Huge thanks to everyone who applied for the VIP reader evening hosted by the generous folk at BlackBerry. As promised, eight readers got the chance to go hands-on with the PlayBook and grill one of BlackBerry’s head honcho’s on the subject of RIM’s first tablet.

Moreover, congratulations to Gautam Vaidya of Wembley, who walked away with a brand new PlayBook and a selection of rather fetching accessories including a bright pink case (which he declared an ideal gift for his girlfriend). Whether she’ll ever get her hands on the PlayBook is another matter… Read more

If you believe the rumours currently fizzing down Britain’s broadband pipes, Apple has pretty much put the kibosh on iPhone 5 – at least for 2011.

But if that’s the case, why is Apple’s public relations department  - specifically the team dedicated to all things iPhone – reaching out to selected British journalists in an effort to persuade them to attend Apple’s WWDC developer jamboree on 6-10 June?

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Could Rovio be the new Disney? In 11 months it’s built Angry Birds into a license to print money – and spawned a satellite industry in virals. From Electricpig’s very own Playable Angry Birds Cake (5 million views and counting) to a life-size outdoor level, the bangwagon shows no sign of braking.

Check out this latest Angry Birds parody – an inspired spoof of Adele’s ubiquitous ‘wrist-slitter’ Rolling In The Deep (We Could Have Had It All), in which the moody popstar becomes obsessed with beaks, catapults and golden eggs…

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