Archive for November, 2009 - Page 16

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HTC HD2 Windows Mobile 7 Upgrade Pending?

Free HTC HD2 WinMo 7 Update Set to Hit Next Year, According to Unconfirmed Rumours
Filed by on Monday, 23. November 2009

According to as yet unconfirmed rumours the owners of the HTC HD2 (formerly known as the HTC Leo) can look forward to a free upgrade to the Windows Mobile 7 OS when WinMo 7 becomes available next year.

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Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1 Released in Europe

webOS 1.3.1 Over the Air Software Update Now Available in Euro Zone, Offers Enhanced Email & Messaging Support
Filed by on Monday, 23. November 2009

Having brought our US based readers a heads up concerning the release of the webOS 1.3.1 software update we can now confirm that the Palm Pre webOS 1.3.1 update is now available in Europe.

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Spotify Mobile for Symbian Released

Spotify Mobile for S60 Offers Nokia, Sony Ericsson & Samsung S60 Compatibility
Filed by on Monday, 23. November 2009

Following on from the Spotify App for the iPhone and iPod Touch owners of Symbian (specifically S60) phones can now join the Spotify revolution thanks to a new Spotify Mobile App having just been made available for S60 based phones.

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3D Scanning Without A 3D Scanner

Cambridge Develops Software to Create 3D Models with Regular Webcam
Filed by on Monday, 23. November 2009

Qi Pan, a PhD engineering candidate at Cambridge University has developed software that allows users to create a fully 3D digital model with a regular, stationary webcam. No need for multiple cameras or 3D imaging lasers, as the software is able to render the model by simply having the model [...]

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Watch What You Facebook

Woman Loses Medical Insurance Over Facebook Pictures
Filed by on Monday, 23. November 2009

In the new social media era we live in, people are always flooded with warnings about what they post on the internet. MTV is filled with public service adverts warning young women about the dangers of sending revealing pictures and graduating high school students are warned about how pictures on [...]

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DriveSafe.ly Mobile App Gains 1 Million Users

DriveSafe.ly App Reads Text Messages So You Can Concentrate on Driving
Filed by on Sunday, 22. November 2009

If you’re looking for a safe way to receive and access text messages on your mobile whilst driving you may already have installed the DriveSafe.ly App – its gained one million users already since its release seven weeks ago after all – but, if you haven’t (perhaps you haven’t come [...]

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Apple Refusing to Repair Macs if You Smoke?

Apple Allegedly Claiming Tobacco Smoke Inside Macs is a 'Biohazard'
Filed by on Sunday, 22. November 2009

Quite aside from the fact that smoking may well kill you it now appears that there’s an additional incentive to give up smoking if you happen to own a Mac as reports are suggesting that Apple are starting to refuse to repair broken Macs if, on opening them up, there’s [...]

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Apple Multitouch Magic Mouse Gains Windows Compatibility

Magic Mouse Windows Drivers Now Available in 32 & 64 Bit Versions
Filed by on Sunday, 22. November 2009

If you’ve been lusting over Apple’s mulittouch capable Magic Mouse (we’re with you on that, incidentally) but you’re a Windows user you may have consigned any thoughts of using the Apple Magic Mouse with your current setup to the back of your mind but now, thanks to a strictly unofficial [...]

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Grenade USB Flash Drive Offers 8GB of 'Explosive Data' Capacity

Plug and Play Hand Grenade USB 2.0 Hits ThinkGeek
Filed by on Sunday, 22. November 2009

We’ve seen out fair share of novel (aka wacky) USB flash drives here at TFTS and now we have another distinctive flash drive to all to our collection in the form of this USB Grenade Flash Drive, which has just become available from ThinkGeek.

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New Intel Atom (Codename: Cedar Trail) First Details Emerge

2011 Atom 32 Nanometer CPU, Successor to Pine Trail, Confirmed]
Filed by on Sunday, 22. November 2009

Whilst details at this stage are fairly thin on the ground, we do, at least, have some details confirmed regarding the 2011 Intel Atom CPU, which is set to succeed the up and coming Pine Trail Atom, which offers a tantalising insight as to where the future of Intel’s highly [...]

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