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Nokia Lumia 610 launches in the UK, starts on £15 per month contracts
www.engadget.com
Nokia's latest Windows Phone addition might not stack up to the polycarbonate glory of its forebears, but at this price, it's hard to complain that much. While the reduced RAM specification is proving tricky with some apps, the Lumia 610 has some strong points, arriving with WiFi tethering out...
Disorganised but effective: how technology lowers transaction costs
www.guardian.co.uk
The most profound social revolutions in human history have arisen whenever a technology comes along that lowers transaction costs for everyoneSince our primate ancestors began to band together to collectively share hunting, child care and sentry duties, every one of us has been subjected to an invisible, crushing tax. That...
Meet Samsung’s First Android 4.0 Tablet: The 7-Inch Galaxy Tab 2
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Samsung is no slouch when it comes to producing smaller tablets — their first foray into the Android tab market was the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, and they recently revisited that form factor with the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. In fact, Samsung seems to love the concept of a 7-inch tablet...
Toshiba's new 2.5-inch AL13SE hard drives: up to 900GB of 10,500RPM storage
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A 2.5-inch drive spinning at speeds up to 10,000RPM? Sure, we've seen it before, but only with enough room for 600GB worth of data. Toshiba, however, has trumped its forebears by upping the capacity to 900GB with its new 2.5-inch HDD, dubbed the AL13SE. 300GB, 450GB and 600GB flavors...
Oxford makes big push into Bigfoot research, enlists Swiss zoologists for DNA study
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The search for Bigfoot continues and, no, that's not a nod to a very special episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Though Harry and the Hendersons did its best to humanize that Himalayan monster of myth, a group of well-heeled European scientists are seeking to go beyond the Hollyweird fantasy to...
Max Payne 3 – multiplayer preview
www.guardian.co.uk
Although it borrows a little from the giants in the shooter genre, Max Payne 3's multiplayer is dirty, fun, gritty and downright meanIn the end, Max Payne is all about the movement. Rockstar's take on Remedy's hyper-kinetic third-person shooter may be grittier and more hard-bitten than its forebears, but it...
Windows development now more social with Github support
gigaom.com
And some said it would never happen. Github, the popular repository for many open-source code projects, now has a brand-new, first-ever Windows client. That means Windows developers building Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and pre-release Windows 8 applications can now share their work on the popular code bank. The beauty...
At Last: HTC’s One V Is Now Available At Virgin Mobile For $199
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It’s bigger brothers have long since made their debut in the U.S., and now the smallest member of HTC’s One series is joining them. HTC’s pint-sized (relatively speaking) One V is now available for all you no-contract types on Virgin Mobile’s website, where it’ll set you back a cool $199....
Europe sues to continue taxing digital content higher than physical
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When is a book not a book? When it comes to European tax law. Continental lawmakers may punish France and Luxembourg for reducing VAT on e-books to match their physical equivalents. In many countries, printed books and other content artefacts enjoy reduced VAT rate exemptions for cultural reasons. But digital equivalents...
Samsung Galaxy S3 unveiled: Is this the phone that will finally topple Apple?
www.extremetech.com
On stage at Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, Samsung has unveiled the next king of the Galaxy line of smartphones: the Samsung Galaxy S3. Curiously, despite the fever pitch expectations, the Galaxy S3 isn’t all that remarkable — at least hardware-wise. The star of the show was a whole...
Thornton May: The caveman in the executive suite
www.computerworld.com
Thornton May's thinking about executive identity has meandered as far back as our hunter-gatherer forebears....
Samsung’s Galaxy S III Has Been Pre-Ordered Over 9 Million Times Worldwide
techcrunch.com
As if anyone needed any more proof that the Samsung’s Galaxy S III would sell like (slightly more expensive) hotcakes, a report from the Korean Economic Daily reveals that the long-awaited handset has been pre-ordered over 9 million times worldwide. To put that number in a bit of perspective, the...
MongoDB or MySQL? Why not both?
gigaom.com
Thrillist CTO Mark O’Neill Someone please tell me we’ve gotten past the either-or debate over NoSQL and relational databases. While NoSQL databases are foundational technologies for web startups — with most of these young companies opting for MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB or something else to fulfill their database needs — they...
Motorola Atrix HD Review: Runs Like A Dream, But Doesn't Look Like One
techcrunch.com
Short Version Motorola made plenty of waves when it introduced the Droid RAZR for Verizon last year, and somehow I doubt AT&T was very pleased with that move. With that one launch, Motorola instantly made AT&T’s high-end line of Android-powered Atrix smartphones look chunky and downright un-sexy in comparison Now...
The 10 Most Blatant Design Ripoffs in Social Media
mashable.com
Pinspire vs. Pinterest It doesn't get more blatant than this. Pinspire is pretty much a pixel-for-pixel Pinterest clone, created by the serial digital ripoff artists at Rocket Internet. It's a bit obscene just how much of a copycat Pinspire is -- from concept to functionality to the cursive-style logo....
Game on: Kingdoms of Amalur - Reckoning
www.guardian.co.uk
In the world of Amalur you are a bad-ass hero from the moment you lift a bladeDesigner Ken Rolston makes epics and little else. They won't know the name but even the most casual RPG players will be familiar with his work. We have Rolston and his team to thank...
The 10 Most Blatant Design Ripoffs in Social Media
mashable.com
Pinspire vs. Pinterest It doesn't get more blatant than this. Pinspire is pretty much a pixel-for-pixel Pinterest clone, created by the serial digital ripoff artists at Rocket Internet. It's a bit obscene just how much of a copycat Pinspire is -- from concept to functionality to the cursive-style logo....
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