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Making our current desktop PC look like Billy Bunter after a weekend’s feasting with Fatty Arbuckle at the Donut Factory is CompuLab’s super-bijou fit-PC2i desktop PC. Weighing only 13 ounces …
CompuLab’s fit-PC2i is a truly tiny desktop PC Read MoreMany users of Avast anti-virus software appear to have had problems with their computers on December 2 and 3, not because of undetected viruses, but because an update to the …
Avast anti-virus update causes havoc with streams of false positives Read MoreMicrosoft has been busily ramping up the features on its search engine Bing, with the showstopper being the release of Bing Maps Beta, a substantial upgrade to its online map …
Microsoft Bing adds knockout new features: Street Side impresses Read MoreStuck in an office flanked by vast desktop PCs the size of small suitcases, we’ve been looking longer and harder at the new breed of sleek miniPCs/nettops coming out, and …
Viewsonic unveils VOT530 and 550 mini PCs. We rather like Read MoreAccording to a recent study by Strategy Analytics, the majority of iPhone users want their next phone to have a proper hardware QWERTY keyboard. Their findings were based on a …
Most iPhone users dream of a physical QWERTY keyboard Read MoreAsus has slipped out the Eee Box 1501 nettop, a mere slip of a thing for slapping on your desktop, living room shelves or kitchen. Nettops are designed to arouse …
Asus Eee Box 1501 nettop gets UK release Read MoreMozilla Thunderbird, the free email client produced by the makers of the Firefox browser, has recently undergone some important revisions, and is now available as Thunderbird 3.0 RC1. RC stands …
Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 RC1 email client – full review Read MoreApple’s plans to take over the entire known smartphone universe continue with the news that Tesco will soon be carrying the iconic iPhone handset.
Apple iPhone headed for Tesco’s supermarket shelves Read MoreWe wrote about Swype’s innovative text input system yesterday, and were pretty impressed by the demo posted. The tech website TechCrunch have now posted up a leaked video showing a …
Swype versus iPhone keyboard contest. Fight! Read MoreWe figured it wouldn’t be long before video recording was hacked on the Palm Pre, and sure enough, an app has appeared courtesy of the busy Homebrew community. The app …
Precorder brings video recording to the Palm Pre; dev program opens to public Read MoreCreative are feeling well chuffed with their third generation Vado HD Pocket Video Cam, which they positively insist manages to combine, “sleek design with stunning HD video quality.” In fact, …
Creative Vado HD third gen pocket camcorder let loose Read MoreBilling itself as the ‘next generation for text input’ and, “perfect for today’s screens,” Swype certainly looks an interesting proposition for manic mobile emailers and torrential texters. “Coming soon to …
Swype’s “genius texting” claims 50 words per min on mobile keyboards Read MoreCrazy but true. Well, possibly. It seems that Apple won’t fix faulty Macs if the owners are smokers because the whiff of stale smoke apparently constitutes a ‘biohazard’ to repair …
Apple refuse to repair Macs that whiff of fags Read MoreIf you’re bored stiffer than Mary Whitehouse’s super-starchy ironing board with all this on/off ‘Palm Pre syncing with iTunes’ malarkey, there’s an easier way to shunt tunes on off your …
MediaMonkey 3.2 now supports music sync for Palm Pre, iPhone, Android Read MoreAn excitable bloke can be seen raving about the Seesmic Twitter mobile client which has just been released for the Android and BlackBerry platforms. The interface seems straightforward enough, with …
Seesmic launch mobile Twitter apps for Android and BlackBerry with excitable video Read More