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Here is a challenge for you: go to any popular technology trade show and attempt to escape the talk tracks that focus on AI. AI is still very much en vogue, the zeitgeist that promises to be the cornerstone of the technical defining moments of this decade. However, while AI is undoubtedly going to change everything, in some ways it is simply the poster child for code that executes more intelligently than it did before. My favourite (tongue-in-cheek) definition of AI is anything that computers can do well today that they couldn’t do ten years ago. Decades ago that was playing chess; today it’s playing Go or driving a car. The user scenarios demonstrated at the tech shows are still a pipe dream for many developers. Examples of AI systems in Tesla’s automated cars and Google’s Deep Mind AlphaGo which beat the world champion of Go, are complex intelligent systems far from the everyday ones that typical engineering teams deal with. It’s a bit like teenage sex – everyone is talking about it but few are doing it. AI threat to jobsWhen AI is not heralded as the next new imperative, it is vilified as being the grim reaper set to destroy humanity, or at least to steal our jobs. Since the Industrial Revolution, automation has progressively replaced workforces, from the Jacquard Loom and agricultural mechanisation to automated supermarket checkouts and online accounting software. In reality, nearly all business applications created today are still based on traditional software. When it comes to jobs, humans will continue to work alongside automated systems, roles will evolve to account for the management of new, complex systems and human decision-making will go hand and hand with their development. While many senior software engineers within tech companies are charged by the executive team to “implement AI”, they are all still dealing with business applications based on conventional software. In a world where about 95 percent of ATM transactions use COBOL, and at a time when a range of products remain built on decades-old code, AI headlines distract from the real software reliability issues at play. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AvZcjmUMtehpuha5oJLcTB.jpg Laying the foundation for a successful AI deploymentAI, like any traditional business system or application, needs a robust foundation. Before being able to come to grips with creating complex applications, engineers need to address immediate software reliability issues, first. Nearly all software ships with undiagnosed bugs that may turn into serious production incidents, resulting in client churn and burning hours of engineering resource later down the line. It would be foolish to ignore the promise - and the threats - heralded by AI; it is equally foolish to ignore the problems and risks from the unreliability of today’s “regular” software. Commercial pressures mean that software development managers and their teams have to make trade-offs between code quality and the pressure to ship new product features. The Economist writes that some of the neatest software ever written – by NASA’s Software Assurance Technology Centre – carried 0.1 errors per 1,000 lines of source code. Most software has a reliability of many orders of magnitude lower than that. Tricentis, a testing platform vendor, highlighted this problem in their January 2018 Software Fail Watch report. It analysed 606 software failures and found that over 3.6 billion people had been affected by these software problems, resulting in $1.7 trillion in lost revenue to software vendors. Database vendors are particularly vulnerable due to the highly competitive nature of the market, the complexity of the systems, and the high costs of unreliability. As a result, bugs must be addressed as early as possible in testing. Unfortunately many are difficult to identify, as they only subtly affect the program so they do not seem to appear in the testing phase at all. Once in production, these bugs can lead to severe outages and software failures. Software reliabilityTo ensure businesses steer away from the above scenario, engineering departments are well advised to consider their software reliability strategy and take preventive measures to diagnose serious software defects before they cause havoc on customer site. So what can software development teams do to make their software more reliable? The revolution in testing (Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Fuzz Testing, etc) means that today thousands of automated tests can be run. A typical software project of a given size will be running thousands of times more tests than an equivalent project ten or twenty years ago. For the industry, this is a big leap forward. But all these tests are a nightmare to triage if even a tiny fraction fail, particularly if they fail intermittently. One possible solution to this trillion-dollar problem of software reliability is software flight recording. By recording a program execution as it fails, engineering teams obtain a reliable reproducible test case that gives them total visibility into all the factors that led up to (and caused) a crash or program misbehaviour. This approach is especially effective against intermittent test failures, which are by nature very difficult to reproduce – a common problem in software development. Software failures can then be captured, replayed in a reversible-debugger and diagnosed orders of magnitude faster than with traditional techniques. A solution like recording and replaying program execution allows software engineering teams to observe exactly what their program did at any point in time and why. This helps to speed up time-to-resolution and minimise customer disruption. Recording and replaying program execution is a revolution in software development and testing. Businesses should be less concerned with the fanfare revolving around AI systems and consider instead how to improve the foundation on which their business applications and products are built on. Dr Greg Law, Co-Founder & CTO at Undo We've also highlighted the best AI platforms for businesshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/NnE_F1Ahfk8

Picture credit: CNSA China is orbiting the moon – and is about to (try to) land on it. Almost exactly 50 years after NASA's Apollo 8 mission successfully put astronauts in orbit of our satellite for the first time, a Chinese probe called Chang’e-4 (CH-4) now circling the moon is about to send a lander to the moon's far side. That's a destination no space agency has visited before, and it will be a huge test of China's space technology – and a massive source of national pride if it comes off. Could it be the beginning of another space race to get back to the Moon? http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UERvDAnHkmXZ8wSkGuTjXX.jpg China's CH-4 lander will touch down in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon's far side. Picture credit: CNSA How to watch China's moon landing live on TVThere's a belief that the China National Space Administration (CNSA, the national space agency of China), is quasi-military and keeps everything under wraps, but in reality, it's little different to NASA. A few years ago it broadcast the landing of its Chang'e-3 (CH-3) moon probe live on Chinese state broadcaster China Central Television's English language channel. You can watch it all live online at CGTN. It's due to land December 31, but that could very easily (and most probably will) slip to the first few days of January. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WE3iLcxG9T6sibt6tdjPWP.jpg The moon's far side, as photographed by the Apollo 16 astronauts. Picture credit: NASA What is the 'dark side of the moon'?There is no such place. The phrase was popularised by prog-rock band Pink Floyd's concept album Dark Side of the Moon in 1973, which became one of the best selling albums of all time. Some think that the "I'll see you on the dark side of the moon" refrain is something about insanity, and perhaps a metaphor for humanity’s dark side. It's definitely not about our satellite, which has no 'dark' side. Yes, it's tidally locked to Earth, so shows us only one face. It takes as long to rotate on its own axis as it takes to complete one orbit of Earth, which is also the length of one day on the moon – 29 days. Its face wobbles a bit, but essentially when you look at a Full Moon it always looks the same. However, the phase of the moon depends on its position relative to the Earth and the sun, and the opposite side – the 'far' side of the moon – gets just as much sunlight, and therefore has the same phases, as the near side. Why land on the far side of the moon? CH-4 is headed for the Von Kármán crater in the moon's South Pole-Aitken Basin. As well as being unexplored, it may have water. CH-4 will test for that and take photos. Also, the moon's far side lacks electromagnetic radiation, which Earth's proximity causes on its near side. So astronomers think that it could be a good place to put telescopes. CH-4's lander has a few of its own, so will test that theory. The far side is also an impossible place to communicate with from Earth. During the Apollo missions, the crew in the command modules went out of radio contact for about 45 minutes during each orbit. However, last summer China launched a satellite called Queqiao to relay signals from CH-4 back to China. That's great news because it means the entire event can be shown live on TV. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WhFJdTA28wyY7E9Vh9Az4c.jpg Elevation data of the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the moon's far side. Picture credit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona When did CH-4 leave Earth? China's latest mission to the moon began on December 7, when it lifted-off from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China’s Sichuan province atop a Long March-3B rocket. On December 12, it slammed on the brakes after about 240,000 miles/385,000km from home and went into orbit around the Moon. It's sitting there now, testing its systems. Who else is going to the Moon?In March 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to send its Chandrayaan-2 probe to the lunar surface, a mission that will also have a rover. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) also has plans to put a lander and a rover on the lunar surface, as does Israeli space company SpaceIL, which wants to measure the Moon's magnetic fields early in 2019. NASA also has its own plans to revisit the moon using private companies. What is the Chang’e-5 mission? Chang’e-5 (CH-5) is an even more ambitious planned mission that in 2019 or 2020 will land on the moon, scrape-up a rock sample, then launch it back to China. Technically speaking it's the first step towards a crewed mission, but even on its own, it will instantly put China in the 'moon rock' club alongside the US and Russia. That would be highly symbolic and would underscore China’s rapid advance as a space power even more than CH-4's projected moon landing in the New Year. This month's SpaceX's 'rideshare' rocket may help change the internet foreverhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/wZ-jL16ki_w

