BlackBerry is making another play for a tablet. Hard on the heels of the launch of the next generation operating system BlackBerry 10, the company is planning a sequel to the disastrous PlayBook tablet — while the new Z10 has the best-selling launch the company’s ever seen. The new Z10, first to showcase the new …
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HMV is bringing down the shutters on 66 shops, threatening 930 staff. After an angry employee hijacked HMV’s Twitter last week, the retailer’s administrators have finally revealed which stores are to be axed. The 66 branches of the ailing music, DVD and games chain will close over the next two months. Read on to see if your branch is to be …
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As many as a quarter of iPhone owners are walking around with a broken screen, according to new figures. iPhone owners were asked whether their blower’s display is currently broken, smashed or cracked in any way, to which 23 per cent yes. The average length of time people have been putting up with their damaged display is six months. Most …
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BlackBerry 10 is off to a “solid start”. BlackBerry reveals that sales of the BlackBerry Z10 and new BB10 software are better than expected, even selling out in some places. Of course, it’s easy to sell out when you haven’t got many phones to sell in the first place. But BlackBerry boss Stephen Bates is optimistic, telling a conference of …
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Lovefilm is fighting back against Netflix with its own new TV shows to rival Netflix’s House of Cards and Arrested Development, including a sideways look at the news from The Onion. Netflix produced the Kevin Spacey-starring political thriller and the new series of cult comedy Arrested Development, so they’re not on telly — you have to subscribe to the online …
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Spurred on by the popularity of the best-selling Samsung Galaxy S3 and the bargain-tastic Google Nexus 4, Jelly Bean is now on nearly one in seven of all Android phones and tablets. The latest version of Android, Jelly Bean is used by 13.6 per cent of all Android phones and tablets, according to Google’s latest figures. That’s a steady increase …
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David Tennant will be pleased: Virgin Media just became part of one of the world’s largest broadband companies, promising to soup up its service and take the fight to Sky. US cable company Liberty Global has bought Virgin Media in a deal worth a whopping £15bn in stock and cash. Virgin, home of TiVo, will keep its name, and pledges …
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HTC reckons it’s got something new up its sleeve. Could the hotly tipped HTC M7 be the smart phone to “kick off a new sound and camera experience in 2013”? HTC teases its purported photographic innovation in an infographic tracing the history of photography from the Daguerreotype up to today’s camera phones. The infographic notes that in 2012 the megapixel …
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Fame — I’m gonna live forever! Prepare to dance in the streets with the Samsung Galaxy Fame and Samsung Galaxy Young, two new phones with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean on board. The Fame and Young are pocket-sized Android blowers officially unveiled today, with specs that suggest they’ll be pretty easy on the wallet. The 3.27-inch Galaxy Young runs a 1GHz …
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Not only is it launching its own network, but Phones 4U is planning to sell its own phones. The mobile phone retailer is joining forces with ZTE to make phones later this year. Speaking to an internal magazine for ZTE employees (spotted by CCS Insight analyst Ben Woods), Phones 4U bosses let slip the plan. When asked if Phones 4U …
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