The likelihood of us seeing the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.0 has grown a little stronger as another benchmark for the anticipated device crops up online.
Earlier this month we saw a benchmark result for a device carrying the moniker GT-N5100, and now the GLBenchmark site has apparently witnessed the same tablet.
Running Android 4.1.2, so not quite the latest version of Jelly Bean, the supposedly Samsung-made tablet sports the same model number as the Nenamark benchmark a few weeks ago.
No surprise
There's precious little information to gain from the latest benchmark, with the screen resolution the only other clue we have on the device, coming in at 1280 x 800 – which is different from the Nenamark result which had a 1280 x 720 resolution.
It comes as no surprise that Samsung could be planning a new 7-inch tablet after the rather muted effort of the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 was overshadowed by the likes of the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Nook HD and Google Nexus 7.
Samsung is staying quiet on the topic, as it does for any rumours surrounding future devices, but we'll be having a good root around at CES 2013 and MWC 2013 to see what we can find out.
Amazon is one of the best places to do your holiday shopping; low prices, fast shipping and the biggest selection of any retailer ever made many lives easier this season.
But one user who claims to have received a stolen iPhone from the online bookseller would likely disagree.
Tweeter Ben Dreyfuss claimed on Tuesday morning that the iPhone he bought for his mother turned out to be hot - i.e., it was not acquired honestly.
He learned of the device's unsavory history when his mother tried to activate the iPhone with Verizon, representatives of which informed her that it had been blacklisted.
Merry Christmas indeed
Dreyfuss tweeted that the iPhone in question had been listed on Amazon's warehouse deals as refurbished.
He claimed that it originally came from an Amazon trade-in; in other words, someone likely stole the phone and sold it to Amazon.
Should Amazon be responsible for checking whether the merchandise it sells is hot? Probably.
Either way, Dreyfuss reported on Twitter that Amazon had instructed him to return it and was "very apologetic."
TechRadar has reached out to Amazon to determine exactly what its policy is in such a case, but the retailer has yet to respond.
Hopefully his mother understands why she received illicit goods for Christmas - maybe try a swap meet next time, Ben?
The iPad 5 release date is apparently set for March 2013 according to one optimistic inside source.
Talking to Japanese site Macotakara, the source, whose connection with the Cupertino-based firm is unknown, suggested the next Apple tablet could arrive relatively early into next year sporting a new design.
The iPad 5 will take its design cues from the iPad mini and Apple will work on making it thinner and lighter.
Why so soon?
Hopefully this is true as we were rather disappointed with the size and weight increase that came with the iPad 3 and Apple decided not to reduce either with the iPad 4.
This isn't the first insider to predict an early arrival for the iPad 5, with an analyst already hinting that the next super slim slate could be on its way sooner rather than later.
Although the March date did seem likely at first, as it follows on nearly a year from the launch of the iPad 3 back in February 2012, the surprise announcement of the iPad 4 at the iPad mini event has thrown the Apple product cycle into a bit of a spin.
We'd be surprised if even Apple had the bravado to launch three 9.7-inch tablets in the space of 12 months - and if it does, it could have a lot of angry customers on its hands.
Just got an Android or Apple phone or tablet for Christmas? Lucky you!
Both platforms have a wealth of apps, free and paid-for, that you can download and enjoy on your new device.
But with so many apps available, how do you know which ones to get? That's where we come in.
TechRadar is well known for its definitive lists of the best apps for Android and iOS, which we keep regularly updated.
So whether you're looking for the best games, apps to help you take control of your social networks, or apps to help you be more productive at work, we've got you covered.
Below are links to our most popular app roundups…
Best Android apps
60 best free Android apps
40 best free Android games
10 best free Android apps for kids
10 best office apps for Android
Best Android browser: 8 compared for speed and features
8 best Android keyboard apps reviewed and rated
10 best Android music players
10 best Android movie player apps
Best iPad apps
70 best free iPad apps
60 best free iPad games
Top 230 best iPad apps for iPad 4, iPad 3, iPad 2 and iPad mini
Best iPhone apps
70 best free iPhone apps
60 best free iPhone games
5 best iPhone sat nav apps
10 best iPad and iPhone apps for mobile working
Also see:
5 best Android and iOS benchmark tools
Best iPad and iPhone 2D shoot 'em ups
Best iPhone and Android apps for cycling from our colleagues at BikeRadar
Just got an Android or Apple phone or tablet for Christmas? Lucky you!
Both platforms have a wealth of apps, free and paid-for, that you can download and enjoy on your new device.
But with so many apps available, how do you know which ones to get? That's where we come in.
TechRadar is well known for its definitive lists of the best apps for Android and iOS, which we keep regularly updated.
So whether you're looking for the best games, apps to help you take control of your social networks, or apps to help you be more productive at work, we've got you covered.
