Here are some more rumours to chuck on the iWatch rumour pyre. Apple’s wrist-based device could have a health focus, if its poaching of some experts in the tech health field are anything to go by. The Cupertino company recently hired Nancy Dougherty from a start-up called Sano Intelligence, and Ravi Narasimhan from medical devices …
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If you’ve ever had to trawl through hours of an interview you’ve recorded, looking for that juicy quote or relevant piece of information, you’ll know what a pain it is. Which is why this app is such a great idea. It’s called Interviewy, and it makes it far easier to go through audio recordings and find the bits you’re interested …
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HTC will keep on making Windows Phone 8 handsets, but there are signs it’s losing its faith in Microsoft’s mobile OS. The struggling Taiwanese company has killed off a planned flagship, codenamed the Zenith, but is going ahead with a mid-range affair known as the Tiara, Unwired View reports. It’ll be one of the first mobiles to run Windows Phone …
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Modular mobiles could be the next big thing. Motorola has unveiled its Project Ara, and Phonebloks is a Dutch attempt at making a mobile with swappable parts. Now Chinese phone firm ZTE is getting in the action with this, the Eco-Mobius. Like Project Ara and Phonebloks, the idea is you buy a basic phone, and can then swap in different …
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The BBC has brought its Connected Red Button service to a range of Sony and Samsung smart TVs, with LG tellies to follow soon. The service launched in December 2012, and until now was exclusive to Virgin Media’s TiVo service. Auntie made the announcement on its website. The Connected Red Button service is only in beta on the new smart …
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With a 6.4-inch screen, the Sony Xperia Z Ultra very definitely falls into the ‘phablet’ category of Android devices. Well now a Wi-Fi-only model has popped up on benchmarking site AnTuTu. That would mean you would only be able to send emails and get online when you’re in the range of a Wi-Fi hotspot. So either at home, or in …
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Channel 4 has pulled all its full-length episodes of its TV shows from YouTube. If you want to watch shows like Fresh Meat in their entirety, you’ll have to head to 4oD to do so. All shows from More4 and E4 have been taken down too. But Channel 4 isn’t ditching YouTube altogether. You can still find clips and previews …
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Strewth! Australian company Kogan has announced one of the most wallet-friendly 4K tellies yet. The Kogan 55-inch UHD TV has a resolution of 3,840×2,160 pixels — that’s 4K to me and you — yet costs just AUD$999, which is £546 in real money. That’s unbelievable value for a set that packs four times as many pixels as a standard HD …
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Remember webOS? I can’t blame you if you don’t. It was a smart phone operating system originally developed by Palm, and which ran on its devices including the Palm Pre, Pre 2 and Pre 3, the Palm Pixi, and the Palm Pre Plus. HP acquired it when it bought Palm, and used it on its HP TouchPad. Then HP announced …
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A woman from County Durham has been jailed for two years for scamming hundreds of people in an iPad swindle, the BBC reports. Kirsty Cox duped customers into thinking she could get them the tablet PC at a reduced price. The scam went on between March and December 2012, and was worth £450,000. Customers paid the 37-year-old for the devices, …
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