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Jan 2009 |
Since the iPhone arrived on the scene, countless large-screened touch-sensitive devices have been popping up all over the place. Now it's HTC's turn, with the Touch HD. This is HTC's first fully touch-sensitive device, with no jog wheels or d-pads on offer. The spec sheet looks promising, offering a larger, sharper display than the iPhone, plus a 5-megapixel camera to seal the deal. We get hands-on with the Touch HD to see if it lives-up to its spec sheet. Read on to find out how this Windows Mobile behemot... |
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Jan 2009 |
Online retailer Play.com got smartphone fans all a flurry when it displayed a release date on its site for Nokia's upcoming high-end smartphone, the N97.
The phone was listed, SIM free and unlocked for use on any network, as available for pre-order for £479.99 including VAT with free delivery. Today, however, it has removed the price and instead replaced this with a ‘Coming Soon’ label and a box for interested parties to enter their email address to be notified when the phone is available.
A Nokia spo... |
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Jan 2009 |
Marko Calasan, from Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, has become the world's youngest certified computer system administrator.
"I'd like to be a computer scientist when I grow up and create a new operational system," he said.
Marko, whose favourite subject at school is mathematics, learnt to read and write at the age of two, which was when his interest in computers began.
The news of his achievement has turned him into a celebrity in Macedonia.
His mother Radica, 37, said that her son displayed ... |
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Jan 2009 |
The Samsung M8800 Pixon, is not the manufacturer’s first UK 8-megapixel camphone - the Symbian powered i8510 Innov8 smartie takes that honour - but it’s the first to be housed in a full on touch phone body.
Comparisons with its Korean arch rival, the LG KC910 Renoir, is inevitable, so who is going to come out on top in this sharp shooting showdown? Read our review of the Samsung M8800 Pixon for the full story.
Early signs show the Pixon to have the edge. Its build quality is superior with a metal hewn... |
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Jan 2009 |
SKYPE ANNOUNCED today its plans to integrate its services with LotusLive – IBM’s new cloud service, in a bid to add more real-time communications to the website and make collaboration in the cloud even easier.
The integration will join Skype Internet communications with LotusLive collaborative services creating a more efficient communications experience for both company’s customers.
It will work by listing Skype names or phone numbers on LotusLive allowing employees of companies using the service to i... |
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Jan 2009 |
Dell is doing its part to usher in the age of the super-sized solid-state drive. For the first time, Dell laptops can be configured with the newest large-capacity SSDs from Samsung.
Back in the day (last January), laptop buyers were stuck with a Henry Fordesque choice: order any solid-state drive you want with your laptop as long as it's 64GB.
What a difference a year makes. On Friday, Dell quadrupled this to 256GB. The Samsung SSD is now available as an option on Dell's XPS M1330 and M1730 laptop lin... |
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Jan 2009 |
As the Obama administration moves into the nation's capital, Skype President Josh Silverman was in town this week to shake hands and kiss babies among members of Congress and policy mavens. Skype wants to make sure its views are heard on net neutrality, wireless openness, the universal service fund, E-911 and national broadband policy.
While Skype is, in Silverman's words, "a little piece of software," the company wants to make sure that its software runs unfettered on any computing device consumers use,... |
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Jan 2009 |
Facebook is big and getting bigger as a way to fight crime in Australasia.
Following the news that the site was used to deliver legal papers to a errant couple and track down restaurant bill-dodgers in Oz, police in New Zealand have used the site to catch another crim.
An unnamed 21-year-old - who got too hot while trying to break into a bar's safe and took his balaclava off - saw video and images of him posted on the social networking site for identification.
"The offender was identified after a m... |
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Jan 2009 |
As far as roadmap leaks goes, this has to be one of the most substantial ever, as HTC's entire 2009 product line seems to have made it online and it looks like we're in for a few surprises. No exact launch dates or hardware specifications have leaked, but it's still an interesting leak, as all of the devices are pictured.
First up is the Iolite, which has already been leaked thanks to Expansys and you can find a lot more details on it here, but to keep things brief, the Iolite has a 2.8in screen, a 528MH... |
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Jan 2009 |
A typical search through the online giant's website is thought to generate about 7g of carbon dioxide. Boiling a kettle produces about 15g.
The emissions are caused both by the electricity required to power a user's computer and send their request to servers around the world.
The discovery comes amid increasing warnings about the little-known environmental impact of computer and internet use.
According to Gartner, an American research firm, IT now causes about two per cent of global CO2 emissions a... |
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Jan 2009 |
A New York Supreme Court judge has approved the state's new-fangled Amazon Tax.
Earlier this year, Amazon.com and Overstock.com sued New York over an ingenious new law that forces the big-name online retailers to collect sales tax if they maintain affiliate networks in the Empire State, and this afternoon, Judge Eileen Bransten dismissed them both.
Bransten handed down her final dispositions in the two cases, which have been watched with a certain amount of trepidation by online retailers because of t... |
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Jan 2009 |
Wondering exactly who some of these people are who you befriended on your Facebook page?
Well, oddly enough, that could be a good combination these days.
Burger King this week launched an application called the Whopper Sacrifice. Taking its name from the fast food company's well-known burger, the Whopper Sacrifice rewards Facebook users who delete 10 of their online friends with a coupon for a free Whopper burger. The application can be downloaded from either Facebook or from the Whopper Sacrifice sit... |
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Jan 2009 |
Today Palm Inc. announced the Pre, its new flagship touchscreen smartphone, at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. The Pre is the first mobile device to feature Texas Instruments' new OMAP processor to provide a desktop-like experience and also features 8GB of on-board storage. For connectivity, the Pre comes fully-loaded with EV-DO 3G support, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP stereo for wireless listening.
Weighing in at 4.8oz (135g), the Palm Pre features a simple, rounded design that is inspired by n... |
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Jan 2009 |
Windows 7 is going into public beta, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas late on Wednesday.
The first beta version of the successor to Windows Vista is immediately available as a downloadable disk image to MSDN, TechBeta, and TechNet subscribers, while the general public will get to test-drive the new operating system starting Friday.
Windows 7 is expected to hit shelves toward the end of this year or the start of 2010, according to Microsoft's broad ro... |
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Jan 2009 |
Hackers hijacked the Twitter accounts of more than 30 celebrities and organizations, including President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Fox News, early on Monday, the company confirmed today.
"This morning we discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been 'hacked,' including prominent Twitter-ers like Rick Sanchez and Barack Obama," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in post to the company blog. "We immediately locked down the accounts and investigated the issue. Rick, Barack and others are now back in c... |
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