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Canon launches EOS Professional Network
To help you from camera selection to picture printing 2 February 2009 16:38 GMT
Canon has launched the EOS Professional Network (EPN) across the UK & Ireland.

The EPN will be made up of EOS Professional Centres and EOS Professional Stockists, and has been developed to help customers through the whole process from buying a camera to printing...
Carphone Warehouse offers exclusive gaming phones
Sony Ericsson F305 and W910 Gaming Edition launched 2 February 2009 15:34 GMT
The Carphone Warehouse has teamed up with Sony Ericsson to launch the W910 Exclusive Gaming Edition and motion-sensitive F305 handset, on sale from 2 February as CPW exclusives.

The W910 Black gets EA Mobile games pre-loaded such as Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 09,...
Vodafone launches blue Nokia 5800
Colour variation exclusive 2 February 2009 15:01 GMT
Vodafone has announced that it will offer the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic exclusively in blue.

In addition to the handset's paint job, the Voda version gets 3 month's free Sky TV bundled too.

The touchscreen music handset is available from free on £25...
Mac web share nears 10%
Latest stats just in... 2 February 2009 14:48 GMT
Apple's web share has increased to nearly 10%, while Microsoft's has fallen.

In the first month of 2009, the number of Macs making page requests climbed to what's said to be record levels - 9.93%.

The data is from Net Applications and draws from...
COMMENT: Sony goes smutty to sell TVs
Does sexy sell? 2 February 2009 14:01 GMT
How do you sell a TV that's almost £3000 in the UK? A girl in underwear it seems. Well, that's the hope of Sony and its latest thin TV the Sony BRAVIA ZX1.

Harking back to the 1980s, Sony has turned to Katie Green, the face of Wonder-bra last year, to pose...
Daily Tech Deal: Dual Skype phone for less than £10
Money saving deals, offers and innovations 2 February 2009 13:00 GMT
Are you trying to cut your costs a bit this year? Considered VOiP? As many of you will already know, services such as Skype offer free Skype-to-Skype calls and could be a nice way of reducing your phone bill.

For anyone out there who has not taken the VoIP...
Firefox gets Google Chrome features
New tab thumbnail feature added 2 February 2009 12:54 GMT
Google has updated its Google Toolbar for Firefox plug-in and in the process brought the Mozilla created browser a step closer to acting like its own browser - Google Chrome.

The new toolbar - version 5 - adds a tab thumbnail feature that means when users open...
Medion Akoya E3300 D multimedia PC announced
Aimed at the "cost-conscious consumer" 2 February 2009 12:48 GMT
Medion has launched the Medion Akoya E3300 D that it says is "aimed at the cost-conscious consumer".

The multimedia PC is based on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 dual core processor, gets 4GB DDR2 SDRAM, a 640GB hard drive and a multi-format DVD/CD burner.
12MP Samsung camera phone incoming?
Rumours see Feb launch for megapixel monster 2 February 2009 12:24 GMT
Getting excited about Mobile World Congress this month? Us too.

Upping those anticipation levels is a fresh rumour from a Korean news source that Samsung is to unleash a 12-megapixel camera phone at the event.

Aside from the fact that no-one could...
Elton John launches blinged charity iPods
Limited editions to raise money for AIDs Foundation 2 February 2009 12:00 GMT
Elton John has launched an iPod range, blinging up a line of nanos for his charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

The "stunning" starburst Swarovski encrusted nanos have been designed exclusively for Elton and the cause, and are available in both 8GB and 16GB...
VIDEO OF THE DAY - 1981
The future of news - as reported in 1981 2 February 2009 12:00 GMT
Welcome to 1981, when shoulder pads were big and hair was even bigger.

What wasn’t big, was the realisation that these new-fangled computer devices would one day control pretty much every area of our lives – including delivering news.

This report...
Five snow gadgets to enjoy the winter wonderland
The weather outside is frightful 2 February 2009 11:22 GMT
Okay, we got the Tweet. It has snowed in the UK today, but how are you best going to enjoy it. Here are five snow gadgets for either this time if it lasts that long, or next time so you can be prepared. Snow ball fight anyone?

Grippers
Useful if you aren't...
BluePack iPhone charger launches
250 hours of standby in a slimline package 2 February 2009 11:04 GMT
Firebox is offering the BluePack iPhone and iPod charger, describing the device as a "stylish pocket-sized battery pack".

