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HMV to shut 60 stores as sales and shares crash

Wednesday, Jan 5, 2011Wednesday, Jan 5, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

With sales reeling from the punter-repelling harsh Christmas weather, entertainment retailer HMV Group has reported that it will need to take “aggressive action” to cut costs, with approximately 10% of its retail …

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computing / hardware / portable

Lenovo introduces ThinkPad Edge E220s/E420s laptops

Tuesday, Jan 4, 2011Tuesday, Jan 4, 2011 - by mike s

Lenovo has announced two new natty new thin’n’light laptops christened the ThinkPad Edge E220s, and the ThinkPad Edge E420s.

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web

MySpace continues to slide into oblivion, big cuts mooted

Monday, Jan 3, 2011Monday, Jan 3, 2011 - by mike s

Once the unrivalled heavyweight of the social networking scene, MySpace continues to suffer a calamitous decline in traffic, with a dreadful redesign doing nothing to stave off the mass exodus of users.

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Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

RunKeeper Pro fitness app free for Android/iOS through January

Sunday, Jan 2, 2011Saturday, Jan 1, 2011 - by mike s

Mindful of the millions of New Years resolutions being made over the weekend, the developers of fitness tracking tool RunKeeper are offering the pro version of their excellent mobile app …

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Apple / computing

Steve Jobs pitches the iPad to the Dragons Den

Friday, Dec 31, 2010Friday, Dec 31, 2010 - by mike s

What happened when Steve Jobs pitched the iPad in the Dragons’ Den? Here’s a little bit of fun before you lot go out for a big New Year’s Eve beerfest…

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computing / gadgets / hardware / photography / reviews

Our most popular tech stories of 2010: cameras, iPhones and the dodgy Humax

Friday, Dec 31, 2010 - by mike s

It’s been a great year for Wirefresh with our traffic going through the roof, and it’s even better to get so much feedback from you lot – our lovely readers! …

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Android / computing / portable

Nook e-Reader becomes Barnes & Noble’s biggest selling product. Ever.

Friday, Dec 31, 2010Friday, Dec 31, 2010 - by mike s

If you’ve ever visited a Barnes & Noble store you’ll have seen that they’ve been giving their range of Nook e-book readers an almighty shove. As soon as you set …

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web

Facebook bags 44% of online sharing, MySpace continues path to oblivion

Thursday, Dec 30, 2010Thursday, Dec 30, 2010 - by mike s

Huzzah! It looks like we’ve got time for one more infographic before the year’s out, and this one comes filled with facts from the sharing widget AddThis, which is installed …

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Skype iPhone app adds phone to desktop video chats

Thursday, Dec 30, 2010 - by mike s

Skype has launched its own video-calling service for the Apple iPhone, letting iPhone 4-toting users make Skype-to-Skype video calls with other users on other iPhone 4s or desktop PCs and …

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photography

Samsung WB700 14MP compact struts a huge 18x zoom

Wednesday, Dec 29, 2010Friday, Dec 31, 2010 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

The camera body may be the same size as a regular compact, but the white coated techies at Samsung have managed to squeeze in a massive 18x 24-432mm super zoom …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Palm webOS official app total slowly meanders up to 5,000 apps

Sunday, Dec 26, 2010Sunday, Dec 26, 2010 - by mike s

The Official App Catalog for webOS for the US has been officially reported as nudging past the landmark total of 5,000 available apps

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Android / Google / mobiles

Smartphones in space! Google sends Nexus S handsets skywards

Thursday, Dec 23, 2010 - by mike s

We’re not entirely sure what the point of this is, but anything involving technology and space is always enough to pique our interest, so here’s a couple of videos showing …

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Android / business / mobiles

Samsung set to hit 10 Million Galaxy S phone sales this year

Thursday, Dec 23, 2010Thursday, Dec 23, 2010 - by mike s

Earlier this year, Samsung raised a few eyebrows with its confident prediction that it would shift a massive 10 million units of its Galaxy S line of Android smartphones in …

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Android / mobiles

LG Optimus 2X high end Android handset coming to the UK in January

Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010 - by mike s

We’re well stoked by the spec sheets of LG’s new top-of-the-range powerhouse Android smartphone, the Optimus 2X, and LG have now confirmed that it’s heading to Europeland next month.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Swype Beta for Android opens up to all – download your copy now

Monday, Dec 20, 2010 - by mike s

We’ve been huge fans of Swype’s revolutionary text input system, but until now only those who registered early for the beta trials were able to bag themselves a copy. All …

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