Internet TVs are all the rage these days and that trend is set to continue well into 2012. This year, we’ll see a host of web-ready idiot boxes from Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba and — if rumours are to be believed — even Apple. Many more are expected to join the fray, including UK firm Canonical’s …
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9 January
Tip of the Day: do more with Apple TV
Now playing: Watch this: Tip of the Day: do more with Apple TV 1:02 Want to increase the flexibility of your Apple TV? The little black Apple TV is a very clever device. The tiny box lets you watch movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store, lets you display your photo libraries as fabulous slideshows while listening to your …
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9 January
Lenovo K91 is first Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Lenovo may be best known for its humble laptops, but it’s now striding confidently into the TV world with the K91 Smart TV, an ambitious 55-inch 3D LED TV running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich is the latest version of Google’s Android operating system, designed to provide a unified experience across mobile phones, tablets and now, apparently, …
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9 January
Sky remote control comes to your smart phone
What do you call the remote control in your house? The remote, the clicker, the hoofer-doofer — or the iPhone? Sky has teamed up with telly-watching app Zeebox to turn your smart phone or tablet into a remote control for your Sky box. Remote-control features will be built into Sky apps so you can take charge of your viewing with …
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9 January
LG BH9420PW has 3D Sound Zooming to drop you in the action
While 3D might be struggling to win the nation’s favour, here’s a cool feature that will help make for a more immersive experience. LG is due to announce a new surround sound system at CES, and it comes packing a feature called 3D Sound Zooming. Now this is rather clever. It syncs sound with the location and movement of the …
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9 January
Samsung inTouch brings Android
Sick of your boring old, non-Android TV? We bet you are. Luckily for you, Samsung has developed inTouch, a TV webcam that brings Skype video-calling and other Androidy goodness to your existing TV. inTouch may look identical to Microsoft’s Kinect system for the Xbox 360, but rather than make you look daft by waving your arms around, inTouch acts primarily …
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7 January
Samsung banner suggests huge OLED TV at CES
The curtain is yet to lift on CES 2012, but already news is starting to drip through. Now the sleuths over at OLED-Display.net have spotted a Samsung banner hinting the Korean company will be showcasing a large glasses-free 3D OLED TV. Exciting stuff indeed. And surely a sign of things to come in the week ahead in Vegas. The banner …
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6 January
Honeycomb: What went wrong?
Yesterday, Tech Republic published a great editorial making the case that Android tablets are a failure. I don’t entirely agree, but as we head into CES 2012, one thing is certain: there will be no more talk of Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) as anything other than a disappointment. The future of Android, for tablet and smartphone alike, is Android 4.0, …
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6 January
Xperia Arc S, Neo V, Ray get ICS in March, others to follow
We already knew Sony Ericsson was updating all of its 2011 Xperia phones to Ice Cream Sandwich, but now the company has detailed exactly which will get it when. The rollout starts at the “end March/early April 2012” according to a post on Sony Ericsson’s official product blog, Engadget reports. The first to get Android 4.0 are the Xperia Arc …
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6 January
PressReader 3 for iOS delivers newspapers, not just news
Call me old-fashioned, but I still like newspapers. Not the papers themselves, mind you, and all their environmental unfriendliness (paper, ink, landfill, etc.), but the layout and design. The big headlines and splashy photos. Even the ads. Newspaper apps may serve you the same news, but they just aren’t the same. That’s one reason I continue to be a fan …
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