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  • Cloud Unlimited Music Service For iPod Touch Coming

    Cloud Unlimited Music Service For iPod Touch ComingThe Cloud, Wi-Fi providers in the UK, are launching a new service for iPod Touch users across the country.

    Never slow to innovate, The Cloud is offering the service for £3.99 a month from 1 October, with no minimum contract.
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  • SlingPlayer Mobile For S60 Symbian Phones

    SlingPlayer Mobile For S60 Symbian PhonesThose who have Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones will be able to buy software, SlingPlayer, to play the video content from their homes to the handsets, wherever they are, from their Sling Boxes.

    Quick resume on Sling Box: plug one into your TV at home and any programmes that you can watch can be viewed remotely, either on a computer, or portable device. Not only can you change channels remotely, but control the DVR functions.
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  • Samsung Armani Phone Packs Haptic Feedback Interface

    Samsung Armani Phone Packs Haptic Feedback InterfaceHot off the high end product presses and ready to burn a hole in the pockets of the fashion conscious is the glitzy Armani phone.

    The result of a collaboration with Samsung, this Prada-esque slice of ostentatious consumption packs an interesting innovation in the shape of a haptic feedback user interface.
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  • Microsoft Waves Its Weighty Wad At Facebook

    Microsoft Waves Its Weighty Wad At FacebookThe outrageously popular social networking website Facebook looks to be attracting the ever-bulging wallet of Microsoft, with the company rumoured to be about to buy a 5% stake, valuing the site at an eye watering $10bn (£5bn).
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  • Fox Launches Ad-Supported MySpace Mobile

    Fox Launches Ad-Supported MySpace MobileThe globe spanning conglomerate that is Fox Interactive Media has today announced that it wants to get inside your phone with the launch of its ad-supported mobile Internet version of MySpace.

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  • London Rules The Business Wi-Fi Charts

    London Rules The Business Wi-Fi ChartsWhen it comes to Wi-Fi, London is the big cheese of wireless connectivity according to mobile services firm iPass.

    iPass’s new research found that London had the highest level of hotspot use by business folks, with four times as many besuited Wi-Fi sessions than the number two and three cities, New York and Chicago.
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  • Palm Treo 500v Review: Smartphone (Part 3/3: 87%)

    Palm Treo 500v Smartphone Review (Part 3: 87%)This is the last section of the review – check back on parts 1 and 2.

    Camera and video
    The onboard 2MP camera produced reasonable enough results although the accompanying thunderous shutter sound effect is likely to startle sleeping babies and send nearby cattle stampeding. We sure it’s in there somewhere, but we couldn’t find a way to turn the ruddy thing off.
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  • Palm Treo 500v Review: Smartphone (Part 2)

    Palm Treo 500v Smartphone Review (Part 2: 87%)In part one we took a look at the Palm Treo 500v’s ergonomics and form factor, and in part two we’ll see how it shapes up as a phone.

    Booting up the Treo for the first time took around 30 seconds, with a succession of logos appearing on screen: first the Palm logo, followed by Vodafone’s animated feast of redness and finally the Window Mobile branding.
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  • Nokia E51 Dual Mode Smartphone

    Nokia E51 Dual Mode SmartphoneWith a design best designed as traditional and business-like, Nokia’s new 3G E51 dual mode smartphone has been given a gentle kick down the new product slipway .

    Sporting a revamped user interface for improved navigation, the Wi-Fi-enabled smartphone offers dedicated email/calendar keys, a 2MP camera, and FM visual radio.
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  • Motorola Announces MOTOLIVN D8/D7 Landline Handsets

    Motorola Announces MOTOLIVN D8/D7 Landline HandsetsMotorola has announced its new range of of MOTOLIVN phones for folks that are still digging the landline action.

    White, tall and slim like an Icelandic supermodel, the D8 phone comes with a location-free base so you can position the handset wherever there is a nearby power socket.
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