Back in October Facebook in the US started allowing business to market promotions and offers based on Facebook Places check-ins called Facebook Deals (www.facebook.com/deals), and this is now being made available in the U.K. announced at a Facebook press conference in London. Starting today, January 31st, Facebook Deals is launching in the UK allowing companies [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Facebook Deals in the U.K. announces lauch partners – O2, Argos, Starbucks and others
Posted by Admin on January 31st, 2011
Samsung Galaxy Tab sells 2 million units in 3 months
Posted by Admin on January 30th, 2011
Samsung has announced that 2 million Galaxy Tab units were sold within 3 months of the Android tablet’s global launch. Samsung has made the Android 2.2 tablet available in just about sales channel, unconnected and contract in partnership with 200 mobile carriers in 94 countries. About 500,000 units of the Galaxy Tab were shipped to [...]
Irish man finds stolen Audi with help of Facebook
Posted by Admin on January 30th, 2011
Warren Coakley from Dublin, Ireland, was loading his 2005 Audi A4 with clothes and bags for two of his children, he turned back into the house to get his baby from his wife to put in the car, and when he came back he saw a “stranger in the car” who then drove it away. [...]
Amazon now sell more Kindle books than regular books
Posted by Rob Gordon on January 29th, 2011
Amazon has announced that it is now selling more Kindle books than physical books. They have been outselling hard-back books for some time, but since the new year Amazon has been selling 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperback books too. These are US statistics (amazon.com) but I would imagine they are a trend that [...]
Murdoch iPad newspaper to launch February 2nd
Posted by Admin on January 27th, 2011
News Corp’s iPad only newspaper “The Daily” was initially set to launch on Januray 19th, but was delayed after rumours of technical issues with Apple’s new subscription service. Reuters is quoting Rupert Murdoch’s son James as saying it should be available in “a couple of weeks” which was superceeded by a recent press invitation for [...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab now available for £359.20
Posted by Admin on January 27th, 2011
The Samsung Galaxy tab prices keep on tumbling, since November we’ve seen prices come down from £529.99, past £469.99 and now Amazon has the Tab listed for £359.20 (Aff) which is the best we’ve seen yet.
Posted in All, Android, Mobile Electronics 
Tags: amazon.price, android, galaxy, samsung, tab, tablet 
Hands on demo of the Sony Ericsson Experia Play (Playstation Phone) from Engadget
Posted by Admin on January 27th, 2011
After the initial rumours, and the leaked videos, Engadget have finally got some hands on time with the Playstation Phone – the Xperia Play. Ahead of the expected MWC announcement they have a play with a pre-release version and confirms that the Xperia Play has a 4-inch multitouch 854 x 480 LCD, a single-core processor [...]