2018 was a great year for phones. We saw huge leaps in the power of computational photography, cheap phones that look and feel like they could pass for a model three times the price, and glass designs as far as the eye can see. Will 2019 top it? Judging by what's coming, quite possibly. Next year we'll get 5G phones, the first true folding screen model from one of the big names, still more CPU power. And, with any luck, even more progress in phone cameras. Here are the launches you need to watch out for in 2019 that will bring these goodies. The best smartphones of 2018: US | UK | AU | AESamsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plushttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/4jLxNE2J2VysUPhpw7UafZ.jpg The Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus will be among the first flagships to launch in 2019 When? March 2019 Sure, by the end of 2019 we may end up recommending you buy a Galaxy Note 10 rather than the Galaxy S10. However, it's the Galaxy S10 we'll see first, and it will set the tone for Samsung's 2019 phones. The big feature here is the follow-up to the notch. Instead of a lip on the top, screens will look as though they've been attacked with a hole punch. While you may be able to make fingerprint scanners that sit behind screens, standard camera sensors aren't designed to deal with that hurdle. That hole is needed. It looks a bit odd at first glance. But hopefully once your eyes have adjusted it'll stop looking like someone has stolen a tiny portion of your OLED. Story so far: Samsung Galaxy S10 | Samsung Galaxy S10 PlusSony Xperia XZ4http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nCZ2K9HBro6rHexWigLriQ.jpg Sony still felt a step behind the competition in 2018. Can it move ahead in 2019? When? March 2019 Sony has had a bit of a struggle in staying relevant as a maker of top-end phones. In 2018 it did a pretty good job, though, with an OLED screen and a price far lower than some of the direct competition, in the Sony Xperia XZ3. The Sony Xperia XZ4 may go bold with its screen tech once more, and use a 21:9 aspect display without a notch. This would make the phone arguably the most "cinematic" to date, as it is close to the 2.39:1 anamorphic standard. Sony reportedly designed a 21:9 phone in 2017, the Xperia X Ultra, but it was never released. Read our in-depth Sony Xperia XZ3 reviewHuawei P30 Prohttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/L4Bhtq2bQu43ZsgFQgvo2a.jpg The Huawei P20 Pro was great, but we want even more from the P30 Pro When? March/April 2019 If you're not impressed by Huawei's phones these days, you should be. After the amazing P20 Pro and Mate 20 Pro in 2018, the Huawei P30 Pro is right near the top of our 'most wanted of 2019' list. The big question is where Huawei can go next with its camera technology. Early reports suggest it will use a 38-megapixel main camera sensor, the Sony IMX607. However, it will be tough to improve the already-great low-light image quality of the P20 Pro. From a user experience point of view, though, perhaps speed rather than a drastic image quality change is what Huawei wants. The P20 Pro can take up to 6-7 seconds to shoot a low-light photo. If it can bring that down to a second or two, the P30 Pro will be even more fun to use. Huawei P30/P30 Pro: what we want to seeMotorola Moto G7 and G7 Plushttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pFPTCmAhgh2hRKC4MhZTRd.jpg The Moto G6 is the best budget phone of 2018, so the Moto G7 will have its work cut out When? March/April 2019 We're in the recommendations game. As much as we love new and exciting tech, telling you which phone, laptop, speaker or graphics card to buy is perhaps our most important job. And that's why the Moto G7 and Moto G7 Plus are so important. Motorola's G-series phones may not be the flashiest around, but each year since 2013 they've offered some of the best value choices for those after a phone that works well and doesn't cost too much. The Moto G7 is expected to have a small teardrop notch, to fit more display onto its front, and have at least two cameras on its back. All the latest news and rumors: Moto G7 | Moto G7 PlusLG G8 ThinQhttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/3vBKxGG8rzVtrmocTpx3be.jpg The G7 ThinQ was a solid smartphone, but lacked head-turning features. The G8 needs to step things up When? May 2019 LG's early 2018 flagship the LG G7 ThinQ stood out because it had an ultra-wide rear camera instead of the more popular zoomed kind. But nowadays several phones have both a zoom and a wide. Including LG's own five-camera LG V40 ThinQ. What LG will do next to stay relevant is a head-scratcher. We've written an entire article on what we want from the LG G8 ThinQ. Right now the price seems the most important part to get right. Sorry LG, but you might struggle if you try to go dollar for dollar against the Samsung Galaxy S10. LG G8: what we want to seeSamsung Galaxy Xhttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/c7DUFnsvrw56TAVqgF8RBR.jpg The foldable Samsung Galaxy X could be the most exciting phone of the year When? Mid-2019, TBC The top candidate for strangest phone of 2019 is an easy one to call. It's the Samsung Galaxy X, the foldable phone rumored for half a decade. And it is almost here. A prototype version of what is presumed to be this foldable monster was seen in 2018 at the Samsung Developer Conference. It's effectively a vehicle for Samsung's Infinity Flex display technology, the OLED panel and folding mechanism and makes such a futuristic-looking design possible. OK, so it's "2002-era futuristic", but we still want to give it a try. You effectively get a phone-shaped handset with a screen on the outside that can open up to reveal a tablet-size display. It's one way to let a phone take on the serious jobs you might otherwise use a laptop for. One snag: it's likely to be hugely expensive, enough to make the Galaxy S10 look cheap. Samsung Galaxy X: everything we know so farOnePlus 7http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Z644VRjPR352WSSwscD75.jpg The OnePlus 6T added an in-display fingerprint scanner and a smaller notch When? Before end of May 2019 OnePlus thrives on "leaks" and teasers rather than carefully keeping them to a tight pre-release schedule. And we already know the next OnePlus phone, which may be called the OnePlus 7, will have 5G mobile internet. It will make it one of the first to offer 5G mobile internet. And unless you live in a country with some of the best mobile network infrastructure in the world, it also likely means that extra speed won't be meaningful for a while. Still, shiny new things still shine. OnePlus let this tease out at Qualcomm's Snapdragon conference in December 2018, suggesting the phone will use the Snapdragon 855 CPU. You can expect existing OnePlus goodies too, like an in-screen fingerprint scanner and, probably, largely glass build. The one snag is the price. OnePlus has suggested the 5G version of the OnePlus 7 will be $300 more than the norm, so let's hope there's a 4G version for us mere mortals too. OnePlus 7 release date, price, news and leaksiPhone 11 and 11 Maxhttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gFGVahmTrzbsJZzqAgWeVK.jpg The iPhone XS and XS Max were incremental upgrades, so we're hoping for big things from the iPhone 11 When? September As ever, it'll be months before we see anything vaguely reliable leaked about the next iPhone. Apple likes to keep its surprises fresh for the big day, and that big day isn't until (most likely) September. The roll call of current spurious suggestions about what the iPhone 11 will be like include a pop-up camera module, a TouchBar display on its side and an iPad Pro-like stylus. We don't believe a word of it, but we're happy to be proved wrong. iPhone 11 release date, price, news and leaksGoogle Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XLhttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/79MsRwEAxJRTyctrExjJMm.jpg The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have some of the best cameras on a phone - how will the Pixel 4 improve? When? October It's too early for any major Pixel 4 leaks. But some references to 2019's upcoming 'first-party' Android have already appeared. Product codenames were spotted in the ARCore developer kit. This is what developers use to make Android AR apps. "Bonito and Sargo" may be the behind-the-scenes names for the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. This also suggests they may have next-generation augmented reality abilities. Such a feature would work in Google's favor, as it may well mean they have something rivals around at the same time lack. Read our in-depth reviews: Google Pixel 3 | Google Pixel 3 XLXiaomi Mi 9http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NfGSEwPQHRWMo4HhRHfDMM.jpg The flagship Mi 8 Pro is a feature-packed, yet safe option. We want Xiaomi to surprise us in 2019 When? TBC This is a very important time for Chinese phone maker Xiaomi. After racking-up massive sales in China and India, the brand is moving further west. It finally made its official UK debut in 2018. And while the US may be a tougher proposition thanks to the continuing friction between the US government and Chinese giants Huawei and ZTE, Xiaomi's intentions are clear. The company has many phone series, but the Xiaomi Mi 9 will be one of its key 2019 flagships. You can expect a large screen, in-screen fingerprint scanner and, most important for many buyers, a lower price than those of Samsung and Apple, for a comparable phone. The Mi 8 Pro was the firm's 2018 flagshiphttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/JtBcuixBJSI

Speech is a much more natural way of interacting with devices than poking at buttons and screens, and its popularity has exploded in recent years, with voice-enabled digital assistants now integrated into virtually every household device imaginable. That growth has been made possible by the works of companies like XMOS. The name might not be immediately familiar, but if you’ve ever used an Amazon Echo speaker then you’ve benefited from its technology. XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in voice processing. Its algorithms are capable of detecting softly-spoken voice commands from across a room – even in challenging conditions (like rooms with a lot of hard surfaces). So why has voice taken off so rapidly? “I think it makes life easier,” says Alex Craciun, algorithm engineer at XMOS. “You don’t have so many cables and complicated instructions that you have to take care of. You can just give commands and the device tunes itself, or tells you something that you want it to. That’s a lot easier.” “I play IT support to my parents, and we think voice is going to end that, because your technology will tell you how it works,” adds director of corporate marketing Esther Connock. “It won’t need to come with a remote; it won’t need to come with an instruction booklet – you just talk to it in a very natural, conversational way, and that for us democratizes technology because you don’t need to learn how to use it. You don’t need to come at it with knowledge. “So if you think about people with low literacy or low levels of education, suddenly it’s a much more open playing field. Vulnerable sectors of society can use technology and become less isolated. So for us, voice is the most natural thing in the world.” It's good to talkXMOS part of the blossoming tech industry in Bristol emerging from the city’s two universities, which also includes Ultrahaptics (which uses ultrasound to create a sensation of touch in mid-air), Reach Robotics (creator of the Mekamon augmented reality robot) and Graphcore (a spin-off from XMOS). Its speech detection and isolation tech includes beamforming (which tracks a person’s voice as they move around a room and moves the microphone to follow them), acoustic echo cancelation (separating the user’s voice from sound being played by the device itself), deverberation (compensating for echoes), noise suppression, barge-in (which stops audio playback when the device’s wake-word is detected), and fixed or automatic gain control (ensuring all voices in conference calls are heard at the same volume, regardless of how loudly the person is speaking). The company was founded in 2005, built on research from the University of Bristol. “They developed a micro-controller that could do a lot of processing, had a lot of power and capability, and could perform a lot of tasks concurrently,” explains Connock, “so that was hugely exciting.” Apple’s decision to kill off the FireWire port in 2008 opened up the market for USB audio, where XMOS found its niche. The company diversified, working for big players like Harmon Kardon and Yamaha, but also for DJs with their mixing decks, before turning to multi-channel audio. “With a board with a lot of processing power, we could produce something with up to 32 channels of output, so we could get fantastic multi-channel audio,” explains Connock. “And that specialism in sound and audio led us into voice as it started to emerge. One of our clients said, ‘With all your expertise, you should be thinking about microphones and capturing voice.’ And that’s exactly what we did.” For us [voice] democratizes technology because you don’t need to learn how to use itEsther Connock, XMOS In 2017, XMOS gained Amazon certification for its far-field voice interface. “We’re still their only qualified partner with a stereo solution, so for anyone developing TVs and soundbars and set-top boxes and doing work in true stereo, we’re the only provider that can do acoustic cancelation in stereo,” says Connock. “That’s really important to us, and something that we’re focusing heavily on this year at CES. But we’ve also just qualified with Baidu, so that’s very exciting, and we’re doing some work with NTT Docomo as well. We’re expanding across the regions.” Outside the homeXMOS currently specializes in edge-of-room voice applications, but it’s investigating other areas too, including in-car interfaces. “The technology that we’ve been developing over in Boston – sound source separation, which extracts multiple voices in a conversation – works really well for automotive,” says Connock. “So if you can imagine that I can be on the phone to you and I’m driving, it strips out everything that you can hear except for my voice. The kids can be shouting in the back, they can have a film that’s playing, and all you’ll get is my voice.” The company also has an interesting prediction for the future of voice: as a personal assistant (in a flexible, wearable smartphone) that will sit between us and the big companies that currently provide voice recognition services. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V5Foeqm9dfvUDcbtdru8bb.jpg “If I look at Amazon and Google (and to a degree Apple, with Apple music), they have a bias because they’re trying to sell us stuff. And I love Amazon for selling me stuff, but what I don’t want is voice spam, and the minute that starts to happen, people will switch away from voice,” explains Connock. The solution would be a kind of mid-layer that filters out any spam, and points you to the service that has the most relevant content for you (which it will learn based on your preferences). Your digital twinIt’s not just a theory – XMOS is already having conversations to make it happen. “It will happen quickly,” Connock says, “so we are looking at partnering, building, buying to create that ecosystem. So there’s a lot within that – there are lots of people we know operating in that space today. It’s open and it’s ready and we want to be taking advantage of it. It will learn not just my music preferences, but my everything preferencesEsther Connock, XMOS According to Connock, this will result in the creation of a ‘digital twin’ – a term that she admits sounds a bit twee, but is useful. It will learn and adapt to the way you use it. For example, it could learn that you don’t want it to speak to you unless you’ve spoken first. “It will learn not just my music preferences, but my everything preferences. When I want to be disturbed, my friends that I will prioritize talking to – everything.” Naturally speakingHowever, even with a truly personal assistant to filter out any spam, voice recognition still faces some resistance. “When you look at this,” Connock says, picking up her smartphone, “this is always on, it has a camera, it can always hear you, it’s got sensors, it gathers a lot of data, you type everything into it, and because we’re so used to it and so reliant on it, and it’s so close to us, people don’t see this as a privacy issue at all. The field is advancing really, really fast. It could even be tomorrow that something more natural comes up thereAlex Craciun, XMOS “And yet when you put a speaker in the middle of the room, everyone says ‘Oh, it’s listening!’ Well it is, but not as much as [the phone] is!” Connock believes that relevant, trusted content will be the key to voice becoming widely accepted. The moment the industry puts sales ahead of the user’s experience, it will have a problem, so XMOS is making sure it’s on the front foot, and prepared to react in case that happens. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XHoRBAbgRZC3LjL6dZaaeB.jpg There’s also the question of natural speech, as opposed to commands. Alexa Skills are very handy, but they’re not the same as talking to another human. XMOS’s algorithm engineers are working on making the interaction much more organic. “You need to feel like the machine understands your emotions – like it’s frictionless – then it will take off,” says Connock. It might sound like science fiction, but Craciun says it’s closer than we realize. “I think it’s already happening,” she says. “We’re seeing lots of developments from Amazon; every single month there’s something new coming up that you can read about. So the field is advancing really, really fast. It could even be tomorrow that something more natural comes up there.” The best smart speakers: which one should you buy?http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/jgwSitoJ7to

