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Kindle Fire tablet set to challenge iPad

With a glossy 7-inch colour touch screen and a dual-core processor, the Kindle Fire, a new mobile device introduced by Amazon, sure looks like a tablet, and one not so different from the Apple iPad. But Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, has another word for it. “I think of it as a service,” [...]

Free iPad2. Promo offer

If you are looking for the best way to get a free iPad, then I’m glad you’ve found this website and I strongly suggest you keep reading…. Because this is my uncensored story of how I received many electronics for free from the Internet. The ups, the downs, what stuff didn’t work and finally the [...]

Prices slashed on HP touchpad

In a statement this afternoon, HP has announced the Australian TouchPad will receive a big price drop before it goes on sale locally next Monday. Up until today, the company had refused to disclose whether or not the TouchPad would be subject to the same price drops seen in the United States over the past [...]

Apple iCloud now open

// // // ]]> Apple’s iCloud website went live Monday but only as a “beta” version and is only available for existing MobileMe customers with the Mac OS X on their desktops and notebooks. The iCloud service allows users to share data across multiple Apple devices and over the Internet. It was announced earlier this [...]

Apple set to destroy rival Galaxy

Apple Australia is demanding Samsung send it its entire stock of Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be destroyed as part of a legal battle that could soon extend to Samsung’s smartphone range. The Galaxy Tab 10.1′s Australian launch was set for this month but Samsung has agreed to halt sales and advertising for the product [...]

huge expansion of web domain names from 2012

The internet naming board Icann has decided to allow the number of internet “domains” to expand enormously in one of the biggest changes ever to the internet’s method of naming sites. New website suffixes should start appearing late in 2012 and could be categorised by subjects including industry, geography and ethnicity and include Arabic, Chinese [...]

A letter to Bill Gates

Letter from Banta Singh to Mr. Bill Gates Subject: Problems with my new computer Dear Mr. Bill Gates, We have bought a computer for our home and we have found some problems, which I want to bring to your notice. 1. There is a button ‘start’ but there is no ‘stop’ button. We request you [...]

Google Android malware rises 400 per cent

There has been a 400 per cent increase in malware on Google’s Android platform since the middle of last year and the problem is causing such concern that several Android anti-virus programs have been released. There are over 200,000 applications on the Android Market today – up from 50,000 a year ago – but the [...]

32GB Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 review

As thin as the iPad 2 and even lighter, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the coolest Honeycomb tablet we’ve seen. Also, it has an 8-megapixel back camera and a 2-megapixel front camera, and powerful dual speakers. The lack of ports on the tablet will be a problem for some and the plastic back of the [...]

Microsoft in talks to buy Skype

Microsoft is in talks to buy internet phone service Skype, the Wall Street Journal has reported. According to the paper, the deal could be worth as much as $8.5bn (£5.2bn), which would make it Microsoft’s largest acquisition. Both Microsoft and Skype have declined to comment on the story. Luxembourg-based Skype has 663 million global users. [...]

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