While Android doesn't feature the same volume of apps in its Marketplace as iPhone users are used to, there are still loads of great apps to download.Whether you're after the best free Android apps or the best paid ones, we've compiled our favourites on the pages below.
30 best free Android apps
Most of the good stuff on Android is free, thanks to the work of developers who do it for love alone. These 30 free Android apps should be any Android owner's Day One installs...
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30 best free Android games
We've worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
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10 best Android apps worth paying for
don't panic because we're mentioning money here - the average cost of this little lot is around two dollars a pop. In return, you're able to tether, customise, share data and more, all in incredible style, thanks to the work of Team Android's finest people.
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Top 10 best Android paid-for games
Android's a world of bargains - most of the finest examples of paid-for Android games come in around the psychologically negligible 'micro-transaction' cost level, with the majority of developers selling their works for a couple of dollars, tops. So, now you've been gently acclimatised to the possibility of having to pay for something, pay for these things - the 10 best paid-for games on Android today.
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10 best alternative Android apps
Even if you're using a phone layered down with a custom user interface like Sense or TouchWiz, there are many alternatives to your pre-installed tools and settings. These are our 10 favourite alternate Android apps.
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Acer launching Tablet PC range next month
Acer is set to unveil its new range of tablet PCs next month, according to latest reports.The Wall Street Journal notes that Acer is planning a press event to unveil the new range of touchscreen slate computers on November 23.
TechRadar will be bringing you all the news on Acer's new tablet PCs as soon as we get it.
Which OS?
"No details of the product has been released yet," an Acer UK PR rep informed us earlier today, while confirming that we should hear a lot more from the November 23 event.
Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci told Dow Jones Newswire that the new range of tablet PCs will be shown in New York City on November 23rd, with prices ranging from $299 to $699 each.
Nothing was said about which operating systems the machines will use, what size screens they will be or whether or not there are plans to partner with mobile operators on 3G contracts.
Expect all of those details and more on November 23.
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In Depth: Windows 7 email: 5 best free clients
There's a lot to like about Windows 7, but unfortunately email doesn't rank high on the list. Microsoft ditched Windows Mail along with several other Vista mistakes, and so if you want an email client then you'll now have to uncover one for yourself.
That doesn't have to be a major problem, though. There are now plenty of free clients around, most with lengthy feature lists and wide support for all the key email standards.
And to give you a head start, we've identified our favourite five email programs for Windows 7 - all you have to do is choose the one that best suits your needs.
1. Mozilla ThunderbirdBest all-rounder; best for extensions
Mozilla's Thunderbird stands out from the crowd right away, as you begin to set up your email accounts. It uses its own database to figure out the appropriate incoming and outgoing server names, the ports to use, authentication settings and more, which greatly cuts down on the configuration hassles.
If you're trying to set up the program to work with your Gmail account, say, then all you have to enter is your Gmail address and password. Thunderbird will set all the other details on your behalf. (Though if you've some odd requirements of your own, don't worry, that's not a problem - just click the Manual Setup button and you'll get full control over exactly how your account will work.)
Thunderbird then makes it reasonably easy to import your existing mail, contacts or settings from Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail.
Once everything is working you'll find the program has plenty of features: decent junk mail tools and phishing protection; plenty of search and filtering options; tabs that allow you to have multiple messages open simultaneously; an easy-to-use address book, newsgroup and RSS readers, even an attachment reminder that looks for words like "attachment" in the email and reminds you to attach something before clicking "Send".
And Thunderbird's familiar interface means you'll feel immediately at home, very quickly exploring everything the program has to offer.
Thunderbird's real advantage, though, comes in its free add-ons. These add features like calendar management, message encryption, integration with social networks, interface tweaks and more, and with more than 1,000 add-ons on offer there's sure to be plenty that will work for you.
2. Windows Live MailBest for Microsoft/ Windows Live fans
Having dropped Outlook Express and its Windows Mail successor, Microsoft's current free email client is Windows Live Mail, a part of Windows Live Essentials.
The program takes a little more work to set up than Thunderbird. You'll need to enter all your account server names, ports and authentication details manually, for instance, and it's not quite as easy to import emails and account details from other packages (although you do get direct support to import messages from Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or other instances or Windows Live Mail).
Once it's configured, though, Live Mail quickly proves to be a lightweight and likeable program.
There's POP3 and IMAP support, the junk mail filters do a good job of keeping spam away from your Inbox, and the clean interface makes it generally easy to find the messages you need.
You get plenty of other features to explore, including an excellent calendar, a newsgroup reader and support for RSS feeds.
Live Mail's big selling point comes in its integration with other Microsoft programs and services, though. So for instance the program works well with Live Hotmail and Live Messenger, syncs with Live Contacts, and it connects to Live Calendar so you can update your schedule from anywhere, and others can keep up-to-date with that you're doing. If you can make use of these features then installing Live Mail makes a lot of sense: it's the glue that holds everything else together.
3. Postbox ExpressBest for ex-Thunderbird fans looking for something a little better
Thunderbird's a good email client, but it's not perfect. If you've fallen out of love with Mozilla's finest recently, but can't get enthusiastic about any the competition, then Postbox Express could be the perfect candidate.
Why? It's based on Thunderbird code, so looks very similar. It can now use some of the same extensions, such as Lightning or Enigmail. And migration is hassle-free, because the setup process will detect your Thunderbird installation and offer to import its accounts, settings and emails.
But if you don't have Thunderbird installed, that's no problem either. Postbox Express is just as easy to set up with new accounts, and includes a Quickstart Guide on one of its tabs that explains how to, say, migrate account settings from Outlook.
Once it's configured, you'll find Postbox Express has powerful Outlook-like searches. You can use terms like "subject: accounts", "from:Carly", and even some natural language searches "before: last month" to track down the messages you need. And the search results aren't just some static list. You can then archive, tab, copy, move or delete any or all of your located messages in a couple of clicks.
You may not have to search as much as normal, though, because Postbox Express also supports email threading (or "conversation views" as the program calls them). In a click this summarises a long exchange of emails so you can quickly see who said what, and when.
There's also easy email tagging, which helps you search for and filter your messages later. And if your email client is always running in the background, then you'll appreciate Postbox Express's ability to publish your current status to Facebook, Twitter or FriendFeed via a handy Post button.
