The Motorola Atrix, the dual-core Android phone that stole the show at CES back in January, has finally been blessed with UK launch details, including price and availability. As expected, it’s an Orange exclusive, and the novel laptop dock will be making a cameo on store shelves too – will this be the phone to take on the mighty Samsung Galaxy S 2 next month?
April, 2011
Roll up, roll up. We’ve got the worst tech ads ever committed to film, right here for your perusal. From Flashdance-inspired 80s lycra to cringe worthy ‘comedy’ turns from business peeps, they’re the spots that make you think ‘who the hell thought this was a good idea?’ In part one we’ve got a creepy TV, a game that promises to give you skidmarks, and possibly the most desperate Apple ad of all time.
Microsoft founder Paul Allen releases his memoir tomorrow and he’s gunning for Bill Gates. He says: “I just felt it was like an important part of technology history and I should tell it like it happened.” He talks about the period after he was diagnosed with cancer when he claims he overheard Gates, his best friend and co-founder, complaining that he was “unproductive” to now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. You can see his 60 Minutes interview after the break… Read more
Square, the mobile payments company founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has scored a real win – placement in the Apple Store. Apple is now selling the Square hardware which hooks into an iPhone/iPod touch and lets anyone process and manage credit card payments.
The Square device is the only payments product featured in US Apple stores. It’s selling for $9.95 but users get $10 of credit when they sign up for an account and the apps are free.
The Apollo 13 space mission was one of man’s greatest triumphs. So what better way to pay tribute to it than with a stop-motion video featuring interlocking plastic blocks? Our friends at Toyology have pointed us in the direction of a new viral, celebrating the LEGO City Space Range. It’s the first in a series of five vids – launching every day this week – commemorating significant moments in space exploration. Clearly, someone has too much time on their hands. Hit the Read More button below to watch the Apollo 13 Lego video…
The unnamed Toshiba Android Honeycomb tablet has got a moniker. At least, that’s if a selection of Newegg product listings is correct. Wait for it…Toshiba’s Android Honeycomb tablet will be called: the ANT. Yep, it’s going for a kind of insecty vibe. The Toshiba Android Honeycomb tablet will be available in three configurations if the listings are right with the ANT-100 (8GB), ANT-102 (16GB) and ANT-104 (32GB).
All the models will be iPad 2-fighting 10.1in tablets with a 1280×800 resolution screen. No release date of UK pricing has been outed yet but the ANT looks like it’ll start at $449.99 in the US. Sound good to you? Hit the comments and let us know.
If you bought a new MacBook Air recently you might have benefited from a subtle speed boost. Apple has switched the SSD lurking inside the new MacBook Air from the Toshiba Blade X-gale SSD to a blade SSD from Samsung. Apple doesn’t normally up a product’s performance without kicking out a refresh but in this case that seems like exactly what’s happened…
We talk alot about Apple vs Google smackdowns but Google’s Asia-Pacific president Daniel Alegre has admitted that Google wants the iPhone to keep growing and that despite Android, the iPhone is a damn good thing for Google…