Nov
22

Orange and T-Mobile to offer iPad for £200

News has broken this morning that Orange and T-Mobile (who are now both under the Everything Everywhere umbrella) will be offering Apple’s iPad in subsidised form. According to Mobile News, both.. more
Nov
22

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to get limited multi-touch

With Android 2.1 finally having been made available for the Xperia X10 this month (with operators now rolling it out too), Sony Ericsson has also let it be known that multi-touch.. more
Nov
22

The Daily paper coming to the iPad courtesy of Murdoch

A new daily newspaper is coming to the iPad, but this isn’t any old virtual rag – it has the backing of Rupert Murdoch. The News Corporation and Apple collaboration is.. more
Nov
22

Apple abandons embedded sim for iPhone plan

Apple has thought better of an idea to have the next iPhone come with a built-in sim card. The plan would be to remove the traditional slot, and have an embedded card which supports all operators, allowing users to easily switch between them. But mobile.. more
Nov
22

Jolibook now on sale at Amazon

The Jolibook netbook is now available to order at online retailer Amazon in the UK. It’s priced up at the expected and previously announced price point of £279.99. For that money, you get a 10 inch display, 1.5GHz dual-core Intel Atom N550 processor, and a.. more
Nov
22

iPhone thief caught on Twitter

A 10-year-old boy from Darlington managed to catch a thief with some quick thinking and the aid of Twitter. He spotted 24-year-old Craig Royal snatching an iPhone from a pedestrian, and then cycling off on his mountain bike. As his father drove alongside the thief,.. more
Nov
22

Naked German man in more Street View strangeness

While Street View is more famous for causing controversy amongst privacy activists, it has also caused a considerable degree of mirth since its inception. In the UK, we had Aberdeen’s Horse Boy (a man wearing a pantomime style horse’s head) and the garden nursery worker.. more
Nov
21

Weekend NewsBytes: Google to delete wi-fi data; Jolibook notebook out tomorrow

Google has been told it can now delete the wi-fi data which its Street View cars mistakenly collected from unsecured networks across the UK. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham told the Guardian: “I welcome the fact that the wi-fi payload data that should never have been.. more
Nov
21

Black Friday week on Amazon to include 60% off Xbox

Amazon UK has made more details available about which tech products are going to see big discounts starting tomorrow. For next week is Black Friday week, Thanksgiving week in the US which sees big pre-Xmas discounts hitting home, and Amazon has decided to bring the.. more
Nov
21

3 sends out human hotspots across the UK

3 has come up with a novel idea to grab a bit of publicity, sending out so-called human wi-fi hotspots across the UK. The network operator has conducted research which shows more folks are going online with mobile gadgets via 3G, and the human hotspots.. more