Below are links to our most popular app roundups…
Best Android apps
60 best free Android apps
40 best free Android games
10 best free Android apps for kids
10 best office apps for Android
Best Android browser: 8 compared for speed and features
8 best Android keyboard apps reviewed and rated
10 best Android music players
10 best Android movie player apps
Best iPad apps
70 best free iPad apps
60 best free iPad games
Top 230 best iPad apps for iPad 4, iPad 3, iPad 2 and iPad mini
Best iPhone apps
70 best free iPhone apps
60 best free iPhone games
5 best iPhone sat nav apps
10 best iPad and iPhone apps for mobile working
Also see:
5 best Android and iOS benchmark tools
Best iPad and iPhone 2D shoot 'em ups
Best iPhone and Android apps for cycling from our colleagues at BikeRadar
This year saw Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrate her Diamond Jubilee and 60 years as head of the Commonwealth.
To mark both The Queen's Jubilee and to tell the story of the last 60 years, the Royal Commonwealth Society created the Jubilee Time Capsule.
The Jubilee Time Capsule is an online social archive, containing stories from people across all 54 Commonwealth countries, either as a written memory, a film, an audio recording or a photographic memory.
The 10 most influential computers in history
The time capsule marks the eventful six decades The Queen has seen, from Accession Day on 6th February 1952 to 2011's Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
These memories recount moments of Royal and historical significance, as well as personal histories, including weddings, family migration stories and individual tales of conflict and loss.
When The Queen became Head of the Commonwealth in 1952, there were eight member states - there are now 54. During Her Majesty's reign, 42 Commonwealth members gained independence from Britain and all chose to join the Commonwealth.
All Commonwealth residents, both adults and children, were invited to contribute a story about their family, community, country or the Commonwealth itself, from any time during Her Majesty's reign.
Over 37,000 people submitted contributions, via jubileetimecapsule.org and an Apple app.
Celebrities and members of the Royal Family to have taken part in the project include Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, Paralympic and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and William Hague.
The most popular day for people to remember was 29th April 2011 – the Royal Wedding – with more than 200 entries.
Getting connected: a history of modems
A massive 80,000 stories were submitted into the Jubilee Time Capsule in total, creating crowd-sourced People's History - an authentic legacy of the last 60 years.
The mass of entries was whittled down to the 60 'best' memories by a panel of distinguished judges, including the director general of The Royal Photographic Society, the Royal Librarian and Telegraph Deputy Editor Benedict Brogan.
These selected entries have formed the Diamond (re)Collection, and were presented to The Queen by the Royal Commonwealth Society during Her Majesty's tour of the Society's headquarters, on 14th November.
It's all on a Note
The entire Diamond (re)Collection was made public on the internet, immediately following this.
The 60 photographs, drawings, poems, essays and videos were given to The Queen on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet PC – the digital time capsule.
The tablet PC was presented to The Queen by 12-year-old John Samson, from Malawi, whose contributing essay, 'The day I wore my best clothes', was about the day he received his first school uniform.
John won the Royal Commonwealth Essay Junior Prize, which ran alongside the Jubilee Time Capsule project.
The tablet PC will be stored at Windsor Castle as part of the Royal Collection, which is held in trust by the Sovereign for her successors and the nation.
The Royal Collection already includes technology, including PCs and DVDs, as well as art, furniture and other memorabilia, but this is the first artifact on a PC tablet to be added.
Danny Sriskandarajah, Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society said: "The Commonwealth has been at the heart of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and we wanted to do something innovative to celebrate the association and the 2.1 billion people that live in it.
"The Jubilee Time Capsule is an amazing collection of stories and memories that shows the shared history and aspirations of the Commonwealth's citizens."
The legacy of Alan Turing
The first date in the Jubilee Time Capsule timeline is 6th February 1952 – A National Parks employee in Kenya shares a photo and remembers the day Princess Elizabeth found out about her father's death and her imminent accession to the throne.
Some of the other best entries are of 7th June 1954 – The legacy of Alan Turing as remembered by his former PhD student, and 14th November 1990 – a personal account by Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, who recalls his childhood realisation that disability is not synonymous with disadvantage.
Many of the children's entries are very special and poignant; including one about 15th November 2011 – The day Woody Street's dad was awarded his Green Badge black cab license for passing 'The Knowledge'.
Around 150GB of data
Although only 60 of the 80,000 stories submitted made it onto The Queen's tablet and into The Royal Collection, the others are by no means wasted.
On the contrary, the complete library of 80,000 entries will remain available online in perpetuity, forming part of the world's biggest online history project and occupying around 150GB of digital space.
The online capsule is unique in its ease of accessibility for such a large social archive, which will be of great value to teachers, academics and historians, as well as the general public, as it provides such a unique look at the last 60 years.
