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I have pretty much estab­lished myself as an anti ‘i’-product per­son. Whilst I recog­nise they are beau­ti­ful, work straight out of the box and have brought joy (and smug­ness) to mil­lions, they are not for me. I like a prod­uct that I can tin­ker with, basi­cally an item that I can make my own.

I don’t own an iPhone (I’ve got a Motorola Flipout – Android based) or an iPod (I use my phone) or an Mac­Book (I have a HP lap­top, which has been tweaked to be super­fast for my gam­ing / retouch­ing use) or an iPad (I’ve got a Kin­dle).

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There has been both excit­ing and sad news in the mobile world over the last few weeks. We have seen the rise of Android and the depar­ture of an indus­try leg­end. This week we look at cam­paigns and tech­nolo­gies com­ing soon to a pocket near you.

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How do you keep a taran­tula on a tread­mill and not off eat­ing the other per­form­ers?

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Net­books are big news just now – the ball that ASUS set rolling with the eeeeeeeeeeepc has swept almost all the other lap­top man­u­fac­tur­ers along with it (as well as cre­at­ing a few new entrants along the way). With one notable excep­tion – Apple.

Steve Jobs has been quoted as say­ing that Apple will wait and see how the mar­ket devel­ops. In the mean­time we’ve seen new 17″ Mac­Book Pro’s announced – which are as about as un-netbooky as it’s pos­si­ble to get in a lap­top. Then there are the rather lovely new exter­nal screens to go along with the rather lovely Mac­Book Air – both of which our very own Rod Ban­ner has had grac­ing his desk in the office (ah the perks of being the Chair­man).

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