Vodafone’s obviously been looking at all that lovely social media stuff on the HTC Hero and the Motorola DEXT. The networks’s just launched its own suite of social media services called Vodafone 360.
Vodafone 360 is its own specially created interface mashing together info from Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, Twitter, Google Talk and more right into your contacts book. Continue reading this post »
When the PSP Go was announced at E3 earlier this year, we also found out that the PSP’s smaller sibling wouldn’t be compatible with any of our current PSP accessories. A bit annoying to say the least. Continue reading this post »
LG has announced a new full QWERTY handset, aimed at the social networkers and serial messagers among you.
The GW300 packs a designated Facebook application similarly to the GW520, and also comes with LiveSquare which allows you to have Continue reading this post »
MSI has just announced the MSI X400, a super-slim, affordable addition to its X-Slim range for those who need the power of a laptop in the portability of a netbook.
Following on from the larger X600, the X400 weighs in a just 1.5kg and closes down to 9mm at its thinnest point. Continue reading this post »
Computer maker Dell will acquire information-technology company Perot Systems for $3.9 billion in cash, as the PC giant looks to expand beyond its core hardware business, the companies said Monday.
The move marks a strategic shift for Dell, which has stuck with its personal computer and server sales even as its rivals like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) continue to diversify amid slumping hardware sales.
“We’ve seen this coming, but I’m surprised it took as long as it did,” said Gartner analyst John Enck. “This path is a necessary ingredient to future success, which being a hardware-only provider would have limited.” Continue reading this post »
We’ve seen price cuts from both Xbox 360 and PS3, and so it’s only right whispers should start about a price drop for Nintendo’s Wii – especially when it’s rumoured to have come straight from Ninty HQ.
Nintendo fan site Nintendojo has reported it did some eavesdropping on a conference call between Nintendo and some big name retailers, where it confirmed there would be a $50 price cut starting from 27 September. Continue reading this post »
Sony has slammed a report on the BBC’s consumer show, Watchdog, which claimed the PS3 is dogged by technical failures.
It denied that the Sony PS3 suffers from a technical fault known as the “yellow light of death” (clearly a cousin of the Xbox 360’s red ring of death).
In an episode screened on Thursday night, Watchdog interviewed Playstation repair companies who claimed the console displayed a high number of faults due to faulty soldering. Continue reading this post »
Advanced Micro Devices Inc ships a lower-power version of its Opteron server chip on Monday as it tries to expand its offerings for Web hosting companies. The company declined to give its projections for revenues from the new chip.
AMD said the new chip is aimed at companies that use servers for tasks like cloud computing, and are looking to cut power and costs related to things like air conditioning. Continue reading this post »
Facebook agreed on Thursday to give its worldwide users better protection over their personal information as the result of negotiations with Canada’s privacy commissioner.
The changes will give users of the social networking website more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party developers of applications such as games and quizzes, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart announced. Continue reading this post »
Having your browser, iTunes, IM, TweetDeck, Word, Skype, Photoshop, video editing tools, folders, and more open at the same time…well, it just takes up a lot of screen real estate. On a 15.4? laptop, you can only fit so much before your screen is piled with program after program.
gScreen, an Alaska-based notebook designer and manufacturer, aims to solve that problem, no matter where you are, with what can only be described as the PC version of a two-headed hydra: the dual-screen laptop. Continue reading this post »
Picture this. You’re the world’s second largest mobile phone manufacturer and do not have one Mobile OS of your own. Not a very impressive thing to have on your CV, right? Samsung is facing the same problem as we type this. It does not have its very own smartphone OS and looks like it has finally decided to do something about it. Continue reading this post »
Sony has just outed a new speaker-packing Walkman that will either be music to your ears, or the bane of your commute to work.
The S540 Series has two integrated stereo speakers hidden inside the MP3 player’s 10.2mm thin shell, that will blast out your music to all the lucky people sitting around you. Just make sure those people are your friends, we beg you. Continue reading this post »
We heard about the new Facebook 3.0 iPhone update a few weeks ago, and after Apple taking its time in approving it, it’s now available from the App Store.
Even better news is that the app is now even better than the first one that was submitted.
After submitting it, developer Joe Hewitt started tinkering with the app for further improvements, and when Apple came back to him yesterday to ask him to fix a minor bug, he fixed it within his new version. Continue reading this post »
If you’ve resisted the iPhone 3G S and HTC’s Hero, preferring to hold out for Palm Pre your wait may be over at the end of October.
Rumours circling the internet are suggesting the highly-anticipated handset (and rumoured iPhone killer) is set to hit UK shelves on Friday 30 October.
O2 managers have been given the date by head office, according to palmwebosblog.com, which would tie up with a German O2 advert that suggested an October release date. Continue reading this post »
So the Apple Mac tablet has more or less been confirmed by Jobs, and the rumours are still coming thick and fast – the latest that we can expect 13- and 15-inch models alongside the 10-inch tablet we’ve heard so much about.
Gizmodo got the news from a source, who it says has always been “100% reliable”, that the two other sized touchscreen prototypes had been spotted in a factory in China. Continue reading this post »
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