Website hosting is normally a service you'll buy just for your own use, but sometimes it pays to think bigger. If you're running your own business, for instance, perhaps as a developer or web designer, offering web space as an extra service to your customers could make a lot of sense. Many web hosts offer reseller schemes where you can buy a block of resources – disk space, bandwidth, a number of cPanel accounts – to divide and sell in any way you like. Costs can be very low, sometimes just $1.40 or $2.80 a month per account, so you could bundle hosting in other business products with very little impact on your bottom line. There are some significant issues to think about. For example, reseller hosting may look cheap, but that's because you'll probably have to be the first line of support for your customers. If they encounter any questions or technical difficulties, you’ll be their first port of call. You can pass anything complicated onto the web host, but they won't deal directly with clients for you. You will get more help in other areas. Many reseller accounts come with a free licence for WHMCS, an industry standard application to manage and automate hosting setup, billing and support. You're usually able to customize the control panel with your own branding, and the best hosts have special reseller tutorials and support to help keep your business running smoothly. There's no single way to identify the best reselling plans, because this varies depending on the products you're hoping to sell. Your first step should be to identify web hosts who provide the range of plans and support you need, and then compare whatever reselling schemes they offer. To help you understand what to look for, we've listed five interesting reseller products from some top industry names. Check them out to get a feel for the features you should look for, and the prices you might expect to pay. We've also highlighted the best website hosting services in this rounduphttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KPXWcmkm3mQQ8ZXTUDRj2i.jpg [Great exclusive offer from Inmotion Hosting - Get a free upgrade to the R2000S plan when you buy the R1000S plan by TechRadar's #1 rated Web Hosting provider] InMotion is a capable web host which offers a vast range of products and services, including one of the most comprehensive reseller hosting plans around. These start simply and with minimal restrictions. The R-1000S plan costs $13.99 a month initially ($27.99 on renewal) for 80GB of disk space and 800GB of bandwidth, but there's no limit on the number of cPanel accounts you can create, and everyone gets unlimited (within the available disk space) subdomains, email addresses, databases and FTP accounts. Buying through TechRadar means that you will get an automatic upgrade to the R-2000S slice with 50% extra bandwidth and storage space. Ramping up to the Reseller VPS-1000 plan gets you 4TB bandwidth, 4GB RAM and free SSL. There's still no limit on the number of cPanel accounts you can create, and the service is priced at $41.64 a month for the first term, $54.99 on renewal. While this is a little more expensive than some, InMotion offers plenty of extras and benefits. There's a free licence to WHMCS, the industry standard package for managing your client's billing and support. A bundled eNom Domain Reseller account allows selling top-level domains and SSL certificates, and white labelling support allows you to create custom hosting packages, use anonymous name servers and apply your own branding via customizable themes. Perhaps InMotion's real advantage is its excellent support, something that will be very important when you're trying to solve problems for your clients. In our experience the company offers a high quality service, although there's no need to take our word for it: the exceptional 90-day money-back guarantee means there's plenty of time to check it out for yourself. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/zujHmpge3FT48KkLzhQ2g7.jpg Calculating disk space requirements is a challenge for every hosting reseller. Many plans allocate less than 1GB per user, but will that really be enough, and what happens if you need more? Tsohost's Reseller Hosting plan aims to help you sleep easier by providing unlimited storage and bandwidth for up to 100 sites. That's not bad for only $44 (excluding VAT) a month. Unsurprisingly, there's a small catch: your customer's 100 sites are limited to a total of 1,000,000 page views per month, or an average of 10,000 each. We suspect that's less likely to be an issue than disk space, as most personal and small business sites won't get close to this limit, but it's something to bear in mind. The plan doesn't come with a WHCMS licence, or any other assistance with billing, marketing or support. The company bills you for the reseller plan, and it's your responsibility to bill your own customers. If that's not an issue for you, Tsohost does offer some compensations. The core service is a decent one, including Let's Encrypt SSL support for all your customers, daily backups – not something you always see with reseller accounts – and a single free domain name for your own business, if you need it. Tsohost also allows customizing your client control panel with your own branding, and even supports custom nameservers to hide any trace of the Tsohost name. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QN2um83YEDhcuBtitcFd9N.jpg Many hosting reseller plans are focused on the most basic and underpowered products. That may keep the price low, but the lack of features will also make it more difficult to sell the plans later. SiteGround's reseller plan is a little more ambitious. Every user gets 10GB of disk space and cPanel site management, and there's unlimited bandwidth, email addresses, databases, and FTP accounts. Highlights include Spam Experts-based spam filtering, free Let's Encrypt SSL, daily backups and an integrated Cloudflare CDN. These accounts cost more than the very low-end competition, but they're hardly expensive, with prices starting at $3.5 a month over a year. There's more good news in SiteGround's pricing structure. Other companies often ask you to pay upfront for the resources to support perhaps hundreds of clients, whether you need those resources right at the outset of your venture, or not. SiteGround allows purchasing plans in much smaller numbers – five to get started, 11 or more to get the best price – and these are only activated when you sell them. If you buy 20 plans in June, for instance, they'll never expire. Whether you sell them in days, weeks or months, each one will still get you a full year of hosting from the date the account is launched or renewed. How you manage and run the business is up to you, but SiteGround offers a simple control panel to review your accounts (there's a tutorial here), and a white label option and private DNS upgrade ensures you can use your own branding everywhere. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/j63VV7MgxgRZjXiciVBMxb.jpg Established way back in 2002, Krystal is a UK-based company which offers various simple reseller accounts for its shared web hosting. Krystal's product has a decent specification. A mid-range block of 50 cPanel accounts comes with 100GB of storage, and you get unlimited bandwidth, MySQL databases, mailboxes and subdomains, a bundled website builder, free SSL certificates, plus weekly and monthly backups. The bundled WHM (Web Host Manager) and WHMCS billing system allow you to manage your customers’ cPanel accounts, automate billing and more. These are all white label versions, too, which means customers will only ever see your branding. Krystal's Trinity plan is probably the best value, giving you 50 cPanel accounts with 100GB storage for $35 a month on the annual plan (at the moment you pay $1 for the first month). There's a single free domain if you need one (that's one domain for the entire plan, not per cPanel account), no setup fee, and you're protected by a 60-day money-back guarantee in case something goes horribly wrong. The Infinity plan allows unlimited cPanel accounts and doubles the storage to 200GB. We're not sure whether that's worth the $82 a month price tag (annual plan), but it's available if you need it. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LyJcbTkSp3Btgp4DkLn598.jpg As we've seen, reselling web hosting generally involves some significant work in customizing your plans, marketing and selling products, and providing technical support to your clients. GoDaddy's reseller program gives you much more assistance. Signing up gets you a pre-built customizable store with your own branding (there’s no mention of GoDaddy), bundled credit card processing to handle orders, and afterwards, customer service via GoDaddy's own teams. You're able to resell all the major GoDaddy products, including domain names, hosting, SSL certificates, managed WordPress plans, GoDaddy's Website Builder, and more. The plans provide some help with sales and marketing. Your store can use a range of customizable promotions, including giving discount prices to specific customers, and detailed sales reports help focus your efforts where they'll deliver the best results. The Basic reseller plans gets you all this and a 20% discount off GoDaddy's retail prices for $8.99 a month. But the Pro reseller plan offers a 40% discount for only $14.99 a month, well worth the extra unless you have very few customers. There are no commission rates or fixed margins – you can set your preferred price for anything in the range. GoDaddy's Reseller Profit Estimator is an online calculator to help you understand how much money you could make, and whether you would be better off with the Basic or Pro reseller plans. The GoDaddy approach doesn't give you the freedom you'll benefit from with other resellers, where you're completely free to divide up resources in any way you like. But it's also very easy to set up, and if you want a simpler way to get into reselling, it could be a wise choice. You might also want to check out our other website hosting buying guides: WordPressCloud hostingE-commerceDedicated serverSmall businessWindowsManagedGreenBusinessColocationEmail hostingResellersVPSSharedCheapWebsite buildersBest website hostinghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/0UHGLRAWfFI

