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• News@8pm: iOS 4.2.1 unleashed and GT5 best price
• The Economist launches app for iPhone and iPad
• Gran Turismo 5 price: Cheapest deals in the UK
• Weird News: Amazon bombs and Googling toilet business
• Call of Duty: Black Ops patch released for PS3 and Xbox
• Nokia admits to N8 power issues
• Archos Android tablet: Archos 101 10-inch tab on sale now
• Modu hits the skids
• News@10: Black Ops updates out and Android domination
• Portal 2 release date pushed back again
• iPad 2: suppliers prepare for February 2011 shipments
• iOS 4.2.1 unleashed to devs, so when's iOS 4.2 coming?

News@8pm: iOS 4.2.1 unleashed and GT5 best price Posted: 19 Nov 2010 12:00 PM PST Posted by Michael Sawh on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Welcome to your nightly round-up of the day's news and goings on courtesy of T3.com. Apple fanbois have plenty to get excited about as iOS 4.2.1 is unleashed to developers, suggesting that we are not too far away from the official launch (we hope) of the iPad-centric iOS 4.2 update. Talk of the iPad 2 continues to intensify as component suppliers prepare for February 2011 shipment as Apple ramps up production of the iPad successor.   Of course, before Apple brought us its 'revolutionary' device, Archos was already well versed in the tablet-making business, and has announced that the Archos 101 10-inch Android tablet is now on sale.   .------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ App of the Day | Bubble Bash Prepare your digits for the animal-matching game that should give your touchscreen a good workout T3 App Chart | Top 10 Windows Mobile Apps | Bubble Bash Review ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   In gaming news, the Call of Duty: Black Ops patch for PS3 and Xbox 360 was made available with the hope of fixing glitches that have since cropped up in the game just a week after it’s record-breaking launch. With one big game launch seemingly after the next, Gran Turismo 5 is finally set to hit the shops next week, and we’ve got a Gran Turismo 5 price comparison to make sure you get the best deal.   Smartphone manufacturers from two different ends of the spectrum have bad news to report as Nokia admits that a number of its flagship device the Nokia N8, currently suffers from a power fault that either stops the device from turning on or turning off. It's also tough times for small Israeli firm Modu the manufacturer who brought us the world’s lightest phone will have to lay off staff after struggling to attract customers with its handset that sports interchangeable 'jackets'. Hmm, I wonder why that didn't work...     MORE Weird News: Amazon bombs and Googling toilet business I Best games: Top 25 to buy for Christmas   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

The Economist launches app for iPhone and iPad Posted: 19 Nov 2010 07:09 AM PST Posted by Chris Smith on Fri 19 Nov 2010 App includes audio version read by professional newscasters. After T3 tore up the App Store, by storming to the top of the download charts, The Economist has become the latest magazine to enter the app age, by serving up its full content for iPad and iPhone users.   From today, the legendary current affairs mag will offer the mobile content free to its current subscribers of both the print and online editions.   More from the T3 App Chart Best iPad apps Get T3 straight on your iPad Best apps: 50 Mobile apps to change your life TIME Magazine for iPad Our top rated iPhone apps The Economist for iPad and iPhone also includes an audio version, read to you by professional newscasters, so if your eyes get a little strained reading on the iPhone's Retina Screen. All articles are cached for offline reading.   Subscribers get the content free, but single issues can be downloaded from within the free-to-download application from today for £3.49.   Link: The Econimist for iPad     This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Gran Turismo 5 price: Cheapest deals in the UK Posted: 19 Nov 2010 07:00 AM PST Posted by Luke Johnson on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Gran Turismo 5 prices are wide and varied but who has the best offer? With Gran Turismo 5 set to hit stores across the UK on Wednesday, November 24th, the pricing wars that have only just subsided following the arrival of Call of Duty: Black Ops are striking back up with renewed ferocity.   Here is a breakdown of the best deals and who’s charging what for the long awaited and repeatedly delayed racing sim to end all racing sims, the 3D touting, graphical majestic GT5.   