PC World prices Wi-Fi-only Motorola Xoom at £449, then pulls it

UK computer retailer PC World finally revealed the price at which it would offer the Android Honeycomb-powered Motorola Xoom tablet this morning, only to pull it just minutes later. PC World has created asplash pagefor the Motorola Xoom, advertising the impressive array of features that the tablet possesses. At the bottom of the page, PC World advertised the tablet at a surprising £449.99, which comes in £60 (and a penny) less than the equivalent iPad model....

2 min · 285 words · Amy Nunez

PDF Expert is an all-purpose tool for making your PDFs as friendly to edit as a Word doc

TLDR:This award-winning app can help you complete any PDF project, from editing to filling out forms to even creating PDFs of your own. PDFs pulled away as the primary web document format of the digital age in the early 90s because they offered high quality versions of those documents in a comparatively small file size. But while they looked great and didn’t take up much space, the downside of PDFs have always been just as forward-facing....

2 min · 370 words · Robert Clark

Pearltrees makes Web curation a joy with its ‘magical’ new iPad app

Not many tech CEOs would have the guts to describe their products as “magical” and as delivering “pure happiness”, but that’s exactly howPearltrees‘ Patrice Lamothe describes the startup’siPad appreleased today. You know what? He may just be right. Pearltrees is a service that takes a visual approach to Web curation. Launched late last year with its browser-based version, it allows you to create networks of ‘pearls’ on screen. Each pearl is a link to a piece of content and you can connect them together in whatever way you choose into a ‘pearltree’....

3 min · 577 words · Mariah Hartman

Peecho launches ‘Print button for the Internet’

Amsterdam-based cloud printing startupPeechohas launched a new service that allows anyone to add a ‘Print’ button to their website. The company is marketing it as being just as simple to use as a Facebook ‘Like’ button. You just create a button, get an embed code and add it to any page. Once pressed, the button opens up Peecho’s interface which allows visitors to order your documents in book or magazine format....

2 min · 260 words · Amber Rhodes

Peer-to-patent: the pilot scheme that might just kick-start the UK IP revolution

In November 2010, UK Prime Minister David Cameronannouncedplans to transform the UK into a major global hub for innovation and technology. His vision was to make London’s vibrantTech Cityone to rival Silicon Valley. During hisspeechin London’s Shoreditch area, Cameron revealed the Government’sBlueprint for Technologypaper, which outlined how they planned to support this vision to make Britain a global innovation magnet. To make the UK an attractive option for investors and new enterprises, several measures were put forward....

7 min · 1343 words · Scott Frey
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