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December 05, 2011

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Radio Shack Cuts Contract iPhone Price

The US electronics store chain Radio Shack had cut the price of new iPhones on contract. It's knocked $30 off the up-front cost. The move has fueled speculation that the launch of the next-generation device is imminent. There are reports a new iPhone will be announced in August and go on sale in the US in September, followed by other countries - including the UK - a month later.

Amazon Kindle "smashes down the Great Firewall of China"

If you live in China, you can't use lots of banned websites. The Government has installed what's known as The Great Firewall of China. It means you'd miss out on, for example, most social networking sites, like Twitter and Facebook. That is - apparently - unless you've got an Amazon Kindle bookreader with its fairly rudimentary internet browser. The South China Morning Post is reporting that Kindles are selling like hotcakes on the grey market in China because they allow owners to bypass TGFofC and access banned sites. The Kindle gets away with it because net access is routed directly through Amazon's own servers, which try to render all websites into a format that's vaguely readable on the device. The Kindle isn't officially on sale in China, but apparently can be bought fairly easily.

Five Reasons To Upgrade To Mac OS X Lion

1. Full-screen applications Numerous bundled applications now support full-screen modes to help remove distractions when working. You can swipe instantly between full-screen apps using a gesture on the mouse or Magic Trackpad. 2. New Mail application Apple has updated the bundled mail application for OS X 10.7. It now more closely resembles the Mail app on the iPad, and adds support for a conversation view that groups together replies to the same message chronologically. A new full-screen mode removes distractions when writing. 3. AirDrop AirDrop is a new feature that allows direct wireless file transfers over wi-fi between two Mac computers, even if they aren't connected to a wi-fi network. When activated a secure 'ad-hoc' connection is created between to computers, though both must be running OS X 10.7 for it to work. 4. Autosave and Versions Autosave continually saves changes you make to documents as you make them, removing the need to ever manually save files. Ve...

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