Related links Gran Turismo 5 review Gran Turismo 5 gets 3D debut Gran Turismo 5 hands-on video The first highstreet retailer to break rank and reveal its best GT5 offering is entertainment giant HMV which has revealed that it will be offering Gran Turismo 5 for just £4.99. Now, this sub-£5 price does come with a catch but surprisingly it isn’t too unreasonable. Gamers looking to upgrade to GT5 for under a fiver a can do so by trading in their copies of Codemasters’ F1 2010, a game now two months old.   Gamers tempted away from their trusty Xbox 360’s by Gran Turismo 5 can pick up possibly one of the best GT5 deals over at Play.com where the online retailer is offering up a budget priced bumper bundle deal. For a very reasonable £274.99, Sony console adopters can pick themselves up a PS3 Slim with a 320GB HDD and a copy of the Gran Turismo 5 Collector’s Edition. Featuring a copy of the game in Collector’s Edition packaging, this special edition comes equipped with a commemorative slip case and inlay sleeve art, a 200+ page drivers guide, five Collector’s Edition artcards, five CE ‘ChromeLine’ vehicles and an exclusive Polyphony designed dynamic theme.   Leading the online charge for the release of Gran Turismo 5 at present are retailers ShopTo.net and Blockbuster Online who are offering GT5 for £34.85 and £32.99 respectively. Blockbusters low-end price point requires users to pre-order the title ahead of Wednesday’s launch entering the voucher code XMASMEGADEAL as they do so.   Stay tuned to T3.com for all the latest Gran Turismo 5 prices as and when they are revealed. Have you seen a better deal for GT5? Let us know via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Weird News: Amazon bombs and Googling toilet business Posted: 19 Nov 2010 07:00 AM PST Posted by Adam Bunker on Fri 19 Nov 2010 This week's more eccentric tech happenings, in association with Asylum.co.uk Engineer makes a homeland security weapon at home Sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands. Doing so normally means defending your home against intruders, but can also include taking the time to build replicas of experimental US government weapons in your garage. Prepare to be dazzled… Goooooo Science! At our school, academic interests were the polar opposite of popularity. We’re sure it was the same at yours, but then, we didn’t go to this school, where cheerleaders are encouraged to cheer not the sporting heroes of tomorrow, but… science. Yep: These rather attractive ladies are going mad for equations, Bunsen burners and trapped antimatter everywhere… Track your toilet flushings Google Maps has opened a lot of doors. Today is apparently World Toilet Day (definitely needed), and to celebrate a new service – Flush Tracker – has opened online to let you track your business as it careens through the UK’s network of sewers. Sounds odd, but you’ll wonder how you ever got by without it. Harry Potter gets his DVDs on the cheap Retailers are always trying to get one up on each other when it comes to slashing the big titles’ prices, but Best Buy might have missed the mark with its newest Harry Potter deal. Lucky punters will be able to get the HP Blu-Ray boxset and a Toshiba BD player for just £7… if they can prove that their name is Harry Potter, Hermione Granger or Ron Weasley. The rest of us are plum out of luck. GT5 Fan outdoes Sony Get a trailer right and you’ll convince even the hardest of sceptics to buy a game or watch a film, but it’s a precise art. Cue one Gran Turismo 5 fan, who’s spent hours toiling on what is probably the best fanmande game trailer ever. Watch it, and you’ll want GT5 even if GT4 stole your last girlfriend. Mysterious Amazon package not so mysterious It’s a simple story, this one: Man finds package on his own doorstep, man worries it’s a bomb, man calls police, policeman spots Amazon logo on package, man concedes to shopping on Amazon. It’s a parable of the modern day that further shows our species to be too stupid to deserve planetary supremacy. …And finaly Nerdy crimes exposed From Darth Vader theft to stolen dinosaurs, here are the best crimes perpetrated by the type of people who probably wouldn’t last 5 minutes in prison.   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Call of Duty: Black Ops patch released for PS3 and Xbox Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:25 AM PST Posted by Luke Johnson on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Treyarch respond to Black Ops glitches A patch has been released for the Xbox 360 and PS3 renditions of Call of Duty: Black Ops as developer Treyarch looks to rectify a number of glitches that have marred the title’s otherwise hugely successful release.   "Xbox 360 and PS3 #CODBlackOps Updates are LIVE. Be sure to check your platform's respective Sticky post on the forums," Tweeted Treyarch community manager Josh Olin to alert Black Ops’ millions of adopters to the available fixes.   