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Apple’s share of tablet market slumps to 57% as Kindle Fire feels the love

Thursday, Feb 16, 2012Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 - by Pete Railton

It’s still to make it to the UK, but Amazon’s cut-price Amazon Fire slate is starting to do real damage to Apple’s market share of the global tablet market.

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Android / Apple / mobiles

Samsung Galaxy Note advert pulls out the stops to really take the p*ss out of Apple fans

Monday, Feb 6, 2012Monday, Feb 6, 2012 - by mike s

With most of our days spend looking at dour promo videos accompanied by deep voices telling us how great a product is, we’ve grown to appreciate Samsung’s amusing stabs at …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Apple fanboy/girl site Cupidtino releases iPhone app. Barf bags primed

Friday, Jan 13, 2012Friday, Jan 13, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

A little part of us died inside when we first read about the Cupidtino dating service set up for Apple fanboys and fangirls, and now the developer has released an iPhone …

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Apple / iPhone

Supermarket prankster turns iPhone’s Siri assistant into foul mouthed yob

Friday, Dec 30, 2011Saturday, Dec 31, 2011 - by mike s

A prankster tampered with a demo model of an iPhone in a Coventry supermarket so that anyone trying out the Siri voice technlogy could expect an earful of abuse in return.

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Android / Apple / Blackberry / iPhone / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Android hold on to dominant share, HTC and Samsung creeping up on Apple: Millennial research

Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011 - by Pete Railton

New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, …

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Apple / Google / iPhone / mobile apps

Google upgrades Search app for iPad, adds swishy new features

Monday, Nov 21, 2011Monday, Nov 21, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Google has declared itself pleased to be launching a ‘significant redesign’ for their Google Search for iPad application, and have released a plinky-plonky video showing off its new features.

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Apple / Google / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

A suitably red-faced GMail app returns to the Apple App Store

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011 - by Lee J.

After a comically catastrophic launch last month, which saw Google’s offering being so bug-ridden that it had to be retired from view, an updated GMail app has made its way back into the Apple App …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple iOS 5.0.1 released to fix fast draining battery bug, not everyone happy

Thursday, Nov 10, 2011Thursday, Nov 10, 2011 - by mike s

Not long after Apple released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5, online forums swiftly filled with complaints from iPhone users suffering poor battery life.

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Android / Apple / Blackberry / iPhone / mobiles / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Brits go crazy for Android as iPhone market share crashes

Monday, Oct 31, 2011Monday, Oct 31, 2011 - by Pete Railton

New research has revealed that the UK is feeling the Google Android love, with the OS running on over half of all smartphones sold – a hefty 100% increase in …

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Apple / business / mobiles

Samsung cruises past Apple to become the world’s #1 smartphone vendor

Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 - by Pete Railton

For the first time, Samsung’s burgeoning sales figures have seen the South Korean company speed swiftly past its rival Apple to become the number one shipper of smartphones on the …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple iPhone 4S smashes in drop test, Galaxy S2 emerges as tough as nails

Monday, Oct 17, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

Keen to find publicise their mobile phone warranty service, SquareTrade decided to conduct a ‘drop test’ on the new Apple iPhone 4S and see how its main rival, the 30 million-unit-shifting Samsung …

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Apple / business

Apple and Starbucks UK embrace to offer free bland iTunes track

Monday, Oct 17, 2011 - by Lee J.

In a flurry of synergistic back-slapping, Apple and Starbucks have pressed the flash to secure a deal where customers to the ghastly coffee shops in the UK can secure a …

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Apple / business / computing / hardware

Lenovo now #2 global PC vendor behind HP. Apple fail to show in top five

Thursday, Oct 13, 2011Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Hewlett-Packard has hung on to its #1 on the planet ranking, increasing its share of the PC global market to 17.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, according …

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Apple / computing / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Apple releases iTunes 10.5 into the wild, gets ready to frolic with iOS 5

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 - by Pete Railton

With the eagerly awaited iOS 5 software nearly ready to rumble,  Apple have just released an update to iTunes, taking it up to version  10.5.

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Android / Apple / computing / gadgets / gaming / Google / Microsoft / mobiles / photography

T3 Gadget Awards 2011 – Kindle, Galaxy S2 and Kinect in the winners

Tuesday, Oct 11, 2011 - by Lee J.

Tech magazine T3 has announced the winners of the 2011 Gadget awards and there’s a few surprises in store.

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