4. eM ClientBest for features
If other email clients never quite seem to have the power or all the features you need, then eM Client may be for you. The free version is more restrictive than the others here - it's free for personal use only, and limited to a maximum of two account - but otherwise you get full access to a very extensive feature list.
The program can import messages and data from a lengthy list of other clients, for instance: Thunderbird, Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, and The Bat!. It can also import contacts from csv or vCard files, Facebook or Google. And there's support for importing events from iCalendar format (ics) files, and it can even import messages from raw .eml files.
There's support for all the usual email standards, of course: SMTP, IMAP, POP3, SSL/ TLS, S/MIME. You get an excellent WYSIWYG editor, inline spellchecking, address autocompletion, signatures, templates and more.
An excellent built-in calendar supports the CalDAV standard, which means it works with any CalDAV compliant server, including Apple's iCal, Kerio, Yahoo! and more.
There's also a powerful and highly customisable contacts database. Instant messaging integration that includes full XMPP (Jabber) support, and works with Facebook and Yahoo! chat, ICQ, MSN, AOL and so on. Plus there's Skype integration, Google maps support for finding addresses, and widgets to extend the program, for example displaying your choice of web pages or RSS feeds.
If there's an issue here, it may be reliability - there were one or two times when the program didn't work as we expected. But if you need plenty of raw power then eM Client has more than enough to spare.
5. Opera MailBest for simplicity
You don't need calendars, instant messaging integration, or the ability to handle an Inbox with 30,000 emails? If your needs are simple then maybe you can do without a dedicated email client at all. Opera Mail is built in to the Opera browser, and it could provide everything you require.
Import options aren't quite up to the standard of some of the competition. It's possible to import your messages from Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape Mail, and anything that uses the mbox format, but that's about it.
There's support for IMAP or POP accounts, though, so you'll quickly have the program set up to read your ISP's account, as well as web services like Gmail, AOL or Yahoo.
The spam filter then does a good job of blocking junk mail, and this improves even further as you train it. Opera's views automatically filter your emails into particular categories, like unread messages, emails with attachments, or anything on a mailing list. And if that's not enough, speedy search options track down whatever you might need.
Opera Mail is a very capable package, then, that also includes an RSS and newsgroup reader. If you'll also make use of the Opera browser then it could be the ideal email client for you.
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Opinion: The PSP Phone: it's just another N-Gage
Now pictures of a (supposed) Sony Ericsson PSP phone have emerged, the idea that we'll be seeing a 'proper' gaming mobile feels a lot more concrete.Yes, the theory makes sense: Sony Ericsson is ailing in the phone market, so it leverages a core brand from its parent company to pull punters back in again.
And on-the-go library of games, downloadable from wherever would mimic the relative success of the Kindle, where a 3G connection provides pretty much any book you could want in 30 seconds.
History repeating itself
But this isn't the first time a company has looked at the popularity of mobile gaming and tried to make a phone based around that principle - who remembers the Nokia N-Gage from 2003 and 2004?
Back then attempts to make a Gameboy rival with phone bits included failed spectacularly - not helped by a weird screen and having to take out the battery to play games.
And now Sony Ericsson wants to repeat the trick? Surely someone has realised that gaming on a mobile is a casual thing, not the primary function. That's always going to be calling or internet browsing.
Gamers might flock to the brand as they think 'Wow, I can finally do away with having a PSP AND a phone in my pocket - score!'
But then they'll suddenly find themselves a little embarrassed in a meeting when they pull out a phone that's primarily a games console - you might as well walk in wearing an 'I'm 10 years old TODAY' badge.
Phone for the gamers
Phones now have powerful graphics processors and CPUs, loads of memory and large screens; but just because a gaming phone is possible, doesn't mean Sony Ericsson should make it.
Gaming on mobiles has also never been bigger, thanks to the likes of Apple, but the extra heft of a slide out keypad and shoulder buttons is still a bridge too far, no matter how hard the shiny Android-toting touchscreen tries to hide it.
The rise of casual gaming is just that: casual. People want to throw birds at pigs, slice fruit in half with their finger or hack bits of rope to feed a monster for ten minutes. They don't want to have to spend an hour immersed in an RPG when they've only got a few stops on the Tube.
Now, a Sony-branded gaming portal offering oodles of PSP-style gaming content instantly downloadable to any (decent) Android phone, well, now that's something we would REALLY love to see happening - just not Sony Ericsson's attempt to convince people that the N-Gage was secretly a brilliant idea.
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Partnership is big win for Orange and T-Mobile users
Orange and T-Mobile customers have been able to make an extra 5 million calls and 20 million texts since both networks were opened out as part of the Everything Everywhere amalgamation. Although the Orange and T-Mobile brands have carried on, the two providers are now joined up as Everything Everywhere – the UK's biggest mobile communications company.
One of the benefits for customers of both networks has been that they can use not only their own network but also the other if their signal drops.
To do this, customer must sign up at either www.orange.co.uk/share or www.t-mobile.co.uk/share to receive an update to their SIM card,
Significant increase
Everything Everywhere claims that this new system has seen a significant increase – with 1.35 million customers benefiting from the change.
"This is just the beginning of our hugely ambitious network plans and I'm delighted that we've enabled so many of our customers to make calls and send texts in more places by signing up to take advantage of our unique offer – two networks for the price of one," said Tom Alexander, CEO of Everything Everywhere.
"And we're not stopping there. The next benefit, due in spring next year, will enable our customers to experience enhanced data and internet coverage, as well as the ability to make calls and send texts in more places.
"We'll also be enhancing our services so that customers can automatically switch to whichever network has the strongest signal while they're mid-call, keeping them close to the people, places and things that matter to them, wherever they are."
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PSP Phone rumours: what you need to know
It's been rumoured for some time - Sony was blabbing on about a "seductive" PSP/Phone hybrid back in 2007 - but it's no longer a rumour: Sony has indeed locked a PSP Go and a smartphone in a dark room full of aphrodisiacs and Barry White CDs.The result is the Sony PlayStation Phone, or PSP Phone, an Android-powered device that's half PlayStation and half phone. So what do we know about it?
The PSP Phone runs Android
The Sony PlayStation Phone OS will be Android, most likely the Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" release.
