LS Fashion takes a tour of Trinity Leeds
Trinity- the major shopping centre that’s been brewing behind the back of M&S for years, set for its big unveil on March 21st!
Failure: the first step towards success?
Being told you’re not good enough is a simple factor of life. Whether it’s a rejection for a place at your desired University, or an unwanted grade in an essay; it seems failure is a common feature of our everyday life. However, this doesn’t mean we’re destined to fail for the rest of our lives. [...]
An iPad’s for life, not just for Business
Ever got caught out checking Facebook in lectures? Well students on one course are being told they must to have iPads to do their degree. The International Business course has become the first in the UK to introduce compulsory iPads. Programme Director Nicolas Forsans told Leeds Student that while he understood that a number of [...]
Comment: The Past Year in Tech
Samuel Dillon reviews the past year’s technological developments and the rise of tech journalism… Last summer, Google launched their social network, Google+, and bought the communications giant Motorola for about $12.5 billion. After that, we all got back to Leeds and realised that once again 30Mbs of broadband from Virgin was nothing but a pipe [...]
What We Like – 17/02/12
Tech news for the Twitter generation… Angry Birds fly onto Facebook You’re degree wasn’t going too well anyway, so why not give it up completely and start the quest to 3 star every level on Facebook? It’s free to play and compete against your friends for high scores, but additional special power-ups will cost you. [...]
Is the iPad 2 for you?
Leeds Student Tech gave Rosanna Pound-Woods an iPad 2 for two weeks to see how the 10-inch tablet intergrated into her student life. A luxury for some, a necessity for others… but is the iPad 2 a student must-have? Whilst perhaps most at home being read as a newspaper substitute by suited commuters on the [...]
Comment: Voice Recognition – Yes or No?
Voice recognition has reached a new level this year. With the introduction of Siri on the iPhone 4S promising us the vision of the future we all expect – one where we can simply ask our phone to conduct a task and it is done automatically. And to some extent Siri has achieved this, but [...]