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Stream tunes from phone to your hi-fi with Nokia’s MD-310 Wireless Music Receiver – review

January 12th, 2012 2:15pm No comments

Stream tunes from phone to your hi-fi with Nokia's MD-310 Wireless Music Receiver - review

If you’re fed up with the puny sound coming from your phone’s built-in speaker, or the less than hi-fi noise coming out of  your smartphone dock, it might be time to invest in a wireless music receiver like Nokia’s swishy offering.

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Blue launch Spark Digital and Mikey Digital pro iPhone and iPad microphones

January 8th, 2012 1:33pm No comments

Blue launch Spark Digital and Mikey Digital pro iPhone and iPad microphones

Snazzy microphone maker Blue is launching a new range of microphones targeted at iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users.

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Drobo-FS – great NAS drive, fiddly apps and a hideously unfriendly media server

November 23rd, 2011 3:00pm 1 comment

Drobo-FS - great NAS drive, hideously unfriendly media server

Billed as “delivering the best file sharing experience ever,” the Drobo FS network attached storage (NAS) box  lets you slide in as many as five hard drive, so you just add more storage as your needs grow.

Sounds great? Well it is. Sorta.

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Samsung Galaxy Note coming to the UK next week, also available in white

October 28th, 2011 9:50am No comments

Samsung GALAXY Note shows off its sketching action in TV advert

Samsung has confirmed that their innovative 5.3″ tablet-cum-smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Note, will be released  in the UK on 3rd November.

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Step into Microsoft’s astonishing sci-fi future [video and pics]

October 28th, 2011 8:15am 1 comment

Step into Microsoft's astonishing sci-fi future [video]

Man oh man, we want to jump straight into the wonderful world of high tech shown off in Microsoft’s astonishing futuristic movie.

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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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Epson rolls out NX430 ‘Small-in-One’ printer, scanner and copier combo

September 7th, 2011 2:00pm No comments

Epson rolls out NX430 'Small-in-One' printer, scanner and copier combo

Printer supremos Epson have freshly shuffled out the Stylus NX430 Small-in-One, a modestly proportioned ‘do it all’ device packing in a wireless inkjet printer, scanner and copier.

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Vodafone 555 Blue Facebook phone targets da yoot and emerging markets

July 27th, 2011 12:12pm 1 comment

Vodafone 555 Blue Facebook phone targets da yoot and emerging markets

Vodafone has jumped on the social networking gravy train and introduced its own ‘Facebook Phone’ in the shape of the Vodafone 555 Blue.

Aimed at the cheapo segment of the market (i.e. teens and the developing world), the handset doesn’t trouble itself with niceties like a well known operating system, and instead elects to run Vodafone’s proprietary operating system.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 video offers a 12 minute feature feast

July 6th, 2011 9:45am No comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets Aug 4th UK release date

Keen to ensure that the public aren’t left wanting any facts about their impressive new Android tablet, the folks at Samsung have slammed down a lengthy twelve minute video demonstration for the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

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Sony’s Vaio Z – thinner than a MacBook Air and with added Power Media Dock goodness

June 28th, 2011 12:53pm No comments

Sony's Vaio Z - thinner than a MacBook and with added Power Media Dock goodness

Thinner than a whippet with a crack habit, Sony’s devilishly slender Vaio Z laptop manages to be both lighter and thinner than the Macbook Air, but at a price.

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LaCie CloudBox offers 100GB local and cloud storage combo

June 24th, 2011 12:58pm No comments

LaCie CloudBox offers 100GB local and cloud storage

LaCie have come up with a neat storage and back up solution in the shape of their dual back-up system, known as the LaCie CloudBox.

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Samsung Series 5 Chromebook hits the UK, priced at £349 upwards

June 23rd, 2011 9:45am 1 comment

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook hits the UK from £349

Europe has had to wait patiently in line to bag a piece of the new Chromebook action, but from today, Samsung’s new Series 5 Chrome OS machine should be hitting the stores.

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Dell XPS 15z (not so) thin notebook guns for the MacBook Air

May 24th, 2011 9:35am 4 comments

Dell XPS 15z ultra-thing notebook guns for the MacBook Air

It looks like Dell is poised and ready to have another stab at the luxury, high end notebook market, with a rival to Apple’s MacBook Air coming up over them thar hills later today.

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Google explains the Chromebook with a witty video

May 12th, 2011 5:27pm No comments

Google explains the Chromebook with a witty video

Figuring that a lot of folks are going to have a bit of trouble getting their heads around what the new Google Chrome-powered notebooks are all about, the search engine giant has released a rather charming video.

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Soldering is Easy comic book is the perfect tutor

April 14th, 2011 10:45am No comments

Soldering is Easy comic book is the perfect tutor

If you’re soldering skills are anything as bad as ours, you probably spend more time shouting at the red hot pointy bit and dropping hot blobs of solder on your nadgers than actually successfully joining bits of metal together.

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