. It’s backwards compatible with current USB products, and won’t cost a huge amount more. Sound good? Well, you know there must be a catch, then. Intel is the bigwig…

Toshiba Freeview HD Blu-ray recorder?

Though it’s somewhat late to the Blu-ray party after nursing the HD-DVD hangover, Toshiba is ready to lead the pack when it comes to Freeview HD. The company has revealed that it plans to launch a Blu-ray recorder with twin DVB-T2 tuners and a hard drive to cover all your free HD recording needs in 2010. Keen AV gadget-watchers will probably notice that this set up will make it a…

ATI’s 5970 fastest pixel-pusher goes up to (DirectX) 11

In the bleeding edge world of technology, graphics cards are probably the bloodiest of them all. The new world’s fastest pixel-pusher is ATI’s 5970, essentially two of its (already pretty impressive) 5870 GPUs squashed into a single card for the considerable sum of £580. Well, I say “squashed”, but by all accounts this card is a monster. It’s barely able to fit in even some serious enthusiast cases, extending further…