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Over on our Ovi Gaming site, Ewan goes hunting through the Ovi Store to find a free little game to while away part of his long trans-Atlantic flight - and finds the Bejewelled clone ‘Cube Touch: Match’ - which fits the bill perfectly. Describing the game as more “Zen” than challenge, this is an interesting title that’s worth keeping in a (purple) corner of your mass memory or memory card, it seems.

Continuing from our previous Sony Ericsson Vivaz videos we look at some of the key design charcteristics of the Vivaz and Vivaz Pro (human curvature, light reflection effects and material choices), compare the Vivaz and Vivaz Pro on video, take a brief look at some of the different colours that will be available and get a demo of the handset shooting video and uploading to YouTube. Taken together these videos help you get a clearer picture of Sony Ericsson’s new Symbian^1 handsets.

OK, so it's temporary but the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas would like to temorarily rename the city to Google as in - “Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics”….

A proposal that has been lingering since first introduced in 2001, considerations are again on the table to implement the .xxx domain name extension to explicitly identify…

As work has continued on Sony Ericsson’s take on S60 5th Edition with the Vivaz, it’s not surprising that the Satio has reaped the benefit, inheriting benefits and fixes. Widely panned on release six months ago, the Satio finally delivers on a bit more of its promise with this update, ‘R2AK’, a 108MB download, which has been dribbling out for some product codes but is right now available using the Sony Ericsson Update Service in Western Europe. Comments, changes, links and more below - though I have to warn you that some of the core bugs and issues remain unresolved.

As noted in Rafe’s Maps interview thread, Nokia isn’t keen to put resources behind creating a version of Ovi Maps 3.3 with free voice navigation for older S60 3rd Edition FP2 and FP1 (and vanilla 3rd Edition) phones. A good question is why Nokia doesn’t then just make existing navigation licenses free, thus having much the same effect. It seems that they’ve gone much of the way to ‘free’ for older devices, with even a full ‘Drive Europe’ license now only costing 10 Euros for a year - this presumably to help cover admin and server costs. Photo proof and more below.

Some say he has a pet polar bear. Some say his beard glows gently on the darkest night. All we know is, he’s called Ewan Spence. Part 1 of a series of short videos from Ewan is embedded below, along with some of his ‘diary’ commentary, as part of his gaming and blogging spring trip to San Francisco (GDC) and Austin (SXSW). Rafe set him a series of challenges, Top Gear style. There’s even a cameo by The Stig.

The ECS H55H-M is a micro ATX motherboard based on LGA 1156 socket for Intel Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium processors. The brand new Intel H55 chipset provides full support for Intel’s 32nm Clarkdale CPUs with a HD GPU integrated. Read on to see how this $53 motherboard does and we'll just come out and say that you might be shocked!