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Olympus E-P2 Micro Four Thirds retro camera looks a good ‘un

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

We were stoked to the max when Olympus’s retro-styled Micro Four Thirds Pen E-P1 was announced earlier this year, but our enthusiasm waned a tad when we took a closer …

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web

BBC website suffers major outage in the UK

Thursday, Nov 5, 2009Tuesday, Mar 29, 2011 - by mike s - 12 Comments.

Entire BBC website suffers catastrophic crash starting at 1.40am onwards, crashing completely at 2am, and remaining offline for over an hour with the service still unusable at 03.15am. It’s such …

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Google / stuff / web

Google celebrates Wallace and Gromit

Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 - by mike s

To celebrate Wallace and Gromit’s 20th birthday, a Google ‘doodle’ has appeared featuring the much loved plasticine characters. The animated stars of the superb ‘The Wrong Trousers’ and ‘A Grand …

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mobiles

Massive network outage hits T-Mobile US

Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 - by mike s

Many American T-Mobile users have been left fuming after a massive outage left them unable to make calls or get data on their cellular phones.

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Android / mobiles

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10: Sony goes Android for the win

Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

They may be late to the Android party, but Sony Ericsson are bringing along armfuls of goodies in the shape of their XPERIA X10 handset. Powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon …

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Apple / iPhone

The iPhone is “the worst phone in the world”

Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

Clearly keen to elicit a mighty reaction from their audience (and get bloggers like us feverishly linking to their site, natch), CNET UK has declared the Apple iPhone to be …

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mobile apps / mobiles

Opera Mobile 10 beta gets N97 video demo

Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

The Norwegian code-boffins behind the Opera desktop browser, Opera Mobile for Windows Mobile and Opera Mini have just released Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Symbian. Written in Symbian code rather …

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Android / mobiles

Motorola MILESTONE (aka DROID): Europe’s first Android 2.0 handset

Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Motorola are all fired up and busting a gut to tell you about their new MILESTONE handset, which they’re boldly proclaiming as, ‘the world’s thinnest, QWERTY slider with 3.7” multi-touch …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Orange iPhone pricing: expect to pay up to three grand!

Monday, Nov 2, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We feel kind of bad to be contributing to the endless iPhone hype here – it’s just a ruddy phone FFS – but it seems there’s enough folks out there …

Orange iPhone pricing: expect to pay up to three grand! Read More
Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Orange UK to offer iPhone 3G/3GS this month

Monday, Nov 2, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Orange UK customers clamouring to get their clammy mitts on an iPhone 3G or 3GS handset will soon be able to get one-on-one with the desirable little number, with the …

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photography

Chicago: stunning ‘found’ street photos from 1960s by Vivian Maier

Monday, Nov 2, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by mike s

Photography fans and Chicago historians are in for a treat, as the stuning photography collection by unknown street photographer Vivian Maier is put online. Maier was a Chicago-based, French-born photographer …

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Google / web

Befuddled by Google Wave? Online manual released

Monday, Nov 2, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by mike s

If you’re feeling like you could be excited by Google Wave if you just could work out what the thing actually does, help may be at hand. In case you’re …

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stuff

Apollo 17 site photographed by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

To the sound of much gnashing of teeth from assorted ‘OMG! The Moon Landings Were A Hoax’ nutters, NASA has released some astonishing photos clearly showing the site of the …

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gadgets / stuff

Lunar Lander rebuilt on Southwold Pier, Suffolk

Friday, Oct 30, 2009Saturday, Oct 31, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Showing the kind of spirit that once made Britain the home of the Sinclair C5 and the Bouncing Bomb, engineer Iain Sharp decided to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the …

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stuff / transport

Official! Tube ‘Call For Assistance’ ticket button is pointless

Friday, Oct 30, 2009Monday, Nov 2, 2009 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

So we’re at Brixton tube station. And we’re late for a meeting. We rock up to the gates, slam down our Oyster card on the reader only to be greeted …

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