The BBC Red Button is coming to TiVo. Bonus news and sport content can be yours at the touch of a button on your Virgin Media TiVo box some time next year. The BBC Sport app and BBC News app will offer interactive extras from the 2012 Olympics in London, Wimbledon, Euro 2012 and the …
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Santa Claus is coming to town… with the help of his Apple iPhone 4S and Siri. Apple’s voice-controlled personal assistant is Santa’s newest little elf as it helps Santa manage his 3.7 billion appointments in a new advert. Siri gets seasonal, offering directions and help to Father Christmas as he sets off on his annual mission to deliver the world’s …
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2011 was the year of the smart phone, and one smart phone outsells all others: the iPhone. Apple’s smart phone owns a third of the smart phone market — while Nokia’s new Windows Phone is doing less well. The new iPhone 4S was the best-selling phone in the last month, with nearly a quarter of all smart phones flying off …
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The Asus Transformer Prime has been officially slapped with a UK price. The first tablet to pack an Nvidia Tegra 3 chip costs £499 from today — but you can’t unwrap it until some time in January. The hotly anticipated tablet is only available to pre-order now — which is a dreadful marketing way of saying, “It’s not ready yet …
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The hills are alive with the sound of mobiles. The latest clue to the launch of the hotly anticipated Nokia Lumia 900 has come from the land of cuckoo clocks and chocolate, with a Swiss phone network revealing the Windows Phone will arrive in Europe in February. Swisscom revealed the date in a tweet to a customer asking after the …
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Computer? Computer! Google is reported to be using a nifty Star Trek in-joke as a codename for a Siri competitor, known as Majel. According to Android and Me, Google is working on souping up its voice-control system for Android phones to match Apple’s more sophisticated Siri, found on the new iPhone 4S. Siri goes beyond the simple voice commands currently …
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Sony Ericsson will become just Sony by next summer. The Japanese giant has assumed full control over the the phone-building company and will only make smart phones, powered by Android, to regain lost ground against the iPhone. Sony Ericsson has been a joint venture between Sony and Swedish telecoms company Ericsson for the past decade. Along with Nokia, Son Eric …
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More bad news for BlackBerry: BBX is banned, forcing a name change to BlackBerry 10. A US court blocked the use of the BBX name for the next generation of BlackBerry software, the Guardian reports, as it’s held as a trademark by software company Basis International. If we were pinning our hopes on some new software to change our fortunes …
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All aboard the Sky Movies Express. Sky is running a free train from London to Birmingham this Christmas, decked out in the style of festive films favourites and stuffed with iPads for the lucky crimble commuters. The Sky Go Movies Express was christened by Tamsin Egerton — off of St Trinian’s, apparently — and will make a day trip to …
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The first tablet packed with Ice Cream Sandwich has appeared, and it’s no Galaxy Xoom Transformer. It’s the Ainovo Novo 7, yours for around £60 — if you happen to be in China. The Novo 7 claims to be the first slate powered by Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google’s software for mobile phones and tablets, Android Community …
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