Every business needs a website, but finding the right website hosting package isn't always easy. Many plans are targeted primarily at home users, and don't have the power that businesses need. Take email, for instance. We've seen hosting plans offer as few as five email addresses for a website, and with inboxes limited to a few hundred megabytes, that’s potentially a major issue for any business. Be sure to check out the email specs of any hosting plan before you sign up. An SSL certificate is a must-have these days for any professional or business website, but these aren't included with every plan. Fortunately, they don't have to be expensive. Many hosts now offer free SSL certificates from the Internet Security Research Group's Let's Encrypt project, and although web stores might need something more, these are perfectly adequate for standard sites. Business websites can't afford to fail – ever – so reliability is key. Choose a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or dedicated hosting plan, if you can afford it, to avoid the hassles of shared servers. Look for support that can be accessed at speed with telephone and live chat available, as well as emails and tickets. You'll probably want a plan that includes automated backups, too, but that's another area where you'll need to check the small print: backups are often an optional extra. Think about an upgrade path, too, especially if you're starting with a basic shared hosting plan. If your business grows then your website needs might also expand, and it will make your life much easier if your chosen host has the add-ons and extras to cope. There's a lot to think about, but fortunately, there are also some excellent hosting providers around that understand exactly what small businesses need. In this article we've highlighted five web hosts who have something to offer everyone, from the smallest home business to demanding corporate users. We've highlighted the best website hosting serviceshttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/p2rJc4XUQgcyPySEUhWp49.jpg Shared hosting is slower and less reliable than VPS and dedicated plans, but it's still perfectly adequate for many simple websites, and the best plans will handle all the main business needs. DreamHost's shared hosting plan scores well on the fundamentals. There are no limits on bandwidth, emails or MySQL databases. Your site is secured by a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, and preinstalled WordPress allows you to get a quality site up and running in an afternoon – plus SSD storage as standard will keep performance high. Handy extras include the ability to host unlimited domains from a single account. And in a nice touch, DreamHost doesn't just offer a free domain name with each shared hosting plan (except the monthly plan): there's free privacy protection, too. If you've registered a domain without that, and been inundated with emails and phone calls from ‘website designers’ and assorted scammers, you'll know how valuable that can be. It's a strong all-round package, but if you need more, DreamHost also offers everything from managed WordPress and WooCommerce, to VPS, Dedicated and Cloud Hosting plans. Billing is flexible. You can avoid long-term contracts by signing up for monthly billing, which costs $10.95 (£7.80) a month for shared hosting. Choose the three-year plan and the price drops to $7.95 (£5.70) a month, though. Don't be put off by the longer term: DreamHost products are protected by an exceptional 97-day money-back guarantee, so there's plenty of time to test the service for yourself. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MAgo8opVrBTPBAtqxYR3Lb.jpg Cloud hosting is a smart technology which spreads your website content across multiple devices, improving redundancy and speeding up load times. It's an interesting idea which has many business benefits, but if you choose wisely, you can try it out for less than the cost of some shared hosting products. HostGator's Business Cloud, for instance, delivers on the business basics with support for unlimited websites, unmetered storage and bandwidth, and a private SSL certificate. As this is a cloud plan, three mirrored copies of your website are spread across multiple devices. If there's a hardware failure, your website can immediately be switched to another server. All HostGator cloud plans give you shared access to a defined level of system resources (CPU time and RAM). Another benefit of cloud hosting is that you can purchase more of these and see the benefit immediately, with no downtime or time-consuming migrations required. The high-end features continue with a distributed Varnish caching setup to accelerate the loading of your static content, freeing up RAM and CPU time for producing dynamic content. Despite all this functionality, HostGator's Business plan is reasonably priced at $9.95 (£7.10) a month for up to 36 months, $17.95 (£12.80) on renewal. Optional extras are also good value, with CodeGuard's daily backups available for $2 (£1.45) a month, and SiteLock's malware scanning service is only $1.67 (£1.20). We've seen other hosts charge two or three times as much for similar functionality. While we've highlighted HostGator's cloud plans here, as an interesting improvement on regular shared hosting, the company also provides managed WordPress hosting, good value VPS packages, dedicated servers and more. There really is something here for everyone. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5QinJ7aX2JZc2gZgtasZNi.jpg Most business hosting products are focused on power and functionality above ease of use. That's not a problem if you know what you're doing, but small businesses don't always have the technical expertise to manage this kind of hosting, and it could take quite some time and effort to figure out how the service works. GoDaddy Business Hosting is a hybrid product which aims to offer the dedicated resources and similar performance to Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting, with the simplified cPanel-style management of a shared hosting service. GoDaddy's baseline Launch plan gives you 2GB RAM, one CPU and 60GB of storage, for instance. These resources are solely for the use of your website, which should give you improved and more consistent website performance, no matter what's going on with other sites hosted on your server. Restrictions elsewhere are kept to a minimum, with support for unlimited websites, databases and emails, and unmetered bandwidth. (‘Unmetered’ means there's no fixed limit, but GoDaddy reserves the right to complain if your site is hogging resources.) There's a SSL certificate thrown into the mix, and GoDaddy has included a one-year, one-user subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Business Email. GoDaddy's Enhance plan is available for $49.99 (£39.50) a month, renews at the same price. The Grow plan gives you 3 CPUs, 6GB RAM and 120GB of storage for $69.99 (£55.30) a month, renews at the same price. The high-end Expand plan (which is for resource heavy sites) increases RAM to 8GB and storage to 150GB, with 4 CPUs. The price is - $99.99 (£79) a month, same on renewal. Overall, the range is a little more expensive than some VPS products, but if you're looking for easy setup and simpler website management, GoDaddy could be worth a look. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/deJchkSvL9gvqVnqSET6XG.jpg Basic shared, cloud and similar hosting plans are easy to use and can deliver good performance, but they also limit your control over the server environment. You can't choose to install Windows, for instance, or do anything else that would affect other websites hosted on the same server. Virtual Private Servers (VPS) are isolated environments which you can tweak, adjust and customize however you like. As a bonus, you also get CPU time and RAM allocated just for you, improving both performance and stability. Liquid Web's starter VPS product gives you two CPUs, 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD space and 10TB bandwidth, for instance, and is priced from $59 (£42) a month. Some hosts have cheaper VPS plans, but that's often because specifications have been trimmed to the bare minimum. Liquid Web takes a more honest approach, with even the most basic plans including items that are often chargeable extras elsewhere. For example, that $59 gets you built-in backups, Gigabit transfers, unlimited sites, a dedicated IP address, CloudFlare CDN, DDoS protection, antivirus, antispam, cPanel/WHM or Plesk Onyx, and more. All VPS plans are highly configurable, with Linux options including CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8, and high-level plans support Windows Server 2012 and 2016. Whatever you're installing will include server management by default, which means Liquid Web will handle maintenance tasks such as operating system updates. Proactive system monitoring allows the company to detect and fix some problems before you even notice them, and speedy, responsive 24x7x365 support will help you with anything else. Factor in the 100% uptime guarantee and generous service level agreements and Liquid Web has a lot of business hosting appeal. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GC2aBYvpccXfWqJyqKqECV.jpg Dedicated server plans are the top of the standard hosting tree. Instead of sharing resources with others, you get the entire system to yourself, ensuring the best possible performance and reliability. The OVH dedicated hosting range has several benefits, and these start with its choice of data centers. While other providers can typically host your site in just two or three locations, OVH has a far more global reach, with centers available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore and the UK. Hosting the site nearer to your target audience will improve performance all on its own. Configurability is another highlight. Operating systems supported include CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, CloudLinux, Gentoo, Slackware, ArchLinux, OpenSUSE, Fedora, FreeBSD, SmartOS, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, SQL Server, VMware, Citrix Xen, Hyper-V Server and more. Advanced options include support for NVMe, non-volatile memory-based storage which can be five times faster than SSD. Prices are reasonable, especially considering the range of functions on offer. You can get a very capable system for between $74-$137 (£56-£104) annually, and there's plenty of extra power available if you need it. If there's an issue here, it's the OVH website, which does a poor job of presenting your options. There are too many baseline server configurations, they're poorly organized, and it's hard to find what you need or figure out your configuration choices. We found our way around the product range eventually, though, and overall, OVH's extensive set of features and data centers make it a must-see for demanding business users. You might also want to check out our other website hosting buying guides: WordPressCloud hostingE-commerceDedicated serverSmall businessWindowsManagedGreenBusinessColocationEmail hostingResellersVPSSharedCheapWebsite buildersBest website hostinghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/kdw9QM6CFck

