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HTC One Mini preorder price set at £379.99

HTC have released the HTC One Mini in the UK with a pre-order price of £379.99. The smartphone has 1GB of ram, 16GB of internal storage (12gb free) and a 1.4 ghz dual core processor. The screen is 4.3 inches with a 720p resolution, less than the HTC One's 4.7 …

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Google earnings below expectations. Mobile is blamed

Google have announced second quarter earnings which are below analyst estimates. The details have been shared on this page. It seems they are still struggling to get to grips with mobile advertising. Google's CPC (cost per click) rate dropped a noticeable 6 percent. This is an indication of how much …

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Compulab unveil $99 Utilite miniature computer

Compulab, a PC maker in the US have announced their latest tiny computer.  The system is designed to run a desktop grade Ubuntu Linux distro or a fully featured Android OS. At only $99 we can see a wide audience for this diminutive machine. The machine measures only 135mm x …

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Rembrandt anniversary celebrated by Google search

Google are celebrating the 407th anniversary of the birth of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn with a Google image showing the Dutch artist's 1659 oil on canvas self portrait. This painting is stored in the National Gallery Of Art in Washington. It has been picked by Google to celebrate Rembrandt's birth in …

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UK rural fibre broadbrand two years behind schedule

The UK government's official auditors have said that plans to introduce superfast broadband to rural areas is going to be delivered almost two years late and taxpayers will be footing a bigger percentage of the $1.2 billion bill. Less than 25 percent of the planned projects will be ready by …

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Apple pay $53million to settle iPhone warranty lawsuit

Apple have agreed to pay out $53 million to settle a class action accusing the company of not honouring the warranty terms on iPhones and iPod Touches. The information was published by Wired. The settlement will deliver cash handouts to hundreds of thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch consumers who …

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Dubai introduce new £360,000 Lamborgini police car

Dubai have the right attitude, no skimping out when it comes to equipping their police force. They take it so seriously that they are introducing the Lamborgini Aventador, in local police colours. The picture was shown off on the service Twitter feed with a caption “Latest Dubai police patrols, now …

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Panasonic release NFC capable DMC-GF6

Panasonic announced their latest GF camera this week, the Lumix DMC-GF6. The new model is based around a slightly thicker body and offers direct access to manual controls. The camera is mirrorless and will target a niche audience. The GF6 measures 111.2mm x 64.8 mm x 38.4mm and it weighs …

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Microsoft planning 7 inch tablet

Sales of the 7 inch Apple iPad have been exceptionally good since it was launched and Microsoft are planning to release a 7 inch version of their Surface tablet computer, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The unnamed sources confirm the Microsoft move is to target the audience that …

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Intel announce next gen 20Gbps Thunderbolt

Intel have announced their next generation Thunderbolt interface which features a data rate bandwidth of 20Gbps in both directions, on each of the two channels. The previous version was 10Gbps. Intel also mentioned that they had 200 licensees for the technology and that new, thinner cables will be released in …

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Facebook apologise to mother for banning breastfeeding pics

Facebook were at the center of a controversial move recently when they removed a post featuring a mother in America, Sacramento breastfeeding her child. Kristy Kemp is in charge of a breastfeeding support group page on Facebook. She got angry when she realised that Facebook removed several breastfeeding images and …

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EA in final four of ‘Worst Company in America’ Award

Electronic Arts may be on track to win the Consumerist's Worst Company In America award. They are already in the Final Four this year. The situation is so bad that Electronic Art's COO, Peter Moore, took to his companies blog to stop another ‘victory' this year. He called his blog …

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ARIA introduce pay with Amazon

Aria have been working this year to improve their services to customers. Last month they changed their courier service to DPD and now they have Amazon payments, alongside their own checkout, Paypal, Google and V12. They have set up a webpage over here to explain it all. From now till …

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SteadyWheel, the new portable camera stabiliser

Unless you are shooting a cheap horror film, people don't like juddery hand held video footage. The Steadicam Smoothee is one of the most highly regarded systems to negate this problem, using a counter weighted arm which protrudes out below the camera. Robert Stone has came up with something much …

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Tim Cook opposed Samsung battle over patents

The battle between Apple and Samsung has been long drawn out, and still continues however the latest news to hit would indicate that Tim Cook (now the CEO) was against the legal action against Samsung. Tim Cook took over the reigns when Steve Jobs died, but new reports say that …

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Over 7 million people Jailbreaking iOS6 already. Why do it?

Apple have been battling against the jailbreaking crowd for as long as we can remember. The latest version called evasiOn has been a long time coming, but according to information received, it appears that it has been installed more than 7 million times in only six days. According to Apple …

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Bing gets bonged by Yandex

BING has been playing second fiddle to Google now for as long as we can remember, however the situation has gotten worse for Microsoft as their search engine has fallen in ranking to Russian search engine Yandex. The information has been released by ComScore, showing Yandex as hitting a higher …

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