Author: Gary H
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HTC Devices Potentially to be Banned in Germany, Will Miss Christmas Sales
It looks like it could be a chilly winter for HTC, as its smartphones and tablet devices look likely to be banned from sale in Germany. The ban could come as a result of HTC losing out on a patent lawsuit and sales injunction request from a company called IPCom, which started back in 2009.…
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Sky Go App for iOS Gets Movies On Demand
Sky has announced that its Sky Go App for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch has grown to include streaming films on demand for Sky Movies subscribers. This is a key step for Sky’s service, for those people who like to use Sky Go on their iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone will now have the ability…
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Panasonic Planning to Launch New Smartphones in 2012
Panasonic have flopped pretty miserably in the mobile phone market everywhere apart from Japan. In Japan Panasonic are one of the leading mobile phone manufacturers and have some brilliant and strange Smartphones on the market there. It looks like they have decided to have another stab at the European market, which hopefully means the UK…
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Google Chrome to Get Native GamePad Support in 2012
It’s not always easy to tell when Chrome has been updated, and at any rate the changes aren’t always significant enough to even wonder about it. However, a pair of features worth caring about are user-bound come early 2012, according to Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan, who spoke recently at the Develop conference in Liverpool. The conference…
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The Samsung Focus S Shows its Face, Looks Like Another Samsung we Have Recently Seen
A Windows Phone flagship from Samsung is on its way. The Samsung Focus S for AT&T Wireless closely resembles the original Galaxy S II – the two top dogs share an external design and quite a few internal parts. The Samsung Focus S packs a Snapdragon chipset with a single-core Scorpion CPU clocked at 1.4GHz…
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Meet the Nokia N9 With Seven Operating Systems!
This N9 does not know which mobile OS to boot and has the option to boot seven different ones. These are MeeGo, iOS 5.0, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry OS, HTC Sense, Samsung’s TouchWiz and Symbian Anna. This is obviously not an official Nokia product, and this unusual looking lime green N9 has been demoed on…
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Google Block Torrent Sites from Auto Complete Feature to Help Curb Piracy
Google has taken action against internet pirates and removed several popular peer-to-peer file sharing sites including The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and Torrentreactor from its instant autocomplete search. The search provider hopes to prevent the distribution of pirated content with the move. This means that if you want to use Google to search for these…
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The First Ever Android Device, the HTC G1 Gets a Taste of Android 4.0
If you go back a few years, back to when Android first came on the scenes, there was a lot of hype about one particular device. The HTC G1 was a device that caused a change in the way we look at mobile devices, and despite being several years old now, the device is still…
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PS Vita To Stream PS3 Games
The next gen portable gaming system, the Sony PlayStation Vita is set to have a remote play feature which, very similar to what was proposed with the Wii U, that will allow users to play all PlayStation 3 games through the handheld. This info comes from Eurogamer, which is reporting that a future firmware update…
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Sony To Release PS4 At The Same Time As The Xbox 720
Since the original Xbox came out Sony and Microsoft have been at war with each other, over who can create the best consol. Sony had a bit of a head start as they had already created a fan base with the original Playstation, and had brought the PS2 out before Microsoft had brought out the…
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Displair Touch Interface Aims to Rival Microsoft Kinect
Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360 (coming to a PC near you) was an innovation; it took what the Nintendo Wii had done and made almost unlimited possibilities with a similar idea. The one issue with Kinect is that you still need a TV. How perfect would a gesture controlled interface be if it was…
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More Than 1000 Online Gamers Banned From MW3
Cheating is something that has been around in gaming for as long as I can remember sometimes coded into games for users to exploit, but as the world of online gaming grows, it is something that becomes increasingly frustrating for us normal players who want to build up experience the normal way. With Modern Warfare…