The PSP Phone specifications are pretty impressive
According to Engadget, the PlayStation phone specifications include a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, a 5 megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM and a 3.7" or 4.1" display with WVGA resolution or better.
Rather than a QWERTY keyboard the PSP Phone slider reveals the familiar D-pad and buttons from the PSP Go together with a wide touch pad in the middle that supports multi-touch gestures. Unusually for a Sony device it's expandable via MicroSD cards rather than Sony's own Memory Sticks.
The PSP Phone images may be fake
Engadget is confident that the images it's published are the real thing - albeit images of a pre-production prototype - but Sony Europe is calling shenanigans.
The PSP Phone interface hasn't been leaked yet
Engadget's prototype is "still in prototyping mode", which means Sony hasn't yet applied its own skin to the Android operating system. It "is said to be rather buggy" too.
The PSP Phone release date probably won't be in 2010
A 2010 release date has been rumoured since we first heard that Sony might make a PlayStation phone, but given that we're already in October - and that Android 3.0 hasn't shipped yet - that's looking pretty unlikely. A 2011 release date is much more realistic. We'd have had it earlier if it weren't for a bad case of office politics, it seems.
PSP Phone games might be cheaper
The rise of the iPhone and Android app stores mean phone users are used to paying pennies for games. Will Sony slash the price of its portable games, or will it try and persude punters to keep paying thirty quid for blockbuster titles? As Screen Digest's Ed Barton told us in August, "the average sales price of iPhone and other mobile games is much lower… does Sony want [the PlayStation brand] to rush headlong into a development environment where the consumer expects games priced at 59p to £5.99?"
PSP Phone games will look like PSP and PSX games
Engadget reports that Sony PlayStation phone "games will be graphically in the range of PSX or PSP games, meaning true 3D gaming is heading to Android." Such games will be in a PSP Phone-specific bit of the Android Market, although it's possible that the games might be made available for other Android devices in the future.
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PSP Phone rumours: what you need to know
It's been rumoured for some time - Sony was blabbing on about a "seductive" PSP/Phone hybrid back in 2007 - but it's no longer a rumour: Sony has indeed locked a PSP Go and a smartphone in a dark room full of aphrodisiacs and Barry White CDs.The result is the Sony PlayStation Phone, or PSP Phone, an Android-powered device that's half PlayStation and half phone. So what do we know about it?
The PSP Phone runs Android
The Sony PlayStation Phone OS will be Android, most likely the 3.0 "Gingerbread" release.
The PSP Phone specifications are pretty impressive
According to Engadget, the PlayStation phone specifications include a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, a 5 megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM and a 3.7" or 4.1" display with WVGA resolution or better.
Rather than a QWERTY keyboard the PSP Phone slider reveals the familiar D-pad and buttons from the PSP Go together with a wide touch pad in the middle that supports multi-touch gestures. Unusually for a Sony device it's expandable via MicroSD cards rather than Sony's own Memory Sticks.
The PSP Phone images may be fake
Engadget is confident that the images it's published are the real thing - albeit images of a pre-production prototype - but Sony Europe is calling shenanigans.
The PSP Phone interface hasn't been leaked yet
Engadget's prototype is "still in prototyping mode", which means Sony hasn't yet applied its own skin to the Android operating system. It "is said to be rather buggy" too.
The PSP Phone release date probably won't be in 2010
A 2010 release date has been rumoured since we first heard that Sony might make a PlayStation phone, but given that we're already in October - and that Android 3.0 hasn't shipped yet - that's looking pretty unlikely. A 2011 release date is much more realistic. We'd have had it earlier if it weren't for a bad case of office politics, it seems.
PSP Phone games might be cheaper
The rise of the iPhone and Android app stores mean phone users are used to paying pennies for games. Will Sony slash the price of its portable games, or will it try and persude punters to keep paying thirty quid for blockbuster titles? As Screen Digest's Ed Barton told us in August, "the average sales price of iPhone and other mobile games is much lower… does Sony want [the PlayStation brand] to rush headlong into a development environment where the consumer expects games priced at 59p to £5.99?"
PSP Phone games will look like PSP and PSX games
Engadget reports that Sony PlayStation phone "games will be graphically in the range of PSX or PSP games, meaning true 3D gaming is heading to Android." Such games will be in a PSP Phone-specific bit of the Android Market, although it's possible that the games might be made available for other Android devices in the future.
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Google investing $5m to encourage journalism innovation
Google has invested $5 million (£3.15 million) to encourage innovation in digital journalism. The search giant is keen to help fuel the changes in how we access news online, and to that end has committed money in grants to non-profit organisations that are "developing new approaches to journalism in the digital age".
Although $2 million has been handed to the Knight Foundation in the US, Google's corporate communications and public affairs manager Clare Armand-Delille told TechRadar that a similar partnership in the UK is feasible.
"The Knight News Challenge is open to applications from anyone, anywhere in the world, including the UK," she said
Eager to do more
"But we're eager to do even more internationally, so we will be investing $3 million in journalism projects in other countries through a partnership similar to the one with Knight Foundation," she added.
"Stay tuned for more details in the coming months."
Google believes that the development of journalism is a critical tool for the internet and society.
"Journalism is fundamental to a functioning democracy," explained Google's Nikesh Arora.
"So as media organizations globally continue to broaden their presence online, we're eager to play our part on the technology side—experimenting with new ways of presenting news online; providing tools like Google Maps and YouTube Direct to make websites more engaging for readers; and investing heavily in our digital platforms to enable publishers to generate more revenue."
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God of War developer slams PSP piracy
The highly-anticipated new God of War game for PSP is out early next month, although the developer - of what is one of the biggest handheld games for Sony – thinks that rampant piracy is killing the platform.Ready at Dawn's Ru Weerasuriya told VG247 that he felt it was reaching the point where it just wasn't worth any developer making PSP games anymore.
Doesn't make sense to make games
Ready at Dawn has previously developed two triple-A PSP titles: Daxter and God of War: Chains of Olympus
The game designer said: "It's getting to the point where it doesn't make sense to make games on it."
Piracy is a major problem for handheld developers and games publishers – both on Sony PSP and on the Nintendo DS – yet few developers will ever speak out publicly about the problem, because they don't wish to compromise publisher relations or upset their PRs.
