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Oli Sparrow

I have been interested in technology and gadgets since I was very young and started messing around with building computers not long after I learned to walk. My personal gadget vice is for mp3 players and earphones, on which I spend an inordinate amount of money as well as time researching.

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Facebook Users’ Home Addresses To Be Made Available

17 Jan 2011 News
Facebook Users’ Home Addresses To Be Made Available
Facebook users’ home addresses and mobile phone numbers are being made available on a development platform according to a developer within the company. Jeff Bowen, a member...
Software & Apps

Over 5 Million Beatles Tracks Downloaded On iTunes

17 Jan 2011 News
Over 5 Million Beatles Tracks Downloaded On iTunes
Over 5 million Beatles tracks have already been downloaded on iTunes, less than two months since the band’s back-catalogue was made available for sale on Apple’s music...
Consumer

One In Ten Children Are Video Game “Addicts”

17 Jan 2011 News
One In Ten Children Are Video Game “Addicts”
Nearly one in ten children are video game “addicts” and will be left with the problem, new research has revealed. A two-year study of more than 3,000 school children...
Hardware

AMD CEO Departure Due To Mobile Policy

12 Jan 2011 News
AMD CEO Departure Due To Mobile Policy
The departure of AMD’s chief executive Dirk Meyer was partly due to the company’s board disagreeing with his strategy concerning the mobile market, a company source...
Video Games

EA CEO Claims Cloud Gaming Is Not The Future

12 Jan 2011 News
EA CEO Claims Cloud Gaming Is Not The Future
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitello has announced that he thinks cloud-gaming is not necessarily the future, and that games issued on disc are still the best way for consumers to...
Hardware

Liquid Lenses Could Revolutionise Digital Photography

11 Jan 2011 News
Liquid Lenses Could Revolutionise Digital Photography
Smartphones and digital cameras look set to benefit from a recently-discovered fluid management technique used to make liquid lenses. Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...