Sky will launch an internet based TV service in the UK in the first half of 2012

UK pay TV service Sky has just announced its quarterly results, and despite adding 100,000 subscribers as well as notching its “highest ever first-half adjusted operating profit” it will launch a new internet TV service, available to anyone in the cou…

Microsoft: UK Retailer ‘sold 94,000 counterfeit copies of Windows’

Microsoft has launched an attack on beleaguered electronics retailer Comet — stating that the British chain pirated 94,000 copies of Vista and XP recovery discs. Comet, which was recently sold off for £2 ($3), allegedly produced the copies …

Apple reportedly swapping recalled iPod nanos for 6G counterparts; you have yours?

It’s been a few weeks since Apple’s issued a worldwide recall on a number of its first-gen iPod nanos at risk for becoming uncomfortably hot under the collar. Evidently, many folks who’ve sent their devices into AppleCare to get swapped are findin…

Lenovo launches IdeaTab S2005 (aka LePad S2005), a 5-inch Gingerbread tabletphone

You may recall that last week we had a cheeky peek at Lenovo’s upcoming tabletphone, and now our brethren at Engadget Chinese are actually touching one in Beijing! Dubbed the IdeaTab S2005 aka LePad S2005 in China, this Android 2.3.5 slate packs a 5…