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Month: January 2011

Google / mobile apps / mobiles / web

Google add more ‘fun’ to their mobile weather app

Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011 - by mike s

Google are insisting that their new weather website for mobiles manages to add some ‘fun’ to a week full of rainy forecasts, serving up the meteorological news in an “app-like …

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Palm / portable

HP Palm Topaz webOS 9.7″ tablet details revealed

Monday, Jan 24, 2011Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

There’s been a vast cavalcade of Android tablets trotting over the hills in the recent weeks, but the one tablet that’s got us more interested than most is the upcoming …

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mobiles / web

Foursquare goes bananas in 2010 with 6m users registering 381m check-ins

Monday, Jan 24, 2011Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

Foursquare has just stumped up some fairly staggering stats showing off their massive growth over 2010, with the company notching up 6 million registered users, while growing 3,400 percent in …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

White iPhone 4 finally drags its pale botty on to Three, Orange networks

Monday, Jan 24, 2011Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

To be honest, we’ve waited so long for a white iPhone 4 to turn up that we’re now just soooo over the whole thing, but if you’re still craving a …

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stuff

London’s skyline soars with the Cheesegrater, Walkie Talkie and Pinnacle

Monday, Jan 24, 2011Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

London’s skyline is changing at a remarkable rate, with several large and unusually shaped skyscrapers currently under construction. Many of the towers have already acquired not-always flattering nicknames, like the Cheesegrater, the …

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Android / computing / portable

Advent Vega gets performance update, Flash still to come

Monday, Jan 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

The bargain basement Advent Vega – an Android tablet with a 10.1″ screen, Tegra dual core 1Ghz CPU, Froyo, 10hrs battery life and a price tag of price of just …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Apple hits 10 billion app downloads. Let the high fiving begin

Saturday, Jan 22, 2011 - by mike s

There’s vast dust clouds rising over Apple’s HQs as the back slapping begins over the company’s incredible achievement of reaching the total of 10 billion app downloads from the Apple …

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photography

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX7V camera packs GPS and a compass

Friday, Jan 21, 2011 - by mike s

Sony continues to cascade Cyber-shot cameras on to consumers, and ready to join the queue of  mid-range priced cameras hoping to get wallets a-twitching is the new Cyber-shot DSC-HX7V.

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Google / web

Google shunts Reader link off the GMail interface, users not chuffed

Friday, Jan 21, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Here’s a fresh little annoyance that Google have just delivered to our daily experience. Although we all know that popularity of RSS feeds are fast fading as people continue to …

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computing / gadgets / hardware

Logitech Couch Mouse M515 targets horizontally-inclined sofa surfers

Friday, Jan 21, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

For those who like to loll about on their sofa while using their PC as a media centre have always had the problem of having to get up and find …

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Android / mobiles

Samsung Galaxy S2: 4.3″, dual-core Orion CPU, 1GB RAM upcoming

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 - by Pete Railton

They’re teasing and taunting us with painfully small snippets of information, but there’s no doubting that the follow-up to the monstrously successful Samsung Galaxy S Android handset is coming our …

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Apple / mobile apps

BT broadband customers get free Wi-Fi with iPad app

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 - by Lee J.

Thanks to a new freebie app, Apple iPad-owning BT customers can hook up to any one of 2 million Wi-Fi UK  hotspots for free by logging in with their BT …

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business / video / web

Amazon buys LoveFilm for £200m

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Amazon has bought up the DVD and online movie rental business, LoveFilm. In a slightly complicated turn of events, LoveFilm first bought Amazon’s UK and German DVD rental business back …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

SwiftKey – the best smartphone keyboard we’ve ever used

Thursday, Jan 20, 2011Thursday, Jan 20, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

We’ve tried all sorts of keyboards on our mobiles – the default iPhone one, the incredibly clever Swype one and a host of other cunning keyboard concoctions on various handsets, …

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business / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Guardian shuns Android and slams down iPhone subscription charges

Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

UK newspaper the Guardian continues its love affair with all things Apple, and has launched a shiny  new version of its newspaper app  for the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, while ignoring the …

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