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Would You Buy a Samsung Galaxy S4 With an Optical Zoom?

Usually reliable internet sources claim Samsung's preparing another Android model, this one going by the name Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. The alleged phone shrinks the S4's screen size to 4.3" but adds a 16-Megapixel sensor around the back by way of compensation. It's less of a phone than the Galaxy S4 and less of a camera than the Galaxy Camera. Is it therefore a phone too far for our Korean Android overlords? [SamMobile] Read More >>

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apple
Mr Average UK Has Spent £345 on iTunes (Before Child IAP Tax)

The average UK user of iTunes has spent £345 buying/leasing a digital music and media collection through Apple's servers, according to a survey that tracked people's iOS spending habits. Read More >>

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10 James Bond Gadgets That Actually Exist — And One That Needs To

There have been 23 Bond movies made In the past 50 years — full of lethal, handy, futuristic, awesome, and sometimes funny gadgets. Most are still too fantastic to be real, but some have transcended the silver screen to become naturalised residents of the Real World. These are our favourites. Read More >>

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android
Google UK (Sort of) Launches Magazine Sales on Google Play

Users idly browsing Google's Android Play app this morning saw a link to digital version of T3 magazine listed on the front page, with links inside its listing letting mag buyers view a decent list of other UK magazines. But you can't buy them yet. Read More >>

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tv
Analogue Telly Finally Dies Today as Northern Ireland Kills Old Network and Ceefax

The long-running digital switchover saga will finally come to an end today, with a small pocket of elderly TV viewers who somehow didn't get the message left confused when Northern Ireland turns off its analogue TV transmitters. Read More >>

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Reverse-Skeuomorphism: When ‘Digital Things’ Transcend the Screen to Analogue Devices

Many will agree that Apple remains the master of industrial design in the digital age, but over the last year or so, some of their interface designs have divided opinion, and it comes down to a concept known as 'skeuomorphism'. Read More >>

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music
Did Radiohead’s Pay-What-You Want Model Change the Music Industry, Then?

The NME is running a fine piece commemorating the fifth anniversary of Radiohead's release of In Rainbows, the album the band let users set their own price to buy. Did it work? Is everyone doing it now? (No). And did it actually damage the music industry in the process? [NME] Read More >>

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microsoft
Microsoft Refusing to Sell 18-Rated Games on Windows 8 Marketplace

Microsoft has got itself into a bit of a pickle regarding the direct selling of digital games through its Windows 8 Marketplace, with the result being that no 18-rated titles will be available to buy through its PC store in the UK. Read More >>

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photography
Impossible Looks to Do the Impossible and Turn Your Phone Snaps into Real, Instant Photos

Alright, you might have turned your Instagram shots into an arty iPad case, or even had them made into chocolates, but have you ever wanted to grab your phone camera snaps and instantly turn them into real analogue photos? The folks at Impossible look to do that with their snazzy Instant Lab, that takes your digital photos and turns them into real instant analogue prints. Ya-huh! Read More >>

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music
Digital DJs Can Say Goodbye to Wires Forever

Unless you're incredibly organised, it's highly likely that you have different music tracks dotted around different devices, which can turn digital DJing from a celebration of music to a mess of jumbled cables quicker than you can shout "tune". Pioneer's new digital decks, however, swap wires for Wi-Fi. Read More >>

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tv
Could We Soon See a Digital Switchoff as TV Heads Entirely Online?

A Lords committee looking into the future of delivering telly to our houses has put out the idea that terrestrial TV broadcasts should eventually be replaced by an entirely internet-based network, requiring confused old people to adjust their televisions once again. Read More >>

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photography
Leaked Canon Mirrorless Camera Just Made Me Excited About Digital Photography Again

I have a big Canon DSLR which I never use. I also stopped using my compact a very long time ago, when the iPhone 3G came out — a classic example of convenience winning over quality. But this tiny beauty, Canon's new EOS-M mirrorless camera with EF-M lens mount, is making me drool for a gadget again based on its looks alone. Read More >>

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How to Digitise Your Vinyl Collection

Your LP collection may be the coelacanth of storage mediums, but it is often a repository of tracks and titles that you simply can't get anywhere else. Here's how to digitise your wax-platter music, and finally drag the last remnants of your analog life into the 21st Century. Read More >>

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music
Tesco Racks up the Clubcard Points With £10.8m Buyout of We7

The UK supermarket race to go digital has a new leader today, thanks to Tesco buying up established music provider We7 for a whopping great £10.8m. Read More >>

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ebooks
Sainsbury’s Joins eBook Selling Race With the Purchase of a Chunk of Anobii

UK supermarket Sainsbury's has bought itself a large stake in eBook provider Anobii, taking a 64 per cent share of the business from struggling retailer HMV -- for which it paid the nominal fee of £1. Read More >>