Now playing: Watch this: Dialed In #215: The agony and ecstasy of Mike Daisey 37:39 Actor Mike Daisey’s one-man show on his depiction of deplorable working conditions at Apple’s iPhone factory took a sharp turn when Daisey’s “facts” were revealed as partial fiction. It isn’t just Daisey’s shaky credibility that’s on the line, nor the …

The audio mavens at THX have come up with the Steerable Line Array, a speaker system that ensures you’ll hear perfect sound, no matter where you sit. Traditional speakers and home cinema speaker arrays typically offer only one ‘sweet spot’ — the position in which you seat yourself to hear the system at its very best. But the Steerable Line …

Last week, we reported that Channel Nine is planning to simulcast its London Olympics coverage on its HDTV service, GEM. As mentioned in that news piece, unlike previous Olympics, where Seven and SBS shared the rights, there’s only one free-to-air broadcaster this time around. So, unless Nine seeks and gains an exemption from anti-siphoning laws, it can’t broadcast an alternative …

Cineworld has stripped off. All booking fees, that is. The cinema chain, which has 79 cinemas around the UK, is claiming it’s the first picturehouse in Blighty to give booking fees the long kiss goodnight — so shake a tail feather Empire, Odeon, Vue et al, or we’re breaking up with you. Cineworld partially removed booking fees last year, by …

We had a fantastic response to a poll we ran asking you, our readers, why you torrent TV shows. We’ll address some of the issues raised in the comments section there in an upcoming blog post. For now, though, we’re curious as to how much you’re willing to pay for a digital download of an episode of a TV show. …

Did you head out to Wal-Mart last night to score a new iPad at midnight? Now’s the perfect time to stock up on some games to show off that drool-worthy Retina Display. For a limited time, Gameloft is offering some noteworthy iPad games (along with one for Mac) for 99 cents. Regardless of which iPad model you own, these dozen …

The Sprint version of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone has been given its FCC approval papers and is one step closer to release. Expected to arrive in the first half of this year, the pure Android 4.0 experience device will be one of Sprint’s first handsets designed for the carrier’s LTE network. Bearing the model number of SPH-L700, little else …

For Android tablet owners, shopping the Google Play Store can sometimes be a pain, with tons of scaled-up phone apps hiding among the truly tablet-optimized. Sure, there’s always the curated Staff Picks for Tablets section, but that offers only a tiny taste of all the delicious HD goodness that’s really out there. Enter Tablified Market–a curated market just for tablet-specific …

Super-cheap phone operator GiffGaff’s network has gone down, according to an update on its community pages. My colleague Rich Trenholm is a GiffGaffer — and despite having three bars on his phone he can’t currently make or receive any calls. (So memo for Rich’s mum: please send him an email instead.) The network outage has been caused by a power …

Samsung and LG have been slapped on the wrist to the tune of — wait for it — £25.5m for swindling customers with fake discounts on phones. The South Korean Fair Trade Commission issued the price-fixing fine to several Korean companies, both handset builders and phone networks. The phone makers, including Samsung and LG, deliberately jacked up the prices of …

The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus lands in shops tomorrow. Samsung has confirmed the budget Android phone will go on sale this Saturday, 17 March — but without Ice Cream Sandwich on board. The Ace Plus is a successor to the Samsung Galaxy Ace. The original Ace sported a classy design, respectable battery life and a crisp and clear screen, all …

Though many developers were initially tight-lipped about when they would release optimized games for the new iPad–now that the device is here–the news has started rolling in. Gameloft announced today that four popular games, Order and Chaos Online, Modern Combat: Fallen Nation, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, and Gangstar Rio: City of Saints, are now optimized for Apple’s Retina Display and ready …

Today is a glorious day, and I’m not talking about all that iPad nonsense. The real news for the Android faithful, and particularly Samsung Nexus S users, is that Ice Cream Sandwich may arrive in just a few short weeks. According to tech blog Engadget, sources close to the outlet have confirmed the Samsung Nexus S and Nexus S 4G …

A tiny number of people, who bought the first iPad when it was introduced in 2010 and signed up for unlimited data service with AT&T, have been reaping the benefits of a truly unlimited data plan ever since. But will they get to keep that sweet deal when Apple releases the third generation iPad? In this edition of Ask Maggie …

You might assume the 12.1-megapixel camera on the Sony Xperia S would elbow past the 8 megapixels on Apple’s iPhone 4S. But spec sheets rarely tell the whole story — especially when it comes to mobile phone cameras, where a whole range of factors affect image quality, from the lens to the size of the sensor. Megapixel count is only …