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Droid X360 hybridises PS Vita and Android

>While there's no sign of pricing

They're $139 @ TenQ....

Second win for Apple as Galaxy Nexus sales banned in US

Re: Don't think Samsung will be too upset...

>Their business model relies on that.

Not all that much really, profit from US sales of the Nexus is a drop in the ocean compared to what Samsung make from iPad and iPhone.

William Shatner confirms Devon town actually prostitute free

Re: "Mr Shatner was not above making jokes at his own expense"

>Apparently our good Takei is *not* Shatner's biggest fan

They're very good friends actually. Probably hard to be Shatner's biggest fan - and whoever it is, is way beyond scary.

Apple iPad sales drop by DOUBLE DIGITS in Europe

Re: @Kevin7 - Is there really...

>Just like there is a likewise unsaturable market for similarly priced handbags...........goods that the vast majority of the population doesn't really need and only buys because....

Past tense required, you're describing a consumer boom - now credit and disposable income no longer flow so freely. Its a bad time to be selling tablets, but a much worse time to be flogging fashion handbags......

>Is there really an endless market for 400+ quid devices that refresh yearly with few operator subsidies or cheap contracts?

Not in the EU - in fact here operators are bracing for the impact of huge numbers of defaults on Credit Agreements for high end phones and tablets....likewise the downward spiraling credit scores of the unwashed masses is impacting directly on new pay monthly contracts.

Microsoft will fiddle with prices as euro burns, UK biz fears

Re: Quote in Euros

Nah I'm sticking with Sterling - at least until the Deutsche Mark is back up and running.

Google to bring Raspberry Pi to Bash Street

Re: 100 teachers over 3 years?

http://www.google.com/edu/teachers/ - they actually put quite a bit of time and money where their mouth is....

Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck

Yet another very good reason not to be with Orange then.

Both ours do - Vodafone and T-Mobile....and as Orange operate in countries where they have to be able to block them by law, they can certainly do it when they have to...

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>I'd settle for an option on my OS to disable sending Premium-rate SMSs.

...your telco will block access to premium rate services including SMSs on any handset....

UK.gov: ICT in schools ain't dead, it's just resting

Re: Can anyone give a clear text ...

>Is this a joke? You are saying that pupils have to be taught how to type words in to a computer? Are you from the past?

...its much worse than that, my other half actually has to teach them words; 5 year olds have practically no initiative these days...

Antitrust probe looms over Windows RT 'browser ban'

Re: @Jason Hindle

I guess he's referring to Apple's Ad Hoc and Enterprise Distribution methods for Apps which aren't publically distributed - these don't have the same level of scrutiny and aren't subject to non-compete clauses etc

Ofcom: Now's your chance to make Local TV for Local People

>I'd like to see the BBC buy that as a shining example of local content

Welkum t'uh Click, Yorkshh 'dition.

Ahm Spencer Keighley, bringin thee all t'pewter and t'internet news from reet round region...

Google KNEW Street View cars were slurping Wi-Fi

Re: Rogue Engineer

I think you'll find its actually spelled, 'D'Oh!'.

Tim Cook rejects Apple's old business model of suing everyone

Re: rebranding!

>Reg doesn't apply the term to these companies

God forbid...imagine the outpouring of piss and vinegar from the cult of button encrusted mice, if El Reg dared to suggest Logitech were a Foxconn rebrander.

Zuckerberg blew $1bn on Instagram 'without telling Facebook board'

Re: You've got to laugh.

...my first thought was I bet they got him with, "you know what is cool?... a billion dollars".

Still, its nice work if you can get it.

Motorola brings 3G to Xoom tablets

Re: Yesterday's tablet

>This one packs Tegra 2 SoC.

Really? Elsewhere they are TI OMAP 4430s - which are fitter A9s with a reasonable PVR GPU.

Apple products now found in half of all American dwellings

Re: Can Anna Leach

>stop now with the rather stupid 'Foxconn rebrander' description.?

I also object to this - they mostly are rebranding Samsung kit these days.

>if you stopped juvenile idots posting there would hardly be any comments at all.

I had to look idot up, must be getting old:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idot

Who killed ITV Digital? Rupert Murdoch - but not the way you think

Re: Straw clutching

>I've still never understood why Sky is such a success though.

.....because people like live sports, new films and slick shows from HBO and you won't be able to watch the latter on Freeview for at least another couple of years.

>But if the longshot is that we now have Freeview as a result of all this then it may have worked out for the best for most UK TV consumers.

Freeview is the bare minimum for folk who don't watch a lot of TV - vast numbers were quite happy with 5 analogue channels, its probably perfect for them - assuming they can receive it.

>You pay £500 a year for it's sports and movies and yet it still shows adverts

Can't say I notice, commercial breaks are removed from Anytime and Anytime+ and at least half the broadcast stuff I watch is recorded - for eveything else there's live pause....and while I pay around that for 2 HD boxes, I don't think most people do.

Panasonic talks up TV for the blind

>The Japanese giant claimed it is the first telly maker to do so.

Perhaps someone should tell them about Sky Talker....

Apple iPad 3 'retina display' uses Sharp super-high aperture tech

Re: @ Nergatron

>there seems to be a newer version of this tech called 'Ultra High Aperture'

Never mind the quality, feel the width.

Tony Blair closes RSA 2012, denounces WikiLeaks

Re: @ Mahatma Coat

>Cameron became PM because that's the way the system currently works. Don't like it?

In practice it makes little difference to me. I was simply pointing out that the current Government was formed, not elected. Describing Cameron as an elected PM implies he has a mandate.

Re: @ Mahatma Coat

Cameron is PM by virtue only of Lib Dem votes which were, in the main, votes against him....so you can't really claim him as an elected PM either.

