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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Toyota unveiled a brand new concept car on Monday, ahead of the upcoming Tokyo auto show, called the Fun-Vii. Toyota’s president Akio Toyoda called the car “a smartphone on four wheels.” The car appears to feature large screens on the sides, which can be used for interaction and commands, or … [Read More]
Thrustmaster, the innovative PC and console accessory brand, announced today it will have a special holiday deal on its T500 RS wheel and pedal set and TH8 RS gear set. A premium racing assembly that lets gamers experience racing titles on the PC, and Gran Turismo 5 on the PS3, … [Read More]
In the run up to Christmas, we’re seeing price cuts on many electronics and gaming consoles, but it seems that the PlayStation 3 is the console to look out for when it comes to significant price cuts. Supermarket giant, Sainsbury’s, has cut the 160GB PlayStation 3 from a recommended retail … [Read More]
The European Court of Justice has ruled that copyright content owners cannot ask Internet Service Providers to filter out and block illegal content, but they can ask ISPs to block specific websites. In 2004, a Belgian court told ISP Scarlet to make it impossible for its customers to send or … [Read More]
The European Union’s competition commission has approved Western Digital’s deal to purchase Hitachi’s disk drive business $4.3 billion, with the condition that Western Digital would sell off some of its production operations. Western Digital has promised to sell essential production assets for the manufacture of 3.5-inch disc drives, including a production … [Read More]
A while ago we reported that Google was in the process of a spring clean and were in the process of killing off, so-to-speak, several projects in order to save money. On Tuesday they announced more projects that were being culled for various reasons. The projects include; Google Bookmarks Lists, Google Friend … [Read More]
Richard Shim, an analyst at DisplaySearch, said in an interview today with CNET, that production on Apple’s iPad 3 has already begun. ”It’s happening–QXGA, 2048×1536. Panel production has started [for the next-generation iPad]. There’s three suppliers,” he said and cited Samsung, Sharp, and LG. Why the need for three different suppliers? … [Read More]
Sony Electronics is opening the doors to more stores with the new design concept introduced earlier this year in the Century City area of Los Angeles. The new design introduces a brand new customer experience from Sony, including a world class design that truly embodies the best Sony has to offer from … [Read More]
McAfee today released the McAfee Threats Report: Third Quarter 2011, which showed that the Android mobile operating system solidified its lead as the primary target for new mobile malware. The amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped nearly 37 percent since last quarter, and puts 2011 on track to … [Read More]
Amazon is reportedly working on two new next-generation Kindle Fire tablets, sized at 8.9 inches and 10.1 inches, similar to Samsung’s sizing methods. The 8.9-inch model is apparently going to launch by the end of the second quarter of 2012, with production of that model beginning in the middle of … [Read More]
Google has launched its new online music service in the United States in order to compete with Apple and Amazon’s music businesses. Google Music, which is now in beta, boasts over 13 million songs and will, according to Google, be integrated into the Android marketplace in due course.
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Sony is considering launching an internet TV service that could rival the likes of subscription-based cable and satellite services if a Wall Street Journal article is to be believed. The company wishes to allow their consumers to pay for a subscription-based TV service similar to cable TV, but with all … [Read More]
Mathieulh, a quite infamous PSP hacker, claims to have decrypted lv0 on the PlayStation 3′s latest firmware (3.73). The hacker released an image of a Command Prompt window simply stating the words, “File successfully decrypted!” on his Twitter account, with the words “Boot Loader SE Version 3.7.3 (Build ID: 4611,48369, … [Read More]
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of year-old Facebook rival Diaspora, has died. The San Francisco Police department confirmed the death of the young entrepreneur, which the medical examiner stated “appears to be suicide.” The social network was launched a year ago by Zhitomirskiy and three other students at New York University. … [Read More]