Nintendo continues to fight the piracy problem presented by R4DS carts, attempting to shut down renegade retailers that are caught selling the tech to games pirates.
Back to the PSP, Weerasuriya also added: "It's a tough call right now to say what's going to happen to it and where it's going to go, but it definitely hurts a lot of developers out there who are trying to make great games."
God of War: Ghost of Sparta is out in November.
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Gary Marshall: Come in Microsoft, the PC's time is up
It's easy to lampoon Ray Ozzie's farewell memo to Microsoft - Dan Lyons summarised it as "We suck. I quit. Goodbye." - but the departing Chief Software Architect has made some serious points. Tech is changing, and Microsoft isn't changing fast enough.It's not the easiest memo to read, because Ozzie never uses one word when he can use 80 - so we stuck it through Microsoft Word's AutoSummarize feature to find the important bits*.
It turns out there are four key points in Ozzie's memo.
First up: "Certain of our competitors' products and their rapid advancement & refinement of new usage scenarios have been quite noteworthy. Our early and clear vision notwithstanding, their execution has surpassed our own in mobile experiences, in the seamless fusion of hardware & software & services, and in social networking & myriad new forms of internet-centric social interaction."
AutoSummarized: Google, Apple and Facebook have kicked our arse.
Second: "Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration."
AutoSummarized: Windows, eh! What a bloater! (Incidentally, Ozzie said much the same thing ["Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan… it causes end-user and administrator frustration"] in his Big Exciting Memo of 2005.)
Third: "For each of us who can clearly envision the end-game, the opportunity is to recognize both the inevitability and value inherent in the big shift ahead, and to do what it takes to lead our customers into this new world."
AutoSummarized: Ballmer! Ballmer! Wake up, Ballmer! BALLMER!
And fourth: "Tomorrow's devices [are] relatively simple and fundamentally appliance-like by design, from birth. They're instantly usable, interchangeable, and trivially replaceable without loss. But being appliance-like doesn't mean that they're not also quite capable in terms of storage; rather, it just means that storage has shifted to being more cloud-centric than device-centric. A world of content – both personal and published – is streamed, cached or synchronized with a world of cloud-based continuous services."
AutoSummarized: The PC is yesterday's device.
It's not all negative - far from it - but Ozzie is clearly frustrated: why else would he be quoting his own 2005 call to arms, putting it in italics as if to say "I told you so!"?
For all his praise of Microsoft's talents, there's a message here: Microsoft is too reliant on the old way of doing things, and its rivals are doing to it what MS-DOS did to the mini and mainframe.
When Ozzie says that Microsoft should "once again fearlessly [embrace] that which is technologically inevitable" he's not saying that Microsoft is doing that. He's saying that it must.
* No we didn't.
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Updated: 30 best free Android games
As Android phones have increased in popularity the number of apps available for the platform has rocketed.And that means more free Android games. There's a lot of junk out there, but fortunately, there are gems within the junk.
We've worked our way through a whole load of Android games to reveal the ones you should download to your phone.
If we've missed your favourite free Android game, let us know in the comments.
1. Angry Birds
The amazingly popular iOS game moved to Android recently, earning over two million downloads during its first weekend of availability.
The Android version is free, unlike the Apple release, with maker Rovio opting to stick a few adverts on it rather than charge an upfront fee. The result is a massive and very challenging physics puzzler that's incredibly polished and professional. For free. It defies all the laws of modern retail.
Angry Birds for Android is available to download now from app store GetJar.
Because it's not on the Android Market, you'll need to head to Settings, Applications then make sure the box 'Unknown Sources: Allow install of non-market applications' is checked on your Android phone before you download.
2. Bebbled
Your standard gem-shuffling thing, only presented in a professional style you wouldn't be surprised to see running on something featuring a Nintendo badge with an asking price of £19.99.
You only drop gems on other gems to nuke larger groups of the same colour, but with ever-tightening demands for score combos and scenes that require you to rotate your phone to flip the play field on its head, Bebbled soon morphs into an incredibly complex challenge.
3. The Red Stone
There's an awful lot of square-shuffling games on Android and Red Stone is one of the best. And one of the hardest. You start off with a big fat 'King' square that's four times of the normal 'pawn' squares, then set about shuffling things so the fat King can get through to an exit at the top of the screen.
It's hard to accurately describe a puzzle game in the written word, but seriously, it's a good game.
4. Newton
Released a few months back in beta form, Newton is a maths/physics challenge that has you lining up shots at a target - but having to contend with the laws of nature, in the form of pushers, pullers, benders (no laughing), mirrors and traps, all deflecting your shot from its target.
The developer is still adding levels to it at the moment, so one day Newton might be finished and might cost money. But for now it's free and a great indie creation.
5. Sketch Online
Surprisingly free of crude representations of the male genitalia, Sketch Online is a sociable guessing game where users do little drawings then battle to correctly guess what's being drawn first. It's like Mavis Beacon for the Bebo generation. The version labelled "Beta" is free, and if you like it there's the option to pay for an ad-free copy. But Google can't make you. Yet.
6. Drop
Some might call Drop a game, others might classify it as a tech demo that illustrates the accuracy of the Android platform's accelerometer, thanks to how playing it simply involves tilting your phone while making a little bouncy ball falls between gaps in the platforms. Either way it'll amuse you for a while and inform you of the accuracy of your accelerometer - a win-win situation.
7. Frozen Bubble
Another key theme of the independent Android gaming scene is (ports of) clones of popular titles. Like Frozen Bubble, which is based around the ancient and many-times-copied concept of firing gems up a screen to make little groups of similarly coloured clusters. That's what you do. You've probably done it a million times before, so if it's your thing get this downloaded.
8. Replica Island
An extremely polished platform game that pulls off the shock result of being very playable on an Android trackball. The heavy momentum of the character means you're only switching direction with the ball or d-pad, letting you whizz about the levels with ease. Then there's jumping, bottom-bouncing, collecting and all the other usual platform formalities.
9. Gem Miner
You are a sort of mole character that likes to dig things out of the ground. But that's not important. The game itself has you micro-managing the raw materials you find, upgrading your digging powers and buying bigger and better tools and maps. Looks great, plays well on Android's limited button array. Go on, suck the very life out of the planet.
10. ConnecToo
Another coloured-square-based puzzle game, only this has you joining them up. Link red to red, then blue to blue - then see if you've left a pathway through to link yellow to yellow. You probably haven't, so delete it all and try again.