For all iAddicts, the gadget has a rechargeable Li-ion polymer battery that claims to offer up to 250 hours of extra standby time, up to...
Virgin Media offers on demand sci-fi
More Star Trek than you can shake a phaser at 2 February 2009 10:41 GMT
Virgin Media has launched a new Sci-fi & Fantasy area in its TV on demand section, with up to 150 hours of programming from Warner TV, FX UK, ContentFilm and Virgin Media TV.

Customers on the XL package, or those subscribing to TV Choice, will have unlimited...
Win an Intempo InSession iPod speaker dock
Just comment on a story to be in with a chance to win 2 February 2009 10:33 GMT
Congratulations to Ahmed for winning the TomTom 740 LIVE for his comment on our Sony Vaio-P picture gallery.

You could be this month's winner - just comment on any news story or review you find on Pocket-lint and you can win yourself an Intempo InSession iPod...
Woolworths to re-launch online
"Much-loved brand" will get new lease of life come the summer 2 February 2009 10:20 GMT
Woolworths, the high street chain that closed down last month when it failed to find a buyer after going into administration with over £300 million debt, is to be re-born in the UK.

Woolworths will re-launch as an online-only store after the brand has been...
Snow causes 1086 mile tailback
Lengthy jams, but TomTom says its customers avoid them 2 February 2009 10:15 GMT
TomTom has said that users of its satnav devices managed to avoid the jams caused by the heaviest snowfall in 13 years in the UK that wrecked havoc on Britain's roads this morning.

According to its traffic monitoring service, TomTom HD Traffic, that is updated...
Twitter mashup lets you map #uksnow
How good is the snow in your postcode 2 February 2009 9:53 GMT
A programmer has developed a Twitter Google mashup to allow Twitter users in the UK to track, what is being called, #uksnow.

The website which takes snow reports from Twitter users based on postcode and a snow rating out of 10 is then automatically mapped on...
Adobe and Apple working together on Flash for iPhone
"It's a hard technical challenge" 2 February 2009 9:52 GMT
Adobe and Apple are working together to finally bring Flash to the iPhone platform, it's been revealed.

Adobe had previously stated that work on the animation plug-in is well underway - but now it has teamed up with Apple to make it happen.

Adobe...
VIDEO: Nokia working on indoor positioning GPS
Research sees phones used inside for directions 2 February 2009 9:38 GMT
Here's an interesting little teaser video from Nokia about something being developed deep in their Helsinki research labs - a kind of indoor positioning GPS.

Rather than develop super GPS chips that can work through walls, Nokia's system uses existing infrastructure...
Snow delays trains, even on the Internet
"Service Temporarily Unavailable" 2 February 2009 9:30 GMT
"Trains delayed due to weather" is the usual excuse from the train companies around the UK, however it's not something you expect to hear when you try and access a website.

It seems, though that the National Rail website has been inundated with so many people...
Pentax launches Optio E70L
Point-and-shooter to go on sale for under £100 2 February 2009 9:22 GMT
Pentax has announced the launch of the Pentax Optio E70L, describing it as an "entry-level compact ideal for first-time users looking for an affordable and easy-to-use camera".

The E70L gets a 10.1-megapixel CCD and a 3x optical zoom (equal to 32-96 mm in 35...
WEBSITE OF THE DAY – pipl.com
Looking for somebody? Now they can't hide from you any more 2 February 2009 0:00 GMT
You can find pretty much anything you want with Google or Yahoo. But tracking down people (unless you want to see them naked) tends to require a more cunning search engine.

Pipl is the new kid on the people-searching block and it delivers pretty impressive results....
VIDEO: Tech week in view 01-02-09
The week's big stories chewed over 1 February 2009 22:19 GMT
Join Pocket-lint's Stuart Miles as he takes a contemplative look back at recent headline news stories in the world of technology and gadgets.

Miles muses the Apple's 25 years selling computers, Tesco selling the wrong Dell computers, Nokia and RIM beating the...
VIDEO: jOG for Wii
If you ain't walking, it ain't working 1 February 2009 10:00 GMT
You've heard all about it, now see it in action. Pocket-lint's Stuart Miles takes a look at the new Wii accessory that makes kids exercise as they game.