Related links Call of Duty: Black Ops review Call of Duty: Black Ops 3D review Call of Duty: Black Ops cheapest UK deals Having taken a reported $650 million in its opening five days to secure the title of the most successful game ever in terms of opening week sales, a number of Call of Duty: Black Ops users have reported issues with online leaderboards and matchmaking features.   This new patch will allow gamers to accurately track kills, deaths and assists as well as adding some new anally-accurate fine tuning of audio levels with footsteps and gunfire having come under the developer’s meticulous eye and ear.   Whilst the release patches cover only PS3 and Xbox 360 issues, Treyarch has announced updates for the Nintendo Wii version of the game will be inbound within the coming weeks. "Thank you for helping us to identify the various connectivity issues you have been experiencing," read an announcement on the CoD forums. "We have fixed many of the problems you have reported and are currently testing those fixes in anticipation of releasing an update."   Have you installed the latest patches for your copies of Call of Duty: Black Ops? Let us know if all your CoD qualms have been rectified via the T3 Twitter and Facebook feeds.   Via: CVG This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Nokia admits to N8 power issues Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:00 AM PST Posted by Joe Minihane on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Warranty covers problems says Nokia's Niklas Savander. The Nokia N8 appears to have hit a significant problem, with a number of punters reporting that their spanking new Symbian 3 phone just won’t switch on.   Related links Nokia N8 review Best smartphones: the ultimate buyer's guide Espoo has confirmed that there is an issue with the blower, but top exec Niklas Savander says that it’s only affecting a “small number” of devices and that the warranty will cover a replacement.   Savander said that, “…a limited number of Nokia N8 users are experiencing a ‘power down’ or ‘not power up’”, in a chat with official blog Nokia Conversations. Although it is limited, this isn’t ideal for Nokia. Things had finally started to go quiet after a string of top level resignations and the confirmed delay of MeeGo into 2011.   Have you had problems with your N8? How have you been treated by Nokia? Let us know now over on our Facebook and Twitter pages.   Via Nokia Conversations This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Archos Android tablet: Archos 101 10-inch tab on sale now Posted: 19 Nov 2010 02:57 AM PST Posted by Adam Bunker on Fri 19 Nov 2010 iPad botherer lands at highly competitive price Archos has been making tablets in some form or another for years… even before it was cool. You’d expect that experience to shine through on the company’s latest venture, then – a 10.1-inch Android tablet jostling to compete with the iPad. Related links Google Nexus Two getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread Android Gingerbread: details emerge Android Honeycomb will be on next Samsung tablet So what are we looking at? Aside form the aforementioned screen size, the Archos 101 comes running Android 2.2 out of the box (with Flash support), has Bluetooth, a chassis just 12mm thin and an HDMI output for sharing video with your TV. It comes in miniscule 8GB or 16GB flavours, although that can thankfully be bolstered via SD card. The damage is £269.99 for the lesser model and £299.99 for the 16GB, which puts it comfortably at the low end of the current tablet cost spectrum. Given Archos’ decent reputation, don’t go thinking that this is a budget tab of the same ilk as the wholly disappointing joojoo. We’ll have a full review soon, just to be sure. You can order yourself an Archos 101 here.   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Modu hits the skids Posted: 19 Nov 2010 02:11 AM PST Posted by Joe Minihane on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Basic blower only launched in UK this summer after lengthy development. Remember Modu, the micro mobile that changed personalities by donning different “jackets”? Well, it seems the future’s not so rosy for the leftfield gadget, with its Israeli owner having to lay off staff, with plans for an Android phone looking distinctly unlikely to come to fruition.   Related links Modu launches world's lightest phone in UK Best smartphones: the ultimate buyer's guide Speaking to reporters, Dov Moran said, “This is not the end of Modu. We will try to raise money from other sources of capital. The company will continue to sell its products.” But with only 30 staff on board, most of whom are likely to be shown the door, it remains to be seen whether this neat smartphone alternative can truly survive.   Moran continued: “We did not manage to persuade people that Modu has great potential, and that hurts a lot. It's my failure." Sadly, Modu landed at the same time as the boom in smartphones started. Its Android plans look great, but with big players unleashing phones on a seemingly monthly basis, it was always going to be hard to compete.   Let us know what you think of Modu’s impending demise now over on our Facebook and Twitter pages.   Via Globes This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

