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Samsung processor prices up 20%, Apple gear takes the brunt of the rise
Samsung are about to hike the prices of their processors up by 20%, putting Apple, one of their key customers and rivals, out of pocket. According to the Wall Street Journal, a "person familiar with negotiations between the two tech…
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Live event lets you play the game early this weekend
Fancy getting yourself early hands-on time with Call of Duty Black Ops 2, arguably the most hotly anticipated game of the year? This weekend, you can! Activision will be hosting the Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Live event in…
Amazon Kindle Owner's Lending Library now available to UK readers
Amazon have opened the doors to their Kindle Owner's Lending Library in the UK. Already available to US eBook readers for some time, it offers hundreds of thousands of books to borrow in a library-like service, with no due date…
RIM responds to the Blackberry system failure
Is it a good day to bury bad news in the mobile industry? Well with all eyes on the iPhone launch maybe it is for Blackberry. Earlier today the company's users suffered an outage – not on the scale of…
Now Apple brings us world peace – solves international conflicts
Revolutionise the mobile phone industry, create the sexiest computers ever, finally convice the world that it needs touch screen tablets. Is there anything that Apple can't do? Apparently not. Now in a story sure to gladden the heart of every…
Why social media means there's no escape for tomorrow's politicians
A few years ago a wonderful clip emerged on YouTube which appeared to show a 22 year old David Cameron seemingly off his whatevers at an acid house party in 1988. Cameron subsequently denied that the long haired chap…
Nikon's Smurf-sized Coolpix S01 compact camera revealed
Compact cameras don't come much more, erm, compact than Nikon's Coolpix S01. Measuring just 51.2 x 77 x 17.2mm and weighing 96 grams, it's far smaller than even your average slim-line smartphone, and comes complete with a 10MP CCD image…
YouView gets movie boost with NOW TV app
YouView, the long-awaited set-top box mash-up with both terrestrial TV and online video-on-demand channels, gets its first major content update today with the addition of BSkyB's NOW TV movie streaming service. Pulling in hundreds of films from the Sky Movies…
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria to land on 25 September
Blizzard have announced that Mists of Pandaria, the long-awaited fourth expansion pack for giant MMO World of Warcraft, will launch on September 25th. The expansion pack adds the new Pandaren playable race, a new continent to explore, new character classes,…
iPhone 5 to have thinnest ever screen in an Apple device, thanks to Sharp's panels
Apple's iPhone 5, the next rumoured model in their mega popular smartphone line, looks set to be the thinnest yet according to rumours. And from the sounds of the latest rumour-mill whisperings, that's down to the Sharp LCD panels being…