Note: we’ve made every effort to keep this review of House of Cards episodes one and two free of significant spoilers, but if you’d rather view Netflix’s political drama as a completely blank slate, look away now. House of Cards kicks off with Kevin Spacey strangling a wounded dog, and as the drama unfolds, events …
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RIM has changed its name to BlackBerry, accompanying the launch of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system with a radical name ditching. RIM, which stood for Research In Motion, is now officially re-monikered BlackBerry — a name change that makes sense as BlackBerry phones are exactly what the company makes, and has made for years. Big cheese Thorsten Heins debuted …
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The Nexus 4 is back on sale in the US, Germany and Canada, suggesting that the dirt-cheap Google smart phone will shortly be back in stock in the UK. The quad-core smart phone, which has been winning praise with its beautiful screen and even more beautiful price-tag, popped up once more on Google Play yesterday, our sister site CNET News …
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The ever-elusive Nexus 4 smart phone is back in stock in the UK, giving Brits another chance to snap up the quad-core masterpiece at Google’s bargain price. Right now if you spring to the Google Play website, you can buy the 8GB Nexus 4 for £239, or the 16GB option for £279. The much-desired smart phone is notorious for selling …
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Binary suns have set on the planned 3D re-releases of Star Wars: Episode II and Episode III, with Lucasfilm saying it will focus instead on honing the JJ Abrams-directed Episode VII. 3D versions of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith were due to be released this year, following last year’s 3D-altered Phantom Menace. Now, however, those rehashes …
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Apple could be cooking up a dirt-cheap iPhone that would be perfectly at home in Action Man’s attack helicopter, if fresh rumours are to be believed. The rumoured budget iPhone is going to be made mostly from plastic, iLounge reports, citing “reliable sources”. Take any Apple rumours with a pinch or two of salt, but the article does detail purported design …
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Apple may be beavering away on an iPad that boasts increased storage capacity, mysterious sources and iOS code clues suggest. 9to5Mac cites cryptic “sources” who say Apple is working on an additional model of its iPad with retina display, that comes in black and white and features an identical design to the current line-up. The imminent gadget is tipped to …
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EE is bringing visual voicemail to its iPhone-owning customers — but currently only if you’re on one of the company’s swanky 4G tariffs. If you’re a 4GEE customer with one of Apple’s shiny smart phones, text ‘iPhone visual’ (without the quote marks) to 150 to turn on the service, which lists your voicemails on-screen and makes it easy to hear, …
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Huawei may be cooking up a super-skinny follow-up to its ace Ascend P1 smart phone, if a freshly leaked product pic is to be believed. The snap of the sultry smart phone surfaced via Unwired View’s evleaks, and suggests (from the number on the back) that it packs a 13-megapixel camera into what looks like a very slim frame. We’ve heard nothing …
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The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 has been snapped in a series of new leaked photos, which appear to show Samsung’s iPad mini rival being used in the wild. The pictures came to light on Italian site dday.it, and show a tablet with a rounded, silver-tipped design that calls to mind the Galaxy Note 2. The camera on the back …
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