Microsoft have enjoyed huge success over the years with their software, including Windows operating systems and Office. Earlier this month however we reported that they wanted to be ‘revinvented as a Devices & Services‘ company. This is a challenging move for the Microsoft Corporation as they have yet to experience …
Read More »The Pirate Bay takes to the cloud, ditches servers
The Pirate Bay has announced the next step in its fight against authority take downs, by ditching its servers in favour of, “ascending into the next stage, the cloud.” “So, first we ditched the trackers. Then we got rid of the torrents,” begins the post on the website's blog. “Now? Now …
Read More »Win a Level 10 Limited Edition Silver Chassis
Beyond Technologies and ThermalTake are offering people the chance to win a stunning, Limited Edition Silver Level 10 Chassis with every purchase of the new Level 10 M Mouse in the United Kingdom. If you missed our review of this fantastic new mouse, then make sure to head to this …
Read More »14 year old Foxconn interns helped build the Wii U
While Foxconn facilities manufacturing Apple products might have drawn the most ire from the world at large in the past couple of years for the way the employees are treated, it looks like those making Nintendo parts have also been cutting corners – by using underage workers. Foxconn has apparently …
Read More »G.Skill free SSD & DDR3 kits Giveaway on event on Facebook!
G.SKILL is hosting a giveaway event on facebook, starting from today until 31st Oct, all users from all countries are allowed to be in the draw! Enter over here!
Read More »Foxconn employed 14 year old schoolchildren
Foxconn Technology Group said they found that interns as young as 14 years old had worked at a facility in Yantai in China. A company investigation located the underage staff, who ranged in ages 14-16. They worked at the campus for three weeks, according to an emailed response send to …
Read More »Apple to release new Mac Mini lineup
Apple are holding an event next week, the time when they are expected to announce the iPad Mini device. Latest reports from 9to5Mac indicate that Apple are going to announce a new range of Mac Mini computers. The new range are said to include new processors and storage options and …
Read More »Google privacy policy breaks European law
Google has been ordered to make changes to its privacy policy after several EU organisations found it to be breaching European law, by not providing enough information to users on the amount and categories of data being collected about them and used for advertising purposes. The search giant revamped its privacy policy …
Read More »Biggest music pirates also buy the most music
A new study by the American Assembly at Columbia University has presented more evidence against the copyright lobbyists' claims that pirates are the biggest music ‘thieves,' suggesting instead that those that download the most music illegally, tend to buy the most music as well. The research analysed the music listening habits of …
Read More »Asus drop price of P8Z77-V LX to £81.32 at Scan
We reviewed the Asus P8Z77-V LX back in July this year and it earned our Worth Buying award. While we had no concerns with the capabilities and performance of the board the issue we had at the time was that the competing Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H was around £12 cheaper. ASUS have …
Read More »Aussie Woolworths ditch Blackberry for iPhone
Woolworths, the largest supermarket chain in Australia are ditching the Blackberry phones used by their staff, in favour of the Apple iPhone. Woolworth's head of customer technology Chris Stanley said that the staff would receive new iPhones shortly. The Australian.com.au wrote a detailed report on the change over. This blow …
Read More »Murdoch considers phone hacking victims scumbags
There has been condemnation from several high profile Twitter users and the general public, after Rupert Murdoch announced on the social networking site that he believed those campaigning against the phone hacking perpetrated by the News of the World in 2011 were, “scumbag celebrities.” “Told UK's Cameron receiving scumbag celebrities …
Read More »Xbox Music launches tomorrow, 16th October
Microsoft's new music streaming service, Xbox Music, is set to launch tomorrow, 16th October, offering over 30 million tracks to users of the platform – easily topping Spotify's library of 16 million. Despite the larger catalogue of songs however, Xbox Music will operate in much the same way, offering a …
Read More »No release for ARMA III developers until 20th
The release date for the two Bohemia developers currently being held in a Greek Prison on charges of spying on military installations, has been delayed due to strikes involving those in the Greek Justice System, meaning they're unlikely to be freed until the 20th October at the earliest. The lawyer …
Read More »Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Review
The Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition records high definition video from either a Sony PlayStation 3 or Microsoft Xbox 360 onto a Windows laptop or desktop PC.
