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Palm webOS updated to 1.2
Pre gets refreshed OS 29 September 2009 10:32 GMT
Palm has updated its webOS to version 1.2, following the 1.1 release earlier in the summer.

Promising "lots of new features and enhancements", Palm says it has "beefed up" Palm Synergy to include LinkedIn contact syncing, this will mean LinkedIn info will appear...
PHOTOS: Dell Latitude Z
Hands-on the latest "thin" laptop 29 September 2009 10:16 GMT
We saw the Dell Latitude Z leaked earlier this year, but Dell has now made it official.

The Latitude Z model is Dell's latest stab at the ultraslim notebook category, pitching up against the MacBook Air, and Sony and Samsung's X series models.

A...
PHOTOS: Toshiba Satellite T130 and T110
Ultra-low-voltage machines 29 September 2009 10:14 GMT
Here's a few snaps of Toshiba's Satellite T110 and T130 laptops that were recently announced by the company. They're designed to fill the gaps between netbooks and full desktop-replacement machines, and carry a huge battery life of 11 hours.

The come in red,...
Toshiba launches Satellite T110 and Satellite T130
Slim, portable and with a whopping battery life 29 September 2009 10:00 GMT
Toshiba has rolled out a couple of new laptops that feature ultra-low-voltage (ULV) processors and are designed to fill the gap between the company's netbook range and their full multimedia and gaming "desktop replacement" machines.

The Satellite T110 and T130...
Top five PSP games to have in your collection
Classics and soon-to-bes to download for your handheld gamer 29 September 2009 9:55 GMT
With the PSP Go inches from the shelves and few first-timers about to get stuck in, we thought it be best to give you five ways to spend your spondoolics with maximum satisfaction. There's more games on the PlayStation store than you can shake a tree of sticks at so, if...
Dell Latitude Z revealed
Thinnest 16-inch laptop around 29 September 2009 9:50 GMT
Dell has revealed the new Latitude Z, apparently the world's thinnest and lightest 16-inch laptop.

With no internal optical drive, the laptop starts at just over half an inch thin and weighs in at 2kgs.

Specs include Intel Core 2 Duo, Windows Vista,...
Tweetie 2 announced as coming soon
For iPhone and Mac 29 September 2009 9:26 GMT
Twitter client Tweetie 2 has been announced as coming soon - first for iPhone, then for Mac.

With an offline mode, the new iPhone version will get a drafts manager, Twitter contacts can be linked to contacts in the iPhone address book and it will offer threaded...
iPhone coming to Vodafone
More networks get Apple's baby 29 September 2009 9:09 GMT
Turns out that Vodafone will be getting their hands on the iPhone too. The company joins Orange, who recently announced that they'd be breaking O2's exclusive and also selling the device. A deal is understood to have been signed on the evening of 28 September.
WEBSITE OF THE DAY - Rage
Take the cinema industry and turning it on its head 29 September 2009 0:00 GMT
Jude Law is a transvestite.

That might’ve grabbed your attention, and with good reason.

Sally Potter’s Rage is a movie-making phenomenon. Not only does she get Mr. Law to dress up as a sex kitten siren, she manages to assemble a stellar cast of...
BioShock coming to the Mac
2007's game of the year 28 September 2009 18:00 GMT
BioShock is getting a release on the Mac platform, just as PC owners are getting pumped for BioShock 2, and a full two years after the title was crowned "Game of the Year 2007".

Feral Interactive, which specialises in porting games over to OS X but has to wait...
iPhone-shaped Notepods launch
"The sketchbook for your app ideas" 28 September 2009 17:38 GMT
Coming at you out of Melbourne, Oz, "Notepods" are notepads shaped like an iPhone, or iPod touch.

With the sell "App idea? There's a page for that", the Notepods have been created to help designers mock-up how iPhone apps will look, in an off-line kind of way....
Sky Player coming to Xbox 360 in October?
Update expected to include Facebook and Twitter, too 28 September 2009 17:31 GMT
It's rumoured that the next Xbox 360 update will be arriving in October. The October issue of Sky Magazine says that the Sky Player will be avaialble to download on the console, and a web address that the publication links to also features "OCT" in the url.

