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Boxing controversy: Did Briggs throw the fight 29 seconds in?

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For those who don't know, I love boxing. I was even an amateur kick-boxer myself back in the day, but those days are long behind me and watching said sport is now one of my favourite (safer) pastimes. So like many other boxing aficionados last night I was keen to watch the much hyped Green vs Briggs fight (which was relocated to my home town her...

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Apple rivals call out Steve Jobs over piss weak 'death grip' claims

Last week when Steve Jobs made the hilarious claim that all smart phones are prone to the 'death grip', he was essentially trying to make it appear that the iPhone 4's problems are just an expected fact of life and that Apple's problems were no different to that of their competitors. Jobs said: "These weak spots are just a fact of life in t...

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Apple offers free band-aid fix for iPhone 4 problems

It turns out Steve Jobs and co have finally come to the party and are now offering all iPhone 4 owners a free rubber bumper for their troubles, and those who already paid for one will be eligible for a refund. This of course means that Apple have acknowledged there is a problem, even though Steve Jobs initially said the problem was "not a b...

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Lots of Windows 7 Tablets coming this year

As keynote speaker at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference, CEO Steve Ballmer said they are 'hardcore' about tablets and we can expect a whole bunch of them this year coming from partners such as Dell, Sony and HP to name a few. You just know these will be far superior to the Fisher Price toy iPad on a feature basis, just like other manufact...

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Nokia CEO apologises for the N97

I'm not sure how I missed this news (probably the fact we still don't have an internet connection at home!), but better late than never. It turns out I wasn't the only one experiencing all those horrid problems on the Nokia N97, with the CEO of the company apologising for the piece of crap that it is. Maybe he saw my video :-) Anssi Vanjoki a...

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The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field

My heartfelt congratulations to Steve Jobs and Co for what can only be described as a monolithic sales record for any mobile phone, with 1.7 million handset sold in just one day. But when there's good news there is often bad news, and this past couple of weeks many users have been complaining (and posting videos of the fault - here's a whole bun...

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The Universe Cup: Choosing a pitch for an atheist-theist showdown

The Universe Cup: Choosing a pitch for an atheist-theist showdown Point A When theists and atheists prepare to debate the great cosmological whys, whats, controversial-whos and great big wobbly whatnots of existence, it seems to me that one of the great handicaps is that no-one can ever really agree the pitch on which they can safely play their game. Point B Atheists demand a proper, fact-based...