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HP Envy 13 and 15 laptops know nothing about the recession

HP has once again excited the premium laptop market with the release of the Envy 13 and 15, which feature a seemingly sturdy aluminium and magnesium construction, as well as the slight resemblance of a certain Apple pr…
Palm Pre GSM prototypes make debut London appearance, no photos allowed

Had The Engadget Show taken place in London, the Palm Touchstones that Jon Rubinstein kindly gave away would've been of little use for us UK folks. Well, until some point before Christmas anyway, according to Palm's PR…
Orange UK wants £500 for the LG Watchphone, expects a queue

Yes, it has a touchscreen, and yes, it can do video calls, but is it worth £500? That's the question Orange is making you think quick before the LG-GD910's London release next Thursday (27th August), and 9am sharp too…
Britons fall for bogus online stores, receive fake products and fortune cookies

There is only so much you can save by buying online, until you reach the point where you start looking for sites other than eBay and Gumtree (like Craigslist for you folks in the US) for cheap stuff. This is where the p…
Dear O2, stop screwing with us iPhone customers!

Listen up, O2! It's been two weeks since the iPhone tethering hack was widely spread across the webs, and by now you should've worked out that we don't like how you're treating us. Our iPhone friends in Hong Kong and Ca…
Enable tethering on iPhone 3.0 - Too easy... (WORLDWIDE carriers)

Tested platforms: iPhone 3G 16GB, Firmware 3.0/3.0.1, O2 ContractiPhone 3GS 16GB, same stuff as the 3G 3.1 seems to have killed this hack, so um, yeah, don't do it! A solution is on its way, apparently. iTunes 8.2 is n…
MacBook price chart: UK vs HK (with education prices)

[NOTE: this table was made just the day before WWDC. I will update the prices and models shortly.] Here is a chart comparing the MacBook prices (including education prices) between UK (before 15% Value-Added Tax) and Ho…
@imperialcollege: What is Twitter?

*original article published in felix - student newspaper of Imperial College London - on 20-2-2009 Tomo Roberts - ex-Edior of felix - had just walked into the office, rambling on about how people had been trying to get …
Boris Johnson's madness @ Olympics

Boris may look like a hero here, but he showed no restraint on his own bonkers side. Just before the Mayor of London was given the flag, you could see him feeling uneasy on the stage as he puts his hands in his jack…
Notting Hill Carnival 2008, London

Today Kat, Alex and I went to the Notting Hill Carnival, which is apparently the largest street party in Europe and second largest around the world (after the Rio Carnival). It was our first time there and I was very …

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