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APP OF THE DAY: Reckless Racing 2
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WOTD: Red5
Gifts for all gadget freaks 1,300 reads -
US Samsung Galaxy Note ad mocks Apple
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Google Doodle waves in for François Truffaut
French New Wave maestro celebrated 300 reads -
PlayStation Vita video recording lands
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Virgin Media 100Mb broadband now available to 10 million homes
Super fast, super saturated 6 February 2012 10:23 GMT TweetVirgin Media has announced that its super fast 100Mb broadband service is now available to 10 million homes in the UK, and that it will meet its roll out target ahead of schedule. The provider originally planned to be able to offer the speedy internet...
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PlayStation Vita video recording lands with 1.60 software update
With Maps and Mac Content Manager app 6 February 2012 10:00 GMT TweetThe PlayStation Vita has been received with much love here at Pocket-lint towers, with Sony's new handheld console being awarded with the prestigious Hot Product tag. But even in our glowing review we noted that the lack of video recording on board...
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Google Doodle waves in for François Truffaut
French New Wave maestro celebrated 6 February 2012 9:29 GMT TweetThe latest Google Doodle has been unleashed by the Mountain View based search giant in celebration of what would have been François Truffaut's 80th birthday.
Or rather, the latest three doodles, as the controversial critic turned film-maker...
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US Samsung Galaxy Note ad uses The Darkness to mock Apple (video)
Its got a thing called love 6 February 2012 8:59 GMT TweetJustin Hawkins from UK rock outfit The Darkness appears in Samsung USA's new advert for the Galaxy Note, which was debuted during Super Bowl XLVI last night (5 February). And it cheekily slams Apple while using the band's biggest hit, "I Believe in...
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Red5
Gifts for all gadget freaks 6 February 2012 1:00 GMT TweetHere’s one to gratuitously leave on screen when the other half stumbles across your laptop (not something most people will be in the habit of doing, so we hear…)
What with Valentine’s Day around the corner and all that, they...
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Win Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace 3D preview tickets
Wednesday 8 February in London 5 February 2012 16:06 GMT TweetStar Wars fans, listen up, we've managed to use the Force to convince the powers that be to give us two tickets to an advance preview screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D at London's Empire, Leicester Square.
Yep, that's...
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APP OF THE DAY: Reckless Racing 2
Retro-time 5 February 2012 12:00 GMT TweetThe original Reckless Racing was a straightforward piece of smartphone gaming addictiveness. Based loosely on Radical Racing, a retro classic, it is a top down racer with an emphasis on drifting and crashing.
Reckless Racing 2 sees the series...
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Five tips for photographing snow
FEATURE Exposure, contrast, light, kit and point of view 5 February 2012 9:02 GMT TweetThe snow has caused havoc, but now the sun has come out. Quick, grab your camera and get shooting. The snow makes for some great photo opportunities, but also some tricky shooting experiences.
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APP OF THE DAY: Remarks review (iPad)
Take note.... 3 February 2012 18:00 GMT TweetReaddle is back with yet another note-taking app, this time in the form of Remarks which it describes as a new way to "write down your thoughts, capture ideas and information, annotate documents and outline notes anywhere from university class to...
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Huawei Ideos X3 review
REVIEW Cheap but imperfect 3 February 2012 17:39 GMT TweetHuawei is slowly building a name for itself. If you haven't yet heard it, you will in the next year or so. For a start, the firm has the world's slimmest smartphone in its CES-announced Ascend P1 S. And it seems committed to making the move from backroom...
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iPhone photography course on offer for 'appy snappers
At Kensington and Chelsea College 3 February 2012 17:36 GMT TweetIn what is believed to be a UK first, London's Kensington and Chelsea College is to offer budding photographers a photography course with a twist. For there won't be any SLR action going on; the course, called "iPhoneography" is, you guessed it, centred...
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Bayan Audio Bayan 7 review
REVIEW Speaker time 3 February 2012 16:53 GMT TweetiPod speakers fall into two categories, they are either bog standard and fairly cheap, or they attempt to be iconic in their design. Sometimes this division is so great that they polarise potential customers into thinking it is either the best-looking...
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Gamer dies at PC in Taiwanese Internet cafe and nobody notices
...for nine hours! 3 February 2012 15:31 GMT TweetA man died at his work station in an internet cafe in Taipei, Taiwan, this week, but nobody noticed for up to nine hours. Twenty-three-year-old Chen Rong-yu checked in to play the multiplayer online game League of Legends on Tuesday night, but was...
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Dropbox for Android beta lands with auto camera uploads
And 500MB picture space 3 February 2012 15:15 GMT TweetDropbox has taken off the covers of an all-new version of its cloud-based solution for Android devices: the Experimental Android Forum Build 2.0.9. Catchy name huh?
The beta release brings with it a number of key new features, most notably...
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning confirmed to be prequel to MMO
EXCLUSIVE: Says Todd McFarlane 3 February 2012 14:29 GMT TweetKingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the single-player role-playing game due for release by Electronic Arts on 10 February, is the forerunner to a MMO that has been in development since 2006. There had been confusion over whether developer 38 Games would...