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Microsoft Reveals Xbox One, Talks About TV

On Tuesday 21st May, Microsoft revealed their next generation of gaming, with the Xbox One. However, despite being touted as a gaming device for the past few months, Microsoft spent 75% of the time talking about TV and sports, announcing just two exclusive titles at the event, only one of … [Read More]

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Chat Apps Overtake SMS For First Time Ever

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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Google Play Found to be Hosting 32 Malware Infested Apps

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, Microsoft Creative Director Deletes LinkedIn Account

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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Microsoft Creative Director Suggests ‘Always Online’ for N...

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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Despite the cancellation of Google’s Android event earlier today, some information has been leaking out of the event regarding the LG Nexus 4, the latest is that the phone will feature wireless charging. The information comes from a leaked quick start manual for the new phone, which clearly mentions a … [Read More]

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Google has postponed a Nexus event that was set to take place today due to the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. The event was going to take place in New York City on October 29th at 10 AM, and was going to go head to head with a Windows Phone 8 … [Read More]

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Ahead of the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft still has a battle to kill off XP globally according to data from StatCounter, the independent web analytics company. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that Windows XP, the operating system launched over 10 years ago in October 2001, still … [Read More]

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The Carphone Warehouse have accidentally confirmed the existence of the Google Nexus 4, which is likely to be officially announced at a Google press event on October 29th. The website confirms many of the details of the phone, including the size of the LCD screen, which is larger than expected … [Read More]

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Apple has announce the iPad mini at a press conference, which took place yesterday. The new iPad mini features a 7.9-inch Multi-Touch display, FaceTime HD and iSight cameras, and 10 hours of battery life. Apple today also announced the fourth generation iPad featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display, new Apple-designed A6X … [Read More]

Mad Catz STRIKE 5 Gaming Keyboard

Mad Catz Interactive has announced that the S.T.R.I.K.E.5 Professional Gaming Keyboard for PC. Now available in limited quantities on the Mad Catz store, the S.T.R.I.K.E.5 has been designed with the competitive gamer in mind, featuring a modular design and OLED Command Module placing gamers at the heart of the experience. Darren … [Read More]

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For the first time since 2010, when the Apple iPhone 4 suffered an embarrassing WiFi and Facetime error, Apple will be streaming a conference live online on their website. The conference, which begins at 10 AM PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), or 6 PM BST (British Summer Time), will be streamed … [Read More]

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Sony has today set out a plan to close its Tokyo technology centre, which houses around 8 percent of the company’s Japan staff. The closure comes as part of Kaz Hirai’s on-going cost-cutting measures, part of which are to cut around 4,000 jobs in Japan. Sony will shut down the Shinagawa … [Read More]

Piracy

The British Phonographic Industry has asked big UK ISPs to voluntarily block 3 torrent websites in addition to The Pirate Bay, which was blocked through court order earlier this year. The BPI, which represents major UK record companies, has asked internet service providers O2, Virgin Media, Sky, BT, TalkTalk and EE to … [Read More]

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Sony will be removing the Life With PlayStation application with the next firmware update for the PlayStation 3. Life With PlayStation, which was previously known as Folding@Home on the PlayStation 3′s XMB (Cross Media Bar), was a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and studying the causes of … [Read More]

Android

Google will be unveiling it’s new Android mobile operating system, as well as a larger Nexus tablet and a new phone at an event on October 29th. The event, which is taking place on the same day as Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 event, will be used to announce a new … [Read More]

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News Corp. has begun taking bids for the IGN Entertainment online network of websites, which it paid $650 million for in 2005. The media conglomerate expects to get around $100 million for IGN, as it tries to divest itself from the video game network. This isn’t the first loss that the company … [Read More]

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Owners of LG smartphones rejoice! As the company has announced that they will be updating a select few smartphones to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Google’s latest and greatest mobile operating system. LG will first release the update for its Optimus LTE 2 smartphone, which will be followed by Optimus G in … [Read More]

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Britain is a nation of GOOFS – Gadget Obsessed Over Fifties – with the over 50s now owning almost as much technology as consumers half their age. This is according to a survey carried about by Gadget Show Live Christmas, which takes place at ExCeL on 30 November to 2 … [Read More]

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Smartphone sales hit a milestone today with 1 billion smartphones now in the hands of people worldwide. Data from Strategy Analytics, a market research firm, suggests that 1 in 7 people now own a smartphone, as the amount of smartphone owners increased substantially in the last year. According to the … [Read More]

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Microsoft Reveals Xbox One, Talks About TV

On Tuesday 21st May, Microsoft revealed their next generation of ...

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Chat Apps Overtake SMS For First Time Ever

Instant messaging applications on smartphones such as WhatsApp and Viber ...

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Google Play Found to be Hosting 32 Malware Infested Apps

Lookout, a mobile security provider, has revealed that they have ...

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Adam Orth, Microsoft Creative Director Deletes LinkedIn Acco

Adam Orth, a Microsoft Games Studios creative director who caused ...

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Microsoft Creative Director Suggests 'Always Online' for Nex

Adam Orth, a Creative Director at Microsoft Studios, has suggested ...