Not sick of all the Samsung talk yet? Great news! The 10.1 version of the Galaxy Tab 2 just went up for pre-order, courtesy of the cubicle stockers at Office Depot

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 now available for your pre-ordering pleasure

Perennial evening schedule-filler Antiques Roadshow will launch a new companion app in the UK, connecting PCs, smartphones, tablets and BBC’s red button feature on TVs to the show, as it goes out live. It’s shaping up to be very different to the existing PBS app , this time combining your incredulity over whether a painting is really worth that much with a quiz format. You’ll be able to guess the value against the clock, with separate amateur and expert levels.

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BBC to launch app companion for Antiques Roadshow, asks you to price up British heritage

Did you hear the news? Y’know, about Samsung’s latest release? No, not the Galaxy S III — that’s officially yesterday’s news

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Samsung releases… Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1 source code

Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Dediu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM , LG, Sony (Ericsson) , Motorola , Nokia and HTC , only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all recorded losses for the quarter, Mr

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Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits

Nintendo is already guiding you through the Louvre with a 3DS , but a newly published US patent application takes that kind of tourism to a very literal new level. Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto’s concept describes a way to direct lost tourists by beaming position information through an overhead grid of infrared transmitters to a mobile device (portrayed as a DS Lite ) held by the confused visitor below.

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Nintendo patent application tech tracks your DS from above, serves as tour guide

Why would you want to leap out of a perfectly good aircraft? To fly a winged jetpack over the city of Rio de Janeiro, of course.

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Jetman soars over Rio, flies circles around historical landmarks (video)

If you read our interview with ARM co-founder John Biggs, you know the company behind the processor in most smartphones had quite modest beginnings, what with an office in a barn and all. But Biggs is only part of the story, and Reghardware fleshes the rest out with a two-part series on the “unsung heroes of tech”: Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber and Herman Hauser, the team behind Acorn Computers, the British PC company that spawned ARM in the mid-80s. We’ll let you click through to the source links to take the journey yourself, but here are a few highlights: earning a computer contract with the BBC, happening upon ARM chips’ low power consumption by accident and striking gold thanks to a partnership with Apple

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Series revisits ARM’s humble beginnings, BBC Micro and all

Text editing on the iPad is a bit of a slog unless you have a dedicated keyboard . One Daniel Hooper, however, has a simple but clever idea to fix this: use the keyboard as a pseudo-trackpad. As he shows in the prototype video below, his idea has touchscreen typists just drag one or two fingers along the keyboard to whip through text

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iPad drag-to-edit keyboard prototype shows Apple how easy it could be (video)

If you’re in the market for some weekend reading, we’ve got quite the issue of our weekly tablet mag in the hopper. James Trew takes a look back at 40 years of cultural impact at the hands of Atari in this installment’s feature.

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Distro Issue 39 takes a look back at 40 years of Atari and the console’s cultural impact

The good news is we’re still here — luckily.

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