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  • COMMENT: Is Stereoscopic 3D gaming ready?

    Is Stereoscopic 3D gaming ready?

    COMMENT: Development is far further ahead than movies or television 24 September 2009 14:00 GMT

    Amidst all this talk of 3D televisions and 3D movies, it's easy to forget one art-form that's been 3D since 1981 - Gaming. The Sinclair ZX81 had what many regard to be the first 3D game - 3D Monster Maze, which placed the player in a maze with a T-Rex,...

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    Sony announces PSP Go peripherals

    Bluetooth headset receiver and convertor cable 24 September 2009 11:08 GMT

    Sony has announced a couple of handy accessories for its PSP go handheld console. There's a Bluetooth headset reciever, and a convertor cable that'll let you use accessories designed for the old PSP on the PSP go's "multi-use connector".

    The...

  • Google launches Sidewiki

    Google launches Sidewiki

    Annotating the web 24 September 2009 9:44 GMT

    Google has announced a new service called Sidewiki that allows users to contribute extra information to any website. It's a sidebar pane that sits alongside your browser, and you can write comments that'll appear to anyone else viewing, as well as read...

  • PHOTOS: Altec Lansing InMotion Classic iPod dock

    PHOTOS: Altec Lansing InMotion Classic iPod dock

    Full of pictorial goodness 23 September 2009 18:06 GMT

    Here's a few snaps which we grabbed of the Altec Lansing InMotion Classic iPod Dock. It does more than just dock Apple products, though - it also contains an FM radio and has an auxiliary input on the back for plugging in other audio sources.

  • Altec Lansing unveils InMotion Classic iPod dock

    Altec Lansing unveils InMotion Classic iPod dock

    iPod Boombox with FM radio 23 September 2009 17:50 GMT

    Altec Lansing, the company which provided the speakers for the Woodstock festival in 1969, now makes a range of iPod docks called InMotion, and they've just announced a new one called the InMotion Classic.

    The "Classic" bit appears to refer...

  • Plantronics reveals Discovery 975 Bluetooth headset

    Plantronics reveals Discovery 975 Bluetooth headset

    Cancels noise in three different ways 23 September 2009 17:09 GMT

    Plantronics has unveiled its Discovery 975 Bluetooth headset, which is an upgrade of last year's Discovery 925. As you might recall, if you're a bit of a Bluetooth headset connoisseur, the 925 had a case for the headset that actually charged the device...

  • London gets WorkSnug iPhone app

    VIDEO: London gets WorkSnug iPhone app

    Augmented reality Wi-Fi locations guide 23 September 2009 16:27 GMT

    A company called WorkSnug has announced an iPhone application that uses augmented reality to help you find quiet places where you can log on to a Wi-Fi signal and work in London.

    The app overlays locations onto the world around you using...

  • PHOTOS: Alienware M15x, Aurora and Area 51

    PHOTOS: Alienware M15x, Aurora and Area 51

    High-power gaming machines 23 September 2009 16:20 GMT

    Dell has unveiled a pair of new gaming desktop machines, and a 15-inch version of its gaming laptop. Pocket-lint was on hand to take a few photos, and here are the results.

    It's worth noting that these are prototypes - the lighting on the...

  • Dell launches Alienware M15x gaming laptop

    Dell launches Alienware M15x gaming laptop

    Along with Area 51 and Aurora desktops 23 September 2009 16:04 GMT

    Dell's ownership of Alienware is starting to take hold, with the company starting to roll out laptops and desktops that take advantage of the multinational's bulk-buying power and economies of scale.

    As a result, there's more component options...

  • Picasa gets updated to 3.5

    Picasa gets updated to 3.5

    Includes face recognition and mapping 23 September 2009 11:14 GMT

    Google's Picasa has been given an update - to version 3.5. The photo manipulation software has been fluffed up with facial recognition and Google Maps functionality, as well as a whole host of bug fixes.

    The facial recognition is called "Name...

  • VIDEO: Tick Talk iPhone app reads you the news

    VIDEO: Tick Talk iPhone app reads you the news

    Wake up with the headlines 23 September 2009 10:42 GMT

    iPhone developer Wirus has cooked up an application called Tick Talk that'll let you wake up to the headlines. The app grabs the news from the Web via an RSS feed (which you can specify the source of) and then reads it out in a creepy robotic voice.

  • No Twitter ads planned before 2010

    No Twitter ads planned before 2010

    But premium features will show up 23 September 2009 10:04 GMT

    Twitter's CEO Biz Stone has said that the site has no plans to put up adverts this year, and that the company's funding situation is "pretty good right now". He said that the immediate focus for the company was more features.

