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Apr 12, 2012

GADGET UPDATE powered by Stuff: Spotify, RIM and more iPhone 5 rumours

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GADGET UPDATE powered by Stuff: Spotify, RIM and more iPhone 5 rumours

Spotify launches Play Button to easily add music to websites

Spotify has announced the launch of its new Spotify Play Button, a widget which lets you inject songs and playlists directly into your website or blog – where people can then stream them legally, for free. The button is also integrated into the Tumblr dashboard, meaning that Tumblr users simply have to type in the song or album of their choosing to access and embed the widget. Read more...

RIM to update Android app side-loading for BlackBerry PlayBook

RIM has confirmed that it will be updating the BlackBerry PlayBook's Android app side-loading feature to offer better protection for developers, by only letting users who purchased their apps to install them on the tablet. This follows speculation that RIM would be pulling Android app support thanks to a tweet from inside RIM stating that "Piracy is a huge problem for Android devs, and we don't want to duplicate the chaotic cesspool of Android market". Read more...

Viral of the week – turntable BMX mixer bike

What do you get if you kit a bike out with a wireless mixer? Your own rideable DJ system, apparently. Click here to watch the video.

Apple testing iPhone 5 with A5X chip?

iPhone 5 rumours are like buses – you wait around all day and then they all come in at once. As well as the report that the iPhone 5 would come sporting a 4in screen and unibody redesign, Apple is said to be testing iPhone 5 prototypes packing variant A5X processors. Read more...

iPhone 5 to get 4in screen and unibody redesign

Hands up who was still hoping for the completely redesigned iPhone 5 when Tim Cook first stuck an image of the iPhone 4S on screen last year. In your defence, sometimes it's just more exciting when the outsides of gadgets change along with those hidden spec bumps.

According to Business Insider, Brian White – an analyst for Wall Street firm Topeka Capital Markets – has sent back some rather tasty iPhone 5 predictions from a tour of suppliers in China and Taiwan. Read more...

Fifth-generation iPod Touch on the way

The current iPod Touch is getting a bit long in the tooth, with Apple only adding a lick of white paint to distinguish last year's refresh from the previous year's model. But Apple looks set to unleash a fifth-generation iPod Touch, according to an internal iOS 5.1 build file unearthed by 9to5Mac. Read more...

 

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