RIM, the beleaguered maker of BlackBerry phones, is working on a media hub that could rival Apple TV. That’s according to BlackBerry enthusiast site Nerdberry. Supposedly code-named the ‘BlackBerry Cyclone’, the device would plug into your telly via HDMI and fill your living room with glorious televisual wonder, funnelling movies and TV shows over your home …
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Vodafone customers are at risk of having their phones tapped, according to a warning from group The Hacker’s Choice. The problem apparently lies with Vodafone’s Sure Signal femtocell boxes. These boxes sit in your house, plugged into your Internet connection, acting as a tiny phone tower and quietly boosting your home’s 3G signal to eliminate annoying patches where there’s no …
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A job posting for iPhone sales specialists on employment website Reed could indicate that the iPhone 5 will be released in mid-August. The post, which was sent to us by a tipster, asks for “full-time iPhone Sales Staff for an exciting project to work 5 days a week (Tuesday-Saturday) for the period 16th August – 29th October within key retail …
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A top brass RIM (Research in Motion) exec has said that the ailing BlackBerry manufacturer is going to release seven new smart phones running its new BlackBerry 7 OS, the Guardian reports. That’s the target anyway, as stated by co-CEO Jim Balsille at RIM’s annual shareholder meeting. He admitted that hitting that target was going to be challenging though, in …
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The massive and slightly ridiculous legal spat between Apple and Samsung has taken a yet more bizarre twist, as Samsung has demanded that some or even all of Apple’s lawyers are disqualified from representing the iPhone-building tech-giant, Fosspatents reports. Samsung’s reasoning is that within the Bridges & Mavrakakis patent litigation specialist law firm that Apple has employed to represent them …
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The HTC Desire will be getting an update to Android 2.3, aka Gingerbread, by the end of this month. The timing of the update was revealed via a Facebook post by HTC UK. The status update reads: “Hi everyone. As some of you have seen already, we have more news about our build of Gingerbread for Desire. “Our testing has …
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The BlackBerry Bold 9900 could line UK shelves around mid- to late August, according to online retailers. That’s about one month earlier than its previously announced release date. While the touchscreen-toting mobile was supposed to emerge on 15 September, tech site Know Your Mobile spotted Clove listing the 9900 with a ‘late August’ release date, and the Carphone Warehouse touting an ‘August …
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Whispers are whistling through the Interwebs of a possible 3G iPod touch, which could launch in September. The rumours started on Dutch tech blog AppleSpot, whose sources reckon the upcoming version of Apple’s iPod could feature 3G connectivity, to keep you connected to the Web even when you’re away from a Wi-Fi connection. It sounds bizarre at first, but a …
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Virgin Media has built an Android app that will let users of its TiVo service remotely record TV shows. The app is called Virgin Media TV Guide and, as well as letting you record your evening’s telly from the bus, it delivers seven days of schedule information and lets you create lists of favourite channels. We’ve downloaded the app and …
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Two dimensions? Disgusting. As of tomorrow, we’ll care only about phones that can offer glorious 3D visuals, such as the LG Optimus 3D. It will be available from the Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy in a mere 24 hours or so. You’ll be able to pick up the Optimus 3D, which displays 3D images without the need for dorky glasses, for …
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