A brilliantly simple concept. ConnecToo used to be a paid-for game, but was recently switched to an ad-supported model - meaning it now costs you £0.00.
11. Titres
Once you're successfully rewired your brain's 25 years of playing Tetris in a certain way with certain buttons and got used to tapping the screen to rotate your blocks, it's... Tetris.
It hinges on how much you enjoy placing things with your phone's trackball or pad. If you're good at it, it's a superb Tetris clone. Let's hope it doesn't get sued out of existence.
12. Trap!
Not the best-looking game you'll ever play, with its shabby brown backgrounds and rudimentary text making it look like something you'd find running on a PC in the year 1985. But it's good.
You draw lines to box in moving spheres, gaining points for cordoning off chunks of the screen. That sounds rubbish, so please invest two minutes of your time having a go on it so you don't think we're talking nonsense.
13. Jewels
Coloured gems again, and this time your job is to switch pairs to make larger groups which then disappear. That might also sound quite familiar. The good thing about Jewels is its size and presentation, managing to look professional while packing in more levels than should really be given away for free.
14. OpenSudoku
We had to put one Sudoku game in here, so we'll go with OpenSudoku - which lives up to its open tag thanks to letting users install packs of new puzzles generated by Sudoku makers. It's entirely possible you could use this to play new Sudoku puzzles for the rest of your life, if that's not too terrifying a thought.
15. Abduction!
A sweet little platform jumping game, presented in a similarly quirky and hand-drawn style as the super-fashionable Doodle Jump. You can't argue with cute cows and penguins with parachutes, or a game that's easy to play with one hand thanks to its super accessible accelerometer controls.
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16. The Great Land Grab
A cross between a map tool and Foursquare, The Great Land Grab sorts your local area into small rectangular packets of land - which you take ownership of by travelling through them in real-time and buying them up.
Then someone else nicks them off you the next day, a bit like real-world Risk. A great idea, as long as you don't mind nuking your battery by leaving your phone sitting there on the train with its GPS radio on.
17. Brain Genius Deluxe
Our basic legal training tells us it's better to use the word "homage" than to label something a "rip-off", so we'll recommend this as a simple "homage" to the famed Nintendo Brain Training franchise.
Clearly it's not going to be as slick, but there's enough content in here to keep you "brain training" (yes, it even uses that phrase) until your battery dies. The presentation's painfully slow, but then again that might be the game teaching you patience.
18. Coloroid
Very, very simple and has the look of the aftermath of an explosion in a Tetris factory, but it works. All you do is expand coloured areas, trying to fill them in with colours in as few moves as possible - like using Photoshop's fill tool at a competitive level.
19. Cestos
Sort of a futuristic recreation of curling, where players chuck marbles at each other to try and smash everyone else's balls/gems down the drain and out of the zone. The best part is this all happens online against real humans, so as long as there's a few other bored people out there at the same time you'll have a real, devious, cheating, quitting person to play against. Great.
20. Air Control
One of the other common themes on the Android gaming scene is clones of games based around pretending to be an air traffic controller, where you guide planes to landing strips with a swish of your finger. There are loads of them, all pretty much the same thing - we've chosen Air Control as it's an ad-supported release, so is technically free.
21. GalaxIR
A futuristic strategy game with an abstract look, where players micro-manage an attacking alien fleet. Pick a planet, pick an attack point, then hope your troops have the balls to carry it off. There's not much structure to the game as yet, but that's what you get when you're on the bleeding-edge of free, independent Android gaming development.
22. Graviturn
An accelerometer based maze game, where the aim is to roll a red ball out of a maze by tilting your phone around. Seems embarrassingly easy at first, until increasing numbers of green balls appear on screen. If any green balls roll off the screen you die and have to try again. It's abstract. It's good.
23. Alchemy Classic
There are a few variants on Alchemy out there, each offering a similarly weird experience. You match up elements to create their (vaguely) scientific offspring, so dumping water onto earth makes a swamp, and so on. It's a brain teaser thing and best played by those who enjoy spending many hours in the company of the process of elimination.
24. Action Potato
You control three pots. Pressing on the pots makes them jump up into the air, where they harvest potatoes. See how many you can get in a row. That's the gist of it. And don't collect the rotten potatoes, else you die. That really is it. The Android Market stats say this is on well over 250,000 downloads, so it's doing something right.
25. Scrambled Net
Based around the age-old concept of lining up pipes and tubes, but has been jazzed up with images of computer terminals, high score tracking and animations. Still looks like something you'd have played on a Nokia during the last decade, but it's free – and looking rubbish hardly stopped Snake from taking off, did it?
26. Word Drop
Laid out like your standard Android block-based puzzle game, the difference here is we're not dealing with gems - you make blocks disappear by spelling out words from the jumbled heap of letters. There's not an enormous amount of point to it, but you can at least submit your scores and best words to the server, where an AI version of Susie Dent will pass her approval.
27. Barrr
What you do here is man-manage a bar world, pointing men at the beers, games or tattoo parlour, then taking their money off them once they're drunk and happy like a good capitalist. And make sure they go to the toilet. Things, as things do in games, soon start speeding up and it gets rather insane and difficult.
28. Tetronimo
The name gives it away - this is a Tetris clone. Or rather it's a game that uses the same sort of block-shifting rules as Tetris, only with a very nice and user friendly touchscreen area beneath the block pit to make it easy to play. We're having trouble locating this on the Android Market at time of writing - either a glitch or the inevitable legal troubles.
29. Word Feud
A superb little clone of Scrabble, with a big, clear screen and online play options that actually work. The game's been offered for free with some hefty advertising over it thanks to the developer being based in Norway - which only received paid-for app sales support recently. A paid version may arrive soon, but Word Feud remains free right now.
30. Friction Mobile
A very odd concept that makes no sense in still images. You fire a ball into the screen, then try to hit that ball with other balls until it explodes. The catch is you're not allowed to bounce balls backwards into your own face. Because then you die. Sounds rubbish, but works well. It's free, so give it a no-obligation, no-commitment whirl.
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Google to release Nexus Two with Carphone Warehouse?
