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Month: July 2011

Apple / business

High fives galore as Apple App Store smashes through the 15 billion download landmark

Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Vast clouds of dislodged suit-dust threatened to engulf Cupertino today as Apple execs puffed out their chests and roared to the world, ” Over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from …

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Apple / business

Arrogant Apple lose Amazon App Store argument

Thursday, Jul 7, 2011Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Here’s one battle the ever-litigious, cash-heavy Apple failed to win, with a federal judge in the US telling them to bog off over a claim that they owned the term, …

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web

Facebook adds self-proclaimed ‘awesome’ Skype video chatting feature

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Lee J.

Enthusiastically pre-hyped by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week, the new “awesome” add-on to the social networking site has been revealed as video chat tool created in partnership with Skype.

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computing / portable

ThinkPad x121e laptop slams down 11.6 inches of power in a hipster repelling design

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

We’re rather partial to Lenovo’s ThinkPad range – in fact, they’re our lappy of choice around here – and the company have just released a tempting new update to their …

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Android / mobiles / Palm / Windows Mobile

Android’s commanding lead grows as one in three US phones is now a smartphone

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by mike s

Those kerrrazy, stat-loving types at comScore have just come from a fun-packed totting-up session to reveal a party pack of facts about the growth of smartphones in the US.

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computing / Palm / portable

WordPress for webOS serves up a stunning interface for TouchPad

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Looking delightfully slick is the new WordPress for webOS which looks a delight on its shiny new promo video. WordPress for webOS uses nifty sliding panels to let users swiftly …

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Android / computing / hardware

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

Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011Wednesday, Jul 6, 2011 - by Lee J.

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 …

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Android / computing / portable

Sony releases part two of their mind-melding Sony Tablet video teasers

Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The first video odd enough, and now Sony have released the second instalment of of their five-episode mini blockbuster to promote their forthcoming tablets and those crazy cats are twisting our …

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web

Facebook annoys more users by blocking contact-exporting tool

Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011Tuesday, Jul 5, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Facebook’s penchant for hanging on to your data is well documented, so we expect many users were pleased when a developer created a Chrome extension tool that made it easy …

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mobiles / Palm

HP Pre 3 SIM free webOS handset goes on sale for £399

Monday, Jul 4, 2011Monday, Jul 4, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 5 Comments.

HP have posted up the price of their new HP Pre 3 handset for UK denizens, with the company asking for 399 of your hard-earned British pounds to own this …

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Android / mobiles

Samsung Galaxy S II phones shifting at the rate of one phone every 1.5 seconds

Monday, Jul 4, 2011Monday, Jul 4, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Samsung’s flagship Galaxy SII has already picked up plenty of plaudits and had many reviewers lauding it as the best smartphone available on the planet, and now it’s turned into …

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mobiles

US teens are, like, so over chatting on the phone [infographic]

Sunday, Jul 3, 2011 - by Lee J.

After questioning 500 US teens via social networking sites, online consumer market research bods lab42 discovered that 71 per cent of respondents apparently preferred texting to phone calling.

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photography

Olympus PEN E-P3 Micro Four Thirds touchscreen camera looks a beaut

Friday, Jul 1, 2011 - by mike s

Busting out of Chez Olympus  just in time for summer  is the company’s new top-of-the-range Olympus PEN E-P3 Micro Four Thirds system camera.

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Android / mobiles

Orange Monte Carlo budget smartphone serves up 4.3″ of Android love

Friday, Jul 1, 2011Thursday, Jun 30, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

We’ve long been spreading the cut price love for Orange’s long reigning Budget Belle, the ultra cheap San Francisco, and the network looks set to unleash another bargain Android handset …

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