Read More »Amazon in talks to buy Texas mobile chip business
Amazon.com – the world's largest Internet retailer are in talks to buy the mobile chip business of Texas Instruments according to Calcalist, the Israeli financial newspaper. The newspaper reported today that the move would be very beneficial for the giant retailing chain, as they would make their own chips for …
Read More »Youtube struggles in the Red Bull Stratos jump aftermath
As over seven million people watched Felix Baumgartner jump from the edge of Earth's atmosphere as part of the Red Bull Stratos mission, Youtube began to crawl. Since then it's struggled to stay functional, a very rare thing for the site which is used to massed traffic. It's still usable …
Read More »Anonymous distances itself from Wikileaks “One Man Julian Assange show”
Hacktivist movement, Anonymous, has announced an end to its long-standing cooperation with Wikileaks, due to changes in the site's direction and the fact that it had become more like the: “One Man Julian Assange Show.” Posted over at the frequent hacker spoils dumping ground, Pastebin, the statement explained that after lengthy concerns …
Read More »DRM for 3D printing gets the go ahead
Those that produce DRM are never really considered to be ahead of the game. In almost every instance it's a reactionary measure designed to provide a level of ass-covering for higher ups in a company that isn't really aware of how easy it will be circumvented. However when it comes …
Read More »Cameron encourages Seedrs – no torrents in sight
The world divides a lot of different ways, male and female, young and old – but one of the most basic and long lasting divisions that's not related to genetics, must be ‘worker' and 'employer'. Boosting the technology industry means increasing sales, which means increasing employment. The Coalition seems to …
Read More »Samsung get all clear from court, Apple attack slowed
An appeals court has overturned a pretrial sales ban against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. This is a major setback for Apple in their case against the Electronics giant. Apple are in the middle of all out war against Google partners, particularly Samsung who create some of the leading smartphones …
Read More »Apple headhunt ex-AMD design guru from Samsung
One of Samsung's leading design expert's Jim Mergard has been headhunted from Samsung into the Apple fold. A report published on the Wall Street Journal indicates that Apple have managed to snag Mergard – a designer who has also worked developing chips at AMD for 16 years. Mergard was vice …
Read More »Lenovo dominating PC market in 2012
The Lenovo group has taken the mantle for world's largest PC maker by shipments for the first time ever. A number of factors could figure into their increased sales, but at the heart of it all, they do actually make very good systems. We have reviewed many of their laptop …
Read More »PC sales to decline this year, first time in 11 years
PC sales have not been strong all year and a study shows that out of the top four vendors, only Lenovo are showing an increase. PC Shipments are expected to drop 1.2% from last year, dropping from 2011's 352.8 million units to 348.7 million units. Many people hope that sales …
Read More »Toyota recall 7.43 million cars with power window issues
Toyota are experiencing another embarrassing situation right now as over 7 million cars worldwide are being recalled so they can fix faulty power window switches. The company have faced a number of problems in 2008 and then recalls in 2009-2010. They fought back to claim the top spot as the …
Read More »Ultrabooks to Make Up Half of All Notebook Sales by 2016
Although currently viewed as prohibitively expensive, Ultrabook sales will explode in the next five years, making up 47% of annual notebook sales by just 2016, says business intelligence provider GBI Research. According to the firm’s latest research*, 1.3 million Ultrabooks were sold last year, but thanks to technological advances and …
Read More »Rory Read orders FX parts refresh for AMD in October
Given that they are up against Intel, with the Tick-Tock processor delivery schedule and more FABs than McDonald's got buns – you have to give AMD credit for trying. AMD's CEO has ordered the launch of a faster range of FX processors before Halloween's night is out. Is it trick …
Read More »Mozilla release Firefox 16 with new developer tools
There seems to be a new version of Firefox every day, but the latest version looks sure to be popular with developers as Mozilla are offering developers new tools to debug and build websites. If you are currently using Firefox then the update should be automatically applied soon. If it …
Read More »Lenovo release new laptop-tablet hybrids
Lenovo have launched a new series of Windows laptop-tablet hybrid systems that they hope will help boost sales in both business and consumer markets. The new devices will be running Windows 8 and Windows RT operating systems, and are touchscreen capable. These hybrids can easily transform between a tablet and …
Read More »Microsoft reinvented as ‘Device & Services’ company
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO sent a letter to shareholders which stated that the company are now officially a ‘devices and services company'. Ballmer said that Microsoft have already made their transition from software concentrated giant to a device and service company. Ballmer spoke to the Seattle times reaffirming his stance …
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