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Yesterday Apple unveiled its new iBooks 2 platform with an educational slant and the iBooks Author app to help publishers create stunning new digital textbooks. Now those textbook tools have been dissected, and some of the file info points to an iPad 3 with double the resolution of the current model. Read more
January 18th, 2012
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Just put your order in for the Asus Transformer Prime but have the patience of a saint? You might want to commence kicking yourself; Asus has announced an updated model of the laptop/tablet hybrid coming in June this year. Read more
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[gallery] The Alienware X51 was surely inevitable, but we're surprised it's taken this long. Alienware, peddler of pimped out gaming rigs, has crammed all those Wintel specs inside a console sized-box. It doesn't have a console-sized price tag though: would you pay £700 for a games machine that sits nicely under your telly? UPDATE: Dell says the Alienware X51 is available in the UK now. Read more
January 17th, 2012
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Surprising news, this. Despite the fact that RIM is having to continually drop the price of the BlackBerry PlayBook, to the point that you’ll probably get one posted through your door soon, word is that there are two new models on the way this year. Read more
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If you work in the kind of office that gives you about as much freedom on your computer as the average sex offender, you’ll know the pains involved in having to run on an outdated web browser. Struggle no more: you can now run any browser without having to install it first. Read more
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Google is experimenting with how your phone can interact with the desktop web, in an effort to unleash its power as your future key to enter Gmail, killing off the written password in the process. Read more
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You can't throw a stone without hitting a start-up offering to recycle your old mobile for cash these days. You might want to stop throwing those rocks though now that Apple is in the business of doing just this: it's got lawyers, after all. You read that right: Apple has launched its own Recycling Programme in the UK, letting you trade in an old iPhone, iPad, Mac, iPod, or any old mobile, Windows laptop or desktop. You drop in the details in a simple form, and they tell you how much you'll get. Read more
January 13th, 2012
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Asus may be more deserving of HTC’s ‘Quietly Brilliant’ slogan - the Taiwanese company has a track record as an innovator that stretches back several years, has invented product categories and continues to meet its rivals with ever more ingenious solutions, but it simply doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Read more
 
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