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1. Jesus Phone to exhibit holy gift of bilocation Thursday, 11 March 2010, 6:45 pm
   Jobsian prophets predict multitasking for iPhone 4.0 Apple will add multitasking to the Jesus Phone this summer with the release of the divine handset’s version 4.0 software update, according to a rep. […]
2. Virgin signals start of telegraph pole broadband test Thursday, 11 March 2010, 12:59 pm
   Stringing up rural communities Virgin Media is to see whether it can string up extensions to its fibre-optic network to Britain’s telegraph poles in a bid to explore ways of bringing high-speed broadb. […]
3. Punters: we want our internet TV Thursday, 11 March 2010, 12:28 pm
   Net-sourced video, yes; web browsing, no Consumers really do want to access internet video on their tellies, market watcher In-Stat has concluded.…
4. Sony launches ‘WiiMote for PS3′ Thursday, 11 March 2010, 11:33 am
   PlayStation Move to debut… just as Wii begins decline It’s not Arc, it’s Move, Sony revealed yesterday when it took the wraps off its Wii-style motion controller system for the PlayStation 3.…
5. Bogus Playstation emulators pack Trojan payload Thursday, 11 March 2010, 10:49 am
   ‘Will be around for a long time’ Retro gaming fans are being targeted in a new con designed to infect computers with a Trojan linked to scareware scams.…
6. Sony to peddle trade-in scheme to speed upgrade cycle Thursday, 11 March 2010, 9:02 am
   Incentives to encourage take-up of new tech, recycling Exclusive  Sony is planning to offer a trade-in scheme targeting Blu-ray Disc player owners later this year.…
7. Opera Mini 5 betas on Google Android Thursday, 11 March 2010, 8:02 am
   ‘No decision’ on Opera Mobile Opera has released an Opera Mini 5 beta for Google’s Android platform.…
8. Intel’s redemos six-core Gulftown Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 8:04 pm
   Gamers watch and wait Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.…
9. LG 3D TV line to debut in May Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 5:02 pm
   Freeview HD and internet connectivity on board too LG will release its 3D TV range in May, the company said today. The line-up will comprise a pair of LED TVs and a Blu-ray Disc player.…
10. Samsung to bundle glasses with 3D TVs Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 2:34 pm
    Tackles hidden cost of 3D TV viewing In a bid to become the leading supplier of 3D TVs, Samsung will bundle every one of its 3D tellies and Blu-ray Disc players with two pairs of active-shutter specs. […]
11. Freesat BBC iPlayer beta gets red button access Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 2:07 pm
    Code-only entry ended Humax and the BBC have extended their iPlayer offering to all of the manufacturer’s Freesat set-top boxes, making the catch-up service available through remotes’ red buttons.…
12. Y2.01K hits Garmin satnav Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:01 pm
    Routing like it’s 1949 Garmin’s Geko 201 GPS kit can’t decide what year it is, flipping between decades every time it’s switched on, though it’s performing better on days of the week.…
13. WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 11:24 am
    Sector inspector Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called ‘4K’ hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.…
14. Sharp preps Freeview HD set-top kit Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 10:34 am
    Connect-your-own-storage DVR too Sharp will release the first of two Freeview HD set-top boxes at the end of April. It’s also preparing a regular Freeview DVR that uses USB-connected storage to make i. […]
15. Tablet maker threatens, then robs Apple Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 6:02 am
    The non-iPad iPad clone The publicity whores at China’s Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again.…
16. Apple’s draconian developer docs revealed Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 8:54 pm
    The first rule of iPhone Club is… In the 1999 movie Fight Club, Brad Pitt famously tells a huddle of pugilistic aspirants: “The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.”…
17. Google tests TV set-top search, says report Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 7:24 pm
