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Month: March 2011

Apple / mobile apps / mobiles

Apple has no problem with ‘anti-gay’ iPhone app despite 80,000 complaints

Monday, Mar 21, 2011Wednesday, Mar 23, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 4 Comments.

We’ve long been baffled by Apple’s erratic, censorial and sometimes moralistic App Store approval policies, but their approval of an iPhone and iPad app targeting “homosexual strugglers” really is head …

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Android / computing / portable

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer – netbook meets tablet coming soon

Monday, Mar 21, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

ASUS’s innovative Eee Pad Transformer was given an April worldwide release date, but it seems that the folks in Taiwan will be getting it this week with a release date …

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stuff

AT&T unleashes its wallet and buys T-Mobile US for $39 billion

Monday, Mar 21, 2011Sunday, Mar 20, 2011 - by Pete Railton

US mobile network AT&T and Deutsche Telekom have announced that AT&T has whipped out its wallet and laid down a load of wonga for T-Mobile USA  in a cash and …

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computing / portable

Lenovo ThinkPad X220 picks up rave review, feels much love

Saturday, Mar 19, 2011Saturday, Mar 19, 2011 - by mike s

Although their austere looks are hardly likely to impress those folks who like their gadgets to be streamlined, wafer-thin wedges of shiny silverness, Lenovo’s Thinkpad laptops have always been one of our …

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stuff / video / web

Hitler rages at the sell out of the SXSW tech event [video]

Saturday, Mar 19, 2011Saturday, Mar 19, 2011 - by Lee J.

These ‘Hitler Downfall’ videos tend to get taken down pretty sharpish, but this one is well worth seeing while it’s here.

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Android / iPhone / mobiles / open source

Songbird music player comes to Android, looks a good ‘un

Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Already a very popular open source music media manager/player on Windows and Mac, Songbird has now come to the Android platform.

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Android / computing / portable

HTC Flyer landing in the UK in mid-April – possibly for £600

Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We’ve been enthusiastically banging on about this tablet for so long we’re even starting to bore ourselves now, but there is something rather enticing about HTC’s innovative Flyer tablet – …

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Microsoft / software

Microsoft’s IE9 browser ratchets up 27 downloads per second

Thursday, Mar 17, 2011Thursday, Mar 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Released on Monday, it looks like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is off to a flying start, with the company reporting that the new browser was downloaded 2.35 million times in the …

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web

Freaking Facebook fecks about with the Select All Friends function again

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J. - 5 Comments.

Already the buggiest site on the whole internet as far as we’re concerned (it’s the only site that regularly crashes every day without fail on our Chrome/Windows 64 bit system), …

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Android / Blackberry / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

GroupMe mobile sharing app wins SXSW Breakout award

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by mike s

GroupMe, an app that lets users share text messages, photos and locations privately with selected groups of people has won the SXSW Breakout award.

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Android / computing / portable

Saucy Samsung flash a bit of Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet onscreen

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Those saucy temptresses at Samsung are at it again, releasing the tech equivalent of a glimpse of stocking top to reveal the merest of details about their forthcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 tablet.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Facebook for Android updates to v1.5.2, we still prefer TweetDeck

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011Wednesday, Mar 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

Facebook have just updated their official Android app to version v1.5.2, slapping down a variety of tweaks and a few usability enhancements.

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Microsoft / web

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 annoys before it’s even begun

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Doing our best to forgive and forget the beastly browser creations that Microsoft has foisted upon us in the past, we thought we’d give their shiny new Internet Explorer 9 a spin.

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Microsoft / software

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser gets global release

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Lee J.

With one of the longest press releases we’ve read in a long while, Microsoft has launched its next-generation desktop Web browser, Internet Explorer 9.

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Android / business / mobiles

Carphone Warehouse: over 2,000-percent year-on-year growth for Android phones

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 - by Pete Railton

UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has just announced the sale of its one millionth Android smartphone in Europe, with the platform registering year-on-year growth in excess of 2,000-percent for Android smartphones.

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