What's the best Apple Watch face? Well, it comes down to your particular style. Thankfully, no matter your taste, Apple surely has one that suits you. Whether you prefer a more traditional look in your watch face or one that will show off some memories in a personalized photo slideshow, you're covered. Initially Apple only released ten watch faces to choose from on the Apple Watch, but now there are many, many more plus we expect Apple to bring others in the future with further watchOS updates. In fact, watchOS 5 brought lots of improvements for watch faces such as the ability to put third-party app complications into the Siri watch face so you can see extra information directly from the opening screen. To get started at changing your watch face, simply use Force Touch – essentially a firm press – on the face of the watch and you'll be taken to a gallery mode where various faces are listed. From there, you'll get the option to select one, with a few of them allowing further customization choices. You've picked the watch, you've sorted between the best Apple Watch bands, so now have a look at the best watch faces available through Apple. Currently an exclusive for the Apple Watch Series 4, this is one of the most feature rich watch faces you can have running on your smartwatch. You can customize the data displayed around the main clock, and change the complications in the center as well. We particularly like how detailed the data can be that you can just get a quick look at your fitness rings, your latest calendar notification, the time in a different time zone and the temperature outside in a just a single glance. If you've got an Apple Watch 4, you may want to test this one out and see what you can make with the Infograph face. The Siri watch face added with watchOS 4 is arguably one of the most useful. It will show you cards with relevant information throughout the day, such as upcoming reminders, traffic details before your commute and the current weather. The Siri watch face can pull in details from the likes of Breathe, Maps, Wallet, Activity and Alarms as well as a variety of third-party apps if you're using the latest watchOS 5 software. Those apps include things like Pokemon Go, Citymapper and Carrot Weather. You can tap on a card to be taken to the app it’s related to, or if you want to access Siri itself the face has a complication for that. If you’re a Toy Story fan this is the watch face for you. It features Woody, Jessie, Buzz Lightyear and Rex, each of which will come to life in a series of animations. You can choose your favorite character or opt for ‘Toy Box’ mode, which cycles through them at random, and even mixes in a few other characters including Hamm. The Kaleidoscope face turns a static image into a kaleidoscope-like pattern. You can select a photo and a kaleidoscope style, then see it get completely transformed. This face offers a lot of variety, since you can choose from a selection of photos to turn into a kaleidoscope pattern. Keeping track of notifications and calendar commitments is important, but for some, monitoring in-depth fitness data is even moreso. The Activity Digital face visualizes your workout progress via the three colored circles so that you can see how many steps you've tackled and how many more you need to meet your fitness goal. Starting from the inside of the circular model, the blue color tracks the amount of times that you've stood up. The green monitors how many minutes of exercise that you've tracked and lastly, the hot pink color gives you a readout on how many calories that you've burned. One of the most recent Apple Watch faces was released in June 2018 and was released to celebrate Pride. It goes paired with a new Pride watch band from the company too. It's an interpretation of the Pride flag that moves on your home screen to look like streamers of the iconic colors. If you pair it with the Pride watch band, it'll then match up on the screen as well looking like the flag goes all the way around your wrist. It's fair to say that the Utility face is for utilitarians who like to keep things practical. This face shows the time, obviously, but also displays your fitness progress, as well as some other complications of your choosing. We think this one is particularly suited to those who don't want a fancy design or anything extra apart from easy access to their most used apps. Like the Utility face, the Modular option is all about cramming as much information as possible onto the Apple Watch's tiny screen. This is the face you want if you want a bit of customization and a good amount of hard info, so that you won't need to fetch your phone frequently. The Motion face comes in a few different flavors, but this jellyfish one is our favorite. It's sedated, tranquil and adds some motion to your smartwatch. Rather than having your smartwatch cluttered with details and complications that jump out at your face encouraging you to interact with your watch, this one will keep it simple and just give you those core details like the time and date. What's not to love? Looking at the clock is a trusted method to gather the time, but adding in the moon shows how much (or little) our glorious moon is coated in sunlight. OK, the moon might just make for a fun visual, but it's a very solid choice for minimalists nevertheless. Like the Earth version of the face, turning the Digital Crown moves time backwards or forwards causing the various planets to shift and spin. Pressing the crown resets it back to the normal time. For even more fun, tapping the moon will show you the current lunar phase and turning the crown back and forth will show future and past phases. You'll get the same effect with the solar system where the crown will show you various planetary alignments. Like Astronomy, Solar is another hidden gem. It keeps a low profile and doesn't let you add anything to the face but makes up by showing the various positions of the sun in addition to telling you how long it will be until sunset or how long ago sunrise was. Simply move the Digital Crown back and forth to see what time the sun will be at a certain place, like noon or twilight. As it shifts, the face will subtly illustrate the time. The Chronograph face is for those who yearn for a traditional style within this smartwatch. While the Apple Watch doesn't cut any corners on its chassis to resemble a standard wrist-based timepiece, this face mimics it in spirit. This face keeps things simple, putting the flashy time lapse photography in focus. There's still room for complications, but this one makes a statement – just watch out for your battery life. Like the Jellyfish variant of the face, the flower-flavored Motion face adds some zest to your Apple Watch display. The animation of a flower coming into bloom offers a moment of relaxation when you glimpse at the time or at a batch of notifications. You won't get as much raw info here as you will with some of the other options, like the Modular face, but this one keeps things simple. Though the Astronomy watch face doesn't provide extra features, it's more functional than the other similarly, minimal faces. It shows you the solar system and the exact position of the planets, sun and moon while displaying the day, date and current time. Turning the Digital Crown moves time backwards or forwards causing the various planets to shift and spin. Pressing the crown resets it back to the normal time. For even more fun, tapping the moon will show you the current lunar phase and turning the crown back and forth will show future and past phases. You'll get the same effect with the solar system where the crown will show you various planetary alignments. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/9rmIelV6jvA

Quality web hosting can be an expensive affair – but it doesn’t have to be. And while you can always fall back on free website hosting providers, there’s also a growing number of cheap web hosting providers that deliver honest, reliable performance and great value for money without breaking the bank. All bar one of the web hosting companies listed below will accommodate more than one website. So while cheap web hosting providers are great for starting your business, they might not be powerful and scalable enough to take it to the next level; which is where VPS and dedicated servers come into play. Note that some of the headline eye-catching prices (from free to just a few dollars/pounds per month) are often only for a limited period (usually the first year), and after that they can swiftly balloon, especially when you factor in the cost of the domain names bundled. If you plan to have a successful online business, it is important to think long-term and how the total cost of ownership (the cost of running your website over years) might impact your bottom line. So, without further ado, below is our hand-picked list of the best cheap hosting deals. Check out our list of the best web hosting providers and cheap VPS hosting deals http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eaV3kfiKqe8HZw8guGnRxS.jpg Below are the best cheap web hosting providers of 2018 http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/JcYJydAVdZ5W5YmTjVPMRW.jpg HostGator Hatchling $31.68 for the first year when purchased for three years. Total cost of purchase is $95.04 HostGator is backed by EIG, one of the biggest web hosting companies, and its Hatchling plan is great for getting started. As with most of the offerings highlighted here, you can only run one website on this plan, but you don’t get a free domain name or free SSL. What you do get is unlimited disk space and bandwidth (but note that you won’t be able to use this space for storing files as this is against the terms and conditions), along with a $150 marketing budget (Google and Bing Ads credits). You also get 24/7 support, unlimited backups, subdomains, MySQL databases, email inboxes and FTP accounts. And finally, HostGator provides access to the popular cPanel control panel as well as its very own website builder (check our best website builder list). Every web hosting plan includes an industry-leading 45-day money-back guarantee alongside a 99.9% uptime guarantee. HostGator also provides free transfers for new accounts within 30 days of signup, and to newly upgraded accounts. Check out the cheap web hosting packages from HostGatorhttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/YkzGRBQeR534kM2y4n8VwE.jpg GoDaddy Economy (US) $2.49 (there is a sale at the time of writing, usual price is $4.49) per month for the first year, renews at $7.99 per month (UK) £1 (there is a sale at the time of writing, usual price is £3.99) per month for the first year, renews at £5.99 per month plus VAT GoDaddy is the second of the triumvirate of ‘uber web hosting’ companies (the two others being EIG and 1&1) that we’ve listed in this buying guide. Its Economy package has to be one of the best on the market with GoDaddy flexing its (virtual) muscles to deliver exceptional value for money. As expected, you get a free domain name and oodles of storage (100GB) along with unlimited bandwidth, plus free Microsoft Office 365 Business Email for a year (a freebie worth $73 (£55)). Support is delivered 24/7 via a toll-free line and GoDaddy even guarantees 99.9% uptime for this service. Add in 1-click install functionality for more than 125 applications, DDoS protection, plus 1GB of MySQL database storage and you’ve bagged yourself a pretty solid offering. The only true limitation is the fact that you won’t be able to host more than one website, but that’s a common theme across the budget board. Check out the cheap web hosting packages from GoDaddyThose looking for GoDaddy hosting outside of the UK should check herehttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XH2GNecBGA9VEfEecX5mFT.jpg 1&1 Ionos Business (US) $12 for the first year, renews at $8 per month (UK) £12 for the first year, renews at £5 per month plus VAT Like many other premium web hosting companies, 1&1 IONOS offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. As part of one of the world’s largest web hosting firms, you’re in good company as this German-based host includes DDoS protection, geo-redundancy and the all-new HTTP/2 protocol as standard. Your website will have room to grow with a staggering 100GB storage, unlimited bandwidth, up to 2.5GB of system memory and up to 25 databases with 1GB SSD storage each. On top of that you also get a personal consultant, one free domain for a year (no .com or .net in the UK, though), daily backup, 25 email accounts, an SSL certificate and 24/7 customer service. Check out the cheap web hosting packages from 1&1Those looking for 1&1 hosting outside of the UK should check herehttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/xUjZhcHiyeCJwVKfZuFjGj.jpg One.com $2.45 (£1.86) per month ($29.4 for a year), renews at the same price Let’s start with the downsides here: One.com is the only web hosting outfit here that charges a setup fee and has a short 15-day money-back guarantee. However, the price you see includes VAT (unlike most of its rivals). The fee is also very reasonable and you do get a lot for your money. We’re talking unlimited bandwidth, 25GB storage, a single database, a website builder (single website), SSL certificate and unlimited email accounts. SSH, backup and restore features are optional. This web hosting company is based in Denmark and has more than 1.5 million active users. Check out the cheap web hosting packages from One.comhttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n49gzkadKuf9qFoLihmLxn.jpg iPage (US) $23.88 for the first year when purchased for three years. Total cost of purchase is $71.64 (UK) £18 for the first year. Renews at £8.99 per month Like dozens of other web hosting providers, iPage is part of the big EIG family and uses the bargaining power of the organization to bring prices down. iPage has it all for such a small price: you get unlimited websites, disk space, bandwidth, MySQL databases and email accounts. As with other EIG members, you get Google and Bing advertising credits and 24/7 support. The money-back guarantee is an industry average 30-days and you don’t get domain privacy, website security or backup as standard. As a sweetener, iPage includes a domain name (for a year) plus free SiteLock security tools (although iPage doesn’t provide much detail as to what that actually includes). Check out the cheap web hosting packages from iPagehttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ujWdt9nDuRLSAbApwEptGe.jpg Tsohost Personal Cloud Web Hosting $45.60 (£35.04) a year when purchased for two years, renews at the same price Tsohost is owned by GoDaddy and operates solely in the UK. You get one domain name (free for the first year) and three websites with up to 100,000 page views, 15GB storage, unlimited bandwidth, hundred 200MB mailboxes, an SSL certificate and one basic migration package. You also get free daily site backups, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee. Tsohost uses Dell hardware and UK-based data centers. Our review found this outfit to be a “capable web host with some feature-packed, versatile and honestly priced plans”. We concluded that it was worth a look for beginners and experts alike, particularly if you need a UK provider. Check out the cheap web hosting packages from Tsohosthttp://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HipoXBPGRYWsHTEQfWMfTT.jpg 123 Reg Unlimited £8.99 ($11.40) for first year, renews at £12.99 ($16.4) per month Another GoDaddy-owned web host, 123 Reg is a well-known provider in the UK. Its Unlimited package delivers an attractive hosting solution if you have ambitions to grow your website business fast. For £9 for the first year, you can host 10 websites, which is particularly impressive seeing as many of these cheap deals limit you to just one site, as we’ve seen. You also get three domain names (which are free for a year) plus you get unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited databases (up to 1GB each), a free SSL certificate, unlimited FTP accounts, website backup and restore, scheduled tasks, IP address blocking and website directory indexing plus a JavaScript generator and Linux apps (WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Media Wiki and eCommerce). Sadly you only get one 5GB mailbox, which is poor compared to the competition, and the monthly cost of renewing the service after a year is more expensive as the full cost of the first year itself! Check out the cheap web hosting packages from 123 RegYou might also want to check out our other website hosting buying guides: WordPressCloud hostingE-commerceDedicated serverSmall businessWindowsManagedGreenBusinessColocationEmail hostingResellersVPSSharedCheapWebsite buildersBest website hostinghttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/n4Ci4NVYiZo

