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Posted By Malcolm Owen On February 3, 2012 at 6:37 pm ADD COMMENTS

Just when you thought there couldn’t be another Galaxy-named product from Samsung, they announce the Galaxy S Advance.

A dual-core 1.0Ghz processor, 4.0″ Super AMOLED display, Gingerbread and a 3.5mm headphone socket appears to be the main draws, but then there’s also the 5MP camera, Samsung’s “TouchWiz” UI and “Find My Phone”.
That last feature appeals as [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On February 2, 2012 at 5:47 pm ADD COMMENTS

Fans of the Kinect whom want to do the whole Minority Report thing on a PC can now get hold of official hardware. No, not the Kinect, but the Kinect. For Windows.

 
Why the change in hardware? Because the Windows version has a “Near Mode” allowing it to work with actions just over a foot away [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 23, 2012 at 6:03 pm ADD COMMENTS

Wanted a Samsung Galaxy Note but couldn’t bear to get the black version because it clashed with your all-white decor? UK residents can now get hold of a white version of the Galaxy Note from John Lewis in Oxford Street, London as of today. It doesn’t look like the black one here.

Just to be clear, [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 18, 2012 at 5:43 pm ADD COMMENTS
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For one day only, usually popular internet haunts including  Wikipedia and Reddit are blocking their users from the site, to raise awareness of SOPA and PIPA.
SOPA and PIPA are two bills currently going through the US Government which stand to protect copyright holders’ interests. you may think this is a good thing, but what they [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 5, 2012 at 1:14 am ADD COMMENTS

You know you’ve made it in life when you have an action figure made of yourself. Sadly, most of us will not enjoy such a thing but Steve Jobs will, albeit posthumously.

The “in icons” Steve Jobs collectible figure stands at 12″ tall (taller than an iPad 2), has 2 pairs of glasses (2 more than the [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On December 20, 2011 at 4:02 pm Comments Off

It’s the end of the year and so time for Google to attempt  to sum the entire 12 month passage of time with a “most viewed” list from YouTube. I say list. I actually mean lists, as they have managed to categorize them and show the breadth of content that it’s users create.
4th on the [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On December 12, 2011 at 7:21 pm Comments Off

Satsports and Holux have unveiled the All Sports GPS, an Android based GPS with the capability to use WiFi.

This makes it the first on the market based on Google’s mobile OS, and the first that allows for map and software updates without relying on the phone network nor being connected to a PC. And all for around [...]

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