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Android / mobiles

Orange ‘San Francisco’ Android PAYG phone: 800 x 480 OLED for £99!

Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 5 Comments.

Aimed straight at the budget end of the market, Orange UK has announced the curiously monikered San Francisco, which is the company’s first own-branded Android phone.

Orange ‘San Francisco’ Android PAYG phone: 800 x 480 OLED for £99! Read More
photography

Pentax slams down the K-5 dSLR: 16.2MP sensor, snappier AF, HD and enhanced HDR

Monday, Sep 20, 2010Monday, Sep 20, 2010 - by Pete Railton

With the big Photokina expo beginning to rev up in Germany today, some of the big guns are releasing details of their new products, and Pentax have taken the opportunity …

Pentax slams down the K-5 dSLR: 16.2MP sensor, snappier AF, HD and enhanced HDR Read More
Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Skyfire Android browser serves up Flash videos, hits one million downloads

Thursday, Sep 16, 2010Thursday, Sep 16, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Billing itself as a browser built for the social media generation, the latest version of the Skyfire 2.0 beta app for Android is now available to download.

Skyfire Android browser serves up Flash videos, hits one million downloads Read More
photography

Samsung NX100 compact camera guns for the high end market

Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Samsung have introduced another member of their NX line of mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras: the NX100, a high end number promising near-dSLR image quality from a bijou little fella of …

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stuff / web

IKEA release a hundred cats into their store [video]

Friday, Sep 10, 2010Friday, Sep 10, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’ve no idea why anyone came up with the daft idea of releasing a hundred domestic cats into an IKEA store in Wembley, England, but we think we like it.

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Google / stuff / web

Google Instant: search faster than you can type

Wednesday, Sep 8, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Google are rolling out what they believe is the future of looking for stuff on the web: Search before you type.

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Blackberry / mobile apps / mobiles

Blackberry App World notches up 100,000 apps

Wednesday, Sep 8, 2010Wednesday, Sep 8, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Research In Motion – the folks behind the Blackberry handsets normally seen in the hands of swivel-action business types – have announced that their app store has now reached its …

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Google / web

Google.com logo explodes in an animated spectacular

Tuesday, Sep 7, 2010Tuesday, Sep 7, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’ve always enjoyed Google’s penchant for posting up topical Google logo designs, but today’s Google.com affair is a bit different to most.

Google.com logo explodes in an animated spectacular Read More
mobiles

Orange and T-Mobile’s ‘Everything Everywhere’ promises almighty network coverage hike

Monday, Sep 6, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

As a result of their ‘Everything Everywhere’ merger, Orange and T-Mobile are ready to unleash their super-duper uber-network, promising massively improved network coverage to its users.

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Google / software / stuff

Google’s SketchUp free 3D modelling software hits version 8

Thursday, Sep 2, 2010Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 - by Pete Railton

First released no less than ten years ago, Google’s SketchUp has proved to be a popular and powerful 3D modelling app, with the company claiming that a million people a …

Google’s SketchUp free 3D modelling software hits version 8 Read More
Android / computing / portable

Samsung Galaxy Tab – 7″ Android-powered iPad rival gets official

Thursday, Sep 2, 2010Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Everyone knows it’s been coming, but Samsung has now officially ripped away the velvet curtain surrounding its iPad rival,  the 7-inch Android based Samsung Galaxy Tab.

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Apple / audio

Apple iPod nano: smaller, lighter and now with touchscreen

Wednesday, Sep 1, 2010Thursday, Sep 2, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Looking so cute you almost want to pat it on its head is the new iPod nano, which has just been announced this evening.

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audio / video / web

Arcade Fire’s music video delivers jaw-dropping HTML5 interactivity

Tuesday, Aug 31, 2010Monday, Aug 30, 2010 - by Pete Railton

We’re a pretty hard-nosed, cynical bunch here at Wirefresh, but Arcade Fire’s Google Maps interactive video mash-up got a few jaws dropping around the office.

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Google

Google Realtime Search serves up streaming social networking search results

Thursday, Aug 26, 2010Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.

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web

Facebook Places: privacy concerns and previous dodgy practices detailed

Thursday, Aug 26, 2010Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

With the newly announced Facebook Places already sending the eyebrows of privacy campaigners arcing skywards, a nifty new infographic has appeared highlighting Facebook’s less than illustrious track record on privacy.

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