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July, 2010
In a spate of sales, acquisitions and launches, Five’s HD channel has launched on Virgin Media, bringing the number of Five channels appropriately up to five. The launch comes in the wake of news that Five is up for sale, and on the day BSkyB completes its acquisition of Virgin Media Television.
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The Nintendo 3DS design is locked down, according Nintendo’s Hideki Konno. Previously, images of the Nintendo 3DS had come with warnings that its looks could still be subject to change. In a wide-ranging chat with Wired, Konno fleshed out lots of other Nintendo 3DS details including how the screen tech works, whether we’ll see a bigger screen in the future and more on its motion-control smarts. Head through for the highlights…
The iPhone 4 3G video calls fall out continues. Yesterday, Fring claimed Skype had blocked its app’s access to the Skype API. Now Skype has hit back claiming Fring misused its software and was damaging its brand. The upshot for users? No more iPhone 4 video calls from Fring to Skype. Here’s what Skype has got to say for itself…
At Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference keynote yesterday, Steve Ballmer said Microsoft was “hardcore” about slates, and promised we’d be seeing multiple Windows 7 slates in the coming months. However, the HP slate that featured as the centrepiece of his January keynote, and which TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington reported as being scrapped at the end of April, although not present in the speech, was still in the line up of companies on the slideshow.
While we wait for a real iPhone 4 jailbreak solution, fake solutions have been popping up online with their only intention to unlock credulous iPhone 4 owners’ wallets. The most touted among the fake iPhone 4 jailbreaks is Goldra1n. It uses the odd syntax of GeoHot’s Blackra1n solution but it’s nothing to do with him and crucially, doesn’t work…