Oct
19

Anonymous downs UK Intellectual Property Office website

Anonymous has struck again in its campaign against the anti-piracy lobby, this time taking down the UK Intellectual Property Office website. The IPO is the official government body which deals with.. more
Oct
19

AMD demos Llano chip for slimmer computers

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has been showing off its Llano Fusion chip at the AMD Technical Forum & Exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan. The CPU chip is designed for laptops and slimmer.. more
Oct
19

Samsung Wave II to hit UK in December

The sequel to Samsung’s Wave smartphone is due to land in the UK come December. This news comes directly from Samsung’s official Twitter account, which when questioned about the release date,.. more
Oct
19

7digital to bring music to Samsung Galaxy Tab

There’s a lot of buzz about the upcoming tablet from Samsung this morning, and another piece of information which has emerged about the Galaxy Tab concerns its musical side. Music Ally reports that 7digital, the British digital music outfit, announced at a press event that.. more
Oct
19

Swype now out for Symbian^3

Swype is now available on the Ovi Store, for those of you running Symbian^3 handsets such as the freshly released flagship Nokia N8. Swype is a novel text entry app which employs a virtual keyboard on which the user continuously traces their fingertip from one.. more
Oct
19

Microsoft plans Kinect marketing spend of $500m

Microsoft is serious about its Kinect motion sensing peripheral. When Phil Spencer, Corporate VP of Microsoft Game Studios, called it the company’s “biggest platform launch ever” – more important than the Xbox console itself – he wasn’t kidding. According to a report in the New.. more
Oct
19

Cut the Rope to surpass Angry Birds sales?

The publisher of Angry Birds, the hugely popular mobile game, has released a new title which is selling massively and might equal or even eclipse the furious avians eventually. Cut the Rope for iOS challenges the player to feed a monster by the name of.. more
Oct
19

T-Mobile offering Samsung Omnia 7 on pre-order

T-Mobile has stuck Samsung’s Windows Phone 7 powered blower, the Omnia 7, up for pre-order on its website. The smartphone comes with a 4 inch super AMOLED display, a 1GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and HD recording, 8GB of memory, wi-fi.. more
Oct
19

Apple iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab: Which tablet to take?

This morning we’ve heard that Carphone Warehouse will be offering the standalone Samsung Galaxy Tab for £530, less than the £600 we were expecting, and a price which puts it directly in competition with the iPad. The 3G iPad which has 16GB of storage, the.. more
Oct
19

Sharp BD-HP90S 3D Blu-ray player announced

Sharp has announced the BD-HP90S, a 3D capable Blu-ray player which should be out in the UK next month. It’s a stylish ultra-thin unit which can lie flat, stand upright, or indeed it can be wall mounted, which will go nicely with your flat screen.. more