Blackberry-Playbook
Following on from a pretty interesting week internally, RIM has decided to completely slash the price of the BlackBerry Playbook for the umpteenth time. At just £169 for the cheapest model, is the QNX-based tablet now cheap enough to finally compete? Read more
January 26th, 2012
iphone-mac
Amazing research being carried out by the University of Munich, the University of Calgary and Columbia University has shown the future of what’s possible in the field of screen sharing. The video of their software shows how your smartphone could very well be your next computer. Read more
GTA-III
Rockstar has released an update for GTA 3 on Android, bringing with it a host of new features and fixes, as well as support for the Asus Transformer Prime. With the Prime’s keyboard controls, the tablet/laptop hybrid may be the best way to complete it. Read more
January 24th, 2012
mwc-tech
Mobile World Congress 2012 is just a few weeks away, but we’ve already privy to some of the most innovative tech from the show. This week, we headed down to the Smart UK competition to get a sneak peek at some of the gear that’s going to change the mobile phone industry, from right here in the UK. Read more
mirror-hack
Kinect games? Pah: it’s the mad Kinect hacks that make Microsoft’s motion sensor such an exciting piece of tech. Case in point: this amazing future mirror put together by the R&D team at the New York Times. Yes: the New York Times has an R&D department. Read more
January 23rd, 2012
page-turning
Everybody loves them some eBooks. Cramming a whole library in one device with easy access to yet more tomes is the kind of convenience that’s pushed the digital reading to the fore, but there are still drawbacks that you don’t get with a real book. Navigation is one such failing, but that could be set to change with a prototype technology making flicking through books and gesture-based page-turning possible and intuitive. Read more
January 20th, 2012
skydrive
We love it when tech companies stop playing nice. Remember the Samsung ad that mocked Apple fanboys last November? Now Microsoft’s got in the spirit, having released a video that directly attacks Google Docs. Read more
siri-alternatives
Patently Apple has been scouring through Apple’s designs and has stumbled across a patent that claims to reveal the real future of Siri, and how it’s set to become a much cleverer, bigger part of your life. The scary bit? Apple wants to let Siri to buy things for you. Read more
 
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