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Carphone Warehouse offers free flights for Palm Pre buyers, we shake our heads

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s - 7 Comments.

Rumoured to be in response to poor sales, the Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January. …

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audio / reviews

Grado SR60i hi-fi headphones reviewed

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s

Created by a family business in Brooklyn, USA, Grado’s philosophy is to simply create the best sounding headphones they can, with sound quality being placed far ahead of streetwise looks …

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mobiles

Text this: Happy Christmas! Record SMS/MMS numbers predicted over the festive period

Friday, Dec 25, 2009Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

First off, we’d like to wish a Happy Christmas to our readers! Thanks for sticking with us. We’re well chuffed with the speed that the site is growing and we …

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web

Spotify’s most listened-to tracks of 2009

Thursday, Dec 24, 2009Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 - by Lee J.

Based on the number of streams each track received in their six launch countries, music streaming site Spotify have released a listing of their most listened-to tracks of 2009. if …

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Google

Google gifts $20m to charities for Christmas

Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 - by mike s

Google  have emailed its users this morning to thank them for the “time, energy, commitment, and trust” they’ve shared with the company. The email – presented in the form of …

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mobiles

Over 4 billion text messages sent every day in the US

Thursday, Dec 24, 2009Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by Pete Railton

Americans were a bit slow on the uptake of texing, but they’ve certainly made up for lost time, with new figures showing that around 4.1 billion SMS messages are sent …

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transport

Details of London’s new Routemaster buses released

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Ken got rid of them and Boris is bringing them back, and according to TfL’s press release, the Routemaster bus will soon be gracing London’s streets sooner than we might …

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mobile apps / mobiles

O2 UK: “watching a YouTube video on a mobile = 500,000 text messages”

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by Tony Fletcher

If their recent patchy network coverage is anything to go by, there must be an awful lot of O2 customers watching YouTube videos on their smartphones at the moment. Talking …

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mobile apps / mobiles / Palm

Palm discuss App Store spam – we like their response

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

We’ve long been unimpressed with Apple’s power-mad policies which leaves the company in sole control of what can and can not be admitted into their hallowed app store, but even …

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stuff

WordPress 2.9 update – video and details

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

As the sharp eyed amongst you may have noticed, this site – like millions of others – purrs along happily on the excellent WordPress content management system. If you share …

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Microsoft / software

Microsoft loses patent appeal, Office and Word 2007 sales to end in January

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

Microsoft has lost its legal appeal with a small Canadian company called i4i, which will result in the sales of its popular software programs Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Office …

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web

Facebook: Top Status Trends of 2009

Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 - by mike s

Twitter released their list of top technology trends of the year last week, and Facebook have got in on the act and released their spin on stats with the announcement …

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stuff / web

Video animation: Pacman vs Super Mario

Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 - by Lee J.

Here’s a pleasant pair of distractions for a Tuesday morning – two amusingly drawn ‘pen and paper’ YouTube animations, created by a Russian team called Xpycteam. The home-made sound effects …

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business / web

Internet kills off Borders UK bookstore

Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Once one of the UK’s biggest booksellers, Borders (UK) is closing its doors for good today after administrators MCR failed to find any buyers for the newspaper, book, magazine, DVD …

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stuff / web

Waving goodbye to 2009 with a smartypants Google wave video

Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

What better way for 2009 to be celebrated online than by a YouTube video made on Google Wave and produced by an interactive design company who clearly hope that the …

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