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Amazon launches UK Kindle Store, daily newspapers, magazines available

Thursday, Aug 5, 2010Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 - by Lee J.

With the release of the eagerly anticipated Kindle 3 eReader coming up at the end of the month, Amazon has today launched its UK Kindle Store, offering books, magazines and …

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Google / web

Google Wave comes crashing on the rocks, and promptly sinks

Thursday, Aug 5, 2010Thursday, Aug 5, 2010 - by Lee J.

We were baffled by it. Most users were baffled by it – even after Google had released clever videos that explained what it did – so it comes as no …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / web

Facebook for Android enjoys feature-packing update

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010 - by Lee J.

The official Android Facebook app has lagged behind the iPhone version for yonks, but it seems that the folks at the social networking uber-site are slowly waking up to the …

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Blackberry / mobiles

BlackBerry Torch 9800 slider – too little, too late?

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010 - by Lee J.

RIM have officially announced their latest smartphone, the BlackBerry Torch 9800, and smothered on the love describing it as their “best BlackBerry ever.”

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computing / portable

Amazon Kindle UK pre-orders ‘sold out’ until Sept 4th

Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010 - by Lee J. - 3 Comments.

It looks like Amazon are going to have a monster hit on their hands with their new Kindle wireless reading device, as it seems that the first batch of  UK …

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Android / audio / mobiles

Star Trek’s universal translator arrives in Afghanistan, courtesy of Android

Monday, Aug 2, 2010Monday, Aug 2, 2010 - by Lee J.

The US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been trialling real-time translation systems, one of which uses a Google Nexus One handset to do real-time, spoken language translation from …

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computing / gadgets / portable

Slimmer, cheaper Amazon Kindle comes to the UK with built in Wi-Fi/3G

Thursday, Jul 29, 2010Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010 - by Lee J. - 2 Comments.

Amazon’s latest Kindle eBook reader is heading to the UK and will feature Wi-Fi, a new browser, an improved PDF reader with dictionary look-up plus note-taking and highlighting. The first …

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web

Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK: study

Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010 - by Lee J.

Social networking is now the most popular pastime in the UK with nearly 30 million UK residents spending over 6 hours on social media sites like Facebook or MySpace every …

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Apple / hardware

Apple’s Cinema Display ramps up to 27″, iMac line-up gets speed boost

Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010 - by Lee J.

Apple have ramped up their biggest LED Cinema Display to now contain 27″ of  big screen loveliness, with the new display packing 2560 x 1440 pixels in a movie-friendly 16:9 aspect …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps

Apple’s moral censorship continues as erotic literature is purged from iTunes Top 10

Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010 - by Lee J.

It looks like those prudes at Apple have struck again, this time quietly removing four erotic novellas listed in the top ten downloads in the  iTunes Store and replacing them …

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photography / web

Canon 5D Mark II shoots incredible stop motion movie [video]

Monday, Jul 26, 2010Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by Lee J.

The video may be called “Guy Walks Across America,” but it seems he didn’t literally cover every step, but what the hell: it’s still a great piece of creative cinematography, …

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Android / Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple’s hopeless Antennagate spin campaign hits the Droid X

Saturday, Jul 24, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Apple is hoping that their notorious reality distortion field might somehow extend to competing products, and continues to knock out a series of dull videos showing rival smartphones supposedly suffering …

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Apple / stuff

Darth Vader chats to Apple about his iPhone 4 antenna [Video]

Friday, Jul 23, 2010 - by Lee J.

It may be a case of “free bumpers for all!” but Apple’s ‘Antennagate’ fall out continues, with this latest video taking a well aimed pop at the handset’s failings in …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Barnes & Noble released NOOK app for Android bookworms

Thursday, Jul 22, 2010Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 - by Lee J.

In the US, big-boy booksellers and online retailers Barnes & Noble look to be putting the squeeze on Amazon’s Kindle, knocking out their very own Android ereader app.

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

15 year old boy tricks Apple into approving an iPhone tethering app

Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010 - by Lee J.

Naturally it’s already been pulled off the App Store, but anyone buying what looked like yet another $0.99 flashlight app for their iPhone was in for an unexpected treat.

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