Virgin Media will soon bring tunes to your telly, having signed a deal with music-streaming service Spotify. Both current and new Spotify users will benefit from a range of special offers, including access to exclusive new and early releases, like those currently offered to paying Spotifiers, and also gig and festival tickets. After all, …
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A new version of the smash-hit Samsung Galaxy S 2 appears to be in the works — and it’s ditching Android to rock out with Windows Phone. Windows Phone site WMPU spotted a handset called the Samsung SGH-i917 in the listings of the people in charge of Bluetooth. The Galaxy S 2 is also known as the SGH-i927. That listing reveals …
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Mobile phones probably don’t cause cancer after all, according to a new study from boffins in Britain, Sweden and the US. The brainiacs concluded that “the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile-phone use can cause brain tumours in adults”. The researchers haven’t ruled out negative effects on younger phone users, however. Reuters reports that the team …
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If you have an Android phone and you like to stare up your friends’ noses when you call them, then ring the party bell and do a little jig, because Skype now lets you do just that. A new update to the Skype app for Android allows video calls to other Android phones, computers and iPhones. Download the app from …
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Ah, Wimbledon. Rafa Nadal, Andy Murray, Sue Barker and the cream of world tennis are in SW19 for two weeks of athletic excellence, strawberries and weird grunting noises. This year there’s an added dimension to the hallowed competition, as the BBC broadcasts the finals in 3D for free. CNET UK has gone behind the scenes to see how 3D is …
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It takes two to tango, and the next two updates to Windows Phone have been revealed, according to reports from China. Windows Phone Tango will follow the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 update known as Mango, and Windows Phone 8 will follow next year with the codename Apollo. Tango will add new features to phones using Microsoft’s mobile software sometime next …
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The next flagship Android phone will be made by Samsung and called the Google Nexus Prime, according to the word on the street. The latest version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich, will make its debut on the Google-branded smart phone sometime this autumn. As the flagship device showcasing the most up to date version of Android, the Prime is …
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More power! as a noted scholar once said. Samsung seems to have taken that maxim to heart, if rumours are to be believed about a beefed-up version of the already rather tasty Samsung Galaxy S 2, known as the Samsung Galaxy S 2 Plus. The Pop Herald claims it heard the news from credible sources in Asia, although noted that …
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Microsoft has given us a taste of the revamped Games Hub in the Windows Phone Mango update. Mango adds dancing avatars and improved Xbox Live features. The new Games Hub absorbs a number of features previously only found in the Xbox Live Extras app, so you can edit your main profile from your phone, connect with friends and compare achievements. It also …
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Sony is bringing video calling and smart-phone apps to its Bravia TVs. Sony’s new Bravia tellies are — deep breath — the HX923, HX823, HX723 and NX723, followed by the EX723, EX523, EX320, CX523 and CX2D. The new tellies add Skype and mobile apps to their Web-connected Bravia Internet TV — and, because it’s 2011, it’s all in 3D. You’ll …
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