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Apple’s announced that it’ll open its stores across the UK at 8AM this Friday, March 16th, to sell the new iPad. If you’re after one anytime soon and don’t already have your pre-order down, now you know when you’ll have to be in the queue by; probably 8AM Thursday.
Good news early Xperia S buyers: you can now buy and play a small handful of PSOne games courtesy of Sony’s PlayStation Store, which is now live and ready for your downloading pleasure.
Space conspiracy theorists have been going nuts over a video taken from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, saying that a dark sphere visible in the Sun’s corona must be a planet-sized UFO, a world-ending super weapon, or even a tiny black hole. It certainly looks like a large spherical object is sucking the plasma out of our Sun in this video, but according to NASA it’s nothing.
The arrival of Netflix in the UK and the growth of rival LoveFilm on the film delivery scene could help BSkyB out of its current fix with the Competition Commission, which has asked for more time to consider competitiveness in the UK's broadcasting world thanks to the new streaming upstarts.
We’ve heard before about HTC’s plans for Ice Cream Sandwich, but now it's come out and listed the 16 lucky phones that’ll grab the Android 4.0 update soon.
Microsoft's about to get closer to offering the full set of catch-up TV services on Xbox 360, with rumours suggesting a version of the BBC's iPlayer will appear on the console next week.
A House of Lords sub-committee has asked Ed Vaizey, the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, to get tough on roaming mobile data fees, saying current high costs for cross-network data use put travellers off accessing "increasingly important smartphone services while abroad."
We love Lego; whether it’s being launched into space, opening bottles or recreating the Batcave, it’s always awesome. But did you know its talents even include building artificial bone? Cambridge researchers are using it to do just that.
The case of Richard O'Dwyer, the 23-year-old founder of file-sharing site TVShack, is about to be transferred to the US, with Home Secretary Theresa May confirming plans to extradite him over copyright breaches.
Spotify has revolutionised the way quite a lot of people get their music. You’re no longer stuck listening to the same old tracks over and over with access to a 15 million strong library. Problem is, the costs quickly mount-up if your whole family wants to sip from the musical teat of Spotify, but not for much longer – family plans are "definitely coming."
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.