    Satellite TV meets YouTube meets online ad machine Google is privately testing a television set-top box that lets users search satellite TV programming as well as video websites like its very own YouT. […]
18. Dell intros restyled biz laptops Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 5:29 pm
    Vostro 3000 line debuts Dell has introduced a set of new Vostro notebooks, pitching the products as “a range of new thin, lightweight and durable laptop computers”.…
19. PS3 will outsell Wii by 2013 Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 3:41 pm
    Cumulative sales win for Sony, says analyst Sony’s PlayStation 3 will become the world’s most popular gaming platform – but it’ll take three more years to get there.…
20. Smartphone app botnet experiment blows up a storm Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 3:37 pm
    WeatherFist shows phone vulnerability, devs claim Security researchers fooled nearly 8,000 iPhone and Android users into joining a mobile smartphone “botnet” under the guise of installing an apparentl. […]
21. Nokia killed free navigation, alleges EU complaint Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 2:48 pm
    The fall of Nav4All A customer of the late Nav4All has filed a complaint with the EU, alleging that Nokia abused its market position to drive the competition out of business.…
22. What’s so bad about Samsung’s Bada? Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 11:42 am
    Samsung’s iPhone pitch comes to life Samsung has been showing its first Bada phone, able to download applications from Samsung’s version of iTunes and nowhere else. But will Bada really challenge Appl. […]
23. Vodafone ships Mariposa-infected HTC Magic Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 10:56 am
    Android phone comes riddled with bots Updated  Vodafone has been blamed for shipping Mariposa botnet malware and other nasties on a HTC Magic Android smartphones it supplied.…
24. Android native code kit apes iPhone game 3D Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 5:55 am
    Graphics beyond Java Google has opened the door to iPhone-like 3D games on certain Android handsets, offering support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics standard with its latest Android Native Development. […]
25. Steve Jobs says ‘No’ to iPhone-to-iPad tether Monday, 8 March 2010, 10:01 pm
    (One) word from the mountaintop Steve Jobs has spoken: Apple’s “magical and revolutionary” iPad will not allow iPhone-to-iPad 3G tethering.…
26. Acer said to be readying glass-lidded laptop Monday, 8 March 2010, 12:48 pm
    Frameless in the name of thinness Acer is preparing to release a very skinny – and, dare we say it, incredibly fragile – notebook with a glass-backed frameless display.…
27. 3 tries to tempt mobile broadband buyers with MS Office Monday, 8 March 2010, 12:23 pm
    Free Office 2010 upgrade included Mobile phone network 3 today said it will offer its mobile broadband customers a copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student 2007 for a penny less than £60.…
28. Microsoft flaunts cross-platform gaming goodies Monday, 8 March 2010, 12:04 pm
    Woo! Convergence! Ninety per cent of a game’s source code can now be shared between an Xbox, a PC and a phone – assuming one wants an Xbox game on a three-inch screen.…
29. Virgin Media wins Film 4 HD exclusive Monday, 8 March 2010, 12:01 pm
    Bad news for Freeview HD The HD incarnation of “public service broadcaster” Channel 4’s Film 4 offering will only be available to paying Virgin Media customers, it has emerged.…
30. Toshiba prices up Blu-ray Disc patent portfolio Monday, 8 March 2010, 11:34 am
    Pools tech resources with Warner, Thomson and Mitsubishi Consumer electronics and entertainment companies Mitsubishi, Thomson, Toshiba and Warner Bros have together begun charging for their intellectu. […]
31. Pixel Qi sunlight-readable colour e-paper inbound Monday, 8 March 2010, 10:46 am
    Mod-your-netbook kits in your hands in Q2 Pixel Qi – the ‘Qi’ is pronounced ‘chee’ – the company behind a type of e-paper that’s not only colour and able to cope with video but is also claimed to be f. […]
32. Panasonic intros touchscreen Lumix G camera Sunday, 7 March 2010, 2:55 pm
    Micro Four Thirds range gets finger friendly As originally planned, Panasonic officially launched its Lumix DMC-G2 and DMC-G10 12.1Mp Micro Four Thirds cameras at the Birmingham NEC, Focus on Imaging. […]
