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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 / gaming

Chrome Web Store fills up with free Atari games, productivity crumbles

Thursday, Mar 3, 2011 - by Lee J.

Oh dear. Here goes our productivity for the day.  The Chrome store is now listing no less than 12 classic Atari games for free download.

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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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Android / computing / portable

PC World cock up again as Motorola XOOM whooshes up to £500

Thursday, Mar 3, 2011Thursday, Mar 3, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

For one of the largest electrical retailers in the UK, you’d think that taking care of the simple things like putting the right price on new products would be pretty …

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Apple / computing / iPhone / mobiles

Apple iOS 4.3 coming to iPhone, iPad and Touch from March 11th, 2011

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Apple has just announced that it will be releasing the latest iteration of its mobile operating system – iOS version 4.3 – on March 11th.

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Apple / computing / portable

Apple iPad 2 launch event underway – dual core CPU, faster graphics, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB models

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by mike s

Apple are currently dishing out the dirt on the follow up to their phenomenally popular iPad tablet, and so far we’ve learnt that the iPad 2 will have dual core processors, …

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Android / computing / transport

SAAB pioneers an ‘open innovation’ Android OS for its cars

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher

Swish Swedish car maker SAAB has announced that it will be embracing the Android OS for its forthcoming in-car communication and infotainment system.

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Google / web

Google cocks up catastrophically: claims BMJ and urban75.org are ‘content farms’

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by mike s

Google recently announced a “pretty big” change in the way that its search engine would rank websites, promising to downgrade “low-quality” or “shallow” websites from online search engine results, in …

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Android / computing / portable

Motorola to sell WiFi-only Xoom for £449.99, undercuts 32GB iPad

Tuesday, Mar 1, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

Anyone with half a brain knows that to tempt users away from the all conquering iPad, you’ve got to offer a cheaper, equally capable alternative, and Motorola’s highly spec’d Xoom …

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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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computing / hardware / portable / Windows

Fujitsu STYLISTIC Q550 Windows 7 tablet packs 10.1-inch screen and SSD storage

Monday, Feb 28, 2011Monday, Feb 28, 2011 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Fujitsu has flipped out the details of their new business-focussed Stylistic Q550 Windows 7 tablet, with their European order book creaking open on St David’s Day (that’s March 1st in case …

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Apple / computing / hardware

Apple MacBook Pros boost CPU power and, apparently, can’t ‘leave fast alone’

Thursday, Feb 24, 2011Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

After the usual weeks of frenzied internet speculation, Apple has updated its MacBook Pro line, giving processors and graphics a boost, adding a new FaceTime-enabled HD camera and bolting on …

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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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Android / Google / mobiles

Global Android activations mapped and animated in Tron-like video

Thursday, Feb 24, 2011Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 - by Lee J.

As the all-conquering Android OS strides on to total world domination, a new video has been created showing the timeline of device activations across the world from Oct 2008 to Jan 2011.

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