Getting to 11 series is quite the achievement. M*A*S*H did it, and — inexplicably — so has comedy-free sitcom My Family. Friends managed just 10 series, which is empirical proof that Friends is officially not as good as My Family or Sony laptops, which hits its own series 11 with the latest Sony Vaio E …
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If you own a Nokia Lumia 900, Nokia Lumia 800 or any current Windows Phone, you won’t get Windows Phone 8 — but you will get the headline feature of the next generation software in a Windows Phone 7.8 update. Phones running the current software, Windows Phone 7.5, will get an update to 7.8 including the new home screen, complete …
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Microsoft is saying sayonara to Siri by letting you control apps with your voice. In Windows Phone 8, the next generation of Microsoft software for mobile phones, you can launch and control apps with your voice and have a conversation with your phone. Siri is Apple’s voice-controlled personal assistant, which answers requests for information from the web and controls certain …
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Windows Phone 8 is getting a new look. The distinctive colourful animated squares of the home screen can be made bigger or smaller to make your phone as simple or as cluttered as you like. At the moment, you can only fit two columns of live tiles on the home screen, which means a lot of scrolling down as you …
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Microsoft has unveiled Windows Phone 8, and one of the new features of the latest mobile phone software is Wallet — so you can pay for stuff with your phone, save card details and find deals. The primary function of Wallet is to pay for items by waving your Windows Phone at the till in a shop. The handset and …
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Microsoft has unveiled Windows Phone 8, the next generation of its mobile phone software. Windows Phone 8 shares its core code with Windows 8, and will appear this autumn in dual-core phones with high-definition screens and memory cards. That means Windows Phone software and Windows 8 software on computers and tablets will share common DNA, including the kernel, networking, multimedia …
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Missed the start of the TV show you rushed home to watch? Not to worry — BBC iPlayer now lets you rewind live TV even if you weren’t watching it before, or watch any show from the past two hours. The new controls are called Live Restart, allowing you to rewind or restart a programme even as it’s on the …
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Microsoft has unveiled its new Windows tablets, the Microsoft Surface and Surface Pro — but they’re not the first Microsoft Surface. Remember the touchscreen table? It’s now been renamed the PixelSense. The gadget formerly known as the Surface is a giant flat touchscreen the size of a coffee table that you use to find information wherever it’s placed in places …
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Acer is hoping to sprint back into the tablet race with a special edition of the quad-core Acer Iconia A510. Like the Samsung Galaxy S3, which is the official Olympic phone, the Iconia A510 is themed around the London 2012 Olympic games. Decked out in black or silver, the A510 sports an Olympic logo and lets you watch the games …
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The Samsung Galaxy S3 is safe for work — in fact it’s SAFE. But does that mean other Android phones are unsafe? The S3 is the first phone to be certified SAFE, or ‘Samsung Approved For Enterprise’. The Korean company reckons this new scheme will make its phones and tablets secure to keep your work emails, files and other data …
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