Whether you're a fitness expert or you want to take your first ever jog since because of how much you've eaten over the Christmas period, you may be setting yourself fitness goals for 2019. While not essential, fitness trackers and smartwatches are some of the best tools to allow you to set, track and review your stats to improve your health, get stronger and reach your goals. Whatever device you choose will come down to what goals you have for your fitness, so we've put together a couple of different categories you may fall into. Below is a selection of products discounted in the post-Boxing Day sales that may take your fancy, but check out our buying guides below for a full look at the best fitness tech. Best smartwatch: the top choices you can buyBest fitness tracker: the top 10 activity bands on the planetBest running watches: the perfect GPS companions for your workoutsFor the complete beginnerFor those after a fitness watch with a touch moreFor those who want a full blown smartwatchFor those who need one of the best fitness watchesWe've rounded up some extra Fitbit sale prices and cheap smartwatcheshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/lTTS-jbsR0Y

Disney Parks and Lucasfilm have been unveiling details about the new Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park expansion project, which is opening in 2019 at two Disney locations in the United States: Disneyland in California and Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. Although there have been a few teasers so far, a new trailer has been released that offers fans of the franchise a good glimpse of what the new theme parks are expected to look like, along with face-to-face interviews with some of the big names behind Lucasfilm and the creatives behind the development of the rides. For the first time, the preview video reveals details about the two main attractions within Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. First up there's Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run, which looks like Star Tours with a big upgrade. This attraction will allow fans to take the role of pilots, gunners and flight engineers within the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, which Scott Trowbridge, Creative Executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, says will be "an intense, super fun experience on the fastest ship in the galaxy". The video also revealed details of Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, another attraction in which visitors will become a recruit of the resistance before coming face-to-face with Kylo Ren. According to Disney, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be opening in summer 2019 at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and Fall 2019 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. Disney+ explained: the streaming platform for all things Disneyhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/dLBdv5SCrV4

Photo credit: Josiah Bondy One of the most common accidents for everyday drivers has to do with a shopping mall, parked cars, and your spatial awareness. You edge slowly back out of a spot, but it’s impossible to see around a massive 4x4 truck or a cargo van. You hear the soft crunch of metal. Not good. In a recent test of the 2019 Subaru Ascent, that scenario is much less likely. This midsize SUV with seating for seven (with one package that has a full second row bench seat, so eight passengers total) is a first for Subaru. It’s bigger than most crossovers, so it’s a little hard to see around corners as you pull out of a parking spot. Clear viewFortunately, there are three different ways to look for cross traffic. The rear-view mirror flips up to reveal a 360-degree smart rear-view mirror, but there’s also a normal back-up camera on the 8.7-inch center console screen and another one that shows up in a third display that’s situated up above the center stack closer to the windshield. If you don’t see cross traffic from one of those three screens, you're probably not looking at all. Photo credit: Josiah Bondy In my tests, it was easy to inspect one of the screens, and particularly the rear-view mirror when it was flipped up into the digital screen mode. Since it uses a camera at the rear of the vehicle and is wide angle, it doesn’t matter if people are sitting behind you. It was much easier to see if a car was driving behind me when pulling out of my driveway as well. Photo credit: Josiah Bondy That screen up by the windshield is unique in that you can also use it to monitor other feature son the car. When you’re on the highway, that screen reminds you when EyeSight safety features are enabled for lane-keeping and blind-spot monitoring. It shows a crisp, futuristic-looking render of the Ascent that shows the active radars emanating from the front and rear, so it’s a visual cue that you have those options scanning for traffic. Vision of the futureWhat I like about all of this is that Subaru is providing extra information to the driver about what is happening as you drive, and especially when you backup out of a parking spot. More is more with automotive tech, because drivers are so distracted -- the kids are screaming, your phone is ringing, or there’s a storm brewing and you’re thinking about getting home. In my tests, having three screens meant there was always a place to glance to check for obstacles. Photo credit: Josiah Bondy Just as important, I was able to flip the rear-view mirror back to the normal position and disable the screen located by the windshield entirely. This flexibility is handy for situations when you don’t really need to be as vigilant – in a less densely populated area, for example. And, at night, it was better to have fewer glaring screens staring at me. In the future, we’ll have even more screens at our disposal – possibly too many. The idea is to provide more information to the driver so that he or she knows what is happening at all times and can react, even as the car itself is scanning for problems and alerting you. Of course, when cars drive on their own, we’ll also appreciate that extra level of detail. On The Road is TechRadar's regular look at the futuristic tech in today's hottest cars. John Brandon, a journalist who's been writing about cars for 12 years, puts a new car and its cutting-edge tech through the paces every week. One goal: To find out which new technologies will lead us to fully driverless cars. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/Ig7vEmmqgRo

Amid all the talk of 5G and full fibre networks, it’s perhaps unsurprising that local wireless connectivity has been lost in the shuffle. But Wi-Fi’s role in allowing end users to access the applications that next generation networks will enable should not be underestimated. Earlier this year, the Wi-Fi Alliance decided to adopt a more consumer-friendly nomenclature, ditching technical standards like ‘Wi-Fi 802.11ac’ for a more generational approach. This means that the next major iteration of the technology – Wi-Fi 802.11ax – will be known as ‘Wi-Fi’ 6. At Broadband World Forum (BBWF), Rahul Patel, the head of Qualcomm’s Connectivity & Networking business unit, was keen to stress the role of Wi-Fi in powering connected devices around the home and declared there had been a “revival” in home network innovation. Wi-Fi revivalHe noted that in 2008 only a third of mobile phones had Wi-Fi, while the technological shift from 802.11b to 802.11n was just starting to occur. Back then, Wi-Fi was still considered a luxury and routers and modems were often sold separately. Today even cheap feature phones have access to Wi-Fi and it is thought that by 2020, there will be an average of 24 devices in every home. But despite this explosion in demand, wireless connectivity hasn’t advanced at the same rate. “A decade later and lot has changed within the home,” he said. “TVs use Wi-Fi while Netflix and Amazon Prime are mainstays. There are a lot of IoT devices such as smart speakers – even smart vacuums!” “Most of the Wi-Fi sourced today is routed through 802.11an. We’ve come a long way in terms of consumption, but Wi-Fi is the same as it was. Today, consumers think cellular is faster than W-Fi and that’s why people don’t turn on Wi-Fi. “Overall, satisfaction is pretty low. When people start to do more things, connection speeds come down.” Patel claimed that a third of people think 4G is faster than Wi-Fi but in reality, wireless speeds are often three times faster. The gap between Wi-Fi and cellular is narrowing, however. A recent study by OpenSignal found that advances in mobile networks meant some countries had faster 4G speeds than Wi-Fi, but the reality is but the reality is that Wi-Fi is a key technology thanks to its low cost and quality indoor coverage. Technological advancesPatel says it’s not that Wi-Fi technology hasn’t kept up. He believes that Wi-Fi 6 and mesh Wi-Fi can make a real difference. And as more devices are added to the network, such as smart speakers, the stronger these mesh networks become. “It’s not that Wi-Fi technology hasn’t kept up,” he said. “Wi-Fi is about two or three generations away from what it was ten years ago. Wi-Fi is using now new spectrum in the 60GHz mmWave band and Wi-Fi in the home has moved away from being a single router to a meshed network called mesh Wi-Fi. “Mesh networking is foundational for smart home connectivity. In the US today, 50 per cent of router purchases are for mesh networking. It is one of the only categories in consumer electronics where [Average Selling Price (ASP)] has gone up. This shows the importance of Wi-Fi as consumers are not willing to compromise.” When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), Patel is adamant that Wi-Fi is just one part of the connectivity story. He said that it is up to carriers and manufacturers to pick the best type of connectivity for each application, whether this is Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee or cellular. “You call it IoT, but it comes in different flavours,” he said. “The consumer must not be burdened with picking which connectivity as devices can be connected by any of these [standards].” http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cAdRiWzdJDySUS2z6NsqG6.jpg Intelligent networksBut the most revolutionary element of Wi-Fi could be its future intelligence. Self-Optimising Networking technology is already employed by mobile operators, but Patel believes smart home networks will use the various elements connected to them to make decisions. “We also believe that smart home networks have to evolve to become cognitive” he said. That’s not just a network that is smart but is going to learn and make decisions. Some examples have already started to emerge: voice and networks are coming together in a nice way.” Networks could also start to become physically aware. “Networks are going to sense,” Patel continued. “There are certain RF characteristics that the body presents. Over time, the networks will learn this and provide a level of decision making about what will go on the network. “Networks will be able to recognise who is walking into a particular room, whether it’s a pet or a human being, or if someone falls. The mesh network will be able to send for help or detect whether a door is open [and alert the police]. This is way more than the smart home today. “I think that is something consumers will want.” Here are the best broadband deals for December 2018http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/4s8AkxHKc5E

