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We’ve been patiently waiting for Chrome for Android for several years now, and last night, Google finally answered our prayers. Those of us with an Android 4.0 phone at any rate: if you’re running “Ice Cream Sandwich”, it’s a fast, slick browser that lets you conveniently open pages from your dekstop, other phones, tablets and even Chromebooks, with slick card-based tabs. You can download it here.

But what if, like the 99 percent of Android users without Ice Cream Sandwich yet, you can’t install Chrome for Android? The stock 2.3 browser is still pretty poor, but never fear: here are five alternatives worth checking out with many of the same skills.

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Apple announced its latest quarterly earnings last night, and they were obscene. The company made an absurd $46.33bn (£29.7bn) in revenue, and $13.06bn (£8.4bn) in profit.

But just how much is that, really? Allow the blogosphere to all of Apple’s latest astronomical figures into perspective for you.

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While you’d be hard pressed to find someone who both understands how the internet works and supports the proposed SOPA legislation across the pond, few can deny that the issue of piracy needs addressing somehow.

An interesting illustration of this is the rise in mobile app piracy: because of the typically small file size, and the ability for Android phones to install apps from unknown sources, Android app piracy in particular is booming.

On the day that the web goes dark in protest, we take a look at the Android apps being illegally copied and shared the most. Is your favourite app being stolen around the clock?

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Guffaw TV seemed like a more appropriate name for Google TV when former CEO Eric Schmidt claimed in December that by this Summer, it would be on the “majority” of new TVs.

At the time, the search giant’s key launch partner, Logitech, has just dumped Google TV after openly admitting that its device cost the company “well over $100M (£65m) in operating profit”.

But last week’s Consumer Electronics Show showed Google TV is anything but dead. Second generation tech, and new partners including Samsung and LG mean the biggest ballers in flatscreens are actually on board. If Apple really is working on a TV, here’s how Google can beat it to the punch with a smart TV people will actually want.

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If you popped Radio 4 on this morning, chances are the famous Today programme filled your living room. From the dulcet tones of wounded politicians to atrocious racing tips, the morning news magazine is arguably British radio’s most well-known show, with 7.18 million listeners a week according to the latest RAJAR figures.

But did you know that as well as excoriating slippery MPs, the tech behind Today, and Radio 4, plays a key part in the defence of Britain’s shores? Read on and we’ll tell you just how Humphrys and co keep our boys in the loop about any attacks on Blighty.

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Had enough turkey to last you a lifetime? Can’t face another helping of cheese and port? Then step this way. The post-Christmas ritual of shedding pounds is as old as the big day itself (maybe), but rather than opening your wallet and handing over your cash to a gym, invest in this winning fitness tech that you’ll want to keep on using beyond the first couple of weeks of January.

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It’s a new year, and with CES just a week away, we’re about to see lots more new gadgets. But there’s one you won’t be seeing for a little while yet: the new Apple TV, a flatscreen with a new interface, and maybe even a new means of video delivery. It’s by no means official, but there’s a lot of smoke suggesting it’ll be out this year. Let’s take a look at all the evidence so far. Are you going to be buying it?

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Got a new Amazon Kindle for Christmas, but spent all your cash on pressies for your friends and family? Fear not. The incredible Project Gutenberg is absolutely chock full of freebies: 36,000 to be precise. And among those thousands of gratis reads are some of the greatest classics ever written. So what are you waiting for? Dive in and we’ll take you through six stunning titles that you should download and read now.

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