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  • Opinion: Why the iPhone can't kill the Kindle

    Some tech analysts are wondering if the free Kindle for iPhone application will cannibalise sales of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader. A BusinessWeek article suggests that Amazon's no-cost app for the iPhone and iPod Touch may give consumers one less reason to buy the pricey Kindle 2:

  • Opinion: BT's novel take on gadget waste

    BT has commissioned a report into the scale of waste in UK households and just how many gadgets and technology items lay abandoned and forgotten. Its survey of 2,000 respondents, for which it commissioned YouGov to conduct research, revealed that we have on average 10 unused gadgets.

  • Opinion: New slang words are cool tech savvy

    The Royal Mail, of all hip and with-it organizations, has released a survey explaining some of the new English words and terms that have evolved through our increasingly digital lives.

  • Opinion: Prince Charles humiliated by Japanese robot

    Poor old Prince Charles. He hates modern things such as buildings not built with hewn stone, mutant GM crops and his former missus - preferring organic sausages, Palladian villas and talking to plants. Now he has to suffer the indignity of watching a four-foot-high Japanese robot do a little dance and say ‘Hello" in a high-pitched voice.

  • Opinion: New iPod sex toy 'unbeatable'

    There's a new iPod sex toy in town, with the launch of a colourful range of vibrators aimed at Apple users. The OhMiBod is also claimed as the world's first iPhone sex toy.

  • Opinion: IWOOT.com makes Anne Frank gaffe

    Writing her diary while hiding from the Nazis in 1940s Amsterdam, Anne Frank probably didn't expect that in years to come her words would become a source of hope to millions around the world. Nor, perhaps, that they would be used to sell remote-controlled robots.

  • Opinion: Teacher fury at iPod-hiding school blazer

    Teachers are waving their canes in fury as Mrs Thatcher’s knicker-maker Marks & Spencer is selling a "Blazer for iPod” as part of its 2008 Back to School collection.

  • Opinion: COMPUTEX VIDEO: Clarion's mobile GPS, entertainment gadget

    COMPUTEX VIDEO: Japan's Clarion showed a new prototype of its personal navigation device that combines internet access, a multimedia player with digital TV and GPS all-in-one.