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Microsoft whitewashes MSN in latest Web2.0rhea whimsy
Still not shining Silverlight on UK video player
Microsoft has taken the beta wraps off its MSN homepage, which the company relaunched in the US in November 2009.…
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 12:16 pm
Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple
The non-iPad iPad clone
The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…
Posted on 10 March 2010 | 6:02 am
Dell intros restyled biz laptops
Vostro 3000 line debuts
Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as "a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers".…
Posted on 9 March 2010 | 5:29 pm
Acer said to be readying glass-lidded laptop
Frameless in the name of thinness
Acer is preparing to release a very skinny - and, dare we say it, incredibly fragile - notebook with a glass-backed frameless display.…
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 12:48 pm
3 tries to tempt mobile broadband buyers with MS Office
Free Office 2010 upgrade included
Mobile phone network 3 today said it will offer its mobile broadband customers a copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007 for a penny less than £60.…
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 12:23 pm
Pixel Qi sunlight-readable colour e-paper inbound
Mod-your-netbook kits in your hands in Q2
Pixel Qi - the 'Qi' is pronounced 'chee' - the company behind a type of e-paper that's not only colour and able to cope with video but is also claimed to be fully readable in bright sunlight, will be making screens available to hardware hackers by the end of June.…
Posted on 8 March 2010 | 10:46 am
Gartner says world will buy 10.5m tablets in 2010
Dons rose colored glasses for PC forecast
The global PC business is apparently bouncier than the analysts at Gartner had been projecting only a few months ago, and now, they're predicting that PC shipments will rise by 19.7 per cent in 2010 to 366.1 million machines.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 7:06 pm
E-book buyers favour iPad over Kindle and co.
Owners wished they'd waited for the Apple offering
Punters out to buy an e-book reader seem set on Apple's iPad, a survey of 3171 US consumers has revealed.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 4:37 pm
Apple revises iPad ship date
For Americans only - Brits will have to wait
Apple has missed its deadline. The iPad will go on sale in the US not in "late March" but early April, the company has admitted.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 2:14 pm
Sony serves up Mothers' Day e-book reader deal
By your ma a viewer, get free books
Looking for a Mothers' Day gift for your literature-loving mum? Sony has a suggestion: a special edition e-book reader ready to be loaded with a female friendly digital library.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 10:52 am
YouTube: Auto-captions for everyone
All toe they donuts work prefect Lee
Google is now letting anyone use its new auto-captioning feature for YouTube videos.…
Posted on 5 March 2010 | 7:02 am
Real Networks rolls over to Hollywood
Will kill RealDVD, pay $4.5m
RealNetworks has agreed to destroy all traces of its short-lived DVD-duplicating software, RealDVD, to appease the Hollywood heads that brought legal action against it.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 11:39 pm
More doubt tossed onto iPad numbers
Apple manufacturer denies claims
A second report has surfaced claiming Apple is experiencing spotty overseas production of the iPad, due for release later this month.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 9:27 pm
T-Mobile to slash international call rates
PAYGers get up to 75 per cent off
T-Mobile will next week slash the cost of making calls to overseas numbers - if you're one of its pay-as-you-go customers.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 3:51 pm
Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes
Pretends they were never there
Wi-Fi hotspot detecting applications are the latest on Apple's list of verboten apps, and even developers are being left in the dark as to why.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 12:39 pm
Sony readies revamped netbook
Retailers reveal all
Sony looks set to replace its Vaio W netbook series with a new model based on the latest Atom chip series.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 12:19 pm
Vivienne Tam packs paint on HP netbook
'Butterfly lover' case design, ladies?
HP has paraded its latest laptop with a case coloured by fashion designer Vivienne Tam.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 11:54 am
Asus will hit e-pad market this year
The iPad? That's the big iPhone, yeah?
Asus is working on multiple e-pad type devices which it hopes will exploit the shortcomings of Apple's iPad when they hit the market this year.…
Posted on 4 March 2010 | 6:02 am
Acer predicts end of cheap PC era
Consumers get bitten in the ASP
PC buyers, especially small businesses, should get used to paying more for their kit, after Acer predicted that ASPs would rise this year, for practically the first time in PC industry history.…
Posted on 3 March 2010 | 4:07 pm
Street View spymobiles invade CeBIT
Google woos Germans with touchy-feely paintjob
CeBIT As part of Google's hearts-and-minds campaign to allay German fears that it is intent on adding their country to Mountain View's lebensraum, the company has decided to entertain CeBIT visitors with some touchy-feely Street View spymobiles:…
Posted on 3 March 2010 | 2:26 pm
