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Viewsonic’s dual booting ViewPad 100 confounds with Windows 7 and Android 1.6

September 3rd, 2010 12:37pm Lee J. No comments

Viewsonic's dual booting ViewPad 100 confounds with Windows 7 and Android 1.6

The tsunami of tablets continues, as another Android-powered challenger looks to take on Apple’s iPad, this time a shiny 10″ number from Viewsonic, christened the ViewPad 100.

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Toshiba’s Folio 100 10-incher joins the Android tablet party

September 2nd, 2010 4:19pm Lee J. No comments

Toshiba Toshiba's Folio 100 10-incher joins the Android tablet party

Coming hot on the heels of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab announcement is Toshiba, who have just shuffled their Android-powered tablet, the Toshiba’s Folio 100, to the front of their PR pile.

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Swype heads to Symbian S60 5th edition devices – get in quick for the beta!

September 1st, 2010 4:49pm Lee J. 1 comment

Swype heads to Symbian S60 5th edition devices - get in quick for the beta!

We’ve been absolutely loving the Swype keyboard on our HTC Desire, and Symbian S60 users are set to join in the finger smudgin’ fun with today’s announcement from Nokia that it will be coming to Symbian S60 5th edition devices.

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Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

August 31st, 2010 12:32pm Lee J. 1 comment

Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

Viewsonic has grabbed a megaphone, jumped up on its soapbox made from old monitors and barked out the news to the denizens of Blighty, “Hear Ye! The ViewPad 7 is coming your way!”

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Olympus rumours: black E-P2 compact kit, new lenses and E-5 dSLR coming up

August 30th, 2010 2:31pm Lee J. No comments

Olympus rumours: black E-P2 compact=

Currently sizzling away on the 43rumors site are some hot rumours of a mini-flurry of new Olympus camera-related launches coming up.

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Open source Diaspora site aims to right Facebook’s social networking wrongs

August 27th, 2010 2:30pm Lee J. 1 comment

Open source Diaspora social network aims to right Facebook's wrongsDiaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.

Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, open source social network”, the Diaspora project has been driven by four impossibly fresh-faced New York students – three computer scientists and a mathematician – who have so far raised $200,000 (£140,000) in funding.

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Acer LumiRead eBook reader set for October Europe release

August 26th, 2010 10:59am Lee J. No comments

Acer LumiRead eBook reader set for October Europe release

With Amazon’s Kindle eReader proving a hugely desirable item, it’s not surprising that other manufacturers are keen to bag themselves some of the action, and charging over the horizon at a rate of knots is Acer’s LumiRead eBook reader.

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Google lets you call phones directly from GMail – if you’re a US user

August 25th, 2010 8:03pm Lee J. 1 comment

Google introduces 'Call phones from GMail' feature for US users

Google has introduced a new feature that lets US-based Gmail users call residential and mobile phones  directly from their web-based email client.

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JVC’s Picsio GC-WP10 and GC-FM2 offer pint-sized 1080p pocket camcording

August 24th, 2010 11:14am Lee J. No comments

JVC's Picsio GC-WP10 and GC-FM2 offer pint sized 1080p pocket camcording

If you’re in the market for a bijou video recorder, JVC is hoping to set your wallet into paroxysms of delight with its new Picsio GC-WP10 and GC-FM2 1080p pocket camcorders.

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iPhone Google Mobile app gets push notifications

August 23rd, 2010 8:06pm Lee J. No comments

iPhone Google Mobile app for gets push notifications

Google has announced that their Google Mobile App for Apple’s iPhone has been upgraded to be push notification compliant.

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Nikon D3100 budget 14.2MP SLR packs full HD video recording

August 20th, 2010 10:45am Lee J. No comments

Nikon D3100 budget SLR packs full HD video recordingNikon has shown off its shiny new D3100 camera, an entry-level dSLR replacing the budget Nikon D3000 which proved to be something of a hit with cut-price snappers.

Billed as the smallest and lightest Nikon D-SLR yet, the diminutive D3100 packs a DX-format, 14.2 megapixel CMOS image sensor, with a new image processing engine doing all the clever stuff behind the scenes.

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Apple releases snappy iPad video, parody follows swiftly in its wake

August 19th, 2010 9:15am Lee J. No comments

Apple releases snappy iPad video, parody follows swifty in its wake

Apple has knocked out another of their slick adverts, this time bestowing fresh superlatives in its iPad device, only for a parody version to appear within hours of its release.
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Logitech wireless illuminated keyboard K800 packs glow in the dark goodness

August 18th, 2010 1:02pm Lee J. No comments

Logitech wireless illuminated keyboard K800 packs glow in the dark goodness

We definitely like things that light up at Wirefresh, so Logitech’s new Wireless Illuminated Keyboard K800 is piquing our interest in no uncertain terms.

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Toshiba’s dual-screen Libretto W100 laptop ready to order in the US

August 17th, 2010 9:35am Lee J. No comments

Toshiba's dual-screen Libretto W100 laptop on sale in the US

Unlike Microsoft’s much-desired Courier project, Toshiba’s twin screen concept laptop has actually made the jump into the real world, with  the innovative Libretto W100 twin screen device now available for order in the US.

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Twitter movie parody hits YouTube

August 13th, 2010 9:00am Lee J. No comments

It’s Friday, so what better time to take time off work and watch a parody movie trailer lampooning Twitter?

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