Fans of slightly-too-expensive Android tablets, rejoice! The ASUS Eee Transformer Prime is nearly here. The tablet-cum-notebook won’t actually ship until January, but Asus has opened up pre-orders today if you have an extra £500 kicking around this close to Christmas. Read more
A pair of muggers targetting a university campus in New York have very fixed ideas about what consitutes decent tech.
Not content with robbing students bind, the thieves have been sneeringly disdainfully at non-Apple smartphones, turning their noses up at Androids and BlackBerrys alike. Read more
Anyone who has had to deal with the sorry state of their parent’s PC or a stubborn IT department’s refusal to get with ter program and update a browser may soon be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Microsoft is changing the way its Windows Update works so that it will be able to silently update your software in the background, just like Chrome and Firefox do already.
Now more than a decade old, Internet Explorer 6 is the bane of many web developer’s lives. Buggy, insecure, seemingly at war with web standards and still installed on a depressing 8.4 percent of PCs by Microsoft’s own figures. Now though, Redmond really is doing all it can to kill it.
The promised BlackBerry renaissance may be on hold. RIM has admitted that the first BlackBerry 10 handset is still a year away, pushing the release of the first dual-core to late 2012.
Is this one setback too many for RIM which, it must be said, has not had a great 2011, or will BlackBerry 10 be worth the wait? Read more
When the Samsung Galaxy Nexus launched last month there was much joy at the delicious new Ice Cream Sandwich OS, followed by howls of anguish as early adopters realised that the Adobe Flash plugin didn’t work on Android 4.0. Google promised that Flash support was on the way and Adobe has now released an ICS-compatible Flash plugin, just in time for the Galaxy Nexus’ US launch.
While this is welcome news for anyone hoping to run BBC iPlayer or embedded YouTube videos, we have to ask – is Flash still a vital service for Android or just a lazy crutch?
Pottermore, J.K. Rowling’s assault on the big name eBook publishers, will be partnering with another relatively new – but still rather large – eBook supplier to get the Harry Potter series on the Android phones and tablets.
When you buy a Harry Potter book via the Pottermore site you will be able to choose from a variety of formats in which to download. One option will be to save the book to the cloud – using Google Books.
Samsung Wave II owners who can’t wait to try the new version of the Bada OS will no longer have to – a build of the new & improved Bada 2.0 has been leaked and can be downloaded by the curious (and brave – it might brick your phone).
Check out the video clips below to see it in action.
Uh-oh, looks like somebody’s got a bad case of the Manboobs. Er, we mean Mondays.
Yes, the iPhone autocorrect can be both a curse and a blessing. For every ‘teh’ that gets quietly swapped to ‘the’ there is an equal chance that a perfectly legitimate word will be auto-corrected into something obscene, amusing or horrifying.