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audio / business

Here’s what the death of the music industry looks like

Friday, Feb 18, 2011Friday, Feb 18, 2011 - by mike s

People can talk about the death of the music industry and throw figures around, but nothing brings its demise into sharp focus more succinctly than this graphic plotting sales over various formats from 1973 to 2009.

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reviews / software / Windows

Review: PhotoEQ lightweight digital photo app with batch processing

Friday, Feb 18, 2011Friday, Feb 18, 2011 - by mike s

It may be a lightweight app, but the Windows-only PhotoEQ application aims to be the app you reach for when you need some quick image editing tasks done.

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stuff

Google Reader app for Android gets updated

Thursday, Feb 17, 2011Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 - by mike s

Some folks already swear by this app, so they’ll be no doubt more chuffed than a deeply chuffed thing to discover that Google has added some handy improvements to the …

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broadcasting / web

TVCatchup buckles under the football strain

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

Possibly put under extra-strain from viewers logging on to watch the enthralling Arsenal vs Barcelona football game on ITV, but our favourite TV streaming service, TVCatchup, was wobblier than Grobbelaar’s …

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Android / computing / portable

HTC Flyer 7-inch Android tablet looks to be the ultimate note taking device

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011 - by mike s

We’ve been looking forward to HTC’s entry into an already crowded tablet space, and their freshly announced HTC Flyer tablet serves up an interesting mix of features – including pen …

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Android / computing / portable

LG Optimus Pad gets handled by a Terminator, Steve Jobs gets biffed

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011 - by mike s

Backed by the now-standard ‘spirit of rave circa 1998’ high energy backing track, LG has thrust out another video bigging up their new Android Optimus Pad.

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audio

Radiohead’s King Of Limbs: ‘world’s first Newspaper Album’, 19th Feb 2011

Monday, Feb 14, 2011Monday, Feb 14, 2011 - by mike s

Radiohead are a band that like to do things differently, and they’re continuing that tradition with the forthcoming release of their new ‘The King Of Limbs’ album.

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Microsoft / mobiles / Windows Mobile

Nokia slings its loving arms around Windows Phone OS, job losses ahead

Friday, Feb 11, 2011Friday, Feb 11, 2011 - by mike s

It’s been made official: Microsoft and Nokia have announced their plans to “form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global …

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Android / audio / computing / hardware / mobile apps / mobiles

Sonos slams down Sonos Controller for Android

Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 - by mike s

Wireless multi-room music systems supremos Sonos have announced Sonos Controller for Android, a free app that lets most Android smartphones take control of their Sonos Multi-Room Music System.

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business / mobiles

o2 hike up broadband charges, make it sound like they’re doing us a favour

Thursday, Feb 10, 2011Thursday, Feb 10, 2011 - by mike s

Back in the days when businesses spoke something approaching normal English, they’d apologise to you when they had to put up their prices.

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computing / Palm

HP 9.7-inch webOS TouchPad arrives with dual core CPU and Touchstone support

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We’ve been looking forward to this for some time, and the new webOS-powered HP TouchPad tablet has finally been revealed – and it looks a winner.

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photography

Fujifilm announces lustworthy Finepix x100. We play Kylie

Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 - by mike s

We’re beginning to understand the deep emotional depths that Kylie was traversing when she sang her hit single “Can’t get you out of my mind,” as we’re having trouble keeping …

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computing / portable

T-Mobile LG G-Slate gets turbo-speed video run through

Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011 - by mike s

Narrated at a speed so fast that it makes cheap TV voiceovers look positivity pedestrian in comparison, an amphetamine-fuelled video has gone up showing off the delights of the new LG G-Slate …

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computing / portable

Kindle adds page numbers and social networking links

Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011 - by mike s

It’s been one of our biggest gripes with the otherwise splendid Kindle, but Amazon are now adding page numbers to their e-books which will match the page numbers in their …

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google releases Blogger app for Android and it’s free

Friday, Feb 4, 2011 - by mike s

It’s taking an embarrassingly long time to arrive, but Google has finally got around to releasing an official Blogger app for the Android operating system.

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