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Royal Mail make a Smart Stamp: stamps are suddenly interesting

If you thought stamps with pictures of railways on them were boring - think again. Royal Mail have just released the coolest stamp of a train ever. It's a smart stamp that has a code that can be read...more

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Tablet PCs

IFA 2010: Toshiba's FOLIO 100 Tablet has Android, Flash and nice price tag

Fans of the tablet computer have a lot to enjoy in this year's IFA offerings. The strongest contender in the field is the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but Toshiba's Folio 100 mobile device is pretty interesting too. Folio's trump card...more

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Apple

Shiny Poll: that new iTunes icon - what do you think?

"Music downloads have outpaced CD sales" Steve Jobs announced last night so he and Apple decided to whip the CD out of the iTunes icon for their tenth version of the software. Makes sense right? But where Apple usually...more

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TVs and Home Cinema

IFA 2010: Samsung's lush 65 inch C8000 TV

Samsung have caught the spotlight at IFA this year for their tablet computer the Galaxy Tab which, if Ashley is to be believed, is setting the agenda for the next iPad. But they have another show-stopper product this year...more

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Mobile phone apps

Nokia's Ovi Store gets the App Factor - err, X Factor

Nokia users sometimes feel hard done by in the app field, but the Ovi Store have just announced a little treat for their users - X Factor the app. One of Nokia's tactics in electrifying their app store seems...more

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TVs and Home Cinema

IFA 2010: Panasonic lanch three new 3D TVs and promise immersive gaming

It's all about 3D for Panasonic's 2010 IFA line-up and they're releasing three additions to their glamourous flatscreen VIERA TV range. All show three dimensional images and they're all are huge - two at 42 inches and one at...more

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Cameras

IFA 2010: Panasonic release the SDT750, a sweet new 3D camcorder

It's all about 3D for Panasonic's 2010 IFA line-up and they're offering a neat little consumer camcorder to let people record their own 3D films. The SDT750 is a barrel-shaped HD camcorder with a lens from top German company Leica....more

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Twitter

Twitter apps get safer with new OAuth log-in system

Twitter applications will get a shake-up as Twitter reorganises to a more secure system of validating apps. It makes Twitter apps safer for users: instead of having to give out your Twitter password to different companies everytime you download...more

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Tablet PCs

The Samsung Galaxy Tab: it works with Flash (and Augmented Reality)

I wrote a quick post on the Tab earlier, which you can read here. Samsung has now issued the full spec, so I think it is worth highlighting a few of its other features. 1 It is HTML5 and...more

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Twitter

Bootiful is Back: Twitter and Facebook are resuscitating regional dialects

There was a fear that local words and regional accents and phrases would get mushed out by mass media - and that we'd all start talking like BBC newsreaders, or more likely, one of the characters on Friends. But...more

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Tablet PCs

IFA 2010: Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet PC

So how do you take on Apple in the tablet PC market? Well I guess you do things a bit differently and add functionality that Apple users can only dream about. And that's exactly what Samsung has done with its...more

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Apple

Apple TV: Take Two - this time it has movie rental and internet

This is Apple's second crack at the TV market. They went out and they talked to their users, and discovered that people want more content for cheaper, and they want it in HD. A slashed price and a deal with...more

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Apple

New iTunes - with Ping a music-based Social Network. I'm sceptical.

They're ditching the CD in the logo (downloads exceeded cd sales last time) and they're introducing a social network based around music. The big new feature in iTunes 10.0 is called Ping and it's for "social music discovery". Follow artists,...more

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Apple

An iPhone without a contract - iPod Touch gets Facetime and new display

Rake thin, the new iPod Touch is slimmer than ever before but otherwise looks very similar. The big new features are on the inside- the Retina Display, Apple A4 chip, and Facetime. There's a forward-facing camera, a back facing...more

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Apple

Apple Launch: Shuffle and Nano get even littler and better

Today is all about the 'Pods. The gist is they're getting smaller and better. The Shuffle Small, by god it's small 15 hours of music on one charge. 5 colours The sweetest feature may be the price - $49 dollars...more

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Apple

Apple Launch: iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2 - what's new and how long the iPads have to wait

A lot of bugs have been fixed, iPhone 3G performance bugs, proximity bugs. Then there are some newbies coming too.... here they are... HDR photos - that's High Dynamic Range Photos and to humanoids like us that means each time...more

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Naughty Toys

The X-rated Wii Game - the Mojowijo is a remote vibrator

It's not all family-friendly sports games on the the Nintendo Wii. This Wii accessory, currently in private beta (very private we hope) is a vibrator. A two-way remote controlled vibrator in fact that can send sensations over the internet....more

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Phones

Motorola unleash the Milestone 2 - pictures

Motorola today launched the Milestone 2 - an update to its square-cornered Android powerhouse from last year. It's built over the latest iteration of Android, Freyo, uses Motorola's Motoblur User Interface and has 8gb of storage, expandable up to The...more

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Phones

Orange launches HD Voice Calling - is it necessary?

You would be forgiven for thinking high definition only mattered with images and video, but sound can be high definition too. It's just that no-one really bothered producing or enabling it on digital devices. But Orange has stepped into the...more

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Mobile phone apps

Five Best Video Editing apps for iPhone

Photo apps for iPhone are big business, and with pin-sharp high definition video on the new iPhone 4, we can expect video apps to become even more important. Of course it's one thing to make an app that puts colour...more

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