Category: Gadget News
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BBC partners with UK Radio Player for comprehensive on-demand radio service
The BBC plans to expand its broadcast dominance by partnering with commercial broadcasters, launching an “iPlayer for radio” service, UK Radio Player, in late March. Already having opened the “catch-up” television service iPlayer to external companies, linking programming through the popular online playback service, this new UK Radio Player will do a similar with for […]
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Warner Bros. bringing popular movies to Facebook – test begins today with “The Dark Knight”
Warner Bros. is offering to make the most of those Facebook “credits” when they begin trials for a movie player experience through the leading social networking site and the respective pages of some of their popular films, starting in the US with “The Dark Knight” which will become available today and more to follow in […]
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Android overtakes Blackberry as #1 Smartphone platform in US
A recent study by comScore has shown that Google’s Android mobile platform is the most used smartphone OS in the United States, surpassing RIM and their Blackberry platform. Almost one third (31.2%) of US smartphones now run Android of some form, compared to previous market leader RIM, with 30.4% of American smartphones being Blackberrys. Suprisingly, […]
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Property site Rightmove to list Broadband speeds on homes for sale and rent
Rightmove, the UK’s biggest online property website has teamed up with BT, the UK’s biggest ISP, to list the Internet speeds of around 1 million homes currently listed for sale or rent on its website, according to a report by the Daily Telegraph. It is understood that Rightmove is intending on adding this extra piece […]
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Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 OS handset spotted
It would seem that Sony Ericsson are soon to be joining the Windows Phone 7 gathering (it’s not really a party.. is it!) as images have emerged of an unnamed Sony Ericsson handset sporting the windows operating system. Back when Microsoft announced the new operating system, Sony Ericsson promised that it was going to provide […]
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Seagate launches new 3TB Barracuda XT internal Hard Drive
If you’re after big storage then look no further, as Seagate have just launched their latest beast of a hard drive that joins the existing range of Barracuda HDD’s. The 3TB drive should be ideal for users who require large amounts of storage space for a big music collection, or perhaps for storing HD video […]
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Three introduces unlimited data on PAYG
Mobile network Three has today announced that its Pay as You go customers will soon be able to get an “all-you-can-eat data package” which will mean unlimited data use on any of its PAYG handsets. Three has two unlimited data pay-as-you-go (PAYG) plans: All in One 15 which costs £15 for 30 days of unlimited […]
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Samsung announce Galaxy Pro, QWERTY Android handset
Samsung have just finished hosting their SEA Forum event over in Singapore, where a few new products have snuck out. Most notably is a new addition to their popular Galaxy range, the Samsung Galaxy Pro. The Samsung Galaxy Pro is looking to take on RIM’s Blackberry range with a full QWERTY keyboard and 2.8 inch […]
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Apple looking to provided unlimited iTunes downloads
According to Bloomberg, Apple are investigating ways in which they can give iTunes customers unlimited downloads on purchased items, with multiple device users in mind. Bloomberg quote three people with knowledge of Apple’s plans, who say that Apple are in talks with some record companies already such as Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. […]