Nexus Is The Latest Addition To a Bewildering List Google’s Nexus Player starts shipping on November 3, and brings with it another addition to the bewildering choice for the streaming films and television. This hockey-puck shaped set top box takes a step forward from Google’s Chromecast dongle system. It puts Google TV in direct competition…
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Solution To Signal Traffic Jam Will Be Needed In Future The cobwebs were blown from the wallet last week, when a new router at home replaced its ageing predecessor. Incredibly, that router had been pressed into service almost a decade ago, when broadband first flowed chez nous. However, it now needed too frequent a reboot…
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Opening Window Of Opportunity… There was a positive reaction to Microsoft’s unveiling of its Windows 10 ‘Technical Preview.’ Groans of not another version were mixed with cheers of ‘Windows 8 cannot be superseded soon enough.’ But, more importantly, there was much encouragement that Windows 10 looks to be what Windows 8 should have been all…
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Lettrs Offer The Personal Touch Are you one of those people who mourns the loss of more personal, intimate, handwritten style of communicating with close friends in the age of the emails and text messages? If so, then a free App that is gaining rapidly in popularity might be for you. Lettrs (no, not a…
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Keep Hi-Tech Eye On Your Pooch Attention all pet lovers, a couple of brand new products are offering a better class of IT solution for four-legged friends. Taking your pooch for some fun at a place where it can be safely let off the leash and allowed to roam free this weekend? Wish you could…
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Evernote Goes Into Reverse With Hybrid We might think that spiral notebooks and pens are marching alongside their posh cousin Filofax, towards the door marked ‘Museum Pieces.’ The rise of the tablet has been matched by a decline in handwritten note taking. Only cases of exhaustion of the right index finger and generally slow typing…
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Apple Shindig To Be Tasty Apple has organised shindig for next Tuesday at their Santa Clara Valley headquarters. Word on the street is that it will see the launch of iPhone 6. There are also wagers being laid that the much heralded iWatch might finally be launched as well. Industry insiders believe that it will…
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Super Software Options For University Students who have secured university or college places for the coming academic year will now be planning ahead for the next exciting chapter of their education. There are some interesting software offers available to those enrolled in accredited institutions of higher education and tooling up for a course. Microsoft Office…
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There’s A Lack Of Communication On Tax Disc Change Unless you are on the cusp of renewing a tax disc for a car before the end of the month, you will never receive another. From October, the requirements to display tax discs in the windscreens is consigned to history. The DVLA will stop issuing them….
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Comic Classic Silly Walk App Is Full Monty.. Apps seem to have led the IT news in the past week, with a couple of rather surprising success stories. Who would have expected an app based on a cult comedy turn, the best part of half a century old, to hit the big time? Yet, the…
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Nexus Is The Latest Addition To a Bewildering List
