Author: Stewart Matthews
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Adobe to kill Flash on mobile devices
It would seem that Adobe has decided that the company will put an end to developing Flash for mobile platforms. This is according to a report from Jason Perlow from ZDNet, who says that he expects Adobe to announce that the company will instead focus their developing efforts on HTML5 for mobile devices instead. Although…
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HTC Edge Quad Core Tegra 3 Android smartphone leaked
The picture you’re looking at is reportedly an unannounced HTC device called the ‘Edge’, which is the company’s first, and most probably the world’s first smartphone powered by a quad-core processor. The folk over at PocketNow have inside information from what they say is a reliable source, who says that the new Edge handset is…
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RED Scarlet 4K camera launched
Not wanting to be outdone by Canon and their new C300 cinema camera, RED decided to also announce a new model called Scarlet which now records in full 4K resolution. The Scarlet provides 4096 x 2160 pixel resolution for video and a very impressive 5120 x 2700 for still images; this is combined with a…
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Nokia cancels Nokia 600 Symbian smartphone
You may remember that back in August, Nokia announced three new Symbian based smartphones with the Symbian Belle update. However, Nokia has decided that one of the three new handsets – the Nokia 600, will not be released. The Nokia 600 was expected to go on sale for around 180 Euros, it had respectable features…
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Nokia Windows Phones will feature ST-Ericsson chips
It would seem that Qualcomm’s current tight grip on Windows Phone hardware will loosen starting from next year as Nokia has announced that the Finnish company has decided to use ST-Ericsson’s new NovaThor platform. The NovaThor platform includes a range of chips; three of these are dual-core processors – the U8500, U5500 and also the…
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Google officially launches new Gmail interface
We’ve known for a while now that Google intended to update the Gmail interface thus giving a better overall experience for its users when it demoed it back in early July. Since then Google has added even more updates and other improvements to the new Gmail ,and feels like now’s the time to release the new…
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Native Gmail App finally coming to the iPhone
This latest news will no doubt please a lot of dedicated Gmail users who have been probably dreaming about this for a long time. If you have an iPhone and are also a Gmail user, you’ll no doubt know that at the moment Gmail is currently a accessible on the iPhone via a web app…
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Siri ported to iPhone 4 and iPod Touch, now fully working
Not too long after the release of the new iPhone 4S, a developer by the name of Steve Troughton Smith decided to have a go at seeing if he could somehow port the new Siri Voice Assistant across to the iPhone 4. For him, getting the iPhone 4S firmware along with Siri onto the iPhone…
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Samsung beats Apple in smartphone sales
It’s no secret that these two companies don’t see eye to eye, therefore this latest bit of news to come through from research conducted by Strategy Analytics, that shows Samsung has overtook Apple to become the world’s biggest seller of smartphones between July and September, will not doubt be a kick in the teeth for…
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Facebook sets up data centre in Lapland
Facebook has just announced that the social networking site plans to build its latest data centre in Lapland, Sweden. No, it’s not because they have been lured by Father Christmas – it’s actually an ideal climate for an energy efficient data centre. The brand new data centre will be the first outside of the US, …
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More evidence Google’s Music Store is about to launch?
I’m sure you’ve heard some of the rumours over the past few weeks about Google starting its own music store to compete with the giant that is iTunes. Well, some eagle-eyed person has spotted that if you point your Internet browser to music.google.com from your Android device you will see a landing page which will…
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus coming to Amazon UK one week early
If you’re keen on getting your hands on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which will be running the latest Ice Cream Sandwich update of Android, you might be interested in this. We already know that the much talked about device is due on sale next month; although what we really want to know is who’s…