Siri to power Mercedes-Benz A-class in-car entertainment Fed up of smartphones this week? Well here’s a new ents update for your Merc. Oh wait. We’d like to formally invite Jon Briggs to join us for every car journey we make from now on. Why do we need a radio presenter and voice over man on board? For starters,he’s excellent fun and knows his gadgetsbut more importantly he’s the voice of Siri in the UK....

Siri turns your car into Knight Rider’s KITT GM’s planning to use the Eyes Free controls added in iOS to let you control your car using your voice Alright, Apple’sEyes Freeaddition to iOS 6 isn’t quite KITT. It won’t give you the Knight Rider glowing red lights or drive at huge jump ramps for you. But it does let you control your car with Siri voice controls, and when GM adds Eyes Free functionality to its cars, it’ll make basic controls safer and easier on lazy arms....

Sky launches new 2TB Sky+ HD box and iPad app Sky’s doubled the storage on its biggest Sky+ box – and it’s launching a new Sky Catch Up service The sky’s the limit when it comes to TV storage and that limit is about to be increased to 2TB with the new Sky+ HD box. The new bigger belted box launches alongside the newSky Catch Upservice – at the moment it only offers seven-day catch-up TV from ITV Player and Demand 5, but the BBC iPlayer’s set to join it this year, with 4oD following in early 2013....

Sky News 2.0 iPhone app launched After 3m downloads, we might sit back and applaud our app efforts – luckily Sky hasn’t so we get bags of new features You might think that theiPad gets all the funthese days as Apple’s tablet gets treated to the best version of apps before the iPhone’s small screen is considered. But Sky hasn’t completely abandoned the 3 million people who’ve downloaded its free Sky News app for iPhone and iPod Touch so far....

So long Omni, the HP Envy 23 and Pavilion 23 are the new Ivy Bridge All-in-Ones HP has refreshed its desktop PC lines – again – with these big-on-spec additions to its home computer brigade Omni, Touchsmart, Envy, (TouchPad) – HP just can’t make up its mind what to call new computers and laptops. This time round, it’s plumped for Envy and Pavilion monikers for these new 23in desktop all-in-one models but who knows what the next lot will be called....

SoloMatrix Spike iPhone case offers full keyboard If you were finding it hard to jump from BlackBerry onto the keyboard-free iPhone, your move just got easier As if BlackBerry wasn’t inenough trouble at the momentnow Spike, with its new keyboard toting case, has given RIM users another reason to jump ship to iPhone. The SoloMatrix Spike case offers two options: the Spike1, where the keyboard is physically attached but removable from the case, and the Spike2 with a hinged full qwerty keyboard that can be moved 180 degrees to access the full touchscreen....

Sony adds WildTangent Games to Xperia Z WildTangent Games rolls out its buying and rental treatment across Sony Xperia smartphones and tablets WildTangent Games has announced that it’ll be bringing its vast collection of Android gaming goodness to theSony Xperia Zat launch, if you decide you needStuff.tv’s favourite smartphonein your life. That means you can buy, rent and even purchase in-game items from within games likeShadowgunand Fruit Ninja to your heart’s content (until you go bankrupt), plus the service will update your games on-the-go....