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In Jolla the hackers finally have a smartphone they can fiddle with

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Arriving just before the holidays, I’ve finally had some time to sit down with the Jolla I ordered as part of the first batch of FInnish smartphones are write a proper preview of the handset. Given I can spend a decent amount of time with it, a full review is going to take another week or two, but here are my first thoughts: Differentiating in hardware is not Jolla’s goal – it’s all about the software and specifically about Sailfish OS. Sailfish OS is based on the Mer project, which was built on the MeeGo project, which itself was a

Who gets your douze points this year at Eurovision?

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It’s probably escaped the notice of many of you , but the Eurovision Song Contest is getting closer. Before you ask, the Grand Final is on Saturday May 18th, so you have six weeks to plan your party. Of course in four weeks I fly to Malmo to cover the Contest from backstage as the rehearsals start. Even though the UK media like to make fun of the Contest, with a peak viewership of over nine million last year, the public (that means you) still love it. So why not sneakily subscribe to the Eurovision Podcast that I host on ESC

The Rock Show’s SXSW Preview Show

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[audio:http://archive.org/download/tpc_rock_friday_20130301/tpn_rock_friday_20130301_231.mp3] MP3 File – Show Notes – RSS Feed – iTunes Link Starting the journey from Edinburgh to Austin, and while I have the joy of transiting Heathrow Terminal 5 to the much more sane Terminal 3, you can have the Rock Show’s preview of SXSW Music. With tracks from Fort Lean, Butch Walker, The Mowglis, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls.

It’s like a Galaxy, but it runs Windows Phone

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On first impressions, the Samsung ATIV S is not going to be the Windows Phone 8 handset that everybody will be fighting for, but it will be one that will not disappoint you, if your office IT manager hands you one as your work phone. It may be the least-talked-about Windows Phone 8 device at the moment, but it has an important place in the ecosystem. My preview of Samsung’s ATIV S is on All About Windows Phone.

Here Comes The Fringe Podcast for 2012!

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And so August comes round once more on the calendar, and that means Edinburgh is about to be over-run by every single person who has ever appeared on a BBC Comedy Panel Quiz Show, everyone who wants to be on one, the quirky guests from QI… and the mainstream press forgets that Comedy only makes up one third of the programming at the Edinburgh Fringe. This will be the eighth year that my daily podcast from the Fringe will be running, and the seventh year that I am delighted to be working alongside The Stage to try and bring the