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O2 quietly cans gratis Cloud Wi-Fi connectivity
Own-brand hotspots offered instead
O2 has quietly dropped The Cloud from the list of Wi-Fi hotspot aggregators it grants its mobile customers free access to.…
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Raspberry Pi ship date slips
Crystal trips
Raspberry Pi won't make it into buyers' hands before 20 February and perhaps not until the end of the month, the organisation behind the $25 microcomputer has admitted.…
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Toshiba releases 'world's thinnest' Android tablet
Sales limited to a single retailer
Toshiba's 'world's thinnest, lightest' tablet, the AT200 - aka the Excite in the US - goes on sale over here next week.…
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Parliament ponders £400,000 iPads-for-MPs plan
Representatives to get slated
Members of Parliament may soon be issued with an iPad each in a scheme that could cost the tax payer over £400,000.…
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Mac demand helps Apple business bloom in Blighty
Rival PC players slump
Apple was the only major computer maker to increase its shipments into the UK PC market during the final three months of 2011.…
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Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab
Dual dock ports, clip-on keyboard for laptop-like use?
Will the Apple iPad 3 be an 'homage' to the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, complete with clever clip-on keyboard accessory? One financial analysts comments, posted after a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, suggests it might be.…
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Samsung Series 7 Chonos 15.6in Core i7 notebook
NOT a MacBook clone
Review Surely someone is having a laugh. Having read nothing but five-star reviews of this luxury notebook on other sources, I find myself surprised to be staring at a four-star product on my desk. Four stars is pretty good, you know, but that’s one less than five.…
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Motorola: refurb tablets shipped with former owners' data intact
Whoops
Motorola Mobility has admitted that some refurbished Xoom tablets were sent out to their new owners with previous users' data still present in the gadgets' memory banks.…
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ARM rains on x86 as smartphones outship PCs
Netbooks cop a hiding
Netbooks are so yesterday's technology. Shipments of the small, not-so-cheap computers plunged during 2011 by 25 per cent, figures from market watcher Canalys show.…
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Apple iPad beats Amazon Kindle Fire in satisfaction survey
Fanboys happier than Fireboys?
iPad owners are happier with their tablets than folk with other fondleslabs are with theirs, recent research reveals.…
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Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report
Apple-flavoured future features leaked
Windows 8 and Microsoft's next major phone operating system will merge, if reports are correct.…
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RIM tempts tablet coders with free PlayBooks
Gratis gadget if you upload your Android app
RIM is offering software coders free tablets if they'll make their Android apps available through its PlayBook app store.…
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Next-gen Asus Eee Pad Transformer spied
TF300T snapped
A previously unseen Asus tablet has surfaced on the web prompting speculation that the Taiwanese company is working on the successor to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.…
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Fujitsu out bog standard 7in tab for big biz
Gingerbread do you?
Fujitsu has outed a non-descript 7in Android tablet that it'll be pitching at big business when the gadget goes on sale later this month.…
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Retailer drops Eee Pad Transformer Prime, claims quality issues
But Asus denies tablet problems
Asus has denied that its Eee Pad Transformer Prime is suffering from the quality issues one retailer has claimed have necessitated withdrawing the Android tablet from sale.…
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Ofcom: UK broadband speed on the up as punters' packages swell
More of a shunt than a glide
Average broadband speeds in Blighty are on the up, communications watchdog Ofcom concluded in a report published this morning.…
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Snaps confirm new CPU for Apple iPad 3
But maybe not a quad-core chip, after all
Apple's iPad 3 will not have the same processor as its predecessor.…
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Court defies Apple demand to ban Samsung tablet
Prior art to invalidate Apple patent
The Munich Regional Court has chucked out an Apple request to impose a ban on the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and on the South Korean giant's Galaxy Nexus smartphone.…
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Hands off our brand, Wi-Fi body warns 'white space' tech firms
TV spectrum networking != 802.11
Don't call wireless networks that operate at frequencies formerly reserved for TV transmissions "Wi-Fi", the owner of the brand has warned.…
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Amazon France leaks iPad 3 release date?
Today's fondleslab rumor 'pour les nuls'
Amazon France may have leaked the release date for Apple's next iteration of its überpopular fondleslab, the iPad.…
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Ten... A3 inkjet printers
Poster campaigners
Product round-up The most probable reasons for printing A3 documents are 1) posters or folded A4 newsletters, and 2) large photos. The types of printer needed for these two requirements are different. For posters and newsletters you want a machine intended primarily for plain paper print and it will save time if it can print duplex. For photos, you’re more interested in high quality output, often with more than four ink colours in the mix.…
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German court rejects Samsung tablet appeal
Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban to remain in force
Apple's demand that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 be banned from sale in Germany has been once again confirmed by a German court.…
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Man recreates ZX81... in Lego
Eight-bits and pieces
You can pick up the real thing cheaply enough on eBay, but that hasn't stopped retro-computing fan and Lego nut from knocking up a version out of the plastic bricks.…
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Dim-but-rich buyers targeted with million pound laptop
Hang on, it's only a Samsung...
Can this be the world's most expensive laptop?…
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iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot
Client computer market would have shrunk without tablets
Apple is now the world's leading personal computer seller, having pushed past HP in Q4 2011, market watcher Canalys said today.…
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Amazon sold 6m Kindle Fire tablets, says analyst
'Third content ecosystem' to beat iTunes?
