After the genius that is WordLens, augmented reality is a step closer to revolutionising the way we use our mobiles to interact with the world. eBay is the latest company to make use of AR in an interesting way. The auction service has updated its spin-off iPhone app eBay Fashion with a new feature called …
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Nokia’s Ovi Music Unlimited service — which launched in 2008 here in the UK as Comes With Music — is to shut down in all but six countries. Nope, the UK isn’t one of them: it’s going. The news originally broke on E’s Phone Blog, which spied an announcement about the Finnish version of the service. Nokia has now said …
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PlayStation Phone? What PlayStation Phone? As the gaming world awaits the official debut of Sony Ericsson’s much-leaked gaming smart phone, Sony’s official new PlayStation app for Android and iPhone is giving a taste of what’s to come. Hold your horses: it doesn’t let you play games — yet. Instead, the app lets you connect to your PlayStation Network profile to …
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Apple’s App Store is about to pass the 10 billion downloads mark, as iPhone, iPod touch and iPad owners continue to fill their boots with apps. The company’s website is counting down — or, rather, up — to the milestone, at a rate suggesting that the 10 billionth app will be downloaded sometime in the next week. In a repeat of …
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If cats could be swung on the App Store, they’d be hitting hundreds of newspaper apps, all jostling for a space on the homescreens of iPhone and iPad users. There are plenty of other news apps taking a different approach, however, sucking in stories from thousands of sources with the aim of serving up the ones you’ll be most interested …
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The bad old days of crap WAP browsers are thankfully long gone. Mozilla is about to release a version of its Firefox browser for the Nokia N900, Opera says it has more than 41.7 million users of its Opera Mini browser around the world, and whizzy WebKit-based browsers are the order of the day for handset makers. In 2010, things …
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Today, the BBC Trust announced it’s given the go-ahead for Project Canvas, the joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, BT and Talk Talk that aims to create an equivalent of Freeview for Internet TV. So what is it, and why should you care? Here’s a handy primer. What’s it all about? Project Canvas is a service mooted …
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