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Samsung makes Galaxy Nexus UK release date official

November 4th, 2011 12:13pm No comments

Samsung Galaxy Nexus announced: Android 4.0 official, 4.65 inch screen, 1.2GHz CPU

Samsung has officially announced the UK release date of the eagerly anticipated Galaxy Nexus handset, with the phone rolling in to Blighty on the 17th November official.

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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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Is your street the worst in the UK for broadband speeds?

September 20th, 2011 11:16am 4 comments

Is your street the worst in the UK for broadband speeds?

Halesworth is a pretty market town in the northeastern corner of Suffolk, boasting the largest Millennium Green in the UK and rivers stuffed full of herons, kingfishers, otters and all sorts of wildlife shizzle. But all is not well.

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Facebook now used by half of the entire UK population

March 2nd, 2011 12:53pm 1 comment

Facebook now used by half of the entire UK population

Facebook has announced that it is now used by 30 million people in the UK, effectively reaching an astonishing half of the population.

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BlackBerry outsells iPhone and grabs #1 UK smartphone sales crown

January 31st, 2011 9:00am 4 comments

BlackBerry Torch 9800 announced

We have to admit we’re having a little bit of trouble believing this one, but according to industry stat-shufflers, GfK, RIM’s BlackBerry range reigned supreme as the most successful smartphone platform in the UK over 2010.

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O2 WiFi to offer FREE Wi-Fi hotspots for everyone

January 26th, 2011 9:10am 3 comments

O2 to serve up FREE Wi-Fi hotspots for everyone

UK network has announced plans to roll out ‘O2 Wi-fi’, a system of Wi-Fi hotspots located in retailers and public spaces around the UK – and they’ll be free for everyone. Huzzah!

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Martha Lane Fox offers £98 used PCs to get tardy Brits online

January 17th, 2011 11:25am 1 comment

Martha Lane Fox offers £98 PCs to get tardy Brits online

Brit ‘UK Digital Champion’ and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox is promising super cheap computers to entice the remaining nine million Britons to get their non-digital asses online.

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ASBOrometer app displays dodgy hoodie activity in your location

July 2nd, 2010 12:33pm No comments

ASBOrometer app tracks hoodie activity in your location

If you’re strolling down an unfamiliar street and feeling a little nervous about the friendliness of the natives, fire up the handy ASBOrometer app for a swift read out of anti-social hoodie activity in your location.

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Palm in the UK. It’s been pretty hopeless really.

April 29th, 2010 3:30pm No comments

Palm in the UK. It's pretty hopeless really.

Written the day before HP announced their intention to buy Palm, this article reveals the kind of mountain that their new owners are going to have to climb.

In the UK, Palm sales have been disastrous, with their Pre webOS device failing to gain the traction it deserved  – something not helped by the company’s  frustrating inability to communicate.

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Orange UK to offer iPhone 3G/3GS this month

November 2nd, 2009 12:45pm 1 comment

Orange to sell iPhone in two weeksOrange UK customers clamouring to get their clammy mitts on an iPhone 3G or 3GS handset will soon be able to get one-on-one with the desirable little number, with the handset being offered from the 10th November.

Marking the end of a two- year exclusive deal with operator O2, Orange is set to offer the iconic phones on pay as you go, pay monthly and business contracts.

Customers going for the full  24 month contracts on £30 or £45/month tariffs will get the handset for nowt.

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Brits! Get retuning your Freeview boxes!

September 30th, 2009 6:30am No comments

You’ve probably already been nagged to death by messages appearing onscreen whenever you turn on your DigiTV or Freeview box, but today is the day for you to hit the retune button on your digi-TVs.

Brits! Get retuning your Freeview boxes!

From around lunchtime onwards, you’ll need retune any digital freeview TVs or boxes otherwise you may risk losing channels.

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