If you fancy watching a little TV on your iPhone Japanese company Logitec have unveiled a new battery case called the LDT-1Si41 which will provide your iPhone with an additional 1500 mAh battery and enable it to receive TV signals. Watch the brief video after the jump to see it in action.

The new battery and TV case from Logitec, (who is not associated with Logitech) will be arriving in

Japan next month for 12,800 Yen or $164. The cradle/case is designed to be combined with a free

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The Motorola Droid Bionic only went on sale in the US yesterday, as with any new gadget, the guys over at iFixit have managed to get their hands on the new Droid Bionic, and have decided to take it apart to see what was inside.

According to the iFixit guys, the Droid Bionic is one of the easier devices they have taken apart, and all you need is a Torx T5 screwdriver.

Not surprisingly, it received a 9 out of 10 repairability score, as the phone is held together with a limited number of screws and plastic clips. Adhesive is minimally us ... Read more »

One of RIM’s latest smartphones, the BlackBerry Curve 9350 was due to go on sales with mobile operator Sprint in the US today, now it would appear that the handset has been delayed.

Sprint has announced that the BlackBerry Curve 9350 has now been delayed o  their network and it wont be available until some time in October.

Due to unexpected circumstances, Sprint shifted the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 9350 smartphone beyond the planned Sept. 9 availability date. It will now go on sale in October with a specific availability date shared at a later time.

No reason was given for the delay has been given, and also no exact date in October for the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 9350 has been given.

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Sony’s white PS3 is making it way a little further afield in November and will finally be arriving in both Europe and Australia. The ceramic white PS3 console was launched in the middle of last year in Japan but there is unfortunately still no new when the white PS3 console will be arriving in the US.

As with the silver version of the PS3 there are no differences in the specification with the white PS3 just its clean ceramic white colour.

When the white PS3 finally arrives in November it will be equipped with a 320GB HDD and two controllers for a price of €300/£250 or AUD$448.

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Google has today launched a new programming language called Dart for "structured web programming.” Unfortunately there aren’t many technical details about the new Dart programming language as yet. But the brand-new language will be discussed by tech lead manager Lars Bak and Google software engineer Gilad Bracha at the Goto international software development conference next month on October 10th.

Google describes its new Dart programming language as a "fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language”

Rumours were started a few weeks ago about Dart when Google started registering domain names that included the word Dart. But it was initially thought that the domain may be linked to one of Google’s advertising platforms which is called Dart.

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Samsung announced a new range of Galaxy smartphones last month, one of those was the new Samsung Galaxy Y, and it looks like it will be headed to mobile operator Vodafone here in the UK.

The Samsung Galaxy Y will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it features a 3 inch multi-touch touchscreen display and a 832MHz processor.

Other specifications on the Samsung Galaxy Y include a 1200 mAh battery, a microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB microSd cards, Bluetooth and WiFi.

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Smozzy a new Android app let users who have a  T-Mobile unlimited messaging plan, browse the web without the need for a data plan. The application has been designed to work similar to a browser but rather than using a data plan, URL’s you enter are then sent via SMS to the Smozzy servers which then relay with the new content back to your Android device via SMS and MMS text message.

Smozzy explains:

"NOTE: This app currently works with U.S. T-MOBILE SERVICE ONLY. This application may send and receive a large number of messages, so use of it without an unlimited messaging plan is NO ... Read more »

Sharp has added another Android smartphone to its range with the launch of the Sharp Aquos SH8298U 3D, which is a glasses free 3D Android device powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

The Sharp Aquos SH8298U 3D features a 4.2 inch qHD glasses free 3D display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels, and processing is provided by a 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor and it also comes with an Adreno 205 GPU.

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quare Enix has unveiled more information on the new and upcoming Deus Ex ‘Missing Link’ DLC which fills in a three-day chunk of Deus Ex, during which Jensen loses the use of his cybernetic augmentations. Watch the video after the jump.

Square Enix unveils:

"The DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION conspiracy grows deeper in The Missing Link. During lead character Adam Jensen’s quest for the truth in DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, he mysteriously vanishes for three days. Where was he? What did he find out? The Missing Link reveals it all.”

Deus Ex ‘Missing Link’ DLC will be arriving in October.

Samsung recently announced the new Samsung Galaxy note, which they describe as a cross between a smartphone and a tablet, and now Samsung has released a new video which gives us a good look at the Samsung Galaxy Note and some of its features.

The Samsung Galaxy Note comes with a 5.3 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, processing is provided by a 1.4GHz dual core processor and it also comes with 1GB of RAM.

The Samsung Galaxy Note comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it features two cameras, up front there is an 2 megapixel camera for video chat, on the back there is an 8 megapixel camera with an LED flash.

