With Nintendo’s next-generation console slated for launch later this year, the rumor mill is producing all sorts of “leaked” info about upcoming consoles by Microsoft and Sony. Although expectations are high for official unveilings in 2012, neither company will ship its new product in the coming months. Cedrick Delmas, marketing director of Microsoft France, said [...]
Purchases via smartphone hits record numbers as barcode scanners allow price comparison on the move. Post-Christmas bargain hunters have ushered mobile shopping into the mainstream, with retailers reporting a big rise in customers using smartphones to compare prices and snap up sales offers online. Mobile traffic to the John Lewis online clearance sale has soared [...]
Nearly 8,000 high quality 3D YouTube videos will be available to owners of Samsung 3D enabled tvs. An agreement between YouTube and Samsung and announced at the IFA 2011 conference that 3D video content will now be readily available to everyone in the world with Samsung Smart TVs with 3D capability that are LED TVs [...]
Sony has issued an apology and software update following user complaints about its new handheld console. The PlayStation Vita went on sale in Japan at the weekend. Owners have described unresponsive touchscreens, crashes and freezes. Glitches in new consoles are not unusual, but experts have been surprised by the number of related postings sent to [...]
Japanese car giant Honda is creating 500 new jobs to meet a forecasted increase in production at its UK factory. The move came as full production resumed at the firm’s Swindon plant following supply problems, with the company launching its new Civic. Swindon’s Car Plant 2 will return to a two-shift operation in the late [...]
Barbara Walters broke her own rule in this year’s “The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011.” She named a man to the top spot who passed away this year. It’s easy to see what would prompt her to do so. The number one most fascinating person this year was Steve Jobs. Walters said that when [...]
Sony has announced that it will be touring the UK in February with its brand-new handheld gaming console the Sony PlayStation Vita. The Sony Entertainment tour that plans to make pit-stops in many major UK cities will give lucky gamers a chance to get their hands on the PS Vita before its 22 February release [...]
Video game publisher Activision has announced that its first-person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has surpassed one billion dollar in sales in just 16 days, a record that movie box office champ Avatar had set in 17 days. “Engagement of our Call of Duty audience continues to rise around the world,” said Activision [...]
There’s been a lot of discussion of late about how Apple’s iPhone remains the most profitable smartphone around, despite fierce competition from Android. That’s relevant for companies like HTC and Samsung that sell Android phones. But Google has a different agenda with its freely available operating system: driving usage of its own services. That was [...]
A number of Mark Zuckerberg’s private photos have been leaked by a web expert who exposed a flaw in Facebook’s security settings. Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking site, had his personal profile ‘hacked’ after it was revealed that new settings intended to prevent inappropriate pictures could be exploited. By reporting images that contained “nudity [...]
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