Mike Slocombe

  • Pure-Fi Mobile Speaker System Streams Sounds From Your Pocket

    Pure-Fi Mobile Speaker System Streams Sounds From Your PocketIf you’re fed up battling with cables that tangle up quicker than a confused Cobra after a crateful of Carlsberg, Logitech’s Pure-Fi Mobile speaker system could be the perfect carry-around for you.
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  • Google Launches Google Health For Medical Records

    Google Launches Google Health For Medical RecordsSearch engine giants Google have progressed another step on their plans to dominate, well, just about everything, with the launch of Google Health, a health information service that combines their high tech search technology with a user’s online personal health records.
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  • Sharp Unleash A Herd Of 22 LCD TVs

    Sharp Unleash A Herd Of 22 LCD TVsThose crazy product-inventin’ cats at Sharp have gone new TV crazy, unleashing a veritable pack of twenty two new Aquos LCD TVs.
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  • The Worst Web Site Of The Year?

    The Worst Web Site Of The Year?Currently being lauded as a prime candidate for the Worst Website of 2008 is this eye-sucking monstrosity at Havenworks. com.

    Described by a visitor to the Web Pages That Suck website as “too awful to even even think of a comment,” the site as Havenworks looks like it was designed by a hyperactive, colour-blind designer in 1996 and manages to fail on just about every count when it comes to user friendliness.
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  • PM Gordon Brown Launches YouTube ‘Ask The PM’ sessions

    PM Gordon Brown Launches YouTube 'Ask The PM' sessionsGordon Brown. perhaps the least dynamic PM since John “yawn” Major, is looking to get down with the Web 2.0 Krew and get all interactive on our PCs.

    In an attempt to attract younger voters, the PM is launching an online version of prime minister’s questions, promising to respond to video clip questions sent in via the Downing Street YouTube website.

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  • Sony Ericsson W980 To Get Early Release?

    Sony Ericsson W980 To Get Early Release?Sony Ericsson’s new W980 clamshell handset from the Walkman series is expected to be unleashed into the wild sooner than expected, aping the equally unexpected early release of their W760 phone.

    The official launch date of W980 was vaguely set as the “third quarter of 2008”, but after several recent sightings ‘in the wild’ an earlier release may be on the cards.

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  • Firefox 3 Gets First Release Candidate

    Firefox 3 Gets First Release CandidateMozilla has released its first Release candidate (RC1) for the third version of its hugely popular Firefox Web browser.

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  • LG-BH620T DVB-T Phone Gets European Release

    LG-BH620T DVB-T Phone Gets European ReleaseLG has announced the soon-come launch of its new LG-BH620T, a DVB-T phone letting soap-addicts thrill to Coronation Street while they’re out on the move.

    Naturally, perambulating punters can watch a lot more than the latest snooze-inducing antics from the Rovers Return on the teensy 320 x 320 pixel screen of the LG-BH620T, with the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) standard allowing access to a broad range of freeview digital transmissions.

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  • Olympus Announces E520 dSLR

    Olympus Announces E520 dSLROlympus is prepping a new Four-Thirds E520 dSLR for release at the end of the month.

    We were such big fans of its predecessor, the E510, that it earned a place in a place in our our Best Budget dSLRs Of 2007 rankings, so we’ve high hopes for this one.
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  • Vita Audio R4 Music System With iPod Dock

    Vita Audio R4 Music System With iPod DockThe world is full of iPod docks, but we have to say this one from Vita Audio looks a little bit special.

    Such is the vagaries of audiophile fashion, the R4 Integrated Music System sports the kind of wood finish that was the pinnacle of coolness in the 70s, a bit naff in the 80s, firmly in ‘old fogey’ camp by the nineties, but come the naughties and people can’t get enough of that woody, walnut veneered look.

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