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A crisp, bright screen makes this smartphone appealing – but Samsung's new in-house operating system doesn't

What is it? Samsung Wave GT-S8500 – the first device to run Samsung operating system Bada.

Category: Hardware and software, given the newsworthy nature of operating systems these days.

You'd use it for... On the move, personal or business. It's not going to intrude on BlackBerry's ground as leading high-performance business mobile device, but the Wave sits happily as a phone suited...

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John Makinson says that if people want to read using new technology, that's what publishers must give them

Penguin this week celebrates its 75th year and is marking the anniversary by repackaging a series of seminal books from the 1960s to the 1980s. Although the company might afford itself a brief look backwards, it feels as though there is little room for nostalgia in book publishing now, as the industry turns its face firmly – and apprehensively – to the future.

Amazon last week...

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Free broadband firm TalkTalk promises competitive prices in mobile services deal with Vodafone

Internet and phone firm TalkTalk has struck a deal with Vodafone to launch a mobile service under its own brand.

TalkTalk, which helped revolutionise the broadband market by introducing "free" internet access four years ago, will offer both contract and pre-pay tariffs to existing customers from the autumn.

Market watchers will be looking to see whether the company, the second-largest residential...

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• Bradley Manning investigated over leak of Afghan war material
• WikiLeaks could have blood on their hands, says US admiral

A US army private under investigation for allegedly leaking classified material to the WikiLeaks website has been transferred from Kuwait to the US amid growing White House and Pentagon anger over this week's revelations about the war in Afghanistan.

Bradley Manning, who has already been charged with leaking a video and other material relating to the Iraq war, is now...

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Singer Glenn Gregory tell sus why he loves his iPhone camera and hates the Wii

What's your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life?
I'm going to choose an iPhone app, and it's called Hipstermatic. It's a camera app that lets you have different lenses and film stock and flashes, and it processes the shot in difference ways depending on the combinations that you use. And it processes them in such a way that the photographs look amazing. It's relit the photography fire...

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