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Britain’s first libel damages paid over a Twitter entry

Monday, Mar 14, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

Plaid Cymru candidate Colin Elsbury, the former mayor of Caerphilly, south Wales has become the first Brit to lose a libel case based on a Twitter entry.

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gaming / Microsoft / stuff

Meet the fastest selling consumer electronics ever – and it’s not an Apple product

Thursday, Mar 10, 2011Thursday, Mar 10, 2011 - by Pete Railton

It wasn’t exactly welcomed with open arms by some hard-core gamers but it seems that Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox 360 has confounded its critics and gone on to claim the …

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Android / Google / iPhone / mobiles / web

Google adds handy Instant Previews to mobile search

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Now available on Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices and in 38 languages is Google’s new Instant Previews feature which offers a speedy and interactive way to evaluate search results.

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Android / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Foursquare releases v3 Android and iPhone apps

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011Wednesday, Mar 9, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Company founder Dennis Crowley has been waxing lyrical on his blog as the company preps foursquare version three for the iPhone and Android platforms – both of which should be heading your …

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Android / Blackberry / business / iPhone / mobiles / Palm / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Android becomes the most popular smartphone platform in the US

Tuesday, Mar 8, 2011 - by Pete Railton

We posted earlier today about how Android has taken over the UK smartphone market, and new figures reveal that it’s a familiar story across the pond, with Google’s mobile OS taking over from BlackBerry …

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Android / computing / portable

HTC Flyer Android tablet secures ‘one million orders’ without release date

Monday, Mar 7, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

It hasn’t been released yet and there’s been no announcement on pricing, but HTC has reportely already secured sales of one million units of its new 7-inch, Android-powered HTC Flyer …

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computing / stuff

The Androids are here! Geminoid robot looks just like its master.

Friday, Mar 4, 2011Monday, Mar 7, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Created by the Aalborg University in Denmark, this startlingly realistic android is an update of the original Geminoid robot created by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR in 2005.

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Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Maps 5.2 shuffles into the Android Market

Friday, Mar 4, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

The gang at Google have now despatched the latest update to their Google Maps app for Android handsets out into the cruel, cruel world.

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computing / Microsoft / Windows

Thrill to 25 years of Microsoft Windows upgrades [video]

Thursday, Mar 3, 2011 - by Pete Railton

There’s dedication and then there’s Roy Castle-style dedication, and it certainly must have taken some heroic gumption to sit down and create a 9.5 minute video showing every install of …

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Google / software / web

Google Cloud Connect keeps MS Office and Google Docs in sync

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by Pete Railton

The helpful folks at Google have dished out a natty free utility that lets users synchronise Microsoft Office documents with the cloud-based Google Docs service.

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Apple / computing

Apple iPad2: the authoritative facts. Really.

Monday, Feb 28, 2011Monday, Feb 28, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Another iPad2 render/leaked photo/wild guess/Photoshop odyssey has just exploded onto the web and from this our team of experts have worked out some definite facts about Apple’s eagerly awaited tablet update. Scroll …

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Apple / computing

Apple releases Mac OS X Lion preview for developers

Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Apple has announced today that the next version of their desktop operating system is available for developers to preview.

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open source / software / web

WordPress 3.1 released – now ‘more of a CMS than ever before’

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 - by Pete Railton

WordPress, the open source Content Management System that powers 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites on the planet has just received an update, with version 3.1 being christened ‘Django”’ in …

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portable

New Amazon Kindle advert points out the plusses over the iPad

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2011Monday, Feb 21, 2011 - by Pete Railton

Amazon has just knocked out another commercial for the Kindle eReader, and it’s pretty clear that it’s taken the opportunity to have a pop at Apple’s iPad on the way.

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Android / mobiles

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play in shiny, shiny white for o2 exclusive

Friday, Feb 18, 2011Friday, Feb 18, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 3 Comments.

Crisper than the stuff Good King Wenceslas gazed out upon is Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play which is being made available in snow-bright white for the UK market.

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