The FA Cup will kick off on Facebook this Friday. Non-League Ascot United and, appropriately enough, Wembley FC are just 12 games away from lifting the world’s most prestigious trophy, and their qualifying match will be the first streamed live on Facebook. The match is an ‘extra-preliminary’ qualifying round. There are six qualifying rounds before …
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Data roaming bills just went bye-bye. Surfing the Web while travelling the world potentially became much cheaper today with the new Skype Wi-Fi app, which lets you connect your iPhone or iPad to more than a million hotspots round the world on the cheap. The app lets you pay for Wi-Fi on a minute-to-minute basis using credit bought through Skype …
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The next generation of Android is set to arrive in October, sporting an eye-popping high definition screen. The Google Nexus Prime is being built by Samsung and will scorch retinas with a Super AMOLED HD screen. The Nexus Prime will sport a Samsung Super AMOLED HD screen with Pentile technology, OLED-Display.net reports. The 4.5-inch screen has a resolution of 720×1,280 …
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“You’ve got a time machine. I’ve got a gun. Let’s kill Hitler!” With those words, Doctor Who blasts back on to UK TV screens on Saturday 27 August on BBC1 — and Crave got a sneak preview. Let’s Kill Hitler is the rip-roaring opener to the second half of series 6, featuring the return of Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and …
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The new Motorola Defy+ can take a punch. In fact it can take all kinds of shoddy treatment on the chin: like the original Motorola Defy, the new Android smart phone is water-resistant, scratch-resistant and dust-proof. A toughened screen, sturdy frame and sealed rubberised ports mean you can drop it, get it wet or take it it to the beach. …
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If you have an iPhone you like Belle and Sebastian, foreign travel and sushi, and if you have an Android phone you like Harry Potter and staying at home. That’s according to a tongue-in-cheek infographic examining the differences between users of the two main smart phone operating systems. Recommendation site Hunch culled the data from 2,000 users. Sounds scientific enough …
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Holiday, celebrate, as a great woman once said. Let’s celebrate the HTC Holiday, a powerful new Android smart phone revealed in pictures leaked on the Internet. Photos of the phone first appeared at the XDA Developers forum, spotted by SlashGear, but have now disappeared. The Holiday sports a whopping 4.5-inch touchscreen. At that size it competes with the Samsung Infuse …
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The force is strong with Panasonic Blu-ray players. When you buy an item of the company’s new Blu-ray home cinema kit, you’ll be rewarded with the original Star Wars movie saga on Blu-ray. The original trilogy is available with Panasonic Blu-ray players, recorders and home cinema systems. To bag a classic cosmic carve-up, simply buy a BDT110, 210, 310 or …
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A man has been arrested for using BlackBerry Messenger to arrange a water fight, as part of a wave of social media-related arrests. As those who took part in rioting and looting face stiff sentences, police are also throwing the book at those who incited or encouraged violence on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks. Essex police charged the 20-year-old …
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Virgin Media is bringing the V Festival to your living room — minus the mud and annoying teenagers — with a new TiVo app. Virgin Media TiVo is a rather clever set-top box that learns what telly programmes you like. It also offers apps, like the V Festival app stuffed with musical goodies from interviews with the turns to special …
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