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Month: August 2011

Apple

Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple

Thursday, Aug 25, 2011Thursday, Aug 25, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Steve Jobs has announced that he is stepping down as Apple CEO and will be handing over the day-to-day running of the company to Tim Cook. Jobs has asked to …

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photography

Sony NEX-7 24MP compact camera goes over the top in the megapixel war [pics and full specs]

Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 - by mike s

Taking the megapixel war to a whole new level is Sony’s lush new NEX-7 compact which comes with an Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor offering an outrageous 24.3 effective megapixels .

Sony NEX-7 24MP compact camera goes over the top in the megapixel war [pics and full specs] Read More
mobiles / Palm

HP Pre 3 smartphone set for bargain basement sale today. Get in!

Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 3 Comments.

HP’s massively discounted Touchpad caused shopping sites to buckle under the strain yesterday as shoppers scrambled to bag themselves a bargain, and HP is set to offer another fantastic deal …

HP Pre 3 smartphone set for bargain basement sale today. Get in! Read More
photography

Canon IXUS 1100HS becomes the world’s slimmest 12x zoom compact camera

Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 - by Lee J.

Shimmying into view is the shiny new Canon IXUS 1100HS ultra-slim compact superzoom camera, a high end model packing a huge 12x zoom and curiously illustrated hovering over an oily …

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computing / portable

Sites crash as consumers scramble for HP Touchpad superdeal

Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 - by mike s

A host of big name websites have been reduced to a crawl (or have bombed out altogether) as frenzied bargain hunters scramble to pick up a HP Touchpad tablet at …

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portable

Stampede for a bargain as HP TouchPads go for £89.99 – get in quick!

Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011Tuesday, Aug 23, 2011 - by mike s

With the untimely demise of HP’s interest in webOS as a hardware platform, UK retailers have starting offloading the HP Touchpad at outrageously low prices (scroll down for listing) .

Stampede for a bargain as HP TouchPads go for £89.99 – get in quick! Read More
photography

Nikon D5100: some photos from Nikon’s enticing mid price dSLR

Monday, Aug 22, 2011Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - by mike s

We definitely felt the love for Nikon’s mid-priced D5100 camera when we read the spec sheets and after spending some time with the camera, we remain very impressed indeed.

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portable / transport

Garmin Edge 200 bike computer offers cut price GPS tracking for cyclists

Monday, Aug 22, 2011Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - by Pete Railton

If your budget won’t stretch to their snazzy, high-end bike computers like the Garmin Edge 800, the company are offering a new cut-down GPS unit, the Garmin Edge 200.

Garmin Edge 200 bike computer offers cut price GPS tracking for cyclists Read More
transport

There are now One Billion cars polluting the planet

Friday, Aug 19, 2011Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

The number of stinky vehicles burning up non-renewable resurces on the roads across the world has now passed the 1 billion-unit mark, according to research from WardsAuto.

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computing / mobile apps / mobiles / software

Skitch app for Mac goes free, Android app promises ‘addictive’ fun

Friday, Aug 19, 2011Thursday, Aug 18, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The popular Mac screen capture tool Skitch has just been bought up by the folks at Evernote, and to celebrate they’re making the program free to download – and throwing …

Skitch app for Mac goes free, Android app promises ‘addictive’ fun Read More
mobiles / Palm

HP closes down webOS, kisses goodbye to TouchPad and webOS phones

Friday, Aug 19, 2011Friday, Aug 19, 2011 - by mike s

This is really sad news. HP has announced that they plan to discountinue operations for webOS devices, which include the TouchPad and webOS phones like the Veer and HP Pre …

HP closes down webOS, kisses goodbye to TouchPad and webOS phones Read More
Google / web

Google Maps adds weather info, rain-splattered Brits look around in envy

Thursday, Aug 18, 2011 - by Lee J.

Google has just added a neat weather layer to Google Maps, letting Brits see just how miserable their summer is – and gaze enviously at sunnier climes around the world.

Google Maps adds weather info, rain-splattered Brits look around in envy Read More
computing / gaming

Humongous Samsung Series 7 700G7A gaming laptop cranks up the frag power

Thursday, Aug 18, 2011 - by Lee J.

For gamers craving the big desktop experience, Samsung has released, nay unleashed, a veritable beast of a laptop with its new Series 7 number sporting a hefty 17.3-inch screen.

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mobiles / Palm

HP Pre 3 silently shuffles on sale in Europe

Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011 - by mike s

It looks like HP has inherited Palm’s penchant for extremely modest product promotion, with the new HP Pre 3 silently turning up in their European store with not even a …

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mobile apps / mobiles

Humble SMS remains the most popular app on fancypants smartphones

Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011 - by Pete Railton

More and more folks may be strutting the streets toting fancypants, app-stuffed smartphones, but when it comes to using the thing, old-fashioned text messaging is still the most popular application …

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