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Google Maps 4.4 for Android adds ‘Places’ feature. Yelp unlikely to be chuffed

Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010 - by mike s

Although Google apparently waved a $550m wad in the direction of  Yelp last year, they found themselves turned down by the local search, social networking and user review site. That …

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Android / business / Google / mobiles

Android sales surge in the UK, market share grows by 300%

Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by mike s

Google Android’s share of the UK mobile phone contract market has soared over the last three months, rising more than 300% from the beginning of 2010, according to retail watcher …

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Apple / reviews / web

HMV guns for iTunes with cut price 40p chart downloads

Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by Pete Railton

Music retailers HMV are looking to rattle Apple with the announcement of their new hmvdigital download store which will offer 10 million songs with every UK Top 40 single costing …

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Android / mobiles / portable / reviews

HTC Desire USB desk cradle and second battery charger: review

Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by mike s

With modern smartphones chewing up battery juice faster than Oliver Reed downing whisky at the bar, it’s always a good idea to pop a second battery in your bag, just …

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software / web

Write.fm makes sharing text notes and files super easy

Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by mike s

Websites don’t get much simpler or easier to use than this. Write.fm makes it ridiculously easy to share text notes and files over the internet with the browser interface inviting …

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photography / web

Canon 5D Mark II shoots incredible stop motion movie [video]

Monday, Jul 26, 2010Monday, Jul 26, 2010 - by Lee J.

The video may be called “Guy Walks Across America,” but it seems he didn’t literally cover every step, but what the hell: it’s still a great piece of creative cinematography, …

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Android / Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Apple’s hopeless Antennagate spin campaign hits the Droid X

Saturday, Jul 24, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Apple is hoping that their notorious reality distortion field might somehow extend to competing products, and continues to knock out a series of dull videos showing rival smartphones supposedly suffering …

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business / mobiles / Palm

HP shun Windows smartphones, cuddle up tight to webOS

Saturday, Jul 24, 2010 - by mike s

Perhaps not the most surprisingly news you’ll hear this week, but HP Personal Systems Group VP Todd Bradley has confirmed that his company will not be making any Windows Phone …

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

Hipsters wail as Apple’s white iPhone 4 faces big delay

Friday, Jul 23, 2010 - by mike s

Fashionistas keen to bag themselves an iPhone 4 in a stylish white finish will have to content themselves with boring old black for the forseeable future, as it looks like …

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web

Facebook’s 500 million members displayed in a handy infographic

Friday, Jul 23, 2010 - by mike s - 3 Comments.

You can’t go wrong with a nice colourful infographic, so what better way to show off Facebook’s achievement of signing up its 500 million member than with a mouse wheel-troubling …

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Apple / stuff

Darth Vader chats to Apple about his iPhone 4 antenna [Video]

Friday, Jul 23, 2010 - by Lee J.

It may be a case of “free bumpers for all!” but Apple’s ‘Antennagate’ fall out continues, with this latest video taking a well aimed pop at the handset’s failings in …

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business / Microsoft

Microsoft has best Q4 in company history as revenue passes $16 billion

Friday, Jul 23, 2010Friday, Jul 23, 2010 - by mike s

If you thought Apple’s last quarter earnings of $15.7bn were obscenely high, then you’ll find Microsoft’s latest tally positively indecent, with the company announcing record-breaking fourth-quarter revenue of an eye …

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Acer Stream Android handset hits the UK
Android / mobiles / stuff

Acer Stream Android handset to hit UK in August

Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 - by Alex S

Acer’s new Stream Android smartphone is set to saunter into the UK this August, with a contract-free price of £399.99.

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Android / mobile apps / mobiles

Barnes & Noble released NOOK app for Android bookworms

Thursday, Jul 22, 2010Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 - by Lee J.

In the US, big-boy booksellers and online retailers Barnes & Noble look to be putting the squeeze on Amazon’s Kindle, knocking out their very own Android ereader app.

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iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Skype for iPhone iOS 4 supports multitasking, with no extra 3G charges

Thursday, Jul 22, 2010Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 - by Tony Fletcher

Skype has suddenly become a lot more useful, with the company releasing an updated iOS 4-ready version of  VoIP app for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 which is capable of …

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