Mike Slocombe

  • Spotify Teams Up With 7digital To Add MP3 Downloads

    Spotify Teams Up With 7digital To Add  MP3 DownloadsMusic streaming service Spotify has struck up a deal with 7digital to offer users paid MP3 downloads.

    The collaboration will give listeners access to more than 6m tracks for downloading and should help make what is already an irresistible app even more compelling.

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  • Wacom Intuos4 Graphic Pen Tablets

    Wacom Intuos4 Graphic Pen Tablets Graphic tablet dons Wacom have whipped out a selection of their next generation of Intuos pen tablets, and we have to say that they’re rather a natty-looking selection.

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  • Peek Pronto: Mobile Email Device Gets Updated

    Peek Pronto: Mobile Email Device Gets UpdatedBilled as the ‘only mobile device devoted solely to email,’ we got our grubby hands on the Peek email gizmo last winter in New York, wand weren’t entirely convinced that it was likely to find a home in our gadget-stuffed pockets.

    In an attempt to seduce and woo doubters, the company is now back with a new updated version ready to take on the world, the 4 by 2.7 by 0.4 inches Peek Pronto.

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  • Privacy International Calls For Google Street View To Be Closed

    Privacy International Calls For Google Street View To Be ClosedAn official appeal by privacy campaigners has been made to the Information Commissioner’s Office to close down Google’s UK Street View service.

    Launched in Britain last week, Street View serves up pannable, zoomable street-level photo views of major cities, allowing curious punters to take virtual strolls around towns and have a good nosey about.

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  • Lenovo X1 Touch Dream Handset Fails To Induce Trouser Tremblings

    Lenovo X1 Touch Dream Handset Fails To Induce Trouser TremblingsLenovo has let rip a blast of juicy new phone-ness in the shape of its X1 handset, also known as the ‘Touch Dream’.

    Sporting a form factor that looks like it would emerge triumphant from a street brawl, the X1 packs no-nonsense industrial lines, with a slide-out numeric keypad lurking beneath the tough exterior.

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  • Samsung N110 Netbook Announced And Reviewed

    Samsung N110 Netbook Announced And ReviewedAlthough we’re just about up to here looking at near-identical netbooks all offering near-identical specifications, the successor to Samsung’s class leading NC10 netbook seems worthy of a mention.

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  • Samsung’s NC310 Netbook, Still No Apple Netbook News

    Samsung's NC310 Netbook, Still No Apple Netbook NewsThere’s been so many manufacturers knocking out these things that we’re now reduced to uttering “netbooks, schnetbooks” whenever another press release gets shoved out way, but at least Samsung’s new NC310 number looks a little different to the pack.

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  • BT Announces First Fibre Link Exchanges

    BT Announces First Fibre Link ExchangesBT has unfurled their list of locations which will be first to enjoy connectivity to their forthcoming high speed fibre network.

    The first 29 exchanges will hook up around 500,000 homes and businesses during the initial rollout, with the bods at BT expecting work to be underway by early next year.

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  • Twitter Use Explodes In The UK

    Twitter Use Explodes In The UKMass outbreaks of twittering are taking place all over Blighty with new figures showing that the amount of people using the social messaging service have not just gone through the roof, but they’ve passed the aerial and are carrying on into the stratosphere.

    Market research boffins Nielsen Online say that the amount of people using Twitter rocketed by 1,689% from February 2008 to February 2009. There’s now more than than 1.78 million people now signed on in the UK, compared to just 100,000 members last year.

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  • Twice As Many People Access The Mobile Internet In 2009

    Twice As Many People Access The Mobile Internet In 2009The amount of people using phones and mobile devices every day to access the Internet has more than doubled over the last year, according to the latest figures from comScore.

    Their hot-off-the-PC data revealed that a global audience of 63.2 million people were now accessing the Internet through mobile devices, with over a third of those (35 per cent) going online every day.

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