How many Kindle Fires did Amazon ship during the last few months of 2011? The online retailer isn't saying, but ask Jordan Rohan, analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, a broker, and he'll put the figure at 6m units.…
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World will stay hungry for tablet PCs
Strong demand driven by higher res displays
The Western world will continue to lead demand for tablets over the next six years, with growth driven by ever higher screen resolutions.…
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Kindle Fire owners named keenest Android app users
Stats show tablet's usage storming ahead
Amazon's Kindle Fire has grabbed more than a third of the overall Android tablet usage activity in less than three months on sale.…
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Samsung 11.6in 'retina display' tablet spied
Mobile World Congress outing for Ice Cream Sarnie tab?
Are ten-inch tablets too small for you? Rumour has it Samsung will introduce an 11.6in Galaxy Tab during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show next month.…
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Microsoft builds Kinect into Asus laptops
Prototype PCs test future of UI interaction
Microsoft and Asus have built a laptop with Kinect motion-sensing technology on board.…
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RIM slashes BlackBerry PlayBook tablet prices
Up to 58 per cent off launch cost
RIM has taken an axe to the prices it charges for its BlackBerry PlayBook tablets in the UK - again.…
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BT seeks apartment dwellers to sign-up to 'superfast' FTTP trial
We really wanna blow you some cable, dears
BT is on the lookout for around 1,000 residential buildings to sign up to a pilot to allow the national telco to test superfast broadband speeds in apartment blocks.…
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BT comes clean on Infinity modem 'upgrade'
Replacement boxes rolled out due to faulty chip
National telco BT has been sending letters out to its Infinity broadband customers saying that it will swap their modems for a better version for free, but failing to mention that the real reason for the generous offer is because they could be faulty.…
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Samsung eyes enormofridges for see-through screens
No beer? Tap for more
Samsung's 46in see-through LCD screen will go into production this month, paving the way for the transparent tech's appearance in ordinary folks' living rooms.…
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Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook
Just what does a £5k laptop get you these days?
Review While currently every notebook manufacturer seems to offering the thinnest, lightest and easiest to carry around notebook ever, in a bizarre way, it’s quite refreshing to find a company wandering off message and offering notebooks at the other end of the scale. Enter Eurocom’s Panther 2.0, the heaviest, most amazingly specified, most expensive and without doubt the fastest performing notebook I’ve ever come across in over ten years of laptop testing.…
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Apple dishes out cheap, tasty Macs 'n slabs to staff
Employees sink teeth into hefty $500 Macbook discounts
As if the joy of working for Apple wasn't reward enough, all Apple employees will now get a $500 discount off Macs and $250 off iPads.…
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Korean boffins make e-books more like real ones
Paperback swiper
Korean researchers have developed an app which makes reading e-books more like flicking through the pages of the real thing.…
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Big biz BlackBerry refuseniks adopt Apple over Android
Enterprise iPhone activations dwarf rivals
Smartphone owners working for big business are activating far more iOS devices than they are Android ones - at least those who employed by firms using Good Technology's corporate email system are.…
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Apple loses ground to Android in tablet biz
But sells so many iPads it needn't care
Apple may have topped the US smartphone chart in Q4 2011, thanks to the iPhone 4S, but it needs a revamped iPad if it's to reverse the trend in the tablet market.…
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Punters to pick up cheap laptops not Ultrabooks
Consumers too price-wary for skinny tech, says analyst
Ultrabooks are still too darn pricey for punters, with the new skinny laptops' average selling price during Q4 2011 63 per cent higher than that of regular notebooks.…
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Toshiba Qosmio DX730 PC TV combo
Review Touchscreen desktop entertainer
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Orange Tahiti 7in Android tablet
Review Freshly squeezed fondleslab, anyone?
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Apple CEO: 'Amazon Fire didn't dent our sales'
'Year of the tablet? Nope. Year of the iPad'
If purchases of the successful-if-flawed Amazon Fire bit into iPad sales during the holiday season, Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't see it.…
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Ultrabooks won't smash tablets, says analyst
Fondleslabs to be a bigger seller for years
Ultrabooks will not outsell tablets, the next five years at least, though the new skinny laptop category will experience unit-shipment growth three times as fast as the tablet.…
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Inspiration Works intros Android tablet for tykes
Skates out, slates in
Toy Fair 2012 Here at the Toy Fair 2012, the fact technology dominates kids' entertainment is clear as day. Inspiration Works aims to capitalise on this trend with a tablet specifically targeted towards nippers.…
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HP pays $425,000 to settle blazing battery claim
Denies it knowingly sold dangerous kit
HP has coughed up $425,000 to lay to rest allegations made by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission that it sold lithium ion laptop batteries it knew were dangerous.…
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Apple looking to support new technology, says blog
No s**t
Apple may be looking to incorporate the latest version of a new technology, the company's many fansites are reporting.…
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HP pitches 10in netbook at business
No Windows Starter for the suits
HP clearly thinks there's still mileage in the netbook - many of its rivals don't - at the very least as a business device. It has launched a new model, the Mini 1104, to prove it.…
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Laptops get cooler with bamboo bottoms
Pandas might eat the fans
"What we do with an old bamboo makes everybody cheer," sang Caractacus Potts, who would no doubt be impressed at what fellow inventors use the material for nowadays.…
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Tablet, e-reader ownership doubles over Xmas
Volumes of demand
Tablet and e-book reader ownership almost doubled in the US over Christmas.…
