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Month: May 2010

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Facebook and fries: McDonalds to launch location-based Facebook app

Friday, May 7, 2010Friday, May 7, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

While Google are busy bigging up their Latitude service, Facebook is getting ready to launch location-based status updates for its users, and making it available  to opportunistic marketers like (spit!) …

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Android / Google / mobiles

Google Latitude hits 3m users, check ins coming?

Friday, May 7, 2010 - by mike s

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo yesterday, Google’s Steve Lee was quick to trumpet the growth of their Latitude service, while giving rivals Foursquare and MyTown a quick sand/face experience. …

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computing

Epson Stylus NX420 wi-fi all-in-one printer punted out for $99

Thursday, May 6, 2010Thursday, May 6, 2010 - by Lee J.

Printers sure have come on a bit since the days we used to have our ear drums perforated by the rattling thunder of a Citizen dot matrix number, and Epson’s …

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mobiles / portable

Mobile phones – see the clever clogs technology behind your handset

Thursday, May 6, 2010Thursday, May 6, 2010 - by mike s

If you’re like us, you’re probably too busy fiddling with the groovy features on your high end smartphone to ponder over the technology that’s allowing it do its mobile magic.

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gaming / iPhone / mobiles

eBoy creates awesome iPhone Game

Thursday, May 6, 2010Thursday, May 6, 2010 - by mike s

We’ve been fans of eBoy’s fabulously pixellated graphics for years, and the iconic graphics have inspired artists and imitators the world over.

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Android / mobiles

Black HTC Desire appears on Orange – and promptly sells out

Thursday, May 6, 2010Thursday, May 6, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

More desirable than a tray of clotted cream jammy scones and lashings of Earl Grey tea is the Android-powered HTC Desire handset which is being offered by Orange UK in …

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gadgets / iPhone / mobile apps

iPhone controlled wi-fi drone wows the crowds [video]

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - by Lee J.

Shown off at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco by the French company Parrot is their awesome flying quadricopter, a smart flying device controlled by an iPhone over Wi-Fi.

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Google / web

Google whacks out a new look search interface

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Excitingly billed as a “spring metamorphosis,” Google have unveiled a new look to their search pages. This “metamorphosis” is apparently “responding to the increasing richness of the web and the …

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Android / mobiles

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 range to get Android update and HD video recording

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Owners of phones in the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 range will surely be chuffed to learn that by the last quarter of the year all the handsets will be upgraded …

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Android / computing / stuff

Android protoype tablet plays Adobe AIR and Flash with nae bother

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’ve no idea who makes this swishy looking tablet, but Adobe have been showing off a prototype Android device at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco that can do …

Android protoype tablet plays Adobe AIR and Flash with nae bother Read More
business / Google / software

Google buys Recorded Future… to see the future!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - by mike s

Google Ventures has just slapped a ton of wedge on the table to buy up Recorded Future, a company that uses technology to predict the future. Before you start making …

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video

Humax promises fix for PVR-9150T, PVR-9300T and PVR-9200T PVR issues

Tuesday, May 4, 2010Sunday, May 9, 2010 - by mike s - 117 Comments.

Like a load of Humax users, we’ve been miffed off to the max with the increasingly patchy performance from our Humax PVR units. As we reported recently, our PVRs have …

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computing / hardware

Canon CanoScan 9000F scanner serves up speedy, high quality scans

Tuesday, May 4, 2010Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

If you’re looking for a high-end scanner capable of scanning a range of documents and film formats, the brand new CanoScan 9000F from Canon could be just the ticket. Boasting …

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web

Twitter’s ’embed tweet’ feature launches today

Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - by Lee J.

Later today, Twitter will be introducing an official embeddable tweet tool, which will let users directly embed Tweets onto web pages instead of faffing about with cut and paste or …

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software

Google buys BumpTop multitouch 3D desktop interface

Tuesday, May 4, 2010Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Google has whipped out its whopping wallet o’wonga once again and bought up BumpTop, a super-snazzy multitouch 3D interface for the computer desktop. If you’ve never seen BumpTop in action, …

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