The new performance tweaks have improved load times considerably with the application and images opening and loading quicker than the previous version, helping you to navigate to new updates from your friends with ease.

Other new features include the News feed and Timeline will now also load faster, and the new Stories bar lets you see more stories without refreshing the page, together with a smoother user interface. To find out more technical details jump over to the Facebook Android App engineering ... Read more »

Last month the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch notebook appeared on Lenovo’s website, the device is now official and is available from Lenovo with prices starting at $1,399.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch shares similar specifications to the non touchscreen version, the devices features a 14 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1,600 x 900 pixels.

"Bringing touch gesture control to our best ThinkPad ever is a natural evolution of the portfolio and a big step towards fulfilling our promise to bring computers into a new PC+ era,” said Peter Hortensius, president, Lenovo Product Group. "We are excited to be able to offer customers the best experience in a thin and light business class Ultrabook. The X1 Carbon Touch is the Ultrabook to beat.”

Lumawake has created a new iPhone Dock which has been designed to offer a number of useful features in one handy iPhone dock, from sleep tracking to  a simulated sunrise.

The Lumawake iPhone Dock offers a range of new features not found on other iPhone docks that have been created to enhance your your docking experience from the time you go to bed to the moment you wake up.

Lumawake tracks your sleep cycles throughout the night & delivers a detailed report to you each morning, without the need to wear any gadgets. Watch the promotional video below to learn more about the Lumawake iPhone Dock project and see it in action.

A new rugged and ultraportable speaker called the Boombot REX has started its journey over on the Kickstarter crowd funding website this month.

The Boombot REX has been created to include revolutionary acoustic and industrial design, together with a noise-cancelling microphone and a built-in clip. Watch the video after the jump to see the Boombot REX in action.

Using Bluetooth technology to make a connection the Boombot REX has been designed to connect to iPods, smartphones, tablets, and laptops to stream audio when required.

The Boombot REX is also waterproof, and equipped with high power dual drivers and a bass woofer, and has been cretaed by Boombotix who explain:

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If you are looking for a professionally designed macro lens for your iPhone you might be interested in the new PhoneScope 3D which is currently on the Kickstarter website looking to raise funds to make the jump from concept into production.

PhoneScope 3D is a new macro lens that has been designed to magnify your iPhone’s camera view, illuminate the scene and even make 3D surface scans say its creators Spatial Vision & Design LLC.

The Phonescope 3D iPhone macro lens comprises of two parts a Macro Lens Clip and a Light Lens attachment, allowing you to magnify the lens of your iPhone by around five times, its creators explain:

"We developed a special type of lens to do ju ... Read more »

Toshiba had just announced their latest Android tablet, the Toshiba Excite 10 SE which comes with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and it is powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor.

The Toshiba Excite 10 SE features a 10.1 inch touchscreen display, and it features a 3 megapixel rear camera, plus a microSD card slot and 16GB of built in storage.

Other specifications on the Toshiba Excite 10 SE include 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, a microUSB port and Bluetooth 3.0, it will go on sale in the US later this week on the 6th of December and will retail for $349.99, you can find out more details over at Toshiba Direct.

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Yesterday we heard that Sony would be releasing more details later this month on when they Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates would be available for their latest handsets, and now Sony has started rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to some of their other Xperia devices.

Sony have said that the Sony Xperia U, Xperia P, Xperia Go and the Xperia Sola will all be getting the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, and they have now started releasing the updates.

We’ve started rolling out* a new software update for Xperia P, Xperia U, Xperia go and Xperia sola that brings bug fixes and performance tweaks.

The Ice Cream Sandwich firmware includes improvements to: stability, WiFi, tethering/portable hotspot, camera (capture and playback), NFC and Messaging.

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Wacom has unveiled its latest stylus offering for users of touchscreen smartphones and tablets. The new stylus will also work with touch screen Windows 8 devices. The stylus is called the Bamboo Stylus feel.

The new stylus uses Wacom’s patented electromagnetic resistance technology working with tablets that use Wacom feel technology in their designs and others. One example of a tablet that uses that technology is the Galaxy Note 10.1. The new bamboo Stylus feel brings high-quality pressure sensitive pens for note taking, sketching, and navigating on tablets.

The stylus delivers a combination of active pen and sensor technology emulating the feel of traditional ballpoint pen or pencil writing. The Bamboo Stylus Feel will be available on January 7 in two versions. A carb ... Read more »

TokyoFlash has unveiled a new addition to their range of uniquely styled watches this week with the launch of the Kisai Space Digits LCD Watch, which has been inspired by intergalactic travel.

The Kisai Space Digits watch displays the time and date digitally on one screen, and is easy to read once you take a minute to study the watch face, or watch the video after the jump which explains everything.

On the Kisai Space Digits watch the time is displayed in hours and minutes using stylised digits and is read from left to right, and the date – month and day, is displayed from top to bottom.

As well as time and date, Tokyoflash has also equipped with watch with a built in alarm, an EL backlight and a custom design ... Read more »

Google has released its latest Android distribution data, and the latest versions of Android, which include Android 4.1 and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean are now on 6.7 percent of all Android devices, this has increased from 2.7 percent last month.

Next we have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which is now on 27.5 percent of devices, then we have Android Honeycomb which is on just 1.6 percent of Android devices.

The highest Android distribution is still with Android 2.3 Gingerbread which is now on a total 50.08 percent of devices, followed by Android 2.2 Froyo on 10.3 percent, and then Eclair on 2.7 percent.