July, 2010

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Apple hasn’t really got much of a presence of Twitter (besides a scattering of iTunes Twitter accounts) so it was surprising to see iOS head honcho Scott Forstall has just signed up. His @forstall account is only following one person (US chatshow host and celebrity ginger Conan O’Brien) but he’s already racked up 16,785 followers despite not having penned a single tweet so far.

It’s not clear why Forstall has joined Twitter. Could he be monitoring the public’s reaction to iPhone 4? Or planning future iOS 4 features? While we wait to see what he and Apple might do with their new Twitter outpost, here’s our five favourite tweeting tech execs…
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The iPhone 4 recall buzz with bookies slashing the odds on Apple having to pull the new phone off the shelves in the wake of the iPhone 4 signal problems. Paddy Power has cut it’s odds on the iPhone 4 recall from 2/1 to 4/6. But what does the small print say and could Steve Jobs really sanction such a major move? Read on for the details and let us know: are you willing to bet on an iPhone 4 recall?

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A £2 million fund for the UK computer games industry has been launched by Ed Vaizey, the Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, after the coalition government scrapped plans for a 20 per cent tax break for the computer game industry a month ago.

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Pip pip! We make it roundabout exactly midway through the working week, so drop what you’re doing and celebrate by kicking back with all the latest gadget news, rounded up for you right here in the lunchtime lowdown!

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The iPhone 4 signal saga continues. Apple shares dipped yesterday, after American website Consumer Reports said it could not recommend the device until Apple had solved its antenna problem. Despite the iPhone 4 being the most successful product launch the company has ever had. Apple has allegedly reacted by culling its forum of threads discussing the iPhone 4 and Consumer Reports, although how much weight there is to these rumours is questionable. Read on, and we’ll break it down in detail.

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The iPhone 4 is causing problems for UK operators still trying to shift the iPhone 3GS. A source close to Three, which has yet to start selling the iPhone 4, has told us that the network will stop selling the iPhone 3GS White from today and has seriously increased its rewards for affiliates pushing the iPhone 3GS Black 8GB. It looks like Three is gearing up to get the iPhone 4 on the shelves and suggests there’s an outside chance that the rare iPhone 4 White might be on its way to the UK…

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Opera Mini 5.1 for Android has bounced out of beta and into the Android Market. That’s great news if you’re packing one of the latest bunch of big screen Android phones like the Dell Streak or the Samsung Galaxy S as there’s an improved page layout to make use of that extra space. Opera also promises that Opera Mini 5.1 with speedier page loads and it’s familiar data compression smarts. Head through for a quick tour of Opera Mini’s latest outing…

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Yesterday we posted a video of Dyson’s engineers setting up a fancy, arty balloon transportation system using air mulitipliers. But wait, at 1:23 in the air multiplier video Dyson have blurred something out on the factory floor…

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