33. Gartner says world will buy 10.5m tablets in 2010 Friday, 5 March 2010, 7:06 pm
    Dons rose colored glasses for PC forecast The global PC business is apparently bouncier than the analysts at Gartner had been projecting only a few months ago, and now, they’re predicting that PC ship. […]
34. US judge puts freeze on Apple-Nokia patent kerfuffle Friday, 5 March 2010, 6:15 pm
    Let the feds sort it A US federal judge has sent Apple and Nokia lawyers to their respective corners until the feds get their chance to sort through the competing patent infringement claims.…
35. E-book buyers favour iPad over Kindle and co. Friday, 5 March 2010, 4:37 pm
    Owners wished they’d waited for the Apple offering Punters out to buy an e-book reader seem set on Apple’s iPad, a survey of 3171 US consumers has revealed.…
36. Apple revises iPad ship date Friday, 5 March 2010, 2:14 pm
    For Americans only – Brits will have to wait Apple has missed its deadline. The iPad will go on sale in the US not in “late March” but early April, the company has admitted.…
37. Beeb deletes iPlayer app from iPhone Friday, 5 March 2010, 12:32 pm
    Lawyers go for developers Two iPhone developers have been slapped with a 10-page cease and desist order from the BBC for trying to create an app that would cache iPlayer content.…
38. Sony takes aim at Apple iPhone, iPad Friday, 5 March 2010, 12:25 pm
    PSP phone rumours restoked Sony is working on a series of devices designed to take the fight to Apple’s iPhone and iPad, it has been claimed.…
39. iPad to feast on Flash… Friday, 5 March 2010, 11:21 am
    …starving SSDs of storage Doomsayers are predicting that Apple’s iPad will hinder the adoption of SSDs in PCs.…
40. Sony serves up Mothers’ Day e-book reader deal Friday, 5 March 2010, 10:52 am
    By your ma a viewer, get free books Looking for a Mothers’ Day gift for your literature-loving mum? Sony has a suggestion: a special edition e-book reader ready to be loaded with a female friendly dig. […]
41. HDMI tunes into 3D TV broadcasts Friday, 5 March 2010, 10:30 am
    Standard updated The organisation behind HDMI has updated the digital TV connector standard to ready it for the 3D era.…
42. YouTube: Auto-captions for everyone Friday, 5 March 2010, 7:02 am
    All toe they donuts work prefect Lee Google is now letting anyone use its new auto-captioning feature for YouTube videos.…
43. Real Networks rolls over to Hollywood Thursday, 4 March 2010, 11:39 pm
    Will kill RealDVD, pay $4.5m RealNetworks has agreed to destroy all traces of its short-lived DVD-duplicating software, RealDVD, to appease the Hollywood heads that brought legal action against it.…
44. More doubt tossed onto iPad numbers Thursday, 4 March 2010, 9:27 pm
    Apple manufacturer denies claims A second report has surfaced claiming Apple is experiencing spotty overseas production of the iPad, due for release later this month.…
45. Asus shows media player’s USB 3.0 upgrade Thursday, 4 March 2010, 4:32 pm
    O!Play gets SuperSpeed boost. O!My Asus has introduced its latest HDD-to-HD TV adaptor, this time adding SuperSpeed USB 3.0 to the media playback gadget.…
46. Buffalo preps SuperSpeed USB 3.0 portable HDD Thursday, 4 March 2010, 4:06 pm
    Fast laptop-friendly storage Buffalo will ship its first portable hard drive to support SuperSpeed USB next month.…
47. T-Mobile to slash international call rates Thursday, 4 March 2010, 3:51 pm
    PAYGers get up to 75 per cent off T-Mobile will next week slash the cost of making calls to overseas numbers – if you’re one of its pay-as-you-go customers.…
48. Brits blame Apple, Nokia, RIM et al for smartphone woes Thursday, 4 March 2010, 2:05 pm
    Yet most problems appear network related Smartphone owners are a vocal lot, willing to vent spleen to all and sundry when their handsets don’t work as well as they expect them to.…
49. Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes Thursday, 4 March 2010, 12:39 pm
    Pretends they were never there Wi-Fi hotspot detecting applications are the latest on Apple’s list of verboten apps, and even developers are being left in the dark as to why.…
50. Sony readies revamped netbook Thursday, 4 March 2010, 12:19 pm
    Retailers reveal all Sony looks set to replace its Vaio W netbook series with a new model based on the latest Atom chip series.…