Author: Morgan
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1 million Nintendo 3DS units sold in Japan – finally
After 13 weeks on sale in Japan, the Nintendo 3DS has finally reached the 1 million milestone for units sold. Nintendo’s latest portable games console is the first ever 3D handheld games console, but it hasn’t been selling as well as the Japanese manufacturer expected. We heard earlier this month that sales were slumping in…
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Blackberry Playbook hands on, pictures and first impressions
We’ve been very fortunate in getting our hands on the brand new, unreleased Blackberry Playbook, and it’s a beauty. The Blackberry Playbook is RIM’s first tablet device, and is somewhere between a large smartphone and an iPad, with its screen measuring 7-inches. It features a brand new Operating System designed by RIM (Research in Motion)…
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Microsoft launching ‘Diamond’ Xbox LIVE subscription service
Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans have revealed to WinRumors that they are putting the finishing touches to a new ‘Diamond’ Xbox LIVE subscription service which includes TV streaming. The source also confirmed that Microsoft are finalising a demo of the new service ready for next week’s massive E3 games conference in Los Angeles. “Microsoft is…
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Gmail accounts compromised by Chinese hacker
Google have confirmed via their own blog that a series of Gmail accounts had recently been compromised by an unknown Chinese hacker. The accounts in question even included government authorities, Chinese political activists, government officials from South Korea and several U.S government personnel, so it certainly looks as though the hacker in question has a…
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Twitter adds its own photo service, shuns twitpic
Micro-blogging giant Twitter has announced several big changes to its site, the first of which being an integrated photo upload service, hosted by Twitter themselves. This news will come as a bit of a blow to the likes of Twitpic, Imageshack and Yfrog, who have until now been the main ways to upload photos to…