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Android / mobiles

Motorola Droid 2 gets official US launch. Star Wars version available

Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010 - by mike s

The Motorola DROID 2 handset has just been officially announced in the States, with a full press release listing all the Android goodness.

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Apple / computing

Apple’s new Mac Pro range: UK pricing and availability announced

Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010 - by mike s

It’s been sixteen long months since the super high-end Mac Pros were updated, but deep pocketed Apple aficionados should get their wads ready as the new range is nearly here.

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Apple / gaming / iPhone / mobiles

Civilization Revolution for the iPhone: empire building, world ruling antics ahoy!

Monday, Aug 9, 2010Monday, Aug 9, 2010 - by mike s

Old school gamers packing iPhones should get ready to whoop at the news that Civilization Revolution, a remake of the old Civilisation classic – has been shunted into the App …

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stuff / transport

Train buffs in heaven as Japanese hotel offers in-room model railway

Monday, Aug 9, 2010Friday, Aug 6, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

If you’re the kind of bloke (for it is almost always blokes) who gets excited by model trains, transformers, track laying and sticking little lichen trees around a board, then …

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Google

Google tots up all the books in the world, and there’s lots of them

Friday, Aug 6, 2010Friday, Aug 6, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We can’t say it’s something that’s ever crossed our minds, but it seems software engineer Leonid Taycher and his team of boffins at Google were simply burning up over the …

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mobile apps / mobiles / web

The Brits: a bunch of work-shirking social networkers, apparently

Friday, Aug 6, 2010Friday, Aug 6, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It seems that employees who spend their work time uploading status updates, posting up amusing photos and Tweeting about the minutiae of their boring work days are costing British businesses …

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Apple / business

Apple Covent Garden store opens Saturday. Over-excited previews and video

Thursday, Aug 5, 2010Monday, Aug 9, 2010 - by mike s - 7 Comments.

Londoners in the Covent Garden area are warned that they can expect to hear disturbingly high  levels of corporate-sponsored whooping, over-excited palm-slapping and team co-ordinated celebratory street laps as the …

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web

MySpace on the blink again as users flee in droves

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010 - by mike s

With MySpace recently discovering the devastating news that they’d managed to lose half their UK audience, you’d think they’d be going flat out to improve the user experience.

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Blackberry / mobiles

BlackBerry 6 mobile OS ‘unleashed’, some older models to get upgrade

Wednesday, Aug 4, 2010Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010 - by mike s

After months of leaks, RIM has officially announced their all new BlackBerry 6 operating system. The new mobile OS serves up a host of updates, a ”visual, fluid interface’  and …

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Apple / portable

Leicester City councillors set to trouser themselves £40k of iPads

Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

We don’t often find ourselves agreeing with the TaxPayers’ Alliance, but plans by councillors at Leicester City Council to award themselves a nice, new, top of the range Apple iPad …

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles / transport

Cycle Hire Widget for Android lets Londoners find TfL cycles quickly

Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

A collaboration between Transport for London, Serco and Barclays Bank has seen thousands of bicycles being made available to Londoners, and the free Cycle Hire Widget for Android has been …

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photography

Panasonic Lumix LX3 Version 2.2 firmware upgrade released

Monday, Aug 2, 2010Monday, Aug 2, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

It’s been our favourite digital compact camera for around two years now, and it’s good to see Panasonic still supporting this venerable high end snapper, even after its replacement, the …

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Google / web / Windows

Internet Explorer soars while Firefox gets a kick in the goolies

Monday, Aug 2, 2010Sunday, Aug 1, 2010 - by mike s

Microsoft continues to revive the fortunes of its once-ailing Internet Explorer (IE), with new figures from NetMarketShare reporting that the browser has  increased its share of the browser market in …

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iPhone / mobiles

HTC Desire Android 2.2 upgrade this week with 720p video, iTunes sync

Friday, Jul 30, 2010 - by mike s

HTC has announced that the eagerly awaited upgrade to Android 2.2 is hurtling into Europe and heading directly for folks toting unlocked HTC Desire handsets.

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gadgets / portable

Amazon CEO bigs up the Kindle experience. We’re impressed.

Friday, Jul 30, 2010Tuesday, Aug 3, 2010 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We’re becoming more and more tempted by Amazon’s new cut-price Kindle device, and think they may have produced a real contender here.

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