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Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 6, 2011 at 8:10 am Comments Off

It’s a long standing question asked by many around the world about such a prestigious event, one that everyone just cannot wait for the answer. And here it is thanks to a handily-created-by-the-event press release. What stars will be at CES 2011?
I could tell you are excited.
Of course, being sat at home thousands of miles [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 6, 2011 at 8:03 am Comments Off

UK Readers: Did you decide to beat the VAT increase on the 4th of this month by buying a high-end piece of electronics? Did you think it was a fantastic deal? Here’s some mathematics for you.
What follows is a hastily worked out, tedious and misguided view on a recent British government policy change which also includes [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On November 8, 2010 at 8:19 pm Comments Off

Brian Blessed is now available to download for TomTom voice commands. Yes, the guy whom shouts “Gordon’s Alive!” can tell you where to go, thanks to a Facebook petition.
After 25,000 people joined a group, TomTom and Brian agreed to record his voice for people to download at £7.95

The always understated Mr Blessed said:
“Hello there, this [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On November 2, 2010 at 12:09 pm Comments Off

ASUS, in a bold marketing move to shift some more kit, have started a competition called “Asus Your Pride”* to find the best “motherboard stories”, with the headline prize being a visit to Taiwan or a laptop.
Regional prizes include monitors and motherboards, and even those voting on the best stories can win tech too.
To enter, [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On November 1, 2010 at 8:11 am Comments Off

I’ve been using Dropbox for quite a while and for some reason I haven’t actually brought it up on TM yet. Strange, because it’s a fantastically useful service that more people should use…

Dropbox is a synchronised off-site file-sharing service which is stupidly simple to use. You install an application which creates a folder (unsurprisingly) which [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On October 4, 2010 at 7:29 am Comments Off

Google are looking to kill the humble Jpeg by introducing their own format of image compression weirdness: WebP
Based on the VP8 codec used for video, WebP apparently reduces the file size by 39% on average, saving you, your ISP and the website you’re downloading those classy images from money, which will certainly help those on [...]

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Posted By Malcolm Owen On September 15, 2010 at 11:39 pm Comments Off

HTC has announced the Desire HD and Desire Z, along with “connected services” through HTCSense.com
The new handsets are fairly hefty upgrades to the Desire. The HD gets the capability to do 720p HD video recording thanks to it’s 8MP camera. On the other hand, the Z (apparently it does not stand for Zoolander) gets a [...]