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Europe denied PS4 until 2014?

Rumours suggest that EU won't see Sony's new console ahead of next year.

Surfacepro

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Microsoft: Surface Pro tablet memory gobbled up by Windows

Company's much touted powerhouse tablet sees usable memory slashed by more than half by OS.

The IPhone 5

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UK Leads World in Mobile Web Use Thanks to Facebook … and Gangnam

Britain has become a gadget-obsessed nation, watching more television online, spending more on internet shopping and using smartphones and tablets to access the web more heavily than any of the world's leading economies, according to new research.

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How To Spend Your Bonus #26 - Solid Gold iPad Mini

These 24ct gold and rose gold iPad mini's are the perfect way to blow your Christmas bonus this year.

Kindle

Gadgets

Barnes & Noble to launch Nook e-reader in UK

Barnes & Noble is to take on Amazon in the European digital book market by launching its Nook e-reader in the UK this autumn.

Atari 2600

Gaming

Evolution, disruption, annihilation: why 2013 looks like 1983 for consoles

Atari blew it. At the start of the eighties, the manufacturer of the world's best-selling console allowed its market to be flooded with mediocre games, published by reckless and cynical third-parties. Meanwhile, the company over-hyped and over-manufacturered its own monstrosities, the likes of ET and the awful VCS conversion of Pac-Man produced in their multi-millions. Then in 1983, amid other contributing factors, the console industry collapsed.

Fashion

Alexis Petridis: What is it with the huge headphones, guys?

Alexis Petridis: What is it with the huge headphones, guys?The aesthetic point of headphones you'd wear in the street used to be discretion. The idea was that other people didn't really notice them, the wisdom of which idea was underlined when the iPod arrived with its attention-grabbing white earbuds, which muggers took as visual shorthand for, "I have about my person an expensive piece of new technology. Please relieve me of it at knife-point." And yet, recently, the aesthetic point of headphones you'd wear in the street seems to have changed: people (men, mostly) are wearing increasingly immense, colourful over-ear cans in public.

Sound Off

Jerry Zucker: I'd get a kick out of owning a Virgin Galactic plane

Jerry Zucker: I'd get a kick out of owning a Virgin Galactic planeWhat's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life?I would say the vibrator, and it's done wonders for my marriage! No, my favourite piece of technology is the iPad. My wife has one, and I'm foolishly waiting for the next one to come out. I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

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