April, 2011

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Hertz electric car rental kicks off in London today. Hertz began the Hertz Connect service in New York last year but now Londoners can join with the fun with a fleet of electric vehicles on offer with the iMieV, Nissan Leaf and Renault Kangoo all available for hire.

We were pretty taken with the Nissan Leaf when we got our hands on it before and the Hertz hourly rental rate could be a great way for you to get the answers to all your electric car queries. Click through for details…

London has 16 charging stations for electric vehicles so you should be able to buzz around without running out of juice. The Connect services costs £50 per year to join with vehicles available from £5 an hour. If you try out Hertz Connect’s electric car rental offer, drop us a line and let us know how you get on.

Out today | From £50 + £5 per hour | Hertz

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The Skype Android app appears to have a big old hole in it that could allow a malicious actor (and we don’t mean Christopher Lee) to access personal data.

Android Police discovered that the Skype Android app has SQLite3 databases which store your information and chat logs and that Skype has not encrypted those files or put structures in place to enforce permissions. Oops!

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The BlackBerry PlayBook has not been getting great reviews so far but RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie (not the one who stormed out of a BBC interview) is still uber-confident about the tablet. In fact, he’s so confident that he batted away complaints about the BlackBerry PlayBook’s lack of a native email client in an interview with Bloomberg…

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Nintendo Wii HD arriving at E3?

April 15, 2011 9:15 am by
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The Nintendo Wii is still selling but not quite at the hotcakes pace it once did. The idea of the Nintendo Wii HD or Wii 2 has been on the cards for sometime but now multiple sources are saying it’ll break cover at E3…

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Sense 3.0, Fujitsu F-07c tablet, Android gaming: US UpdateWelcome to another morning edition of the US Update. I’ll be your host Nick Marshall as we go on a little tech adventure, so sit back and relax. We’ve got the latest scoop on HTC’s Sense 3.0 UI, a rumor of a Symbian Windows 7 hybrid tablet from Fujitsu and even an interview with Id Software co-founder John Carmack explaining why developing for Android is not as profitable as iOS.

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Id Software joins Epic Games: focused on iOS gamesApparently Id Software co-founder John Carmack hasn’t seen our list of Android app millionaires. In an interview with Mobiledia’s Margaret Rock, Mr. Carmack said that developing on Android is not as profitable as iOS and that few Android gamers would pay $20 per title. Android users, brace yourselves this might get a little uncomfortable.

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Apple high fives Verizon as iOS market share grows: Android still king of the castleThe latest smartphone market share report has hit the web compliments of Millennial Media, the largest independent mobile ad network. In their report dubbed ‘Smartphone OS Mix’, the company has made some very interesting findings. One in particular is effect of the Verizon iPhone, a device which it believes accounted for 8.2 percent of US iPhone impressions in March.

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Microsoft beefs up future Windows Phone 7 hardware requirementsNext generation Windows Phone 7 hardware will face heightened scrutiny according to slides released by Microsoft at the company’s annual MIX convention. In a slide titled “Hardware Foundation”, we get our first glimpse at what it takes to play with the big boys of Windows Phone. Unless your smartphone packs a WVGA resolution display, sadly your smartphone will not be coming along for the ride.

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