Co-op squares up against Tesco - launches own pay as you go SIM card

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... rd-1240670
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This gadget uses biology to fully charge a phone in 30 seconds

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... ds-1240646

Bring it on

A watch for blind people

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26920782

That is very nice.

Apple reportedly plotting radical overhaul to rescue iTunes from onrushing stream train

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... in-1241231

I'm not so sure streaming is really the big problem. The rise of Android on phone and tablet, declining music sales overall and a bloody lack of good music however... The first thing I'd do is make an Android app!
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WhatsApp voice calling just around the corner?

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... r--1241148

There's no lack of good music at all.

It's just that I only really need one copy Walton's Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

The fundamental issue surely is though that music sales were declining before iTMS came along, they rose a bit and now they're declining again. That suggests to me that the effect of the iTMS (and other competing services) was a blip and that the long term trend always actually was that sales are dropping. This isn't a collapse of sales, this is a regression to the mean.

Virtual reality treadmill to start shipping in July

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/45 ... g-in-july/

Android will now continually monitor devices for rogue apps

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... ps-1241570

The last thing older Android devices need is something else from Google running.
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Microsoft's 4G Surface 2 gets a UK price and release date

http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-co ... te-1241339

How serious is Amazon about drones? It's already designing the 8th generation

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... ge-1241622

Missing rural delivery - 'Chk-chk-boom!'

The Glorious Twelfth. A day when the toffs take to the fields with shotguns to shoot what the plebs have ordered out of the sky.

We have a Glorious Twelfth when weapons are often produced too



That's a man just keeping himself to himself after midnight on the eleventh.

SociBot: the 'social robot' that knows how you feel



http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign ... w-you-feel

Ain't nobody got time for that!

Amazon phone release pegged for September, glasses-free 3D display in tow

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... ow-1241979

Dying to see something like that out of sheer curiosity.

Here's our first look at the Amazon phone, apparently

http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and ... ly-1242817
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Samsung Galaxy S5 review

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones ... 990/review

Meh. Looks just like a Nokia.