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Blackberry / mobiles

Blackberry Bold 9700 gets reviewed: generally all good

Friday, Nov 13, 2009Friday, Nov 13, 2009 - by Pete Railton

Last year’s Blackberry Bold proved a big hit for RIM, helping the company shake off their swivel-action, corporate-only associations and open up the platform to regular consumers looking for a …

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Android / Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

Bump: share pics and contacts by tapping phones together (Android/iPhone)

Friday, Nov 13, 2009Friday, Nov 13, 2009 - by mike s

Android owners in desperate need to exchange photos and contact details with friends by tapping handsets together can now get sharin’ with the Bump app. Already available on the iPhone …

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Microsoft / web

Microsoft’s Bing search engine launches in the UK

Friday, Nov 13, 2009Friday, Nov 13, 2009 - by Lee J.

Microsoft’s daftly named rival to Google has now officially launched in the UK after five months in beta. Featuring a simple, photo-dominated homepage, the page shows a rather pleasing photo …

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computing / hardware / reviews

LG Flatron W2442PA 24″ monitor: review

Friday, Nov 13, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It doesn’t seem that long ago that 24″ TFT monitors were the sole preserve of goatee-wielding designers swivelling on Aeron chairs in stylish studios, but with monitor prices continuing to …

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computing / portable / reviews

LG Slim GSA-E5OL/N Portable CD/DVD Rewriter Review

Friday, Nov 13, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It’s all well and good strutting around town with your snazzy slim’n’light ultraportable or nimble netbook but if there’s no optical recorder lurking inside you’re going to feel a bit …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm Pixi gets reviewed: some love felt

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

The guys and gals at Engadget are the first out of the gate with a review of Palm’s budget Pixi handset, and overall, they’re pretty positive about it. Describing the …

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mobiles / Windows Mobile

HTC Touch HD2 available on UK Vodafone – starts from free

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by Pete Railton

There’s certainly be no shortage of interest in HTC’s big hitting HD2 handset, and Vodafone have just announced that they will be carrying the iPhone rival. The Windows Mobile smartphone …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm Pixi gets first TV ad

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

It may not have the greatest spec sheet in the world, but there’s something about the Palm Pixi handset that tugs at our ‘want’ chords. Perhaps it’s the mixture of …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

iPhone Facebook dev quits in protest over App Store policies

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We’ve long rallied against Apple’s confusing, frustrating and at times draconian and moralistic app approval policies, so we were more than interested to note that the developer of one of …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm: webOS 1.3 this month, Flash ‘first half of 2010’

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 - by mike s

UK Palm Pre users miffed that they’re unable to indulge in the full-blown App Catalogue experience should be chuffed to learn that a firmware update to v1.3 is expected by …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles

TweetDeck for iPhone gets a slew of updates

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 - by Lee J.

You can’t move for Twitter clients on the iPhone these days, but TweetDeck are hoping that the desktop integration offered by their app will give them some leverage over the …

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computing / gadgets

Honda’s Asimo robot turns 9. Shakes a leg (updated Nov 2011)

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Friday, Nov 11, 2011 - by mike s

Honda’s groundbreaking robot Asimo has now reached its ninth birthday, and to celebrate a party was thrown at their Japanese headquarters, with 200 guests invited from around the world (I …

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Apple / computing

Mac OS X update locks out Atom CPU ‘hackintoshers’

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

Apple’s latest update to their Mac OS X – Snow Leopard 10.6.2 – has intentionally  changed the code so that it will not run on Intel’s Atom processors. This move …

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Google

Google Go programming language launches

Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009 - by mike s

Just when you thought there was no nook or crevice left that wasn’t already occupied by some area of Google’s all reaching tentacles, the search engine giant has found a …

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mobiles / Palm

Palm Pixi handset spotted on video

Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009 - by mike s

It may be five days until US consumers are able to get their mitts on the pint-sized Palm Pixi, a mini-me version of the well reviewed Palm Pre smartphone, but …

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