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The 10 hottest tech products of 2008

admin @ December 30, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Sit down for a moment and think about the best gadgetry of 2008.
Not just the best-selling kit, but those products that raised the technology bar and said to their rivals (somewhat smugly): “go on then, jump over that!”
There’s been a lot of great technology this year, but we think that the biggest impact has been [...]

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TechRadar’s 10 favourite technologies of 2008

admin @ December 24, 2008 # No Comment Yet

When you sit there with a glass of mulled wine this Christmas, think about what a great technology year 2008 has been.
We’ve had some hot gadgets, smarter phones, flatter TVs and faster (and thinner) computers.
But consider the technological advances that have underpinned your favourite products.
We’ve had Intel’s Atom processor powering a new generation of netbooks.We’ve [...]

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2008 tech predictions revisited: how did we do?

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A year ago, we predicted that 2008 would bring more of the same – at least for the most part. We suggested that CES 2008 would ultimately define many of the year’s tech trends. “Expect big TVs, HD DVD vs. Blu-ray (again), Linux computers and iClones of everything Apple-esque” we suggested.
Partly right – CES [...]

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News round-up, Tuesday 21st October, 2008

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This rather drab Tuesday has been a steady day for tech news, with enough computing, gaming, gadget, mobile and hi-fi news to keep us all off the street.
Motorola seems to be pinning its hopes on Google’s Android mobile operating system by all accounts, looking to develop a touchscreen phone with a sliding keyboard and enhanced [...]

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Apple MacBook Pro 2008

admin @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Sure, the MacBook looks great, and the fact that there’s no longer such an obvious style divide between it and the more powerful MacBook Pro models is big news, but for our money the new unibody case of the MacBook Pro marks a bigger shift between the old and new MacBook Pros than between the [...]

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Apple Expo Paris 2008: the full report

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We weren’t quite sure what to expect for this year’s major European Mac show. In the weeks leading up to the event, when we asked industry insiders whether they would be attending, the response was usually along the lines of “nah, not bothering this year”. It’s not hard, at least on the surface, to see [...]

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Apple Expo Paris 2008: the full report

admin @ September 20, 2008 # No Comment Yet

We weren’t quite sure what to expect for this year’s major European Mac show. In the weeks leading up to the event, when we asked industry insiders whether they would be attending, the response was usually along the lines of “nah, not bothering this year”. It’s not hard, at least on the surface, to see [...]

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The good, the bad and the downright weird at IFA 2008

admin @ August 31, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Well, TechRadar’s coverage of this annual electronics extravaganza has nearly come to an end, but there’s still time to give you a good idea about what worked, and more importantly, what didn’t.
The good
As you may know, TVs were the main event here, and TechRadar excitedly found out that the OLED war is set to hot [...]

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