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Historypin mashes up archive photos with Google Street View

Saturday, Jun 26, 2010 - by mike s

An interesting new site called HistoryPin lets users ‘pin’ old images on to Google’s Street View to provide an instant ‘then and now’ view.

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple iPhone 4 ‘grip of death’ affects UK o2 user too (video)

Friday, Jun 25, 2010Friday, Jun 25, 2010 - by mike s

We’re hearing more and more reports about people using the new iPhone 4 suffering dramatic drops in reception strength when the phone is held in the “wrong” way.

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computing

No back-ups mean Brits lose millions of photos

Friday, Jun 25, 2010Friday, Jun 25, 2010 - by Pete Railton

According to new research, a third of Brits have lost precious digital photos forever due to computer failures. The research was commissioned by an online backup service called Mozy who …

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computing / Windows

Windows 7: Microsoft passes 150 million sales

Friday, Jun 25, 2010 - by Lee J.

It seems that consumers and businesses have got over the sour taste left behind by the catastrophe that was the Windows Vista operating system, with its acclaimed Windows 7 follow-up …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple iPhone 4 – dropped calls, signal issues, yellow cast on screens

Thursday, Jun 24, 2010Friday, Jun 25, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

So you’ve queued up for hours on end outside the Apple Store – perhaps you’ve even been stupid enough to fly in from Dubai to London for the privilege – …

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Apple iPhone 4 in white gets delayed
Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple iPhone proves “challenging” – not available till end of July

Thursday, Jun 24, 2010Friday, Jun 25, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher - 2 Comments.

It seems that even Apple’s cunning plans sometimes go awry, and the official word is that anyone wanting to bag themselves a natty white iPhone 4 is in for a …

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Android / Apple / computing / mobile apps / mobiles / software / Windows

SplashID 5 for Android and Windows & Mac desktops

Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010Monday, Jun 21, 2010 - by mike s

For many years, Splash ID was an essential install on all our PalmOS devices, with the password management software offering a handy and secure desktop/handheld combination.

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Google Maps for Android gets updated
Android / Google / mobile apps / mobiles

Google Maps for Android gets nifty update

Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010 - by Pete Railton

It’s long been one of our favourite mobile apps, and a new update of Google Maps for Android is rocking our world that little bit more.

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Google Voice released in the US
Google / web

Google Voice is open to all. If you live in the US, that is.

Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010 - by Lee J.

Over in the States, Google Voice has been creating quite a buzz, offering a powerful set of free tools that let users give out one number for all of their …

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Toshiba Android netbook announced
Android / computing / portable

Toshiba Android powered AC100 netbook offers 8 hrs battery life

Monday, Jun 21, 2010Monday, Jun 21, 2010 - by mike s

Toshiba has served up its first Android-based netbook, the Toshiba AC100 running Android 2.1 on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset.

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computing / portable / Windows

Toshiba Libretto W100 – a dual-screen iPad for Courier fans

Monday, Jun 21, 2010Monday, Jun 21, 2010 - by mike s

We used to love our old Toshiba Libretto 50, and to celebrate the  25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company has unveiled a dual-screen Windows 7 laptop, the Libretto …

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broadcasting / Google / web

Google TV explained for the baffled and befuddled [video]

Monday, Jun 21, 2010Sunday, Jun 20, 2010 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

A lot of people liked the idea of Google TV when it was announced last month, but we suspect we weren’t alone in not entirely ‘getting’ it.

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ free app helps track wayward handsets

Friday, Jun 18, 2010Friday, Jun 18, 2010 - by Pete Railton

If you’ve ever had that sinking feeling at the end of a long night when you discover your precious iPhone has iLegged it somewhere, then Apple’s new Find My iPhone …

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open source / software / web

WordPress 3.0 (aka Thelonious) gets official release

Thursday, Jun 17, 2010Friday, Jun 18, 2010 - by mike s - 5 Comments.

WordPress – the most popular blog software on the planet and the content management system powering this very site – has just enjoyed a major upgrade to version 3.0.

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

o2 announce iPhone 4 tariffs and handset pricing

Thursday, Jun 17, 2010Thursday, Jun 17, 2010 - by Lee J. - 9 Comments.

Following Orange and Vodafone‘s official (and not quite so official) announcements, o2 have now posted up their prices and tariffs for the new  iPhone4 handsets. New or upgrading customers can …

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