    At 140: The...

  • BT: Antipiracy efforts will cost £1m per day

    BT: Antipiracy efforts will cost £1m per day

    Considerably more than losses sustained by the industry 23 September 2009 9:47 GMT

    BT has warned that the file sharing efforts proposed by the government and Peter Mandelson could cost the industry £1m every day. That would increase each customer's bill by £24 per year, said John Petter, the head of the company's consumer division.

  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 is here

    Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 is here

    Along with Elements Premiere 8 23 September 2009 5:01 GMT

    Adobe's Photoshop Elements for PC and Mac and Premiere Elements for PC software are due for their yearly update. Version 8 of both programs has been released, and contains a host of new functionality, mostly in the ease-of-use department.

  • MySims Camera DS app launched

    MySims Camera DS app launched

    Augmented reality gaming 22 September 2009 12:35 GMT

    EA has announced an application for the Nintendo DSi that takes advantage of the console's camera functionality to put your MySims characters into the real world.

    The app - MySims Camera - allows you to take photos and then overlay 3D characters...

  • Recompute develops sustainable computer

    Recompute develops sustainable computer

    Wins design awards 22 September 2009 11:50 GMT

    A company called Recompute has developed what it's calling "a sustainable desktop computer", made out of cardboard. It's the result of research into "lifecycle amortization for product sustainability" which looks at how products are manufactured, used,...

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    Linux founder says OS is bloated

    "Huge and scary" 22 September 2009 11:20 GMT

    Linus Torvals, the creator of the Linux kernel and therefore the founder of the open-source OS, has claimed that the operating system that he birthed has become "bloated", labelling it "huge and scary now".

    As a result of its success and...

  • Sense UI appears on Brazilian HTC Magic

    Sense UI appears on Brazilian HTC Magic

    Interface coming to "with Google" handsets? 22 September 2009 11:05 GMT

    HTC's "Sense" UI may become available on Google-branded HTC Magic handsets after all, if the appearance of the phone on HTC's Brazilian site with the interface pictured is anything to go by.

    Previously, the official line was that Google would...

  • Apple builds App Store Resource Center

    Apple builds App Store Resource Center

    For frustrated developers 22 September 2009 10:23 GMT

    Apple has made a new service to registered iPhone developers called the App Store Resource Centre. The centre is designed to help developers through the steps required to submit, gain approval and manage the applications they create and place on the App...

  • Square Enix: New Wii in 2011

    Square Enix: New Wii in 2011

    Pours scorn on Microsoft and Sony's gaming plans 22 September 2009 9:58 GMT

    The CEO of game publisher Square Enix has said that he's expecting a new Wii in 2011, and that motion sensing controls won't be the success for Sony and Microsoft that the companies are hoping that they'll be.

    In an interview with the Financial...

  • Nigerian government complains about Sony advert

    Nigerian government complains about Sony advert

    Portrayed as fraudsters 22 September 2009 9:43 GMT

    Sony has had its knuckles rapped by the Nigerian government, which complained after a recent PS3 ad featured the phrase "You can't believe everything you read on the internet, otherwise I'd be a Nigerian millionaire by now".

    The comment is...

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    Netflix prize awarded to BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos

    New contest starting up 22 September 2009 9:27 GMT

    Netflix's million-dollar prize for the team which could most improve its movie recommendations service has been awarded to a team of statisticians, machine-learning experts and computer engineers from across the world who call themselves "BellKor's Pragmatic...

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    3D Notebooks planned from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Sony

    All with stereoscopic screens 21 September 2009 20:00 GMT

    Reports claim that Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Sony are all planning to launch notebooks that come equipped with a stereoscopic screen capable of generating 3D images.

    Dell, HP, Lenovo and Sony are all working with one manufacturer - a...

  • Apple investigating iPhone battery issues

    Apple investigating iPhone battery issues

    Following iPhone 3.1 updates 21 September 2009 16:45 GMT

    Apple has contacted a number of users about the problems that Pocket-lint reported as afflicting the iPhone 3G following the 3.1 update. The company has got in touch with 11 followup questions asking about their settings.

    Most are about push...

  • VIDEO: SocialSafe launches Facebook backup software

    VIDEO: SocialSafe launches Facebook backup software

    Can also access data offline 21 September 2009 15:10 GMT

    What happens if Facebook goes down, permanently? Think about it - how many pictures have you got on there? How many people are you only in touch with on the social network? What would happen if, suddenly, access to all that was withdrawn?

    That's...


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