Reports are appearing of a tie up between Google and The Carphone Warehouse to sell a forthcoming 'Nexus Two' Android phone.City AM is claiming that a second Google-branded phone would be around in time for Christmas, although no manufacturer has been named (although rumours of it being Samsung are being played down).
Quoting an industry source, the story stated: "It looks like Google is experimenting with the future of its mobile model in the UK. It tried releasing through a single carrier, now it is trying a single retailer.
Solution
"It could be a solution to the problems it experienced when it tried to sell the Nexus One exclusively through its website. People like to be able to go to a store – this solves that."
However, it seems unlikely that Google would go down the route of bringing out another Nexus One phone, as the first was only to show manufacturers the power of Android on a high-spec phone and force them to follow suit.
Since then we've seen a glut of WVGA, large-screened phones with fast processors and better cameras - so what Google would gain from another Nexus (apart from more grief from the Philip K. Dick estate).
End of the Nexus
Back in July, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed that there would be no more Nexus models to the Telegraph, stating: "The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did.
"It was so successful; we didn't have to do a second one. We would view that as positive but people criticised us heavily for that. I called up the board and said: 'Ok, it worked. Congratulations - we're stopping'."
It seems more likely that we'll be seeing another strong Android handset coming through The Carphone Warehouse, offering a 'With Google' logo on the back - but it would take a big U-turn for the Big G to suddenly resurrect the Nexus brand.
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Zero-day exploit for Firefox causes malware storm
Firefox users have been warned that they could be hit with malware, after Mozilla confirmed that a new zero-day exploit is being used by cyber criminals. The latest critical vulnerability is believed to affect version 3.5 and 3.6 of the Firefox browser, and has already provided opportunity to malware makers.
According to Graham Cluley's Sophos blog, the Nobel Peace Prize website is one of the most notable victims of the problem – and has been propagating a Trojan.
Trojan
"Security firm Norman reported that the Nobel Peace Prize website was distributing a Trojan horse via the exploit yesterday, although it's obviously possible that other websites may also be serving up the vulnerability in an attempt to infect visiting users," said Cluley.
"Mozilla says it is working on a fix, but in the meantime Firefox users might be wise to turn JavaScript off and use the popular NoScript addon."
Mozilla has confirmed that it is hard at work on a solution to what will be an embarrassing and potentially damaging threat.
Aware of it
"Mozilla is aware of a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 users. We have received reports from several security research firms that exploit code leveraging this vulnerability has been detected in the wild," said Mozilla
"Users who visited an infected site could have been affected by the malware through the vulnerability…the exploit code could still be live on other websites.
"We have diagnosed the issue and are currently developing a fix, which will be pushed out to Firefox users as soon as the fix has been properly tested."
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Review: Canon LEGRIA HF M31
The Canon LEGRIA HF M31 camcorder is based on the LEGRIA HF-21 and uses a 6.35mm CMOS sensor to record Full HD video using AVCHD with 15x optical zoom. The new feature for the HF M31 is the switch to touchscreen controls on the 2.7 inch/68.6mm LCD screen.
The HF M31 has a single button for the Powered IS (Image Stabilisation) feature. This adds an extra level of image stabilisation over and above the amount you get with the Standard or Dynamic settings and comes in handy when using the zoom.
The set-up menus have been created to make the most of the touchscreen controls. You navigate using a swiping motion with your finger. As you scroll past each item, it is highlighted and you can then tap it to see the available options. It sounds reasonable in principle, but doesn't work too well in practice.
There are six hardware control buttons, a switch to toggle between Auto and Manual modes and a hardware zoom rocker control.
There are five data rates on offer for video that range from 5Mbps to 24Mbps, but these only cover two resolution settings of 1440x1080 and 1920x1080.
The HF M31 comes with an impressive 32GB of built-in memory, along with an SD/SDHC card slot. It also includes a Component cable with a proprietary connector and an AV-out cable with a mini jack on one end and RCA/Composite at the other. It does not include a Mini HDMI cable, which is poor considering the price.
Canon includes a copy of Image Mixer 3 SE Ver.6 transfer utility and video tools on CD to handle your AVCHD movies.
Video quality is fine, although it drops off in low light conditions.
The Canon LEGRIA HF M31 is more than twice the price of Samsung HMX-H200 or Toshiba Camileo SX900, but not twice as good.
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News Corporation reboots MySpace
News Corporation has launched a new version of its social networking website MySpace, with a renewed focus on music and entertainment.MySpace chief exec Mike Jones has also said that the company no longer plans to compete head-to-head with Facebook, but instead wants to position itself as a complimentary service that younger users (from those in their teens through to users in their mid-thirties) will use to keep on top of the best and latest music and videos.
MySpace or yours?
Traffic to MySpace has been steadily declining since March this year, while Facebook's 500-million-plus userbase continues to grow. MySpace currently has between 125 and 130 million active users, according to News Corporation.
The company purchased MySpace in 2005 for a cool $580 million.
MySpace's new revamp has a strong focus on content about movies, television and video games. The site has also been redesigned in order to increase the ease of usability – with more consistency in on-screen navigation buttons and the like.
The new MySpace is currently in beta, with the new site due to be rolled out to all users by the end of November.
CEO Mike Jones stressed that the focus is heavily on Generation Y, the 35-year-old and under demographic.
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Mobile gaming market worth $10 billion by 2014
The market for mobile gaming is set to be worth a massive $10 billion (£6.3 billion) by 2014, according to a new report.The market forecast for the mobile gaming industry comes courtesy of a new Futuresource Consulting report which, unsurprisingly, predicts rapid growth over the next three years in mobile phone gaming.
In-app payments are key
Apple's App Store, not including iPad sales, is forecast to generate $1.7 billion in revenue this year, which is around 30 per cent of total spend in mobile games market in 2010.
Futursource also claims that in-apps payments is one of the key factors in the growing revenues being generated by gaming on mobiles.
"There is no doubt that paid-for apps games are leading the gaming charge," said Patrik Pfandler, Lead Mobile Analyst at Futuresource.
"Our forecasts show apps-based gaming will account for more than 95% of total mobile gaming revenues by 2014 – that's despite the glut of free apps games out there.
"The growth of in-apps payments is a key ingredient in the commercial success of apps gaming.
"In the short term we'll see the rise of the 'freemium' business model, where the game is downloaded for free, but incorporates micro-transactions and virtual currencies, encouraging users to unlock additional features, new levels and premium content.
