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Xbox Live price hike
Photo: Stock.Xchng Question: how do you illicit anger in millions of gamers worldwide? Answer: by increasing the subscription fee for your already pricey online gaming service, that’s how! Microsoft showed gamers, and the world, the blueprint to upsetting your customers. But is the ...
AMD retires ATI brand
Photo: ronallan / Flickr AMD, who acquired GPU manufacturer ATI for $5.4 billion (£3.48 billion) in 2006, has announced it will retire the ATI brand name from all of its graphics cards. The big question, of course, is whether this will help ...
Facebook valued at £22 billion – Huh?
Photo: Facebook All that time your parents dismissed your social networking mastery – which they obviously mistook for addiction – did they know you were part of a project to build a colossal tech company now valued at £22 billion? As per second ...
The Gmail megaton – make phone calls right out of your browser
Photo: Google Oh snap! The millions of us who use Gmail everyday logged in and saw a very peculiar and unexpected notification – you can now make VoIP calls right out of the mail client. That’s Google’s way of saying ‘What’s good, Skype? ...
Online education gets serious as iTunes U sees 300 million downloads
Photo: Stock.Xchng The Internet’s greatest achievement is without doubt how it has democratised information and learning. Knowledge one previously could not acquire without spending hundreds, if not thousands, of pounds is now available ‘for free’ with a simple Google Search. University-type But this unstructured ...
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The Apple press event finally happened and, needless to say, nobody was particularly surprised by what the company announced. Almost all the rumours in the build up to the event proved true, with the company updating its whole iPod range, iTunes and finally introducing the new Apple TV. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: Apple event, apple ipod, Apple press conference, Apple TV, iOS 4.2
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At the Apple press conference, Steve Jobs finally called the iPod Touch what many of us have been calling it for years – the ‘iPhone minus the phone’, and with this year’s update, that adage proves more true than ever. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: apple ipod, iphone 4, ipod touch, iPod Touch 4th gen
- Photo: Spotify
Nothing beats watching two of your favourite things getting together and making a love child, and news that our favourite music streaming service, Spotify, is teaming up with our favourite home audio system, Sonos Zoneplayer, has us all giddy. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: home audio system, Sonos, Sonos Zoneplayer, Spotify
- Photo: Virgin
‘Get unlimited broadband with speeds up to….’ Have you ever noticed these commercials from British broadband service providers? They’re no different from ‘this product is clinically proven’ because with the latter, you’re never told what they are clinically proven to do and the former is a misleading indicator, when in fact you should be told what your average speed is. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: broadband, Virgin Media, Virgin Media broadband
- Photo: Sony
IFA is in full swing, with Sony having day one’s major press conference and Samsung being the stars of the show today. The Japanese company took the opportunity to unveil its new range of e-readers, and as attractive they are, they have one glaring ommission. No wireless. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: Sony Daily edition, Sony e-readers, sony ebook reader, Sony Pocket Edition, Sony Touch Edition
- Photo: Archos
Looking to flood the tablet market as sales for the Apple iPad have slowed down to the pace of a gentle hurricane, Archos has released five new tablets which they will be showing off at IFA 2010 come Friday in Berlin. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: archos, tablet pc
- Photo: Apple
Apple has a big, big event happening tonight, as you know. What you may not have known was that Steve Jobs and friends plan a special Apple live stream for the event. This is actually quite remarkable, because it is Apple’s first live stream in a long, long while. But you’re not invited to the party if you’re not an Apple customer. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: Apple event, Apple live streaming, Apple TV, FaceTime Touch, ipod nano
- Photo: IFA
IFA is Europe’s biggest consumer electronics show and that means manufacturers from all over the globe look to show off their wears. Tablet PCs, connected TVs, 3D TVs and e-readers are expected to have a strong presence at the conference. With the first press conference kicking off today, we give you a rundown on what to expect. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: 3D TV, CES 2010, consumer electronics show, IFA 2010, tablet pc
- Photo: Amazon
Hot on the heels of news that Apple may be launching a streaming service in the same timeframe as YouTube’s reminted video pay-per-view service, it has emerged that Sony and Amazon are looking to make a play for the streaming video-on-demand market, too. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: sony, amazon
- Photo: Old Shoe Woman / Flickr
Digital cameras brought photography to the people. Mobile phones brought photography to the masses, but only recently did the quality of a mobile phones camera become comparable to that on a dedicated digital camera. On the eve of Apple’s next major product reveal, we explore what the future of the consumer digital camera is. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: DSLR cameras, HTC Desire, ipod touch, Nokia N8, smartphone
- Photo: Samsung
People doubt us when we say we play a part in which products sink and swim. We do! True story! Remember when we said the HTC Desire was the truth? It went on to do huge numbers. Now we’ve recently said that the Samsung Galaxy S phone is the truth, and guess what? It’s doing colossal numbers, too. How much you ask? Oh, at least 2 million and counting units sold worldwide, with a million of those units sold in the US, alone. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: iPhone, smartphones
- Photo: John Carleton / Flickr
As if Netflix, Hulu, and a raft of other streaming/web VOD services weren’t confirmation enough, word that Google is planning a pay-per-view movie service through YouTube and Apple is considering dabbling with streaming videos is proof that the idea of television programming and the web being two separate things is coming to an end. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: movie pay-per-view, pay-per-view streaming, VOD, youtube- Photo: Stock.Xchng
Question: how do you illicit anger in millions of gamers worldwide? Answer: by increasing the subscription fee for your already pricey online gaming service, that’s how! Microsoft showed gamers, and the world, the blueprint to upsetting your customers. But is the price hike for MS’s popular Xbox Live service justifiable? (Read more…)
Tags for this article: PSN, WoW, Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox Live prices
- Photo: RIM
RIM has dodged the Indian ban, with deadline day announcements by the Indian government indicating a trial agreement of sorts has been reached. What does this RIM India concession mean for the privacy protection and data protection of Indian BlackBerry users, we wonder. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: smartphone, blackberry
- Photo: Michael Sprague / Wikimedia Commons
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has gone on a feeding frenzy, suing eleven technology companies for alleged patent infringements for patents he’s held since the 90s. The one humorous omission from his lawsuit perp-walk, you ask? Microsoft, of course, the company Allen co-founded and still holds significant equity in. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: windows 7, microsoft
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Oxford University Press has announced that, due to the overwhelming number of people who prefer using their online product, the next complete edition of the 126-year-old word reference bible may not be printed on paper, at all. This is more evidence of the allure of the quick-and-simple information snacking the Internet allows for. (Read more…)
Tags for this article: internet, Internet dictionary, online dictionary, Oxford Dictionaries Online, Oxford Dictionary
