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Honda’s Asimo robot turns 9. Shakes a leg (updated Nov 2011)

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Friday, Nov 11, 2011 - by mike s

Honda’s groundbreaking robot Asimo has now reached its ninth birthday, and to celebrate a party was thrown at their Japanese headquarters, with 200 guests invited from around the world (I …

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Apple / computing

Mac OS X update locks out Atom CPU ‘hackintoshers’

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Apple’s latest update to their Mac OS X – Snow Leopard 10.6.2 – has intentionally  changed the code so that it will not run on Intel’s Atom processors. This move …

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Google

Google Go programming language launches

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 - by mike s

Just when you thought there was no nook or crevice left that wasn’t already occupied by some area of Google’s all reaching tentacles, the search engine giant has found a …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm Pixi handset spotted on video

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 - by mike s

It may be five days until US consumers are able to get their mitts on the pint-sized Palm Pixi, a mini-me version of the well reviewed Palm Pre smartphone, but …

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photography

Ricoh unveils revolutionary GXR digital camera system

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

Billed as the world’s first “interchangeable unit camera system,” Ricoh’s new compact camera system puts the lens, image sensor, and image processing engine into a integrated camera unit, so – …

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software / Windows

Paint.net: FREE powerful image editor for Windows

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

If you’re not mindful of re-mortgaging your house to get the latest copy of Adobe Photoshop, then the freebie Paint.Net application may be worth taking a look at. The Windows-only …

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Microsoft / Windows Mobile

HTC Touch HD2 gets another review: declared “a tragedy”

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by mike s - 11 Comments.

We ran a piece last week previewing one of the early reviews for the Windows Mobile-powered HTC Touch HD2 handset, and the folks at Gizmodo have just posted their thoughts. …

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Apple / iPhone

O2 says: “feel free to unlock your iPhones”

Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by mike s

UK mobile network O2 has stated that iPhone users will be free to unlock their handsets at the end of their contract, freeing them to sign up to any network …

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open source / software / web

Firefox is five years old

Monday, Nov 9, 2009Monday, Nov 9, 2009 - by mike s

Launched on November 9, 2004, the web browser Firefox is now five years old. Starting life as an experimental arm of the Mozilla project, whose hefty suite of apps included …

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business / iPhone / mobiles

Verizon put the festive boot into AT&T and the iPhone

Monday, Nov 9, 2009Sunday, Nov 8, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

It looks like there’s not much festive spirit being generated by Verizon towards their neighbours, as the US network launches a TV offensive on rival network AT&T. A set of …

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Android / Google / mobile apps

Adobe Photoshop Mobile lands on Android

Saturday, Nov 7, 2009 - by mike s

Last month, iPhone users were able to whip out their sleek handsets and laugh in the face of Android users, by showing off their fancypants Adobe Photoshop Mobile app. As …

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mobiles / Windows Mobile

HTC HD2 gets comprehensively reviewed, some love felt

Friday, Nov 6, 2009 - by mike s

If you’ve been feeling a moistening of the mouth at the merest mention of the luxurious spec sheet of the new HTC HD2, and have felt your wallet twitching each …

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Blackberry / mobiles

Blackberry Bold 9700 shimmies into UK T-Mobile stores

Friday, Nov 6, 2009 - by mike s

T-Mobile has unlocked the holding pen and unleashed the shiny Blackberry Bold 9700, which is now roaming free amongst the bits and bytes of their online store. Casting off its …

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computing / Windows

Dell Adamo XPS: ‘world’s thinnest PC laptop’

Friday, Nov 6, 2009Friday, Nov 6, 2009 - by mike s

Dell have just whisked off the velvet sheet covering their new Adamo XPS, and shouted to the heavens that they – yes, they – now rule the roost when it …

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web

BBC website outage – why the silence?

Thursday, Nov 5, 2009Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 - by mike s

Last night we reported on a major outage that saw the entire BBC website – news, radio, features, sport – the whole caboodle – going down for several hours. Some …

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