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Twitter smashes through the 10 billion tweet barrier

Friday, Mar 5, 2010Friday, Mar 5, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Although we’re sure an awful lot of these were of the inane “I’m going to the shops for some fags” variety, there’s no denying that Twitter’s total of over 10 …

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Blackberry / mobile apps / mobiles

BlackBerry gets the official BBC iPlayer. Finally

Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Perhaps they’ve been so busy blasting out business missives that they haven’t realised what they’ve been missing out on, but BlackBerry users can now get the BBC iPlayer on their …

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Google / photography / web

Google buys up Picnik cloud-based photo editing service

Monday, Mar 1, 2010Monday, Mar 1, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Google has just announced that it has opened up its big bag of money and acquired the cloud-based photo editing service, Picnik. The website lets you crop, touch-up and add …

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Google

A feast of Google stats in one almighty info-graphic

Saturday, Feb 27, 2010 - by Pete Railton

The folks at Pingdom have treated us to one mahoosive graphic throwing up a ton facts’n’figures related to the search engine giant. Want to know Google’s marketshare? Global website ranking? …

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gadgets

Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Nintendo Wii UK-bound (video)

Friday, Feb 26, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Nintendo Wii users will soon be able to immerse themselves in even more Super Mario action, with the latest in the Wii Galaxy Series bagging a UK release date.

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stuff / web

Design your own London skyline in a skyscraper frenzy

Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 4 Comments.

It’s more or less completely pointless, but if you’d like to rearrange the London skyline into a futuristic vista stuffed full of colossal skyscrapers, then architectural illustrators Hayes Davidson have …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Prudish Apple goes on App Store moral crusade, censors saucy apps

Sunday, Feb 21, 2010Sunday, Feb 21, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

It seems that the prudish types at Apple are keen to apply their moral values to the App Store, first kicking off the (admittedly rather tawdry) boob-jiggling app Wobble, and …

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Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Shopper for Android released: free app for shopaholics

Saturday, Feb 20, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

Google has taken the wraps off its latest application for the Android platform, Google Shopper. Shopper lets you search for product information by using your phone’s camera: point it at …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Palm webOS App Catalogue hits 1,500 apps in the US

Friday, Feb 19, 2010Friday, Feb 19, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

The collection of apps available in Palm’s App Catalog store in the US has now risen to an impressive 1,500 apps, and is growing at a rate of more then …

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Blackberry / mobiles

Blackberry Storm 2 shuffles into T-Mobile UK’s shops

Thursday, Feb 18, 2010Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 - by Pete Railton

BlackBerry’s second stab at producing an iPhone-rattlin’ touchscreen smartphone, the Storm 2, is now available on T-Mobile in the UK.

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Palm webOS 1.4 hands-on shows off Flash support

Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 - by Pete Railton

The guys at PreCentral managed to bag some hands-on time with a GSM Palm Pre running an early version of Flash, and have shared the video with the world.

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Microsoft / software / stuff / Windows

Microsoft Office 2010 pricing announced, with free version available

Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Microsoft has put the price stickers on its new Office 2010 suite, and has included a Starter version that will come free with new PCs. The new Microsoft Office Home …

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mobiles / Symbian

MeeGo created from Intel Mobil and Nokia Maemo OSs

Monday, Feb 15, 2010Monday, Feb 15, 2010 - by Pete Railton

In an unexpected twist, Nokia has announced a new partnership with Intel, with the two companies combining their fledging Linux-based OSs into a single package called MeeGo. Nokia’s Maemo OS …

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web

Phishing emails: a handy flow chart points out the perils

Friday, Feb 12, 2010Friday, Feb 12, 2010 - by Pete Railton

With phising attacks on the rise, and ne’er do wells dreaming up ever more cunning ways to persuade people to perilously part with their precious personal data, the folks at …

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photography

Pentax shows off HD videos shot on Pentax K-7 dSLR camera

Friday, Feb 12, 2010 - by Pete Railton - 13 Comments.

To show off the HD video shooting abilities of their Pentax K-7 digital SLR cameras, Pentax commissioned two production companies to knock out a couple of entertaining short films. Shot …

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