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Monday July 2, 2012

EDITOR'S NOTE

A big start to the week for telcos, tablets and smartphones as the rumour mill churns for Amazon and RIM. Meanwhile, the TvTak app promises to be Shazam for television, while Pixar prove its not just about animated robots.

TODAY'S TOP STORIES

		NEWS Virgin Mobile “simplifies” post-paid plans, spruiks 4G By Nic Healey \| Jul 2, 2012 Telco reduces post-paid plans from nine to five while confirming its 4G services will be available “this year”

		NEWS Qualcomm wants your next TV to be powered by Snapdragon By Esat Dedezade \| Jul 2, 2012 The cpu giant has plans to power the biggest screen in your house with its quad-core Snapdragon chips

		NEWS Google aims cloud compute as Amazon rival By Chris Jager \| Jul 2, 2012 Analysis: Do the prices add up?

		NEWS Pixar trains robots in the art of etiquette By Stephen Graves \| Jul 2, 2012 The creators of WALL-E are helping robot developers create a body language for robots, experimenting with robotic non-verbal communication

		NEWS TvTak will tag videos, Shazam style By Luke Edwards \| Jul 2, 2012 Actually this app does more than just recognise what you're watching – it'll pull in all sorts of related info

		NEWS Is Amazon readying two new Kindle Fire tablets? By Luke Edwards \| Jul 2, 2012 With pressure from the Nexus 7, it looks likely that the next iteration of the Kindle Fire will come in two sizes

		NEWS BlackBerry partnering with MS for Windows 8? By Luke Edwards \| Jul 2, 2012 Steve Ballmer has apparently offered RIM an olive branch, but will the troubled BlackBerry giant swallow its pride and accept?

		NEWS VLC 2.0.2 adds Retina display support – Audacity updated to 2.0.1 By Mark Wilson \| Jul 2, 2012 Popular media player VLC has been updated to version 2.0.2 and the big news here is addition of support for Retina displays.

		NEWS Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 5 improves editing, batch processing features By Mike Williams \| Jul 2, 2012 Ashampoo has released latest edition of its fast and easy-to-use photo editing tool with a revamped interface and some new tricks up its sleeve.

		NEWS Paragon Drive Backup 11, Genie Backup Manager Pro 9.0 released By Mike Williams \| Jul 2, 2012 Paragon Software has released Drive Backup 11, the latest edition of its business-oriented tool, but there's strong competition from Genie Backup on the horizon.

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