TiVo is taking over the iPad. Virgin Media’s TiVo companion app will let you control your intelligent set-top box from your Apple tablet. The app basically turns your iPad into a giant remote control. You can browse the TiVo interface on your iPad’s big screen, searching for something to watch from the TV guide or …
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Windows Phone apps could run on Windows 8. That’s according to the boss of chipmaker Nvidia, and it’s very good news for app-makers who want their apps to reach a bigger audience. If apps built for phones also work on computers, it means they’ll reach a much bigger audience — even Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer admits Windows Phone is ‘very …
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Orange is blasting free Sky Sports and music streaming into your phone. The citrus-flavoured phone network is offering access to Swapable services including Sky Sports Mobile TV, Freeview TV channels and music-streaming service Deezer to customers on Panther, Orange’s top-whack tariff. Each options is called a Swapable, because you can choose two at a time then swap and change each …
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Samsung has confirmed the name of the next Google Phone: Nexus Prime. The name of the latest flagship Android phone heads a document listing the phone’s — rather dubious — details. Google likes to have a smart phone bearing the Nexus name leading the line-up of devices that use its Android software for phones and tablets. The forthcoming Nexus Prime …
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The iPhone 5 machine is fired up in full effect. Reports suggest Apple’s Chinese manufacturer Foxconn is blasting out 150,000 phones per day, according to DigiTimes — that’s 4.5 million iPhones in September. That’s more than 18 million iPhones before the end of the year, if our calculations are correct. And that’s not counting other manufacturers also contracted to Apple. …
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The Guardian‘s app has landed on Android phones, delivering left-leaning news, opinion, photos and video right to your blower. Guardianista Android users can customise their home page to put the sections of the paper in any order. Up to eight sections appear on the home page, showing the top stories and the latest photo and video galleries, all of which …
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The iPhone 5 inches closer to shops with the news that its camera is set to roll off production lines in Taiwan ready for a launch any day. The Taiwan Economic News reports that two Taiwanese companies are to build the 8-megapixel camera on the next generation of Apple’s smash-hit smart phone. Largan Precision and Genius Electronic Optical are the …
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ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 are about to go HD. The commercial channels have been invited by TV bosses to fill a fifth high-definition slot on Freeview. Television regulator Ofcom is inviting broadcasters to apply for the extra HD slot on Freeview digital terrestrial TV. The fifth slot will go to a commercial public service broadcaster: either an ITV …
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Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby — aaa-aaa-aaahhhh, as a wise man once said. The HTC Ruby is a new smart phone that’s been spotted ahead of its official release with rumours of glittering specs. This jewel of a smart phone packs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the latest version of Google’s software for phones, probably with HTC’s Sense 3.5 front end on top …
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All the sevens — Sunset Strip! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Android tablet has been snapped ahead of its release. Bingo! If these blurry snaps from Android Life are to be believed, the Tab 7.7-inch tablet features a dedicated camera button for firing off snaps. It’s likely to sport an eye-scorching Super AMOLED screen, here seen flanked by capacitive touch-sensitive …
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