It looks like this summer will be a hot one, and not just the weather. The new Google 7” tablet looks set to be released this year and with it will come one of the hottest price wars we’ve seen to a long while. Google have decided to go in …
Read More »MoneySupermarket release multiplatform insurance app
Are you looking to get new car insurance? Battling to find the cheapest, most competitve deal? They fear not, because MoneySupermarket have developed an application which will work on the iPhone, Android and iPad. They claim that people who use and buy insurance from MoneySuperMarket will save an average of …
Read More »Amazon planning a tablet launch later in 2012
Amazon have experienced a high level of success with the Kindle Fire in America, achieving strong sales in the budget sector of the tablet market. The latest news indicates that they are preparing to launch at least two more tablet computers later this year. Digitimes have said that the number …
Read More »HTC One X and One S up for pre-order at Vodafone UK
If our UK readers are looking for a new smartphone, two of HTC's new trio of Androids are now up for pre-order with Vodafone UK. The HTC One X flagship and the One S will be available for free on two year contracts starting at just 36 GBP a month. …
Read More »iPad 3 problems becoming more widespread
It would be fair to say that the iPad 3 launch was positive. Much of the press, including Kitguru raved about the new high resolution retina screen and gaming prowess. There was little to dislike, apart from the slightly added weight when compared to the iPad 2. Over the last …
Read More »Apple CEO visits Foxconn factory in China
Tim Cook, Apple CEO has decided to visit China this week, on a relationship building exercise, visiting many dignitaries and partner factories. One of the high profile press events occurred at a troubled Foxconn factory in China. China is a huge market for all the major technology players, and they …
Read More »Google begins to push out Android 4.0.4
Earlier today Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru has given word that Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 will soon be available through the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). This build apparently brings about an incremental update with “a few hundred changes over Android 4.0.3,” although it is not yet clear what many of …
Read More »How much do Apple make on the iPad 3?
The Apple hype machine keeps on rolling, and with every new release of the iPad we have publications who buy them, just to tear them apart and to show everyone what is inside. A huge portion of the iPad 3 comprises the new battery system to compensate for the added …
Read More »Apple offers ‘Sorry, cannot offer 4G’ refunds
Always big on the customer service, Apple has decided in Australia that advertising The New iPad (3) as being 4G, while it is not in fact compatible with the local 4G network, was a mistake. Will the UK follow suit? In a nod to global corporate speak, Apple has decided …
Read More »No Core i3-branded mobile Ivy Bridge parts at launch
After many months of Ivy Bridge talk and still another month or so to go before its supposed launch date, it's been discovered that there doesn't appear to be any Core i3 models coming out for notebooks; rather, Ivy Bridge mobile parts will be confined to Intel's Core i7, Core …
Read More »Chinese factories stuck with useless iPad inventory
In business, it's important to get your products out first when there is an opportunity. Arriving at the FA Cup Finals one day late, with a hot dog that's 10x better, is a poor decision. However, it's also possible to go too soon. Right now, an array of Chinese factories …
Read More »Apple CEO Tim Cook jets into China for PR mission
Apple CEO Tim Cook has traveled to China to talk with government officials as he tries to clear up a raft of problems in this heavy growth market. Cook has never been to China, since taking over from the late Steve Jobs last year. He is keeping to a guarded …
Read More »Macbook Pro may get high res ‘retina display’
New, double resolution images have been found in the second developer build of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. This means that new Macintosh computers could very well ship with a Retina display, or HiDPi mode. We have all seen how the ultra high resolution panels have improved the iPad 3, …
Read More »Nvidia’s Kepler coming to a smartphone near you?