Sony India launched the WH-CH700N wireless headphones on Wednesday, specially designed for long hours of music playback, adding to its range of noise-cancelling headset devices in India. The headphones feature Sony’s Artificial Intelligence Noise Cancellation (AINC) technology, which analyses background noise to adjust performance with the surrounding environment. The WH-CH700N also comes with voice assistance support, a built-in voice microphone for voice commands and hands-free call support, as well as a dedicated NC button to activate noise cancellation with a simple press-and-hold. The device will also be optimised for Google Assistant via a software update Google Assistant comes to Sony's top-tier noise-cancelling headphonesThe headphones have a Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE) to boost the quality of compressed music files. They also have 40mm drivers with a sensitivity of 97dB/mW, enabling a frequency response between 7Hz to 20,000Hz. The impendence rating is 20 Ohms. The Sony Wh-CH700N headphones have Bluetooth v4.4 and NFC connectivity. A single-sided, detachable cable, 1.2 metres long, also come in-box, to allow for playback through a traditional 3.5mm jack. Sony claims that a single full charge (which will take about 7 hours) will provide up to 35 hours of battery life. There is also Quick Charge technology, which is touted to give an hour of playback time with just ten minutes of charge. Additionally, using the cable-and-jack option can even extend the battery life to up to fifty hours. The headphones are designed to work with the Headphones Connect app, which is available for both iOS as well as Android devices. The app lets your tune the headphones as per your preferences. The best wireless headphones available in Indiahttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/HEZ8T3t4Nyg

Samsung may allow you to unlock your phone using an in-display fingerprint scanner on the new Galaxy A10, according to Slashgear. Based on early rumors, there's been speculation that Samsung is finally catching up with the competition and adding an Under Display Fingerprint Scanner (UDFS) to the Galaxy A10 in its A series of smartphones. With Huawei chasing Samsung for the Android phone crown, it's the sort of innovation the company needs to stay ahead of the smartphone pack. Experimental rangeSo far the Galaxy A series has proved to be a breeding ground for experimentation, with the Galaxy A8s sporting a pinhole camera cutout and the Galaxy A9 with four rear cameras. Therefore, it makes sense that the next phone from the range would be boasting some kind of tech that feels like a departure from Samsung tradition. It's expected the Samsung Galaxy S10 range will also include the in-display fingerprint tech, but we don't expect to see that until MWC 2019 in February. The rumors about the A10 and its UDFS follow a report that suggested Samsung would also be unveiling its Sound on Display (SoD) new screen tech at CES 2019. It may be we hear about the Galaxy A10 at the show, and if that's the case you'll likely be able to buy a Samsung phone with an in-display fingerprint scanner a whole month before the Galaxy S10 range is even announced. Samsung could revive the Edge name with a Samsung Galaxy S10 Edge.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/D6NUYnWA2tI

Machine learning and AI are the latest tools being utilised by businesses to help prevent cybercrime and stop cyberattacks. However, what if these same tools could be used to help stop insider threats such as employees leaking or misusing company data? TechRadar Pro spoke with Jazz Networks' CEO Hani Mustafa who explained how businesses have begun to employ user behaviour analytics (UBA) to help prevent negligence, fraud, data misuse and even sabotage. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AvZcjmUMtehpuha5oJLcTB.jpg http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/LrstCAnun6N69BxwmEtn4k.jpg Hani Mustafa, CEO of Jazz Networks We've also highlighted the best AI platforms for businesshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/GXXnd1oLLyI

Has Netflix won the battle for top Christmas TV this year? It's looking likely – first it rolled out the charming Kurt Russel-starring 'The Christmas Chronicles' and now this – the first feature-length Black Mirror 'movie'. Netflix has just revealed the trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, as well as some bombshell news – it'll be hitting the streaming service in just a day's time on December 28, 2018. Here's that trailer in all its glory... What is Bandersnatch?For the uninitiated, Black Mirror is a series of standalone TV shows, each (usually) focussing on a dystopian vision of where technology, if abused, could lead us. Created by former games journalist Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror has become must-watch TV over the past decade, with Netflix recently acquiring the exclusive rights to future episodes of the show. With the might of Netflix's budget behind it, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch looks like the most ambitious undertaking for the series to date. While the trailer doesn't reveal all the special's secrets, it appears to focus around a troubled video game developer in 1980s Britain, whose creation looks to take on a life of its own. That is... we think that's what's happening. With Black Mirror, as the series' title suggests, all is never quite what it seems. We'll look forward to seeing exactly what's in store for us when Bandersnatch releases imminently. The best Netflix TV shows: Black Mirror and morehttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/KcsgHEeyL0E

Tesla is planning a Supercharger network expansion that will cover "100 percent of Europe" in 2019, according to a tweet from the company's CEO Elon Musk. Musk tweeted about the plans in response to a Twitter user who asked when the network will be rolled out to more of Ireland. "From Ireland to Kiev, from Norway to Turkey," he added. Tesla is currently working on the Model 3, the company's most affordable electric vehicle (EV) to date. It's currently on sale in select European markets and first deliveries of the new vehicle are expected in February 2019. In the past, Tesla has revealed that the Model 3 will work with Combined Charging System (CCS) fast charging-compatible ports in Europe. But it's not been made clear whether it'll retrofit existing Superchargers with CCS plugs. But before we get ahead of ourselves, if there's one thing we've learned in recent years, it's to take Elon Musk's tweets with a pinch of salt. We don't doubt the Supercharger network will be expanding further into Europe, but only time will tell the rate at which that happens and how far it'll extend during the next 12 months. 5 things Tesla are doing right nowhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/BxP7id1iCck

It's a sad fact of Christmas that once the thrill of unwrapping your presents subsides and you look at the shiny new tech you've just luckily received, your thoughts then need to turn towards antivirus and how to protect them. Unfortunately, cybercriminals and scammers don't take the Christmas holidays off and so it's no surprise that the demand for antivirus software shoots through the roof from December 26 onwards. We've reviewed all the best (and worst) security software from the web and Bitdefender is the one we'd recommend the most. What's more, Bitdefender currently has a massive 60% discount on all three of its premium packages, meaning you can get online peace of mind for effectively only $2 a month. And that's for up to three computers, too - monthly coverage for your family's laptops for less than the price of a coffee. The limited time offer (it's scheduled to end on New Year's Eve) includes the provider's trio of 2019 consumer plans. So there's Antivirus Plus (our favorite), Internet Security or the all singing all-dancing Total Security to choose from - the latter covering Macs, Android and iOS as well as Windows PCs. There are more details on each below: http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VgyagGS9HpAEPUQtUJBfrg.jpg Check out our best antivirus guide to see why Bitdefender is besthttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/2p_hGFnO2G0

The Boxing Day sales started early this year, meaning you didn't even have time to finish the turkey yesterday before coming to see us for our deals selection. And now that it actually is Boxing Day, we've seen even more deals roll in from those retailers who fancied waiting. So buckle up as we guide you through the final days of 2018's deals season right through to 2019's January sales. Surely you've got better things to be doing on the Christmas break than trying to work out who is having a decent sale from the huge number of UK retailer sites, sifting through what they're claiming to be epic deals when you know full well you've seen them cheaper elsewhere on the same day. So let us do it for you. We've rounded up the finest, genuine ones right here! So yes sit back, scroll down a little and you'll see we've started to list the best offers so far. We'll be updating this page throughout Boxing Day and right up until the dust has cleared on those January sales too. It's time to: Treat. Yo. Self. Boxing Day sales: quick linksAmazon - deals aplenty from the hugely popular online storeArgos - electricals, home, toys and more discounted todayAO.com - the big sale is live John Lewis - huge clearance on clothes, home and electricalsCurrys - up to 40% off home, TV, kitchen, gadgets and more Very - up to 50% off fashion, home and electricalsMobiles.co.uk - fresh discounts on the latest mobile phonesThe best Boxing Day sales 2018ASOS - save up to 50% on women's and men's clothingBoohoo - 30% off everything!Boots - save up to 50%Blacks - half price jackets and bootsCarphone Warehouse - packed with exclusive online-only discountsCDKeys.com - save up to 90% on games and XBLG/PS Plus subsDFS - big discounts on some super comfy and stylish sofasDorothy Perkins - up to 50% offDreams - save up to 50% on mattresses and bedseBay - discounts on pretty much everythingExpedia - fresh coupons have just landed for big discounts on bookingsExpressVPN - save 49% on a subscriptionJack Wills - up to 50% off men's and women's clothingJessops - save up to £600 on cameras, lenses and moreHomebase - the Big Kitchen Sale is liveLastMinute.com - Flash sales and holidays from £149 per personLevi's - save up to 50%Living DNA - up to 30% off DNA test kitsLovehoney.co.uk - up to 50% off the hottest adults-only productsMicrosoft - big discounts on Surface and Xbox productsNew Look - get ready for New Year's with 60% offNewegg - discounts on laptops, computers and partsNext - at least 50% off all sale itemsNow TV - discounts on entertainment, cinema, kids and sports passesOntheBeach.co.uk - save up to 50% on bookingsRiver Island - save up to 60% on fashion and homeware itemsSamsung - save on phones, TVs, smartwatches and moreSuperdry - save up to 50% at the popular fashion brandTimberland - save up to 40% on winter clothing and moreTopShop - save up to 70% in this huge saleTopMan - massive 70% reductions to be had todayTravelSupermarket - get away from it all with hotels, flights and moreWiggle - get discounted active wear ready for those resolutionsThe best Boxing Day deals so farWe've shown you were the best boxing Day sales are happening today. But we thought we'd highlight some of favourite individual offers from the best sales we've seen, followed by deals in a range of specific categories. We'll be updating this page throughout the Christmas break, so we will of course be highlighting the finest picks from the January sales too, so feel free to keep coming back to check out the freshest discounts. A word of warning though, we generally find the best deals tend to go live around Boxing Day nowadays, rather than January. Back to the top ^Back to the top ^Check out our full guide to the best cheap TV sales and dealsBack to the top ^Check out our full guide to the best cheap laptop dealsNintendo Switch Boxing Day dealsPS4 Boxing Day salesXbox One Boxing Day salesBack to the top ^Don't miss the full list of Nintendo Switch prices and bundle dealsCheck out even more PS4 prices and PS4 Pro dealsCheck out the full list of Xbox One deals and Xbox One X pricesBack to the top ^We've also rounded up the other Fire TV deals and Amazon Echo pricesBack to the top ^ Back to top ^We've rounded up some extra Fitbit sale prices and cheap smartwatchesBack to the top ^So who's having a Boxing Day sale?All the big stores get stuck in. With so many keen shoppers going online over the Christmas period in recent years, it's just too good a chance for them to finish 2018 off with some extra money in the bank. Let's take a look at the big hitters below and what you can nab from each. When do the Boxing Day sales start?Not a silly question at all. As we just said, a lot of stores are starting today and we expect even more will go live on Christmas Day - yes they're pretty keen. If just before Christmas is the time to scramble for last-minute gifts, anytime from the day itself onwards is the chance to treat yourself or use those gift vouchers to make a great deal a truly spectacular bargain. When do the January sales start?Expect an early start here too. Although if we're going off the last few years, the January sales haven't been particularly special. It's been all about the Boxing Day deals really, although we're pleased to report some of the better ones stayed online a good few days into January. January sales are more of a continuation of the remaining Boxing Day sales so you can probably expect to see many stores simply rebrand the sales to 'January sales' the day after Boxing Day on December 27th. Given many workplaces are off until around January 2nd, retailers are keen to show you the best deals as soon as possible while you've got time off at home rather than try to push deals on you while you're heading back to work or nursing that New Year's Eve hangover. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/mRDzaII-hI8