All of the 80,000 entries submitted into what's become the world's largest online history project will be kept avaliable indefinately at www.jubileetimecapsule.org
All of the 60 entries that made it into the Diamond (re)Collection are both interesting and arresting and easily accessed as a collection at the Jubilee Time Capsule website, under the 'Collections' tab in the top right.
There is also a People's Choice Collection and the option to view entries by decade, region, Science, Culture & Education, Politics & Environment, Life & Royalty, or to simply browse through the capsule in its entirety.
There's also a search function, should you be looking for a particular subject or event.
If you have an iPhone or iPad you can also download the free Jubilee Time Capsule app, which has a great easy-to-use interface.
Apple's app for iPhone and iPad has a intuitive interface and makes browsing the events of the past 60 years lots of fun
The online platform for the Jubilee Time Capsule is provided by Capsool, a company that creates (re)collections - social archives that collect people's stories and memories.
Something amazing happened on Christmas Day 2007, and we don't mean Santa getting stuck in the chimney or Gran overdoing the sherry: the BBC launched iPlayer, its on-demand internet video service.
As LoveFilm's Simon Morris recalls, iPlayer changed the game: "They normalised the idea of catch-up TV," he said. "The service went a long way to explaining to middle England that streaming content was normal."
iPlayer was a hit from the very start, shifting 3.5 million programme streams and downloads in its first three weeks, and by April 2008 it accounted for one fifth of all UK internet traffic. By early 2012, 40% of online adults were using it.
Remember the launch ad?
iPlayer thrived for several reasons. One, it did something useful. Two, it did it very well. Three, it's constantly being improved - for example, it got a dramatic, social media-inspired makeover in 2010 and added links to other broadcasters' programmes in 2011. And four, it's constantly finding new devices to play programmes on.
By early 2008, iPlayer was our go-to service for both TV and radio shows
The Wii, PS3 and iPhone got iPlayer in 2008, but Microsoft's boneheaded "no free stuff for free users" policy meant the Xbox didn't get iPlayer until 2012 - although when it finally arrived, the BBC made sure it worked with Kinect.
Late 2008, with the new
iPlayer came to Android in 2011, and in October of this year it completed the roll-out to the UK's major broadcasting systems when it arrived on Sky+ and YouView.
iPlayer didn't make it to the Xbox 360 until 2012. Boo! It supports Kinect! Yay!
There were iPlayers for BlackBerries and for Sonys, for smart TVs and smartphones... if it had a screen, chances are you could watch iPlayer on it - although the April 1, 2009 story announcing a special iPlayer-enabled toaster with an integrated OLED display was, of course, a hoax.
The iPlayer isn't available on toasters, despite BBC April Fools
As iPlayer embraced new devices, so did we: today, just 50% of iPlayer viewing is happening on computers, down from 65% the year before and 100% on day one. Some of those views are on TVs, of course, but around one-quarter of them are on tablet and phones.
iPlayer is available on pretty much everything. This is the PS3/Smart TV version from 2011
It hasn't all been plain sailing. Over the years the iPlayer has been plagued by everything from ISP throttling and anti-DRM protests to moaning commercial rivals, although as our Dan Grabham pointed out at the time, rivals really needed to make services that weren't rubbish instead of whingeing. Rupert Murdoch was particularly unhappy, claiming back in 2008 that iPlayer had "squashed other competition".
HD streaming came to the iPlayer in 2009, much to the annoyance of some ISPs
For a while, there was even talk of opening up iPlayer to other broadcasters, although the BBC Trust decided that that was a really terrible idea. Rivals did eventually raise their game, although plans for the BBC and commercial broadcasters to team up as one big happy family under the Project Kangaroo banner were crushed by the Competition Commission. It has, however, gone global:
iPlayer's interface is particularly good on tablets, as you can see from this 2012 screenshot
Rivals might not have liked it, but we all did: in 2010's TechRadar awards the iPlayer team walked away with two gongs - the most essential online innovation award, and the most innovative home entertainment platform award. Perhaps that was because it enabled everyone to watch World Cup matches when they were at work.
One of the reasons iPlayer is so well liked is because it keeps improving. In January, BBC policy and strategy director John Tate said that the BBC shouldn't rest on its iPlayer laurels, and it didn't: we got the ability to pause and resume live TV in June and mobile downloads in September.
iPlayer was early to the iPhone, and gained an iPhone 5-friendly version this year
So what's next? According to iPlayer general manager Matthew Littleford, the aim is to avoid what happened to Kodak: instead of embracing digital photography, Kodak stuck with film and let competitors kill its business.
"We can set the iPlayer up for the future or resign it to obsolescence," Littleford said. "We are having the 'Kodak moment' right now; we don't want to come up with catch-up TV and then see everyone else overtake us." With iPlayer, it seems, we ain't seen nothing yet.
This early-2012 image shows how the BBC has kept iPlayer simple. That's part of its success