"In the longer run, we're going to see ad-funded apps games start to gain more traction as well."
The rapid growth of the smartphone market is the primary reason for the explosion in the market for mobile games and apps, "with high quality touchscreens, powerful programmable processors, improved graphics and cameras, increased storage, accelerometer and GPS all becoming standard and all making their contribution to an improved mobile gaming experience."
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Review: Toshiba Satellite L630-13M
Toshiba's Satellite range is aimed at consumers and covers everything from entry-level laptops to multimedia machines. The Satellite L630-13M sits in the middle, with decent performance and a great range of features packed into a sleek and portable chassis. An attractive and subtle pattern graces the black lid and interior, although the glossy surface does attract dust and smudges. The chassis is as compact as the Samsung Q330, and just a little bigger than the Dell Inspiron M101z, and can easily slip into a bag.
The 2.1kg weight makes this one of the lightest laptops. Its 240-minute battery life is average for this price and enough to last you on lengthy commutes.
Good usability
The touchpad is a decent size, despite the laptop's reduced frame, and is complemented by two firm mouse buttons. Another button disables the touchpad when needed, although we never accidentally brushed the pad as we did with the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13" and HP Pavilion dv6-3040sa.
Multi-touch gesturing is supported and running your finger up and down the right edge lets you easily scroll through documents. The full-sized keyboard is similar to the Fujitsu's, with flat keys that are firmly set and quiet when pressed, although the travel distance is shallow. There's no room for a dedicated numeric keypad.
Power is provided by an Intel Pentium P6000 processor and we were impressed by the performance on offer. You can run several applications at once without conflict, even fairly memory-intensive software, although the Intel Core i3 powered laptops proved more powerful.
Graphics are integrated, as with most of the laptops here, and fi ne for basic multimedia tasks. The 13.3-inch screen is very crisp, thanks to the 1366x768-pixel resolution, with sharp contrast levels provided. It's a suitably bright and vibrant screen too.
Toshiba has included some excellent features for such a small laptop. At 500GB, there's ample storage for your files and media, and there is also built-in vibration detection to protect the hard drive from damage should the laptop take a tumble.
Three USB ports are included, one of which doubles as an eSATA port, while HDMI and VGA ports can be used to hook up to monitors or projectors. Wired and wireless networking matches all the other laptops in this group test, while Bluetooth is also on hand for wirelessly connecting to compatible devices.
Overall, the Toshiba Satellite L630-13M is a great all-round machine. The solid chassis looks good and is easy to transport, while the Pentium processor offers decent performance. Plenty of features add to the overall package, with almost no flaws in evidence.
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White Apple iPhone 4 delayed till spring 2011
If you have been holding back until upgrading to an iPhone 4 until Apple released a white version of its new smartphone, then you will be disappointed to learn that the company has delayed the new white iPhone 4 until spring next year.The boring old black iPhone 4 was released earlier this summer back in June.
Fashionista frustration
The white model was originally promised to follow soon after in July, but has been delayed and delayed and delayed, causing frustration amongst those Apple fans and geek-fashionistas wanting a slightly different-coloured phone to the masses.
"We're sorry to disappoint customers waiting for the white iPhone again," said an Apple spokeswoman.
Apple claims that the white iPhone 4 was "more challenging to manufacture than we originally expected".
Overall iPhone unit sales were up 91 per cent to 14.1 million in Apple's most recent financial quarter, a total sales value of $8.6 billion.
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Barnes and Noble launches colour e-reader
Barnes and Noble has launched the Nook Color in the US this week, a full-colour 7-inch Android tablet PC offering the option of reading books, magazines and newspapers, in addition to viewing videos and running apps.Barnes & Noble's Nook Color will go on sale in the US on November 19, priced at $250 (£158). No word as yet on plans for a UK release of Nook Color. So this could well be a good excuse to make that pre-Xmas shopping trip to New York you've been thinking about…
Glare-free screen
Specs wise, the Nook Color features aseven inch 1024x600 full-color LCD touchscreen manufactured by LG, and is accelerometer-enabled – a feature which works in both portrait and landscape modes.
The screen is covered with a glare-free laminated coating, in order to provide readers with a more comfortable reading experience than tablet PCs with glossy screens such as the Apple iPad.
The Nook Color is also very light, weighing in at under a pound and measuring less than half an inch at its thickest point. It also features 8GB internal memory – more than enough for use as an e-reader – and a microSD slot for additional storage.
The Nook Color is Wi-Fi enabled, but not 3G-enabled, with what the manufacturer claims to be a solid eight-hour battery life.
Magazine publishers on board
Barnes and Noble is offering full support for the two million and more 'nookbooks' already in its online library. Additionally, magazine publishers including Conde Nast and Hearst, are also on board as partners.
The Nook Color will offer over 100 color newspapers and magazines including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Elle.
You can also use the Nook Color as a music player while you are reading. The device will NOT use Flash, but will support most other video formats.
In terms of apps, perhaps one of the most interesting at launch is a reader's social networking application called "Nook Friends" – so you can share your thoughts with your online book club friends.
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LimeWire forced to shut down P2P sharing
File-sharing service LimeWire is being forced by a US federal court to shut down its core P2P sharing software, in a ruling that is sure to be seen as a victory for the music industry and the big record labels.LimeWire is notoriously one of the major sources of freely-downloadable illegal music on the internet. LimeWire's client has been downloaded by hundreds of millions of users to date.
End of a P2P era
LimeWire has said that it will comply with a court injunction requiring the company to switch off "the searching, downloading, uploading, file trading and/or file distribution functionality, and/or all functionality" of its software.
LimeWire will stop offering its software for download immediately, in addition to disabling its software that users have already downloaded onto their PCs.
One source familiar with the company's plans explained further: "They've taken down the relay severs on the Gnutella network which the Limewire client uses to figure out which other p2p clients have what info on them."
New music service promised
LimeWire's demise reportedly will not (immediately) impact other open source P2Pclients on the Gnutella network such as FrostWire.
Lime Group, LimeWire's parent company, is planning to launch a new, legal music download service within the month. More on that when we get it.
A statement by music industry trade group RIAA outlines the case: "For the better part of the last decade, Limewire and Gorton have violated the law. The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive piracy machine that Limewire and Gorton used to enrich themselves immensely.