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Yesterday we heard that Microsoft will show of its first Windows 8 tablet next week at its annual conference, and now it would appear that the first Windows 8 tablet we will see is from Samsung.

According to a recent report, Microsoft will show off a reference model Windows 8 tablet next week, which has been manufactured by Samsung, although there are no details as yet on the specifications we might see.

Samsung already produces a number of popular Android tablets, which have had problems recently due to the various court cases going on between Apple and Samsung.

If Samsung were to start producing Windows 8 tablets as well as Android based tablets it would be a good move for the company, as the outcome of the various legal cases brought against Samsung by Apple for their Android tablets is yet to be decided.

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This mini Pico Projector may look like any other, but under its skin lies a dual-core Android computer equipped with a pair of 624MHz cores. The mini Android system is runs Android 2.1 and allows you to use applications and browse the web using the devices integrated touchpad, situated on it top. Enabling you to project media without the need to connect the Pico device to an additional computer.

The projector side of the device includes a 20 lumens bulb with 20,000 hours LED life that provides a maximum projection size of 100 inches with a 800 x 600 pixel resolution.

Its also equipped with a 8GB of internal memory which can be expanded up to a max of 16GB using SD Cards. It has built in WiFi supporting 802.11 b/g and even comes with a handy remote control for presentations, and provides 80 minutes of viewing on a ... Read more »

We have already seen a few videos of Microsoft’s latest operating system, Windows 8, and now Microsoft has released a new video which shows how fast Windows 8 will boot up.

As you will see in the video below, Microsoft has made some significant improvements in how fast Windows 8 boots up compared to their existing OS Windows 7.

That’s pretty fast compared to Windows 7, Windows 8 booted up in under two seconds, you can find out more information over at the Microsoft Blog.

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Okay, maybe the title slanted this compelling bit of news a little too far in the conspiracy nut corner. It couldn’t be helped–a Washington D.C. based tech company has announced plans to build a whole 35,000 resident simulation city in New Mexico bereft of actual residents. Its purpose will be technology testing for various clients in the corporate world, whether they be industrial, scientific, commercial or all three combined. Is this suspicious? It should be. The project would cost somewher ein the neighborhood of $200 million. There’s no word on investors, but Pegasus Global Holdings Inc. might be footing the bill on its own.

 

Who are Pegasus Global Holdings Inc.? A contractor apparently. A little googling reveals their core business is in the ambiguos field of "risk management” and "strategic solutions” with a special emphasis on servicing the energy ... Read more »

oday its been announced after first being revealed back in July that  Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play will be arriving at AT&T on September 18th, becoming AT&T’s first PlayStation-certified smartphone.

AT&T customers will be offered the exclusive "stealth blue” colour Xperia Play 4G and it will come bundled with a multimedia dock DK300 and MC100 music cable. Together with pre-loaded games including: Dungeon Defenders, Asphalt 6, Star Battalion, Madden NFL 11, The Sims 3 , Tower Bloxx: My City and Crash Bandicoot.

In addition to the included games AT&T customers will also enjoy access to more than 150 Xperia PLAY optimised games including Minecraft Pocket Edition, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Dead Space 2 which can be purchased for instant download.

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Google has today started rolling out their new encrypted search feature to some chrome users, enabling them to have end-to-end encrypted searches between their computer and Google search.

The encrypted search service has been available for some time in beta by visiting a specific URL but its the first time Google has started redirecting users directly to the new secure search page. Using the new SSL search helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third parties.

Google explains:

"running an experiment with some percentage of Chrome 14 users where we send them to SSL search. The experience is meant to be completely comparable feature-wise to non-SSL search. It is independent of the Chrome 14 installation.”

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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed today that the service currently has 100 million "active" users, and receives around 400 million pageviews per month.

During a "state of the union” meeting this morning at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters, CEO Dick Costolo revealed, for the first time ever, that the service currently has 100 million active users, and receives 400 million pageviews per month, up from about 250 million in January of this year.

In addition, Costolo said that half of Twitter’s users log on ever day, but only 60 percent actually publish tweets. The remainder simply read others’ tweets. Some never even login, even if they have an account.

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Max Payne 3 was originally scheduled to be launched back in 2009 but after a number of delays and missed launch dates in 2010 and 2011. Rockstar Games has now announce that their Max Payne 3 game will finally be arriving in March 2012.

The new game will be the first in the Max Payne series to include multiplayer features together with a new reward and levelling system and strategic character load-out options.

The new Max Payne 3 game take place 8 years after the Max Payne 2 game, with Max now out of New York City and based in Sao Paulo, Brazil working in private security. The main storyline will revolve around Payne’s fall from grace as a vengeful cop to the addicted and broken man that he has become.

Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games announces :

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