Apple claims its 'innovation' creates 514,000 US jobs

Re: Quoth Twain: 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics'

86.7% of people believe this to be so, but in that form it was actually Lord Courtney - and he was ripping off Sir Charles Dilke's original 'There are three degrees of untruth,—a fib, a lie, and statistics'.

Sony exec: quad-core CPUs bad for today's phones

Its insight like this which has made Sony-Ericsson what it is today.

Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

Stick with it

It reflects the prevalent British attitude towards folk with intellectual/learning disabilities well.........and that's not me being snide or 'right-on' I really do mean it.

While you're tweaking RegSpeak, I suggest you expand the theme:

'Fanboi' could be replaced with 'Mac Mong', 'fandroids' could become 'Droid Deacons' and as 'troll' really lacks distinctiveness, 'spazz' might fit the bill.

If you seriously think it doesn't matter, spend a few minutes on http://www.respond.org.uk/ or read Living in Fear from Mencap, bit old now but nothing has changed all that much.

Now Proview seeks ban on ALL iPads coming out of China

iKerChing?

Apple orders PC builder to 'choose sides' in laptop battle?

>were actually involved in making some two of the first Apple II clones

ASUS manufactured the MacBook Pro for Apple, but lost the contract to Quanta a couple of years ago

HTC Ice Cream Sandwich updates slip to late March

>So how was Asus able to release ICS on their Transformer Prime tablet, released in the US less than a month later?

Nvidia & ASUS developers had been working on the build for several months prior to November which was the public release. Its hardly news that OHA partners get the code [and contrib] earlier.

Googorola's desire for iPhone royalties will upset Apple cart

What about the 'Simon' - back when IBM used to cook with gas. Touchscreen smartphone which also did fax, pager & basic PDA stuff - and was launched in 1992.

Apple Stores getting petitions on ethical conduct for breakfast

>"Ironbridge - The birthplace of industry"

In all the tourist pamphlets maybe...Oswaldtwistle is where the Spinning Jenny [the first industrial machine] was developed.

Cloth, mostly wooden machines and water powered engines was where it began and massive mills were in operation long before Darby.

The industrial revolution began in Oswaldtwistle. You're both wrong.

Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor

No probably about it....

http://displaylink.com/shop/monitors

http://libdlo.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Apple won't rule out all singing, all dancing iBooks on Kindle

Net Book Agreement

This kind of went the other way as it provided a legal means for publishers to blacklist sellers who discounted books below cover price.....

Retailer drops Eee Pad Transformer Prime, claims quality issues

'We've cancelled your pre-order for your own good' sounds a lot better than 'we lack the buying power to fulfill your pre-order'.

Area 51 to host sci-fi knocking shop

Shatner Cabaret

Maybe he'll do 'Common People'.....that kind of works. Sort of his musical 'Boston Legal' moment.

Next-generation materials for post-Christmas repairs: Reg investigates

>it was designed to be a quicker alternative to sutures in the battlefield

Nope - it was designed by Kodak as an extra strong transparent plastic for gun sights during WW2, but was a fail.....after which they repurposed as a general adhesive initially with optics.

Use in medicine didn't begin til the 60's and the toxic nature of earlier brews was such it didn't actually get FDA approval as a skin adhesive until the 90's.

Apple TV tops connected set-top box chart

>Sky boxes don't have net access but if they did, what percentage would they hold?

Sky HD boxes do - for the VoD Anytime+ service via the rear ethernet port.

Motorola Xoom 2 10in Android tablet

Xoom 2 models have an IPS panel with 4x the contrast of the original Xoom if that's any help....

Apple telly may sport Sharp screen tech

Pedantic Factoid

"most likely Samsung and/or LG, as these companies are the largest producers of LCD panels in the world"

The largest producer is AU Optronics, it doesn't spend much on brand awareness, but it makes panels for many companies - including Apple, Samsung and LG funnily enough.

Adobe Flex SDK bombshell STUNS developers

>And apart from a single anonymous 'health club` developer who else is experiencing consternation?

...er I guess that would be 24hr Fitness and many companies have invested millions.

Apple gets patent for ‘unlock gesture’

>Got an example of a device prior to apples that used sliding your finger around on a touch screen to unlock it?

10/950,088 was filed the year before - now part of BenQ's rather extensive mobile IP portfolio and a good match for the Android password gesture.

Dunno why but Apple didn't cite it in their filing for some reason :)

This weekend: First ever iPADS IN SPAAAACE

So is that the end of the charmingly named SPOC [I suppose its ISOC there] or will they just be playing Angry Birds?

Google Maps API now costs $4 per 1,000 requests

Embedded Google Maps are free, can't you just use them?

> note there is no exceptions for not-for-profit sites

Yes there are, provided they are run by a Registered Charity or Not-For-Profit Company - you can get most Google services free - Apps, Checkout, Earth Pro, $10K+ a month of free AdWords etc....

Google report reveals YouTube takedown requests... by country

http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/search.cgi

Stores them - Google certainly adds to this DB, not sure if its an exhaustive list.

Cryptoboffin: Secure boot a boon for spooks' spyware

The 32-bit edition of Windows 8 supports ARM but not UEFI......sounds perfect for you.

Android upgraded to be more resistant to hack attacks

This is already option in Honeycomb see Settings | Location & Security | Encrypt Tablet....

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

@Rolf

What happened to the other half of that photo?

http://cdn.ubergizmo.com/photos/2007/11/android-prototype.jpg

Samsung and Google's next Nexus specs leak

Yep, as with pretty much every Android handset where the battery is under a backplate - eg my old Nexus One has a 3200mAh