News@10: Black Ops updates out and Android domination Posted: 19 Nov 2010 02:00 AM PST Posted by Luke Johnson on Fri 19 Nov 2010 T3 scans the Twitterverse to bring you a handy daily round-up of gadget news, tech rumours and randomness from the WWW. Kick back with your morning cuppa and catch up. Friday   MOBILE NEWS @TopNews - Motorola Milestone 2 available in the UK     APPLE NEWS @TheTelegraph - Apple launches iAds in Europe     MOBILE NEWS @TechRadar - Apple co-founder: Android will dominate phones     GAMING NEWS @CVG - Black Ops 360 and PS3 updates out now     MOBILE NEWS @Engadget - HTC Merge emerges on Verizon site a little early      Get more news, views and tech tips:    T3 on Twitter Direct your web attentions to twitter.com/t3dotcom for a feed of all the latest tech news and gadgetry goodness. We’ll also reach out for your opinions for future features, so have your brains ready.       T3 on Facebook Facebook.com/t3mag is our handle. Don’t worry though, we spend much less time growing Farmville crops and poking strangers than we do divulging tech info.     This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Portal 2 release date pushed back again Posted: 19 Nov 2010 01:02 AM PST Posted by Joe Minihane on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Makers Valve not fussed about delay, pointing out Portal suffered a similar fate. Portal 2 has been delayed again, with makers Valve now saying the must-have follow up will not hit shelves until the week of 18 April 2011. The game had been pegged for release on 9 February next year, having initially been slated to arrive this side of Christmas. Related links Portal 2 cleans up at IGN E3 awards Valve Steam gaming platform heading to Macs Best PS3 games at E3   However, Valve clearly sees no issues with the delay. In a jovial statement, it said, “[The] two month slip not only marks the shortest delay in Valve's proud tradition of delays, it represents the approaching convergence of Valve Time and Real Time. Though this convergence spells doom for humanity, it will not affect the new Portal 2 release date."   The statement also points out that Portal missed its release date and still went on to score 30 game of the year awards. Clearly Valve has no concerns that Portal 2 will do the same.   Gutted? Or are you happy to wait for Portal 2? Let us know now over on our Facebook and Twitter pages.   Via CVG This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

iPad 2: suppliers prepare for February 2011 shipments Posted: 19 Nov 2010 12:05 AM PST Posted by Joe Minihane on Fri 19 Nov 2010 Dual cameras, faster processor and more RAM pegged for Apple tablet update. Insiders have revealed that three component makers have been brought on board by Apple to help build the iPad 2, as Cupertino preps itself for the forthcoming release of the successor to its wildly popular tablet.   Related links Best iPad apps Best tablets: iPad alternatives Apple iPad review Digitimes has got the inside line, claiming that three companies, Ibiden, Tripod Technology and TTM Technologies, are all involved, and that Apple will be adding more suppliers in February, when it plans to ramp up shipments ahead of launch.   That date suggests the next-gen slate will land less than a year after the iPad first hit shelves in the States. The Wi-Fi only model first went on sale in April this year.   For all the latest gadget news and gossip, keep your eyes on our Facebook and Twitter pages.   Via Digitimes This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

iOS 4.2.1 unleashed to devs, so when's iOS 4.2 coming? Posted: 18 Nov 2010 11:44 PM PST Posted by Joe Minihane on Fri 19 Nov 2010 iOS 4.2 bugs said to have delayed its release. Apple has released another version of iOS 4.2 to its devs, suggesting that final tweaks are being made ahead of a reported release next week.   Related links iOS 4.2 now delayed until 24 November Best tablets: iPad alternatives Apple iPad review iOS 4.2.1 was unleashed last night, with devs reporting that only minor tweaks had been made. iOS 4.2 has already been delayed, with suggestions of issues with the new AirPrint function, as well as reported problems when using VoIP apps.   It had been hoped that iOS 4.2 would be out on 8 November. Apple claims there has been no delay, having said initially that the iPad-centric update would only be out at some point in November.   Desperate to get hold of iOS 4.2? Tell us all about your woes now on our Facebook and Twitter pages.   Via MacRumors This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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