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Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale tracks your weight and fitness online via wi-fi

Tuesday, May 15, 2012Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - by mike s

For fitness freaks, flab-watchers and folks tracking their pie consumption, Fitbit has announced the launch of the Fitbit Aria, a neat set of wi-fi enabled weighing scales.

Apple / computing / portable

Apple stops misleading the public and gets rid of ‘4G iPad’ option, offers ‘WiFi + Cellular’ instead

Monday, May 14, 2012Monday, May 14, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Finally responding to growing pressure from customers and regulators, Apple has stopped describing its new iPad as being as ‘4G capable’ in the UK and will instead use the phrase “WiFi …

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Samsung slams down multimedia-tastic Notebook Series 5 550P with Ivy Bridge goodness

Wednesday, May 9, 2012Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Samsung has unleashed a beast of a multimedia laptop in the shape of the 550P, which comes with 15-inch or 17-inch displays.

business / computing

Tiny Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p and M72e desktops woo business bods with Ivy Bridge

Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - by mike s

Smaller than a Mac Mini, Lenovo’s new business-friendly ThinkCentre M92p and M72e desktops are tiny little fellas, measuring just 7 inches tall by 7 inches wide and a super-slender 1.35 inches …

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Sony throws down the Ultrabook style with the slimline Vaio T13 laptop

Wednesday, May 2, 2012Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - by Pete Railton

Sony has shoulder-barged its way into the Ultrabook party with the launch of its slim and snazzy Vaio T13 laptop.

computing

Dell XPS 13 ultrabooks fly off the shelves with businesses driving demand

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

We’ve been jealously eyeing up Dell’s super-slick XPS 13 ultrabook, and according to one of the company’s execs, the high-end laptop is selling like hot cakes.

Apple / computing

Apple lags ’10 years’ behind Microsoft on security claims Kaspersky

Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 - by Pete Railton

With Apple users feeling a little less smug about the security of their machines after the recent Flashback/Flashfake malware outbreak, Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky has even more bad news. The …

Apple / computing

Greenpeace activists target Apple’s flagship store in London

Thursday, Apr 26, 2012Thursday, Apr 26, 2012 - by Lee J.

Things got lively at Apple’s flagship store in central London yesterday after Greenpeace activists ‘rebranded’ the store, plastering the windows with a poster protesting against the company’s use of coal and dishing …

Google / web

Google explains how its ranking system works: a must see for webmasters

Wednesday, Apr 25, 2012Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Google was asked on their Webmaster Help Forums to explain the mysteries of their search engine system, and produced a very handy video in response.

Google Drive officially announced offering 5GB of free storage

Google / web

Google Drive offers 5GB of free cloud storage, Dropbox/Evernote can’t be chuffed

Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012Tuesday, Apr 24, 2012 - by mike s

Google has officially announced Google Drive, billing it as a “place where you can create, share, collaborate, and keep all of your stuff.”

Android / computing / portable

Cut price Asus Transformer Pad comes to the UK: £399, plus keyboard

Monday, Apr 23, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

Asus has announced details of its latest Android tablet, the cut-price Transformer Pad TF300T, which is set to jog into the UK “from early May.”

computing / video / web

Now that’s what we call robot dancing: iRobot viral video impresses

Thursday, Apr 19, 2012Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher

The company behind the Roomba and Scooba automated cleaners, iRobot Corporation, has launched a £10million ad campaign, spearheaded by a viral video showing off the robot dancing skills of YouTube sensation Marquese Scott.

Android / computing / mobiles / stuff

Samsung S2 Ice Cream Sandwich introduces glitches and annoyances galore

Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012 - by mike s - 9 Comments.

Well, that’ll teach us. No sooner had we enthusiastically posted up our ICS upgrade guide for the Samsung Galaxy SII phone than all the wheels came falling off the wagon.

Ultra cheap Raspberry Pi £22 computer starts shipping

computing / open source

Ultra cheap Raspberry Pi £22 PC starts shipping, hopes to make Britain great again

Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012 - by Lee J.

With pre-orders selling out in less than a day, the £21.60 Raspberry Pi Linux computer is generating an awful lot of interest, with some pundits heralding it as a revolution in computing.

Apple

Apple: stop misleading users and be honest about OSX and viruses

Wednesday, Apr 11, 2012Wednesday, Apr 11, 2012 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

With well over half a million Macs reportedly infected with the Flashback Trojan, the myth of Apple’s invincibility to viruses is well and truly smashed.