"In January, the court will conduct a trial to determine the appropriate level of damages necessary to compensate the record companies for the billions and billions of illegal downloads that occurred through the Limewire system."
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Virgin Media confirms 100Mb/s broadband
Virgin Media has confirmed that it will roll out 100Mb/s broadband this week – doubling the speed of its top level package and claiming that over 12.7 million homes will be able to get the service. Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the 100Mb/s service earlier in the week – as you may have read on TechRadar – and the cable giant has now officially announced the news.
Neil Berkett, chief executive officer at Virgin Media said: "The launch of our 100Mb service is a significant milestone in the UK's broadband evolution and a vivid illustration of the power of our next generation network."
Developments
"From establishing the UK's first ever broadband service in 2000 to the launch of 100Mb in 2010, in the space of just ten years, Virgin Media has led the greatest developments in digital Britain," he added.
"The world of possibilities that broadband will enable is set to explode and we're excited about the innovations we can bring to consumers in the next decade."
Virgin Media believes that the rise and rise of IPTV – such as the forthcoming YouView –will make fast connections vital as households connect to the internet through several devices at the same time.
Massive uptake
"We have already seen a massive uptake in the number of customers watching video rich services and bandwidth hungry high definition programmes and clips," added Berkett.
"We are now in a world where people want the best connectivity with whatever screen they are using and those service providers that aren't able to deliver this will simply be left behind."
The 100Mb service will be rolled out across Virgin Media's cable network with thefirst areas to get the "ultrafast" service including parts of London, the South East and Yorkshire.
The roll-out is expected to be complete by mid 2012.
Pricing and details
"As well as providing 100Mb download speeds, the service will also deliver 10Mb upload speeds, giving Virgin Media customers the ability to share content such as live high-definition video with ease," added Virgin Media's release.
"The new 100Mb package comes with a new custom built energy efficient combined modem and wireless 'N' router, with the potential to deliver speeds of up to 400Mb as new services roll-out in the future.
"A typical family will be able to get the new ultrafast service for as little as £35 a monthwhen bought in a bundle, or just £45 per month when bought as a sole product."
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Virgin Media confirms 100Mb/s broadband
Virgin Media has confirmed that it will roll out 100Mb/s broadband this week – doubling the speed of its top level package and claiming that over 12.7 million homes will be able to get the service. Prime Minister David Cameron spoke about the 100Mb/s service earlier in the week – as you may have read on TechRadar – and the cable giant has now officially announced the news.
Neil Berkett, chief executive officer at Virgin Media said: "The launch of our 100Mb service is a significant milestone in the UK's broadband evolution and a vivid illustration of the power of our next generation network."
Developments
"From establishing the UK's first ever broadband service in 2000 to the launch of 100Mb in 2010, in the space of just ten years, Virgin Media has led the greatest developments in digital Britain," he added.
"The world of possibilities that broadband will enable is set to explode and we're excited about the innovations we can bring to consumers in the next decade."
Virgin Media believes that the rise and rise of IPTV – such as the forthcoming YouView –will make fast connections vital as households connect to the internet through several devices at the same time.
Massive uptake
"We have already seen a massive uptake in the number of customers watching video rich services and bandwidth hungry high definition programmes and clips," added Berkett.
"We are now in a world where people want the best connectivity with whatever screen they are using and those service providers that aren't able to deliver this will simply be left behind."
The 100Mb service will be rolled out across Virgin Media's cable network with thefirst areas to get the "ultrafast" service including parts of London, the South East and Yorkshire.
The roll-out is expected to be complete by mid 2012.
Pricing and details
"As well as providing 100Mb download speeds, the service will also deliver 10Mb upload speeds, giving Virgin Media customers the ability to share content such as live high-definition video with ease," added Virgin Media's release.
"The new 100Mb package comes with a new custom built energy efficient combined modem and wireless 'N' router, with the potential to deliver speeds of up to 400Mb as new services roll-out in the future.
"A typical family will be able to get the new ultrafast service for as little as £35 a monthwhen bought in a bundle, or just £45 per month when bought as a sole product."
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First pictures of Sony PlayStation Phone emerge
Possible first pictures of the much-rumoured Sony PlayStation Phone prototype have been leaked onto the internet.Sony is rumoured to be planning to launch the PlayStation Phone in 2011, with an apparent PlayStation Phone prototype having been obtained by Engadget this week, which is the device you can see pictured here.
New mobile games marketplace
The gadget blog claims the prototype is absolutely genuine, and notes that the Sony PlayStation Phone is likely to include Android 3.0 alongside a Sony Marketplace to allow gamers to download games, much in the same way that you already can using a Sony PSPgo.
Specs wise, the Sony PlayStation Phone – or, at least, the prototype version that Engadget has got hold of – includes a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 chip, 512 MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, and a 4 inch screen.
That space you see between the two face buttons is a touchpad, which allegedly supports multitouch. The PlayStation Phone also keeps the two shoulder buttons, much like the PSP.
Finally, there is no Memory Stick slot on the prototype PlayStation Phone, but there is a slot for microSD cards.
TechRadar has contacted Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) for further comment.
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3 mobile confirms dominance of Facebook
The latest data from mobile network 3 clearly shows that social networking website Facebook and casual gaming firm Zynga (they of FarmVille fame) dominate mobile broadband use in the UK.3 has released the first of a number of planned research papers detailing mobile broadband traffic use and behaviour.
Facebook and gaming dominate
Unsurprisingly, social networking and casual gaming are right up there at the top of the chart.
3 has over one million mobile broadband and 3G dongle customers in the UK, who used a total of 2,500 terabytes of data throughout the month of July 2010.
3 now claims that its users make up 40 per cent of the dongle market in the UK.
Facebook use amongst those customers made up 7.023 terabytes of that data use.
Following Facebook and Zynga in the top ten most-visited services on 3's network are those sites and tech brands that you would expect to see, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, MSN , YouTube and Bebo
Here are the ten ten sites used by 3's mobile broadband users throughout July 2010
In decreasing order:
Facebook 7023 gigabytes of data
Zynga 3584
Apple 2491
Google 1717
Farmville 1680
MSN 947
Hotmail 708
YouTube 678
Microsoft 657
Bebo 304
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