We’ve been hearing about the iPad 2 having a camera for weeks. Months. There’s been leaks and rumours suggested by case makers with iPad 2 cases for sale and dummy iPad 2 models, and all manner of hints and whisperings. Now, there’s some info from the SDK: camera logos at iPad resolution. Click through for the images.
January, 2011
This week T-Mobile announced it was capping its fair usage policy for mobile data to 500MB for all customers, including those with existing contracts. Customers were up in arms, and accused T-Mobile of breaking the terms of their contracts by changing the fair usage policy part way through. T-Mobile then retracted, saying the 500MB data cap would only apply to new and upgrading customers from 1 Feb. If you’re on T-Mobile has this been enough to make you want to jump ship when your contract comes up? Is data the new network battleground? Click and tell…
By our watches, we make it lunchtime, so stop what you’re doing and chow down on our feast of gadget news. It’s all been rounded up for you and served up on a plate here in the lunchtime lowdown.
UPDATE: Premier Inn says the BlackBerry and Nokia apps will be out by the end of the week.
A Premier Inn iPhone app has just hit the digital shelves, letting you check in and sort your bookings on the go. Don’t worry if you’re on another smartphone platform either, as the hotel chain’s got you covered too.
Google has gobbled up a little-known firm called eBook Technologies with an notice to that effect popping up on the companies homepage. Quite what eBook Technologies does isn’t totally clear.
The eBook Technologies site says it “supplies a family of intelligent reading devices and licenses technologies that enable automated publishing and control over content distribution.” That sounds like tech that could easily be folded in to Google Books but also opens up the possibility for an actual Google ebook reading device, perhaps even the mysterious Google Speedbook…
Oh lord, that Justin Bieber. He owns the Internet, took over a man’s existence, there are allegedly racks at Twitter dedicated to him and now he has his own (unofficial) URL shortener. Bieber.ly adds a bracing shot of Biebz to any URL, spitting your shortened link out of the mouth of Biebz. While this makes us titter a little, we can’t help but think that it’s also yet another sign of the apocalypse. Try Bieber.ly yourself if you dare…
Out now | £free | Bierber.ly
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