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Google’s Chrome browser overtakes Apple’s Safari

Sunday, Jan 3, 2010Sunday, Jan 3, 2010 - by mike s - 4 Comments.

Boosted by an expensive advertising campaign which included  full size billboard posters (the London tube’s plastered with ’em), newspaper, magazine and TV adverts, Google’s Chrome browser has overtaken Apple’s Safari …

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Google / stuff / web

Google’s New Year treat!

Saturday, Jan 2, 2010Saturday, Jan 2, 2010 - by mike s

Google have slipped in a nice little treat for the New Year. Go to Google.com or Google.co.uk today and click “I’m Feeling Lucky” (without entering a search term) and see what …

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computing / stuff

Robots invade Korean schools – videos galore

Friday, Jan 1, 2010Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 1 Comment

We suspect that many UK small children would run screaming if one of these weird things came charging into their classroom, but after looking at these videos, it seems that …

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computing / web

Radiohead – House of Cards video gets the DIY treatment

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s

We’re big fans of Radiohead, and we loved the disturbing yet beautiful video to ‘House of Cards’ when it came out last year. The video was created using cutting edge …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / photography

Gorillacam camera app for the iPhone serves up 1.6 pics per second

Thursday, Dec 31, 2009Thursday, Dec 31, 2009 - by mike s - 2 Comments.

Brought to you by the company that created the legendary Gorillapod bendable tripods, the new Gorillacam app introduces a slew of useful tools to improve your iPhone snapping. The free …

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Apple / business

Nokia vs Apple – the patent war heats up as Nokia counter-countersues!

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009 - by mike s

We reported back in October that the Finnish mobile giant was suing its rival Apple for infringing their mobile phone technology patents with the iPhone, and things seem to be …

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Google / mobiles

Google Goggles image recognition mobile search: video demo

Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 - by mike s

Google’s futuristic mobile image recognition  feature — Google Goggles — has been demoed on the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10. Although the Xperia is yet to be released, you can see …

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Google

Google gifts $20m to charities for Christmas

Thursday, Dec 24, 2009 - by mike s

Google  have emailed its users this morning to thank them for the “time, energy, commitment, and trust” they’ve shared with the company. The email – presented in the form of …

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Microsoft / software

Microsoft loses patent appeal, Office and Word 2007 sales to end in January

Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009Wednesday, Dec 23, 2009 - by mike s

Microsoft has lost its legal appeal with a small Canadian company called i4i, which will result in the sales of its popular software programs Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Office …

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Apple / iPhone / mobiles

Vodafone UK set iPhone release date for Jan 14

Monday, Dec 21, 2009Monday, Dec 21, 2009 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

UK consumers still desperate to join the iBorg and get themselves an iPhone, will be able to snap one up onVodafone’s network in the new year. Available from January 14th, …

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Google / web

Google releases Browser Size tool for web developers

Saturday, Dec 19, 2009Saturday, Dec 19, 2009 - by Pete Railton

Fresh out of Google Labs is their new Browser Size tool, which lets web developers see what parts of their pages users can see without scrolling. Sporting a funky DIY …

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Google / web

UK newspapers flock to Google Fast Flip

Thursday, Dec 17, 2009 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

UK national newspapers the Telegraph, the Independent and the Express have signed up to Google’s Fast Flip experimental news application. A total of 55 publications have recently been added to …

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Google / web

Google contacts: sort out duplicate contacts with one click

Wednesday, Dec 16, 2009 - by mike s

If you’ve got a mighty big list of names stored in Google Contacts and it’s become a bit of an unruly, sprawling mess with loads of  duplicate entries, there’s a …

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Google

Google shimmies in on the URL shortening scene

Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 - by mike s

We’ve been long time fans of bit.ly, which usurped our previous fave tinyurl.com, but now Google has decided to have bash at this URL shortening lark. Perhaps prompted into action …

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Apple / iPhone / mobile apps

Guardian newspaper charges for iPhone app

Monday, Dec 14, 2009 - by mike s - 10 Comments.

The UK’s most popular lefty(ish) newspaper, The Guardian, has created an iPhone app and made the unusual decision of charging users a one-off fee of £2.39 fee to download it. …

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