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Plummeting PC prices have not been matched by a drop in the cost of software. Now UK supermarket Tesco is planning to change that by launching Ability Office, a dirt cheap software package that does a similar job to Microsoft Office. Ability’s software tools such as Write are compatible with its rival’s – and all for £20 rather than £300.

It looks like a dimpled basketball on a stick, but in fact the “pulsating sphere” is a speaker which reputedly produces a more natural sound than conventional box shape. Developed by JVC of Yokohama, Japan, the speaker has 12 pentagon-shaped plastic…

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