Category: Social Networking
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Playstation Vita goes social with Facebook, Twitter & Skype
Portable gaming gadget the PS Vita is set to go social as Sony is preparing to roll out a networking hub which will bring Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Foursquare to the console. Dedicated apps will be linked to the social hub leading to the four leading online buddy sites will be included into the PS…
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Minecraft becomes addictive Android app exclusive to Xperia Play
Online addiction Minecraft has today become an app-based game exclusively for Android 2.3 Gingerbread on the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY. Heralding the creation of a whole new world in our pockets – and quite possibly the end of real civilisation.. Minecraft is a game limited only by the imagination, and works like a bottomless box…
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PSN DLC deal with GAME brings over 50 games to the UK retailer from today
UK retailer GAME has grabbed a partnership deal with Sony to bring Playstation Network downloadable games to 42 of its high street stores from today – with a full rollout to all 620 UK branches of GAME and Gamestation planned for as soon as mid-September. Up for grabs through a GAME store near you from…
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“Creative Talk Live” for cross-platform publishers set for Facebook this Wednesday
Facebook will play host to a first of its kind Creatives Talk on August 17th inviting creative types from storytelling and lifestyle to come together on the social net’s “Facebook Live” feature and watch a presentation by a “cross-platform” promotional guru – as well as asking questions after the show using the recent addition of…
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Teenager charged with using BlackBerry Messenger to incite riot
According the the Telepgraph, it would appear that a teenager is among the first to be charged with using BlackBerry’s BBM service to encourage others to riot. The 18-year-old girl from Essex has been accused of “Intentionally encouraging or assisting in the commision of an offence under the Serious Crime Act 2007”. It is alleged…
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Cameron Lobbies for Social Media Clampdown as Rioting Continues
It’s been a hell of a week. The streets of some of our most populated major cities are strewn with glass shards, discarded barricades. Windows smashed, stores looted; the world’s drizzle of protest and unrest has come to a head in this country, and the government were nowhere to be found. However, on the return…
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As Google+ announces plans for playtime, Facebook ups its Game
As the G today announces its Games roll out onto the (un-)social network Google+, Facebook doesn’t hang around in retaliating. Now the Zuck’s Empire reveals its plans for a bigger more integrated playtime experience. Formerly cramped little apps, popular Facebook games such as CityVille will now utilise a much larger area of the screen space…
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Google announces games for Google+ (including Angry Birds)
Google has announced that Games will become a new major feature on its online social experience Google+. Thus bringing a whole bunch of “casual” games which can be enjoyed alongside your chat Hangouts, and sharing with Circles – and also lands Angry Birds onto the G’s friend site. Talk of playtime emerged from the…
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Sony offers PSP & games to London youth mugged during rioting
In other tech-related riot news – Sony has kindly offered to provide a PSP and games to the young man who became an infamous figure, symbolising the anarchy which swept UK streets, when he was helped and then mugged by cowardly thugs during the London raids. In the clip which swept the news and disgusted…
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Sony offers PSP & games to London youth mugged during rioting
In other tech-related riot news – Sony has kindly offered to provide a PSP and games to the young man who became an infamous figure, symbolising the anarchy which swept UK streets, when he was helped and then mugged by cowardly thugs during the London raids. In the clip which swept the news and disgusted…
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UK Networks Working With Police To Identify & Apprehend Rioters
UK mobile networks Orange and T-Mobile are currently working alongside the police force to help identify and apprehend those behind this week’s terrible riots which has seen London, Birmingham and Bristol – amongst other British cities – brought to a standstill in wake of the senseless destruction. The law has asked Everything Everywhere – the…
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UK Networks Working With Police To Identify & Apprehend Rioters
UK mobile networks Orange and T-Mobile are currently working alongside the police force to help identify and apprehend those behind this week’s terrible riots which has seen London, Birmingham and Bristol – amongst other British cities – brought to a standstill in wake of the senseless destruction. The law has asked Everything Everywhere – the…