Instant messaging applications on smartphones such as WhatsApp and Viber have overtaken the SMS market for the first time ever according to research firm Informa. Informa’s research suggests that 19 billion messages were set each day on chat apps, compared to 17.6 billion SMS messages in 2012. Another research company, … [Read More]
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Lookout, a mobile security provider, has revealed that they have found no less than 32 apps on the Android Google Play Store, that are infected with a new strain of malware known as BadNews. According to statistics on the Google Play store, the combined affected applications have been downloaded … [Read More]
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Adam Orth, a Microsoft Games Studios creative director who caused a massive row on Twitter, Neogaf and several other gaming websites when he dismissed ‘Always Online’ DRM as a major issue in gaming, has now not only protected his tweets on Twitter, but has also removed his account from … [Read More]
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Adam Orth, a Creative Director at Microsoft Studios, has suggested that the next Xbox, commonly known as Durango or Xbox 720, will require users to be always online whilst playing games or running apps. In an ill-thought out Twitter tirade with Senior gameplay designer at BioWare, Manveer Heir, Orth posted … [Read More]
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During the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this year, Epic Games unveiled an Unreal Engine 4 demonstration running in real-time for the PlayStation 4. This Elemental demo was also shown last year running on PC, and we were very impressed at the time, so we decided to make a quick split-screen … [Read More]
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3Doodler, the world’s first 3D printing pen, has surpassed its Kickstarter goal in a single day. The company behind the project set a modest goal of just $30,000 for the pen, but has attracted almost $800,000 at the time of this post. The pen is essentially a 3D printer, but … [Read More]
Just like the original 60GB PS3 that was priced at $599 and included PS2 hardware directly on the motherboard, should Sony look into making a SKU for their next gen system with a similar feature?
If we look at the logistics, it seems like the main issues that Sony could … [Read More]
Microsoft has loaned Michael Dell $2 billion allowing him to buy back his company making it a private rather than a public company. Michael Dell himself will be putting $500 million of his own money into buying Dell back, but the total cost of the buyback will total around $24 … [Read More]
Today is an exciting day to be a gamer, especially a PlayStation gamer, as it looks like Sony is ready to announce it’s next PlayStation, most likely named, the PlayStation 4. Sony has sent out invites to investors and media for a PlayStation day on the February 20th in New … [Read More]
Apple has announced a new iPad with double the storage space of it’s previous fourth generation iPad, which boasts up to 64GB of storage. Apple has launched four different iPads in the past 12 months, leading many to believe that they are launching too many SKUs (stock-keeping unit) of the … [Read More]
Sony has been fined £250,000 by ICO, a data protection watchdog, for a security breach that the company’s PlayStation arm suffered in April 2011. The breach saw Sony close down it’s PlayStaton and Sony Online Entertainment Network for weeks whilst the company scrambled to find out if data had been … [Read More]
The next generation of Xbox is almost upon us as rumours of the next Xbox, code-named Durango, are starting to gain momentum. If reports out of CES are to be believed, the next Xbox will feature some impressive specifications, including a Blu-ray drive. The full specifications, which appear to be … [Read More]
After Sony’s live Consumer Electronics Show 2013 conference, President and Chief Operating Officer Phil Molyneux had some very interesting comments on the future of Blu-ray disc and Ultra High Definition 4K (four times the resolution of the current 1080p HD standard) video content.
He revealed that the size of an … [Read More]
Microsoft has released a patch for a critical day-zero vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8. On investigating the vulnerability, Microsoft writes:
The vulnerability is a remote code execution vulnerability that exists in the way that Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has
Samsung unveiled a prototype smartphone with a flexible display, which was show running Windows Phone 8, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2013. Samsung reported that they have been using Youm as the brand for its flexible display technology since June, but that they did not expect to launch a phone using … [Read More]
Sony has announced it’s flagship phone for 2013, the Xperia Z, which is packed full of technology to go up against Apple’s iPhone and the Galaxy S phones from Samsung.
The Sony Xperia Z includes a 5-inch 1080p TFT Reality Display with 443dpi, a 13-megapixel rear facing camera and a … [Read More]
CES 2013 this year is all about 4K televisions, and Sony is leading the charge. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a TV that will support a video resolution of 4 times the current 1080p HD standard. And what’s even more amazing is that these TVs now have … [Read More]
The UK government will be investing £21.5 million in graphene research in order to get the wonder material out of a lab and into the real world. The funding will be given to specific universities, and £12 million of the funding is from a previously agreed funding source from 2011, … [Read More]
HMV, a UK retailer, has cut the price of the 12GB PlayStation 3 Slim console to just £119.99 (including free delivery) following offers from other retailers such as GAME, who cut the price of the console to just £125. This represents an affordable option for those who wish to upgrade … [Read More]
Google and Motorola are reportedly working on a smartphone that pushes the boundary with the best technologies that are available, called the X phone. The phone is expected to launch at some point in 2013, and will reportedly have features that set itself apart from rivals such as the Apple … [Read More]
