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Oh Lord help us, I hope the kids on the bus don’t find out about these speakers. These £25 speakers are a bargain. The Proporta Twisted System – Portable Speakers consists of two independent speakers, each rated at 2.5 watts RMS, producing a stereo output of 5 watts RMS with a total peak power of 10 watts. The right hand speaker is the Main Speaker. It contains the amplifier and can be identified [...]

On the corner of Berwick Street today, in the old Tiscali HQ, TalkTalk opened their swanky  new office space. They’ve setup several floors of high-tech goodness. The ground floor is a walk-in PC zone. Think Apple Store, but instead of iMacs they have rows of desktop PCs with large monitors running Windows 7. This floor is for the general public – to play around on the web (you can only [...]

Image via Wikipedia So here in the UK we’ve become accustomed what’s known as the ‘Apple tax’. Whenever a product is launched in the UK, we always see a significant price increase compared the US price. It has been argued that our higher prices are down to extra costs, such as customs and VAT. To this way say: nonsense! As an example, we worked out the cost of an imported [...]

Image by nDevilTV via Flickr Has Jonathon Ross spilled the beans on Project Natal? While Microsoft just mentioned that Project Natal would be ‘out in time for the holidays’, Ross decided to tweet about it publicly mentioning that Project Natal would be coming out in October this year. So, why should Mr. Ross be believed – Well, for a start, below is a video showing him playing Project [...]

Image by michperu via Flickr The largest company in the world, Microsoft, reported disastrous results for the April to June quarter. Their profits went down by almost a third. The group is also expecting financial difficulties in the following months. “It looked like a pretty tough quarter for Microsoft. The top line was very weak,” – Toan Tran from Morningstar. It looks like [...]

Google have just launched a set of new features on Gmail which changes the way users interact with labels. So what’s new: Labels are now on the left hand side, according to Googles blog above the chat box, however I have the right hand side chat enabled so it’s above my documents box now. Hiding less used labels is something you have control over now, which is great, I usually underscore my most [...]