Archive | September, 2008

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New Olympus MFT Camera: A new concept, with retro appeal

It was only about a week ago that I was talking about the upcoming Lumix DMC-G1 Micro Four Thirds (MFT) camera. If you recall I was saying that whilst the concept was defined by both Olympus and Panasonic, that Panasonic had gotten the jump on their competitor by announcing specification and release details for the [...]

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Bongo: Discover all your friend’s secrets

Ever wondered if you knew everything about your friends, or do you want to get some information on your potential date before you ask the question? Well now you can thanks to Bongo. By simply texting your targets name and age to 66668, Bongo will text you back with some information on them. I’ve done [...]

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Social Fridays: Round-up of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week

Social Fridays: Round-up of the Best Social Networking Stories and Videos this Week

If you’re bored at work and itching to get yourself through the day then you know the drill! Rather than surfing around trying to keep yourself occupied before you make a quick sprint to the door when it’s home time; catch up on stories that have been causing a storm on the social network sites [...]

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Nokia N96: Due for Release in Just 2 Weeks

It feels like every new phone that’s released recently is branded as an iPhone competitor. “How will this new handset fare against the fabulous iPhone?” Well, in this case, pretty well! In the red corner… weighing in at 125g, we have the long awaited Nokia N96. An attractive looking phone; sleek, sexy and stylish with [...]

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Eurostar still delayed? Jetpack across the English Channel

In under an hour’s time, a Swiss pilot is looking to become the first person ever to fly solo across the English Channel powered by a single jet-propelled wing. Yves Rossy will take a plane to more than 8,200ft, and then jump out to be suspended only by his self-designed, jet-propelled wing. The longest flight [...]

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First Google Android Phone Announced

The T-Mobile G1 handset is the first phone featuring Google’s Android software and will be available in the UK in time for the Christmas rush. Android allows developers to write managed code in a Java-like language that makes it open-source for unique and better applications. Google first announced its plans for the Android phone software [...]

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Shareaholic: The Firefox Add-on

Do you know your Twitter from your Tumblr? Your Del.ici.ous from your Digg? Your Ma.gnolia from your Mixx? Ok, ok, i’ll stop now otherwise we could go on like this all day. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years you will probably have noticed the huge explosion in social networking [...]

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SanDisk Launch ‘slotMusic’: A New Way of Buying Music

In conjunction with four major record labels; Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG and EMI, SanDisk recently announced their plan to launch ‘slotMusic’ memory cards pre-loaded with digital music. It is hoped that this will create a new way of buying music, rather than illegally downloading tracks from P2P file sharing programmes. Music [...]

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