May 2009

  • Amazon To Launch Newspaper Reader?

    Amazon To Launch Newspaper Reader?Speculation-o-meters are being cranked up to max on the web, as rumours of a new Kindle book reader for newspapers continue to circulate.

    Amazon have invited members of the press to an event tomorrow which the The New York Times has suggested is to mark the launch of a Kindle-like reader sporting a much bigger screen.

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  • Polaroid PoGo Instant Camera

    Despite being one of the best-known names in photography, Polaroid have twice been declared bankrupt in recent years, but like Dracula on Red Bull, they’re jumped up from the grave one more time to try and make a killing.

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  • Blackberry Curve Takes #1 US Smartphone Sales Slot

    Their Blackberry Storm may have failed to impress us and we’ve never really felt much love for the OS, but Blackberry are scooping up punters galore in the states, scoring three out of the top five best selling smartphones for the last quarter.

    Sitting pretty in the number one slot is the venerable RIM BlackBerry Curve (all 83XX models), which overtook Apple’s iPhone to become America’s best selling smartphone in Q1 of 2009.

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  • Macbook Air Sucks! Video: Knifing or Conniving? Real Or Advertising?

    Macbook Air Sucks! Video: Knifing or Conniving? Real Or Advertising?You can’t have failed to have noticed that ‘social advertising,’ is the flavour of the month year.

    You know the type of thing – ‘edgy’ videos made to look like that they’ve been shot by an amateur on a wobbly handy cam, like Samsung did with their LED sheep video (which possibily was shot by farmers) and Samsung kind of did with their HD Phone.

    Macbook air sucks! video
    Today we saw a Tweet (Thx @iowaug) pointing us to a video …
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