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Published by Walri on Friday, 3rd September 2010
Samsung will integrate new TV store with smartphones
Samsung has been tempting us for some time with talk of an integrated video focused app store that would span its smartphones, TVs and PCs, a goal also being pursued by Sony. So far its offering remains frustratingly fragmented, with good content but no...
Published by US Chick on Friday, 3rd September 2010
New Garmin nüvi series the 2200 and 2300, with low priced nüRoute technology
One thing about GPSs, they aren’t going to be around forever. Well maybe, but we think they will be built into a car radio or a cell phone and take the usual path of stand-alone device to device on a chip to part of another chip, to finally an...
Published by SoupDog on Friday, 3rd September 2010
Company of Heroes Online Beta now on active duty in North America
The Open Beta for Company of Heroes Online has begun today in North America. The free-to-play version of the classic multiplayer military RTS will pay for itself with microtransactions, players will only purchase items if they want to. Expanding on the...
Published by Horrid on Friday, 3rd September 2010
Samsung signs up Vodafone for its first 7 inch “Tab” tablet
Samsung used the IFA in Germany to formally launch its first major tablet device which goes up against Apple’s iPad - the Galaxy Tab - details of which were widely leaked during June. The major surprise was that Vodafone said it would carry the Tab,...
Published by SoupDog on Friday, 3rd September 2010
Europeans get another Kinect hitch, no voice recognition until the spring
It has been reported that Europeans won't be able to enjoy the voice command feature of Microsoft's Kinect until way after its release. The device will be region locked in Europe initially and users will have to wait for an update before the feature can...
Published by Walri on Thursday, 2nd September 2010
Motorola defies nature with new mediaphone
Motorola often seems to have forgotten about the European market where it lags so far behind Nokia and Samsung, but for once it is bringing a new handset to this region ahead of other markets. The Defy is a ruggedized phone which, the firm says, is not...
Published by Greybeard on Thursday, 2nd September 2010
School gets high-tec in the highlands with iPads for every student
In the latest story which seems to show the iPad's growing global dominance a Scottish school has said goodbye to pens and paper and hello to Apple's iPad. People are always likening Apple to some kind of religious sect and appropriately enough the school...
Published by US Chick on Thursday, 2nd September 2010
New Logitech laptop speakers for laptops, one wireless, one 360 sound
Logitech announced two new speaker choices for laptop users, the Wireless Speaker Z515 and the Laptop Speaker Z305. Face it; you spend a lot of time on your laptop watch YouTube or movies and the sound just doesn’t cut it when the video in HD or...
Published by Horrid on Thursday, 2nd September 2010
Garmin GPS – the treasure hunt tool for the intellectually challenged
You can’t resists a treasure hunt – admit it. But Garmin the PND company is planning to ruin it by giving you the GPS co-ordinates of 65,000 geocaches – where official treasure items are hidden. The aim is to get people out and about in...
Published by Walri on Wednesday, 1st September 2010
Archos promises quintet of Android 2.2 tablets and media players
Archos may not hit the headlines like Apple, but it was one of the first vendors actually to produce an Android tablet rather than just talking about one, and now it aims to build on its headstart with five more launches this year. The company has...

















