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HTC Desire Android 2.2 upgrade this week with 720p video, iTunes sync

July 30th, 2010 4:19pm No comments

HTC Desire Android 2.2 upgrade this week with 720p video, iTunes sync

HTC has announced that the eagerly awaited upgrade to Android 2.2 is hurtling into Europe and heading directly for folks toting unlocked HTC Desire handsets.

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T-Mobile UK announces iPhone 4 tariff prices

July 30th, 2010 11:06am 4 comments

T-Mobile UK announces iPhone 4 tariff prices

It’s clearly taken them a while to get their calculator working, but T-Mobile have finally released their pricing tariffs for the Apple iPhone 4.

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Amazon CEO bigs up the Kindle experience. We’re impressed.

July 30th, 2010 9:30am 1 comment

Amazon CEO bigs up the Kindle experience. We're impressed.

We’re becoming more and more tempted by Amazon’s new cut-price Kindle device, and think they may have produced a real contender here.

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Samsung Galaxy S to get Android 2.2 update in September

July 29th, 2010 8:54pm No comments

Samsung Galaxy S to get Android 2.2 update in September

The eagerly awaited update to Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) is edging ever closer for Brits strutting the streets with a Galaxy S smarphone in their mitts.
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All-conquering Google rules the mobile search market share

July 29th, 2010 5:29pm No comments

Google bag 98.29% of the mobile search market share

As world domination goes, this is almost as good as it gets for Googlem with the company currently boasting an incredible mobile search market share of 98.29%.

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Slimmer, cheaper Amazon Kindle comes to the UK with built in Wi-Fi/3G

July 29th, 2010 12:29pm 2 comments

Amazon Kindle comes to the UK with built in Wi-Fi/3GAmazon’s latest Kindle eBook reader is heading to the UK and will feature Wi-Fi, a new browser, an improved PDF reader with dictionary look-up plus note-taking and highlighting.

The first Kindle to be sold directly to Brits finally offers Wi-Fi access as well as a free 3G connection, and comes with Amazon’s “experimental” browser based on WebKit, which also powers  Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari desktop browsers.

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Apple Magic Trackpad gestures – video demo

July 29th, 2010 10:38am 1 comment

Apple Magic Trackpad gestures - video demo

Although some over-excitable journos seem to have lost all sight of reality and have declared Apple’s Magic Trackpad to be the device to destroy the mouse, there’s no denying that for many it will become a useful addition to their desktops.

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Lenovo IdeaCentre A700 multi-touch all-in-one PC set to delight desktops

July 28th, 2010 2:05pm No comments

Lenovo IdeaCentre A700 touchscreen all-in-one PC set to delight desktops

Boasting a beefy 23-inch, full HD 1080p, touchscreen display with “surface acoustic wave (SAW)” technology is Lenovo’s rather luscious -looking new IdeaCentre A700 all-in-one PC.

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Panasonic announce 3D lens for Micro Four Thirds and HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder

July 28th, 2010 11:53am No comments

Panasonic announce 3D lens for Micro Four Thirds and HDC-SDT750 3D camcorder

In case you hadn’t noticed, the world’s going 3D-tastic, with TV, video, gaming and camera manufacturers all scrambling to grab a piece of the action.

After announcing the world’s first 3D consumer camcorder (see below), Panasonic have now unveiled its plans to release an interchangeable 3D lens for the Micro Four Thirds system.

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Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK: study

July 28th, 2010 10:43am No comments

Social networking is now the most popuar pastime in the UK: study

Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK with nearly 30 million UK residents spending over 6 hours on social media sites like Facebook or MySpace every month.

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Toggl’s time tracking tools look a treat for your timesheet needs

July 28th, 2010 9:30am 2 comments

Toggl time tracking tools look a treat for your timesheet needsBilled as a “timesheet killer,” Toggl  is great way for freelancers and team-workers to keep track of their time spent working for The Man.

The free service comes in several flavours: a downloadable desktop widget for Mac, Linux and Windows, an iPhone/Android application and an iGoogle gadget that runs on all the major browsers – Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera.

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Astonishing 71 Gigapixel photo panorama sets new world record

July 27th, 2010 4:56pm No comments

Astonishing 71Gigapixel photo sets new record

We’re not sure where this gigapixel madness is going to end, but we are rather enjoying seeing the incredible results of this latest record breaker, in the shape of a mahoosive panorama from Budapest.

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Apple’s Cinema Display ramps up to 27″, iMac line-up gets speed boost

July 27th, 2010 2:09pm No comments

Apple's Cinema Display ramps up to 27

Apple have ramped up their biggest LED Cinema Display to now contain 27″ of  big screen loveliness, with the new display packing 2560 x 1440 pixels in a movie-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio.

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Apple’s all clicking, swiping’n'scrolling Magic Trackpad announced

July 27th, 2010 1:53pm No comments

Apple's all clicking, swiping and scrolling Magic Trackpad announced

Inviting you to let your fingers do the clicking, scrolling and swiping is Apple’s new Magic Trackpad which has just been officially announced after months of leaks.

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Apple’s moral censorship continues as erotic literature is purged from iTunes Top 10

July 27th, 2010 12:47pm No comments

Apple's moral censorship continues as erotic literature is purged from iTunes Top 10

It looks like those prudes at Apple have struck again, this time quietly removing four erotic novellas listed in the top ten downloads in the  iTunes Store and replacing them with duller tones such as Peter Mandelson’s autobiography, The Third Man.

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