Over the weekend Nvidia dropped the NDA on it's Geforce GTX 680 graphics card based on their new Kepler architecture. Which in the case of the GTX 680, Kepler beats the AMD competition, the 7970 on many levels with some degree of ease. As a result of a successful launch (excluding a …
Read More »RIM lose Canada to Apple for the first time
Research In Motion have been knocked off the top spot in hometown Canada for the first time, to be replaced by Apple's, with their iPhone. The maker of Blackberry smartphones shipped 2.08 million Blackberry phones last year in Canada compared to Apple's 2.85 million, according to data complied by Bloomberg …
Read More »Toshiba previews 13.3 inch Android 4.0 tablet
If you walk into an electronics store these days you (should) find a bunch of tablets on display near the laptops. If you're curious as to what is offer you'll find tablets mostly with screens roughly 10 inches in size such as the Asus Transformer Prime or the Apple iPad. …
Read More »Microsoft want to drive phone prices down
Microsoft have a plan which targets China. The plan is to overtake Apple, by offering a wide range of handsets at lower prices. Passing Apple will be the first step in a longer term goal of market dominance. Simon Leung, Microsoft's Chairman and chief executive officer for the Greater China …
Read More »Apple’s iPhoto app, 1 million downloads in 10 days
Apple's iPhoto application has proven popular with the audience, achieving over 1 million downloads in the last ten days alone. This new iOS application was released beside the new iPad 3 a short while ago. According to The Loop, those are genuine user downloads, not multiple downloads from the same …
Read More »Possible Samsung Galaxy S III specifications and image leak
Many of the Samsung Galaxy S III “leaked” specifications and pictures in the last week are obvious fakes but GSM Helpdesk has come across some information plus an image which at first seems a bit more legitamate then usual. At first all seems well, until you realise it looks awfully …
Read More »Samsung and RIM sued over emoticon patent
Emoticons are useful for one thing only; to portray emotion through text, or to fool people by putting a 🙂 when you really feel :@. Emoticons are the one thing that gets texting or instant messaging close to the emotional connection level of a phone call or face to face …
Read More »iPad 3 users complain about overheating
The iPad3 is coming under fire (pun intended) from a certain audience who are claiming that it is overheating. The Mac forums have been seeing an increase in complaints from users that there is an unusual level of heat emitting from the lower left side of the iPad when it …
Read More »Android and Linux meet officially in Linux 3.3 kernel
Ever since Google's mobile operating system, Android, was first released way back in late 2008 it has been Linux without quite being Linux. This is largely in part due to disagreements between developers but thanks to some resolutions Android code has been integrated into the Linux 3.3 kernel. “Various Android …
Read More »Powerful personal projector for iPhone ready to launch
The whole point of the Walkman-iPod revolution was that entertainment suddenly became very personal. You could have 50 people on a bus and every single one of them might be nodding their head to a different beat. The next generation of accessory is/was/will be about making the experience into a …
Read More »iPad 3 strongest tablet launch yet, over 3 million sold
Apple launched the iPad 3 on Friday and sales figures in last night are very healthy indeed. Apple sent out a press release yesterday and have confirmed that they have sold 3 million iPad's so far. “The new iPad is a blockbuster with three million sold―the strongest iPad launch yet,” …
Read More »iPad 3 uses A5x with increased die size for quad core graphics
The iPad 3 has taken the industry by storm in the last week however the people at Chipworks have taken a closer look at the internals. The new A5x upgraded processor has had the die size increased by 35 percent to accommodate the new quad core graphics processing unit. They …
Read More »Sorry men, we’re not as important as a woman’s mobile phone
A recent investigation has discovered that women care more about their mobile phones than their boyfriends. Pawnbroker Borro.com surveyed 4000 women and discovered that a woman's mobile phone comes in at number 3 on a list of most treasured possessions list. Boyfriends lose out a bit on the list, they're (we're) stuck down …
Read More »iPad 3’s new A5X processor beats Nvidia Tegra 3 in 3D gaming
Apple claim that the new A5X processor in the iPad 3 outperforms the Nvidia Tegra 3 chip when it comes to 3D duties. It would appear they are right, according to a new test which has been posted online. Australian tech blogger Richie ran a benchmarking test which shows the …
Read More »iPad 3 9% more expensive to build, lowers Apple profit margins
Apple's iPad 3 is more expensive to build than the previous model, which will eat into their profit margins this year. IHS iSuppli took the device apart on launch day and said that it will be costing Apple more than V2. Many were expecting Apple to raise the price of …
Read More »Apple iPad 3 Review (64GB)
Today we are looking at the Apple iPad 3, the latest version of the tablet computer that has been breaking worldwide sales records over the last two years. It has been impossible to escape the hype, everyone knows that the latest version has the new super high resolution Retina screen, …
Read More »Cyberlink prepares full range of Apple software
News coming out of Taiwan this morning is that Cyberlink, arguably the most prevalent provider of proper video playback and photo manipulation software in the wonderful world of Windows, is investing BIG TIME in its OSX products (and more). KitGuru turns Power(news)Producer Pro to maximum and ponders the impact. Whether …
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