The Samsung Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus may have a party trick feature relating to the front facing camera after information and images appeared online about a light up camera ring. According to Ice Universe - who has been leaking a large amount of Galaxy S10 rumors recently - the illuminated ring around the front-facing, pin hole camera will initially debut on the Galaxy A8s before making its way to the flagship duo. It appears the Galaxy S10 will have a single front-facing camera, with a circular hole design appearing in one leaked image, while another image shows an oval ring design, which will apparently surround the dual front cameras on the Galaxy S10 Plus. In terms of function, it looks like the ring will glow when you fire up the camera or use facial recognition to unlock the handset – which means it may not be bright enough to act as a flash for the camera. Dual front cameras for Galaxy S10 PlusIce Universe has also provided us with another possible look (from Weibo) at the front design of the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus thanks to images apparently showing a screen cover for the handset. In the top right corner there's a cut out for what appears to be two front-facing cameras, which lines up with the oval camera ring light in the above Galaxy S10 Plus leak. The panel also hints at thinner bezels above and below the display compared to the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus - a rumor we've heard several times already - although all this still needs to be taken with a pinch of salt as none of the sources are verified. Everything we know so far: Samsung Galaxy S10 | Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus Via SlashGear http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/V7qAAWHqxt4

As if leaked pictures and early benchmarks weren’t enough to prove the existence of the upcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, now we have government filings as additional proof. Gigabyte has been a busy bee and registered forty different variants of the GeForce RTX 2060 with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). This excessive number of filings not only point to models that would fall into different price points, but also three different SKUs equipped with 6GB, 4GB and 3GB of video memory. What’s more, it seems Gigabyte has registered graphics cards that may come with different types of video memory including GDDR6, GDDR5X and even GDDR5. This would be a huge departure for a Nvidia Turing-based graphics card, which have all featured GDDR6 memory thus far. Higher prices have been a major deriding factor of GeForce RTX 20-series GPUs, however, having all these different SKUs wouldn’t really help solve that problem as the performance between all these different versions of the RTX 2060 would be too varied. If anything, it would cause more confusion than help lower the price of entry. Before we read too deeply into these filings, it’s best to assume Gigabyte may just be putting in filings for every possible variation of the GeForce RTX 2060, including ones it has no intention of producing. As we’ve said it before, be sure to stay tuned for our complete coverage of Nvidia press conference happening soon at CES 2019 in January. The world of the best graphics cards is about to get very interestingVia VideoCardz http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/YSQsntaeZbY

BT must have been feeling the festive cheer over this Christmas week as it's handing out the freebies in its January Sale broadband deals. Sign up with BT Broadband now you can get a hefty reward card worth up to £120 and absolutely free activation. The most popular internet provider in the land, BT's broadband plans are many and varied. Our top pick is its Superfast Fibre Unlimited Broadband deal. It costs £29.99 per month and you get a whopping £100 pre-paid Mastercard. The only thing you'll pay at the outset is £9.99 to cover the delivery of your new router. You also get free calls to UK landlines at the weekend. If that's a little pricey for you, then BT's standard 10Mb ADSL costs a mere £24.99 and BT still throws in a £60 BT Reward card and you get 200GB Cloud storage. A worthwhile investment for 2019. Or there's more speed available as well if you're concerned that the amount of people all streaming and surfing at once in your house will put too much of a strain on your connection. Scroll down to see these deals in full or if none of these offers were the Christmas broadband gift you were hoping to unwrap, check out our best broadband deals page for all of your options. Discover the best Boxing Day deals - from mobile phones to games consolesBT's fibre broadband January Sale deals:BT's ADSL broadband January Sale deal:What is a BT Reward Card?The Reward Card that BT sends out is a pre-paid credit card that you can use anywhere that accepts Mastercard. In short, that's around a million shops, cafes and restaurants around the world, so you shouldn't find it difficult to find places to spend, spend, spend. It's an old-fashioned chip and pin card, rather than contactless. But do make sure that you claim your Reward Card within three months of installation, otherwise you'll lose out on all that cash. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/ydfhD0YpbrA

The holidays are an expensive time, so we’re bringing you a special treat: a full, free Windows program to download every day until Christmas. Merry Christmas! Peel back the final door on our free downloads advent calendar to discover a special treat: Audials Radiotracker 2018 Premium, yours to download completely free. Download Audials Radiotracker 2018 Premium and sign up for your free license keyThis software is a modern take on taping songs from the radio, but instead of waiting for a local station to play your favorite song, you can set Audials Radiotracker to watch out for it being played and record it automatically. It's also possible to save entire radio shows by setting Audials Radiotracker to record at certain times. Recordings are saved as high quality MP3, AAC or WMA at up to 320kbps, suitable for playing back of any device. http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Sh6R9f854bCrK8LFsgxX4W.jpg Audials Radiotracker 2018 Premium usually retails at $24.90/£19.90/AU$38.24, but it's yours to download free as a special Christmas gift. Download provided by AudialsIn case you missed it...Day one: Ashampoo Burning Studio 2018Day two: Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2018Day three: Ashampoo Uninstaller 6Day four: Ashampoo Photo Commander 15Day five: Ashampoo Snap 9Day six: Ashampoo Backup 2018Day seven: Ashampoo UndeleterDay eight: Ashampoo Music Studio 2018Day nine: Ashampoo Disk-Space-ExplorerDay 10: Ashampoo Snap 2018Day 11: Ashampoo Photo RecoveryDay 12: Ashampoo Photo OptimizerDay 13: Steganos Safe 19Day 14: Steganos Password Manager 19Day 15: mySteganos Online Shield VPNDay 16: Incomedia WebAnimator GODay 17: Incomedia WebSite X5 Start 17Day 18: Digiarty VideoProcDay 19: Abelssoft MovieCut 2019Day 20: Abelssoft ScreenVideo 2018Day 21: Abelssoft SyncManager 2018Day 22: ASCOMP PDF ConversaDay 23: Auslogics DiskDefrag ProDay 24: Auslogics BoostSpeed 9http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/2Q7ZZIVI0zc

Recent leaks have strongly suggested that we would see new Ryzen desktop processors and APUs meant for laptop at CES 2019, but we might also get a bonus bonanza of new Radeon graphics as well. Wccftech claims to have received a confirmation of the introduction of a new Radeon graphics card, which might just be the introduction of 7nm Vega II GPUs. AMD has previously stated that it will next introduce a 7nm graphics architecture and the company has done just that with its Radeon Instinct GPU in the enterprise market. More recently we saw that AMD trademarked a new Vega II logo – though AMD could easily pull a fast one and introduce yet another generation of Polaris graphics cards. Either way, we’re excited to see any new graphics cards from AMD after a relatively quiet year of GPU releases in 2018. Ryzen againWhat does seem a little more certain is AMD’s plans to introduce new CPUs and APUs at CES 2019. 7nm desktops seem like a certainty given that AMD is on track to introduce 7nm processors following 12nm Ryzen 2nd Generation chips. It also helps a recent leak blew open the whole Ryzen 3rd Generation will start with quad-core entry-level processors leading up to some of the first mainstream 16-core CPUs. An upcoming Picasso series of APUs that put together AMD’s 12nm processors with a new generation of discrete-class Vega graphics also seems all but certain as well. These new chips are said to power a new generation of laptops including the next-generation Surface laptop as well as a streaming-only iteration of the next Xbox. Whether these rumors are true or not, we definitely know AMD will have an action packed CES 2019, you can bet we’ll be there to report on everything you need to know. Meanwhile, the Nvidia Turing family of graphics cards is just getting bigger and biggerhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/_CgjuIUEbd4

Day After Christmas Sales for 2018 are here to help you buy what you didn't get as a present for Christmas, and US retailers like Walmart, Amazon and Macy's are happy to oblige with discounts. We've tracking the price drops that are happening – even ahead of Christmas Eve – to highlight the best After Christmas deals on the internet. A lot of the discounts from a month ago are actually holding up, and we're seeing even cheaper prices in some cases. The trick here is get what you really wanted, and do so at a better price. Retailers in the US want to offload extra inventory between now and January and lure buyers who are returning gifts into spending as much or even more money with them. So, if you're looking for the best After Christmas sales today, check our constantly updated list of deals below. After Christmas sales tip from the expertsHere's a great piece of advice for everyone shopping online: look for open-box or refurbished items in excellent condition during After Christmas sales. People who don't exactly get what they want and never play with the tech often return it. US retailers have to label these items open box and the typically come with significant price drops. For example, that Apple HomePod deal for $250, down from $350, was actually price matched by an open-box discount that lasted a lot longer. In one case, we got it for $238, and it was listed in excellent condition. The same will go with items like this PS4 Pro: We'll continue to update our After Christmas sales list throughout the week, as we discover more discounts. This is just the start of what we expect US retailers to price drop. We'll also keep tabs on which deals expire, so you can hit checkout with reliable deals, as many after likely to sell out. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/techradar/software-news/~4/NEEBSa1TqaE