The...
EU imposes music player volume limit
"Turn it down, you whippersnappers" 28 September 2009 16:53 GMT
The European Union has demanded that MP3 player and mobile phone manufacturers decrease the volume on their output, in a concession to the risk of deafness. The consumer protection unit said that the new rules are aimed at teenagers, reports the AFP.

"It can...
Sky: Scheduling clash saw 2 million set Sky+ boxes
Claims to have saved many that "difficult decision" about which reality TV show to watch 28 September 2009 16:37 GMT
Sky has revealed how many reality TV addicts set their Sky+ boxes to record shows this weekend just gone as - gasp - two rival broadcasters scheduled "talent" programmes to clash.

Anyone who wanted to watch (and apparently there's millions of you out there)...
Google Wave approaches public beta
100,000 testers to get access on 30 September 28 September 2009 16:20 GMT
Google Wave - the company's attempt to combine IM, email, and sharing functionality into an open-source communications platform - will be rolling out to the first lot of beta testers on 30 September. If you'd like to know more, hit play on the video above for a 10-minute...
VIDEO: IBM celebrates 20th anniversary of moving atoms
Let's hear it for the scanning tunneling microscope 28 September 2009 16:03 GMT
On 28 September 1989, Dr Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Then, with a custom-built microscope, Eigers spelled out the letters I-B-M using individual atoms, "signaling a quantum leap forward in the field of nanotechnology"......
Google issues cease-and-desist to Cyanogen
Android rebuild hits legal trouble 28 September 2009 15:53 GMT
Open-source Android mod Cyanogen has been hit with legal trouble from Google. The ROM heavily modifies the original Android operating system to make it much faster, using parts of code that are already available from the open-source development team, but not yet publicly...
LG Chocolate BL20 dated for UK launch
Due Q4 from O2 28 September 2009 15:31 GMT
LG has announced its second new Chocolate phone, the BL20, for the UK market.

The little brother to the widescreen BL40, the BL20 gets the same kind of styling, but has a keypad instead of being touchscreen-only.

LG has now announced that it will...
Spotify iPhone app gets updated
Now pauses music when you pull out headphones 28 September 2009 15:17 GMT
Spotify has submitted a revised version of its iPhone application to Apple which contains a few small updates. There's some bug fixes - Spotify says that the "general stability" of the app is improved - and there's also a couple of new features.

Firstly, the...
VIDEO: iFixit's PSP Go tear-down
New handheld compared to the PSP 3000 and iPod touch 28 September 2009 14:59 GMT
iFixit offer a nice line in tear-downs, that although presenting the technical info hardcore tech-heads might enjoy, manage to make the whole process easy-to-understand and interesting by comparing items to similar or previous products.

The team's latest tear-down...
KEF launches KHT8005 soundbar
Designed for 42-inch TVs 28 September 2009 14:54 GMT
KEF has announced the KHT8002 Soundbar, which joins the rest of the company's KHT series of home theatre sound solutions. The company says that it's designed to match the design of modern HDTVs.

The main bit of the package is the bar itself - the HTF2003 - which...
App Store downloads top two billion
As 50 million buy into iPhone platform 28 September 2009 13:49 GMT
Apple has revealed that more than two billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store.

This follows on from the 1.5 billion mark hit in July this year, a year on from the App Store's launch.

Claiming the service is "the largest applications...
3 Free Agent programme goes live
Get paid to sign up mates 28 September 2009 13:35 GMT
3 has announced it will be offering consumers the chance to earn cash by promoting free Pay As You Go SIMs to their friends and family using social networks.

The "3 Free Agent" programme is said to be the first scheme of this kind available in the UK.
BenQ W600, W1000, and W6000 revealed
High-definition home cinema projectors 28 September 2009 13:00 GMT
BenQ has announced a range of high-definition projectors for use in the home, which it says it's targeting at "tech-savvy home theater enthusiasts and content-conscious home entertainment fans". If you're feeling content-conscious, then you might be interested in the W600,...
Touchscreen BlackBerry with sliding QWERTY keyboard rumoured
Codenamed "Mr T" 28 September 2009 12:51 GMT
Rumours of a new BlackBerry handset that offers a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, as well as a touchscreen display, have emerged.

The Storm 3, BlackBerry 9900 or "Mr T" as the device is apparently codenamed within RIM, is described as is "a QWERTY keyboard slider...