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Oh, Cisco. What a tease you are!  The company’s been pumping up the general Internet crowd for a game-changing announcement, one that would–and I quote–”forever change the Internet.”  I was honestly hoping that said unveiled device would be like, a super-crazy consumer router that would… well. I’m not really sure what it would do. Gigabit speeds are more than sufficient for anyone’s home networking needs right now (when I’m looking for this column on a terabit connection in five years, I’ll have a hearty laugh.)  And it’s not like we have a new wireless draft on the way any time soon.

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Francis Ford Coppola has signed on the dotted line with SIM2 to help the projector manufacturer come up with the perfect solution for projectors in the home. Italian manufacturer SIM2, known for its premium range of home cinema and professional DLP projectors, is hoping that working with the director of The Godfather , and his tech team, will bring the kind of quality Hollywood producers need when viewing movies to the consumer market. Although Coppola will feature in the company’s marketing campaign, it seems the Hollwood honcho is a bit more engrained in SIM2, other than having his face plastered over promo material. Since 2008 he’s had his own SIM2 projector and has used the device to edit his latest movie Tetro on

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The amount of consumers using mobile phone boarding passes has dramatically risen, with one company quoting a 1,200 per cent increase. UK-based company Trinity Mobile is reporting that it has found that more and more people are using its phone-only boarding pass service, which negates the need for paper passes. Instead of security scanning your boarding pass, they can do it straight from your phone.

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The Superbrands annual business survey is out and Microsoft has jumped into first place, up from last year’s placing of fourth. Google, who was the biggest brand last year, is now languishing in fifth place, despite last year pushing its Chrome browser (which was launched late 2008) and Chrome OS . Microsoft has sailed to the top presumably because the company released Windows 7 in 2009, to much critical acclaim .

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Consumers in Britain are highly confused about the laws on copyright, particularly those that relate to copying CDs onto a computer. Consumer Focus said that the UK’s copyright law is outdated that millions of Brits were unaware they were actually breaking laws. Currently it is still deemed illegal for somebody to copy a CD or DVD onto a computer or a portable digital music or video player for their own use. What is legal?

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Sony is set to follow Fujifilm and release a 3D capable point-and-click camera aimed squarely at the consumer market. Sony confirmed it plans to release a 3D camera this week, with Sony’s president of Personal Imaging and Sound, Masashi Imamura, telling Digital Photography Review that the company plans to fully integrate 3D technologies in its consumer camera range soon. “Mr Imamura admitted that 3D imaging is an area into which Sony is keen to expand,” noted Digital Photography Review. 3D TVs, Blu-rays, cameras Fujifilm released the world’s first 3D consumer cameras , the FinePix Real 3D W1 and FinePix Real 3D V1, back September 2009 – though both received a rather muted reception amongst critics and consumers alike.

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Whether you’re a fan or not of the new Windows Phone 7 Series interface, one thing’s for sure – it’s made quite a stir this week. So we went along to Microsoft’s hotel in Barcelona to meet Oded Ran, the Head of Consumer Marketing for Windows Phone in the UK. Was he happy with the reaction to the launch?

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Samsung has shown off a N150 netbook with Long Term Evolution (LTE) at Mobile World Congress, with a chip designed in-house allowing a more portable offering with this next generation mobile technology. LTE is causing much excitement, offering what is widely becoming called 4G connectivity for mobile devices, and Samsung is keen to be at the forefont of the technology. To that end they have designed an LTE chipset called Kalmia, which has been integrated into the N150, a netbook that currently sports 3G and Wi-Fi versions and will only get the LTE technology ‘according to service schedule and market demand’.

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It’s here. Well, it will be later in the year, anyway. Windows Phone 7 Series was launched today by Steve Ballmer here at Mobile World Congress. Now that we’ve digested all there is to know about Microsoft’s new smartphone OS, here are the essential facts you need to know. Oh, and our hands-on with the new OS won’t be far away.

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Although there was no mention of Flash on iPhones, Adobe has announced that Adobe Air is now available on mobile devices – and will be on Android phones this year. The company, who also announced that a beta version of Flash Player 10.1, believes that the mobile version of AIR will offer a ‘feature-rich environment for delivering rich applications outside the mobile browser and across multiple operating systems via mobile marketplaces and app stores.’ The rich application platform is optimized for high performance on mobile screens and is apparently designed to take advantage of native device capabilities for a ‘richer and more immersive’ user experience. Flash Player 10.1 The announcement that Flash Player 10.1 is being made available to content providers and mobile developers in mobile form will also pique interest. Adobe suggest that Flash 10.1 will be available in the first half of 2010 and will be the first consistent runtime release of the Open Screen Project enabling “uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and high definition (HD) videos across screens including new tablet devices, smartphones, netbooks, smartbooks, desktops and other consumer electronics.” Conspicuously absent Adobe cited research that suggests Flash will be supported on 250 million devices by 2011 – with Apple’s iPhone platform conspicuous in its absence from a list of likely devices

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