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UK department store John Lewis launches broadband service, get in on the ground floor

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If you live in the UK, and think “If only I could get my broadband from the same place I get my crystal set” then maybe now you can. Department store John Lewis, a favorite for weddings, furniture and furniture which branched into the list of ISP English game. Standard package is £ 11 per month (excluding line rental,) is offering “up to” 16Mb speed and 20GB data cap. Users are more willing to pay a further £ 7 to remove the download limit. Of the bundle of benefits of free telephone support, no activation fee and, of course, a wireless router. Sounds like your kind of deal? Head to the link source, or past the grocery item to learn more.

Vintage Nikon fisheye lens aims to dwarf your DSLR, for sale at 100,000 quid

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A lens that can see behind itself – the idea is almost boggles the mind, but this is what the Fisheye-Nikkor 6mm f2.8s that claims to do, to provide 220-degree viewing angle. This giant of a fisheye lens was introduced in 1972, and reportedly only available by special order. Price to get your hands on one now? Oh, only about £ 100,000 ($ 161,210 U.S.) for the lens in mint condition, and only from Grays of Westminster, London camera shop that deals exclusively with Nikon products. This is not the first time that this wonderful piece of glass appeared, two years ago a similar lens eBay $ 34,020 hit songs – really cheap, in comparison. See the source link below to look at the sales. Wallet can not take damage? Range “scope” for a little history of Nikon.

Skype for Windows Phone sheds beta title, graduates to v1.0

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Skype broke new Windows Phone app beta today, adding a contact search and landline calls are VoIP repertoire. Update to come up just shy of two months of the introduction of beta in February, and offers some small improvements, which should keep your call connected. You still make the call yourself, however, the full version does not have support for receiving calls in the background – if the app is not running, your phone will not ring. Press the link below to update the source.

Droid 4 gets first official update, better battery life and sluggishness fixes in tow

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A commitment to upgrade the Ice Cream Sandwich is not, but that we should mock fresh software that increases the battery life? By Droid-Life what Motorola has in store for the first update Droid four officers – née 6.13.219. Hit the airwaves in the coming weeks, there is more to tweak its longevity, the widget MotoCast new, improved WiFi connectivity and improvements related to “blank screen delay and congestion.” Time will tell if that water until Google releases latest Motorola, but until then, calm yourself by reading more at the source link below.

Microsoft job ads hint at a browser-based version of Skype based on HTML5

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There are thrilling about using work to loosen the company’s strategy, especially when the ad is so gosh darn low confidentiality. Take Microsoft, for example, posting four openings for developers to work with Skype for Browser project. If that is not yet clear enough, each one different ad explained that Microsoft is looking for a code monkey to help “bring [the] Skype experience on the Web,” a position calls for the HTML5 knowledge, including skills in C #, Java or C + +. As an officer in charge of anything, even if you are paying attention know Skype is a web-based video chat service up energy. So it should not exactly surprising, that the Skype-branded version of the possibilities in the works too. The armchair researchers can find a post on the source link, where each developer machine, European-based can try their hand at one of the four openings.

Nouveau open source NVIDIA driver goes stable, gets benchmarked

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Nouveau, the source driver for NVIDIA GPU graphics open-end stabilizers off, wandering from the staging area, and accepted as part of standard kernel stable set-up. This project began about six years ago, so it’s been a long road, but one that has received the support in some corners of the world of Linux. Things start to get traction in the last three years as more and more distributions start using, and Mr. Linux himself, Linus Torvalds, who suggested it would be part of the kernel. How do you want to see her do? Head to the link source where kindly gentlemen Phoronix provide some comprehensive benchmarks.

Sony Xperia Sola hits the FCC, gets dissected by regulators

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Sola, Lada, MT27i – has had many names, and now has got the official thumbs up from U.S. regulators. Sony Xperia Sola made an appearance at the FCC, have their own disputes and even dragged by the user using it. Under the somewhat underwhelming 3.7-inch LCD 854 x 480 is quite a collection of antennas, including the NFC, 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1 and quadband GSM radio. Of course, all backed by ministers, but the almost-barn on fire, a 1GHz dual-core processors and loaded with gingerbread cookies. (Although, Sony promises upgrade ICS delivered by this summer.) See the source link for all regulatory submissions of fun and see Sola that lay open on the table.

Huawei Ascend G 300 coming to Vodafone UK on April 13th

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We put our eyes (and hands) on the G 300 rose several times, first when you’re far past the FCC, then shortly after that when we took for a quick spin in the MWC in Barcelona. Today, ginger handset Huawei prepping for the fall in the UK on Friday 13, which is available exclusively for Vodafone. As we predicted, it will not burden the purses much anyone, the operator sets the price it at a price of 100 pounds (about $ 160) on PAYG (£ 10 minimum top-up) or free on £ 15.50, two-year plan. Unfortunately, G 300 will not have the Ice Cream Sandwich on board the launch, but Vodafone said the update 4.0 will come later this summer. Good enough for you? The source link below allows you to register to become one of the first to know when is the slope of the 4-inch up for grabs.

Apple TV (2012) gets torn down, confirmed to have 512MB of RAM, 8GB of storage

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We know about most of the technical upgrade to Apple TV, but a few key specifications that we answered the advertisement. Now changing, however, thanks to more users on the forum aicjofs XBMC, which ripped apart a fresh unit to find out exactly what is inside its shell. In addition to its documented A5 single core SoC, now it is confirmed that the pendant features 1080p-so-branded Hynix 512MB RAM (up from 256) with 8GB of storage with no change, owned by Toshiba. Interestingly, there was no word on whether it is packing Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR as the other 2010 (Apple website only lists 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi), but mentioned that aicjofs MacRumors has discovered what may be an additional WiFi antenna. Some sections are still under investigation, but you can check the link below for more information.

Sparrow for iPhone released: just a POP and Push away from email perfection

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Maya has made a name for himself on the side of the desktop Mac, and now it is doing darnedest to do the same thing with the IOS. Email client that can be launched long-awaited edition of the iPhone in the App Store today, with $ 2.99 nets a very fine program that integrates a “navigation bar” concept, a unique system of threading and full IMAP support. In other words, Gmail, Google Apps, icloud, Yahoo, AOL and custom email address is good to use here, but there is no support for POP or PUSH notification first. The latter is likely to delay the power user, but more casual readers may appreciate a unified inbox, direct attachment features and many other details to provide an enjoyable experience overall. Now available at the source link (or App Store, if you are to search), and we were told that the localization, the landscape mode, built-in browser and the ‘Send and Archive’ will come a future build.