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Acer announce the TravelMate 8481

James Richardson | July 15, 2011 |

I’m always on the road and rely upon having a notebook computer that’s always there when I need it and always ready for the job in hand. Over the years I’ve used dozens of different machines and few are up to a full days work. Acer think the have the solution with their TravelMate 8481, […]

Orange Daily Mobile Internet Bundle for EU surfing

Matt | July 15, 2011 |

Just last week the EU issued a directive telling mobile operators that they must reduce the cost of data for users roaming in Europe. Whether as a direct result of that directive or not Orange have today announced that they will have a new daily browsing bundle for Pay Monthly, Dongle and Small Business customers. […]

New MacBook Air to get SSD and CPU boost

Matt | July 15, 2011 |

OK, so we expected the MacBook Air to go on sale after this weeks Apple Store outage and at the same time as Lion. Obviously that didn’t happen in the end and we’re still waiting for the release of OS X Lion but we’re pretty sure it’s imminent. However, we’re still expecting to see new […]

Mobile Tech Addicts Podcast 127: Gobbledygook!

Matt | July 15, 2011 |

With Gareth away Matt and James are free to ramble on uncontrollably about the ZTE Event from a few days ago where they saw a few lovely things including the ZTE Skate, ZTE Libra and ZTE Tureis. We’re talking about the changes to the Apple Store and price rises as well as the ongoing law […]

Volume App Purchasing for Business from Apple

Matt | July 14, 2011 |

Earlier today we reported that Apple had increased the standard pricing of apps on the App Store following their brief down time yesterday. If you missed it, many apps have increased in price by an average of about 15%. However, if you run a business that uses or provides apps for employees then there is […]

TouchType Inc launches flagship Swiftkey X App for Android smartphones and tablets

Matt | July 14, 2011 |

Obviously predictive text entry is nothing new, been around for ages and although it has evolved a bit over the years the same frustrations still exist, the default predicted word is all too often the wrong one! The Swiftkey X app from TouchType is a bit different. The next step of the evolutionary step in […]

ZTE signs agreement with Brightpoint for UK distribution

James Richardson | July 14, 2011 |

Matt posted earlier the details of the three new ZTE phones we got to have a play with at last nights London event. The main purpose of the event though was to announce the partnership ZTE now have with Brightpoint for UK distribution. This will mean that instead of just having carrier branded devices here, […]

ZTE event, new phones fondled

Matt | July 14, 2011 |

Last night James and I attended an event with ZTE where we had a chance to get our hands on several new ZTE phones. The ZTE Skate, ZTE Libra and ZTE Tureis were all on show at the event at the Ice Bar in central London. At the event ZTE also announced a distribution partnership […]

App prices rise on UK Apple Store

Matt | July 14, 2011 |

When the Apple store went down yesterday for several hours for ‘maintenance’ many of us thought that this was the time that OS X Lion would be added to the store and when the expected new MacBook Air would go on sale. However, looks like we were wrong as a look through the app store […]

Seven new BlackBerry Smartphones coming soon

James Richardson | July 13, 2011 |

It was only this morning that we posted about BlackBerry App World downloads reaching the 1 billion mark. Following on from that we now have some further news and figures from RIM which includes the announcement of seven new BlackBerry Smartphones to launch in the coming months. Now the big question here will be are […]