A student who sued Amazon for deleting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four from his Kindle ebook, rendering his notes useless, has won $150,000 along with protection for other Kindle users.
The agreement (pdf), which was spotted by Seattle’s TechFlash, effectively prevents Amazon reaching out and deleting or modifying works in future. However, as a negotiated agreement it doesn’t [...]

It seems O2 is throwing its toys out of the iPhone pram, and is sitting on the fence as to whether it will provide users with iPhone unlock codes to move to other networks.Previously the network had refused to unlock handsets based on the grounds that it had an exclusive deal with Apple. Now that [...]

Joby has outed a new addition to its Gorillapod line of camera tripods for the iPhone, tipping its hat to the importance that the iPhone has played in amateur photography and movie making.Following the launch of the iPhone 3G S, YouTube saw an increase in uploads of 400%, and all three models of the iPhone combined make [...]

PREVIEWArchos has long been king of the PMP, and while Apple drags its feet over an internet tablet, Archos has jumped straight in with a sleek, Android-toting device putting web, media and TV in the palm of your hand.Full-width web browsingThe extra real-estate afforded by the 4.8in 800×480-pixel screen means you can surf the web [...]

Perhaps Sony knew something we didn’t when it launched its e-book Readers in August, with rumours suggesting that the e-book industry’s 500-pound gorilla, Amazon, will launch the Kindle in the UK far sooner than initially thought.
Amazon is all set to launch the Kindle in the UK as soon as next week, if new reports are to [...]

Back in July, Apple stealthily acquired Placebase, a mapping company that provides a service similar to Google Maps, but with more robust customizations and set of APIs, called Pushpin, for layering data sets over maps.
Google and Apple have been steadily moving from friends to frenemies of late, with the advent of Android and CloudOS, the whole Google [...]

There have been rumours for a while now, but this morning it became official that O2 has lost its exclusivity deal to sell the iPhone with news that Orange will also be selling Apple’s handset before the year is out.It had previously been suggested that Orange would just be selling the 3G, and that O2 would retain [...]

The battle between Apple and Palm over access to iTunes has been a long standing one, but now Apple has been given the green light to block the Pre from using iTunes.
Palm’s bragging about the Pre’s compatibility with Apple’s software brought about an update that once more blocked the phone from accessing it.

A 250GB PS3 Slim package for the UK has been confirmed by Sony and will be availableas part of four bundle deals headed our way in October.
We bright you rumours of a 250GB PS3 Slim bundle with Unchartered 2 earlier in the week, and Sony has confirmed that the new console will ship with the game [...]

A new Apple iMac has been spotted in the wild, sporting a thinner body and ramped-up specs – and a rumoured Blu-ray drive.
The chaps over at AppleInsider have reported that the new iMac dual-core all-in-ones have been in production for two weeks, so we can expect a launch announcement very soon.

Griffin’s venerable iPod and iPhone FM transmitter has just been updated and it’s really quite snazzy. The new Griffin iTrip is the first iPod/iPhone accessory with its own iPhone app to control it. Buy the Griffin iTrip and install the iTrip Controller app on an iPhone or iPod Touch with iPhone OS 3.0 and you’ll be [...]

We’d already heard the rumours of when we could expect it, but now O2 has confirmed both pricing and an October release date for the long-awaited Palm Pre.
Previously touted as coming “in time for Christmas”, O2 has now announced it’ll be thankfully quite a bit before, hitting shelves on 16 October exclusive to the network.

It’s been rumoured, and now sources have apparently confirmed that the Nintendo Wii is definitely set to get a price cut, as well as some extra goodies in the box.
MCV is reporting it has had it confirmed that the trade price for the popular Nintendo console will drop back to an RRP of £179.99, the [...]

It seems the rumours about the 250GB PS3 Slim were true, and not long after Microsoft confirmed the “Super Elite” Xbox 360, Sony has outed a new limited edition bundle complete with boosted hard drive.
Currently only confirmed for Japan, the Final Fantasy XIII bundle includes

Vodafone’s newly announced social media apps and services platform, Vodafone 360,brings two new phones with it. The Samsung H1 and Samsung M1 are two touchscreen temptresses and will carry the Vodafone 360 logo.Though Vodafone 360 will work with loads of devices, the Samsung handsets will fully integrate the new service.