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Apple fanboy/girl site Cupidtino releases iPhone app. Barf bags primed

January 13th, 2012 3:09pm No comments

Pass the barf bag - Apple fanboy/girl site Cupidtino releases iPhone app

A little part of us died inside when we first read about the Cupidtino dating service set up for Apple fanboys and fangirls, and now the developer has released an iPhone app.

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Supermarket prankster turns iPhone’s Siri assistant into foul mouthed yob

December 30th, 2011 11:11am No comments

Supermarket prankster turns iPhone's Siri assistant into foul mouthed yob

A prankster tampered with a demo model of an iPhone in a Coventry supermarket so that anyone trying out the Siri voice technlogy could expect an earful of abuse in return.

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Android hold on to dominant share, HTC and Samsung creeping up on Apple: Millennial research

November 22nd, 2011 11:20am No comments

Android hold on to dominant share, HTC and Samsung creeping up on Apple

New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, Apple’s iOS, who only have 28 per cent.

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Google upgrades Search app for iPad, adds swishy new features

November 21st, 2011 7:31pm No comments

Google upgrades Search app for iPad, adds swishy new features

Google has declared itself pleased to be launching a ‘significant redesign’ for their Google Search for iPad application, and have released a plinky-plonky video showing off its new features.

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A suitably red-faced GMail app returns to the Apple App Store

November 16th, 2011 7:51pm No comments

A suitably red faced GMail app returns to the Apple App Store

After a comically catastrophic launch last month, which saw Google’s offering being so bug-ridden that it had to be retired from view, an updated GMail app has made its way back into the Apple App Store.

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Apple iOS 5.0.1 released to fix fast draining battery bug, not everyone happy

November 10th, 2011 10:04pm No comments

Apple iOS 5.0.1 released to fix fast draining battery bug

Not long after Apple released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5, online forums swiftly filled with complaints from iPhone users suffering poor battery life.

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Brits go crazy for Android as iPhone market share crashes

October 31st, 2011 3:00pm No comments

Brits go crazy for Android as iPhone market share crashes

New research has revealed that the UK is feeling the Google Android love, with the OS running on over half of all smartphones sold – a hefty 100% increase in market share from a year ago.

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Samsung cruises past Apple to become the world’s #1 smartphone vendor

October 20th, 2011 4:41pm No comments

Samsung cruises past Apple to become #1 smartphone vendor in Q3

For the first time, Samsung’s burgeoning sales figures have seen the South Korean company speed swiftly past its rival Apple to become the number one shipper of smartphones on the planet in the third quarter of 2011.
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Apple iPhone 4S smashes in drop test, Galaxy S2 emerges as tough as nails

October 17th, 2011 8:20pm 2 comments

Apple iPhone 4S smashes in drop test, Galaxy S2 emerges as hard as nails

Keen to find publicise their mobile phone warranty service, SquareTrade decided to conduct a ‘drop test’ on the new Apple iPhone 4S and see how its main rival, the 30 million-unit-shifting Samsung Galaxy S2 would fare.

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Apple and Starbucks UK embrace to offer free bland iTunes track

October 17th, 2011 11:53am No comments

Apple and Starbucks UK embrace to offer free iTunes track

In a flurry of synergistic back-slapping, Apple and Starbucks have pressed the flash to secure a deal where customers to the ghastly coffee shops in the UK can secure a ghastly music track from iTunes for free.

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Lenovo now #2 global PC vendor behind HP. Apple fail to show in top five

October 13th, 2011 9:30am No comments

Lenovo now #2 global PC vendor behind HP. Apple fail to show in top five

Hewlett-Packard has hung on to its #1 on the planet ranking, increasing its share of the PC global market to 17.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, according to the number-crunching bods at Gartner.

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Apple releases iTunes 10.5 into the wild, gets ready to frolic with iOS 5

October 11th, 2011 7:16pm No comments

Apple releases iTunes 10.5 into the wild to frolic with iOS5

With the eagerly awaited iOS 5 software nearly ready to rumble,  Apple have just released an update to iTunes, taking it up to version  10.5.

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T3 Gadget Awards 2011 – Kindle, Galaxy S2 and Kinect in the winners

October 11th, 2011 1:00pm No comments

T3 Gadget Awards 2011 - Kindle, Galaxy S2 and Kinect in the winners

Tech magazine T3 has announced the winners of the 2011 Gadget awards and there’s a few surprises in store.

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Vodafone posts up iPhone 4S contract prices for pre-ordering

October 7th, 2011 11:11am 1 comment

Vodafone posts up iPhone 4S contract prices for pre-ordering

Vodafone has posted up their contract rates for the new iPhone 4S, with the deals coming in 24 month, 18 months and – happily – 12 month flavours.

Being a shiny new iPhone thingy, bargain hunters and cheapskates can swiftly jog on, because we’re looking at high- end, bling-tastic prices here.

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Bill Gates on Steve Jobs’ death: ‘I will miss him immensely’

October 6th, 2011 2:06am No comments

Bill Gates on Steve Jobs' death: I will miss him immensely

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival of Apple, has issued a touching statement about Steve Jobs’ death.

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