According to Peter Misek, an analyst with Jefferies & Co, parts for Apple’s fabled HDTV are on their way through Apple’s supply chain for manufacturing. He’s convinced that it’ll go into production in the summer for a launch before Christmas.
Following BT’s lead, TalkTalk is rolling out 80Mbps fibre broadband for just £15 extra. That’s £15 on top of line rental, and your existing broadband subscription mind you, so it works out at a minimum of around £31, but promises impressive 20Mbps upload speeds to boot.
I’m pretty happy with Google maps, but if you’re seeking a good alternative, Nokia’s just made a web app of its mapping service available in-browser for both iOS and Android. It’ll even do some things others can’t, like let you to save parts of a map for offline usage and give you voice-guided walking navigation.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but RIM’s new BlackBerry Mini Keyboard looks more like a crappy Chinese iPad-keyboard case than Asus Transformer-eque; copied in idea-only then. Still, it does turn the PlayBook into a mini-laptop of sorts, especially when coupled with Citrix receiver, which will shove a window to Windows onto your RIM tablet.
Microsoft’s always had a penchant for awful naming of things, but its latest is probably the best I’ve seen for a good while. Windows Phone Tango is now officially known as Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh. What a mouthful.
Good news mammoth fans -- the Russians who found a frozen woolly mammoth carcass preserved in the Siberian permafrost have officially signed a deal with a Korean cloner. The once defamed Dr. Hwang Woo-suk, who was responsible for world’s first cloning of a dog, as well as faking several experiments, has been given the task.
New research out of the University of Portsmouth has shown that strenuous exercise in threatening situations, lasting for as little as 60 seconds, has a serious detrimental impact on memory. And there you thought exercise was good for you.
