Category: Laptops
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PC Accessory Maker Razer Now Worth $1Bil.
Gaming peripheral maker Razer has just been valued at over a billion US dollars, according to a leaked internal memo passed to technology site TechCrunch by an anonymous source, obviously keen to hype the company’s continuing growth and awesome presence in gaming today. The undisputed king of high end keyboards and mice for the serious […]
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Twitter To Get More Musical With Audio Cards
After Twitter’s rumoured attempt to buy SoundCloud never happened, the social networking site has decided to partner up with the music sharing network instead. Twitter’s new Audio Cards feature combines forces with SoundCloud as well as iTunes, meaning that these new cards will appear both on your Twitter dashboard as well as on the two […]
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FBI Slams Anti Snooping Encryption Methods
Big shady government organisations are much more common in the US than here in the UK. More often than not, the biggest ones are quite opposed to the idea of tech companies embracing new ways to keep user data out of the hands of government snoopers, with some new mobile phones possibly being ‘snoop-proof’ due […]
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WIndows 10 Logs 1 Million Testers
Microsoft’s Windows 10 preview has been open for around a week, and has allowed a massive number of users to get their hands on the brand new version of Windows, an operating system which ‘runs on everything’, according to Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO. The Windows Insider program lets users get hold of and test new […]
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Microsoft Confirms Future Surface Products
Microsoft has squashed rumors that the Surface range is done and dusted in a recent announcement. Previously, rumor had it that the struggling platform was to be finished and no new Surface models were to be made after Surface yet again failed to capture a large share of the tablet market. Surface has, however, been […]
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Dragon Age: Inquisition Plays for 200 Hours
Next generation sword and sorcery title Dragon Age: Inquisition apparently has enough content to keep gamers doing their thing on the game for up to 200 hours, according to developer Bioware. The main campaign is just a mere 40 hours of gameplay if done at full speed without stopping for any side quests or distractions, […]
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Google Hangouts App Arrives on Windows
Google’s Hangouts service is benefiting from the company’s latest new push behind the software, with the app now arriving on Windows and the Chrome OS as a dedicated standalone platform, meaning you won’t need to bring it up through an internet browser – you can just load it on its own. SEE ALSO: Beta Program […]
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Beta Program for New MS Office Launches
We recently reported on the new version of Office from Microsoft, which was leaked a couple of weeks ago. The program, currently identified as Office 2015 by tech enthusiasts, is allegedly going to arrive at some point towards the end of the year, and failing that, early 2015. SEE ALSO: Windows 10 Features Preview Microsoft […]
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‘Dragon Age Origins’ Free For a Limited Time
The folks at EA aren’t known for their charity, with Origin, EA’s game distribution service on PC, never quite being up to scratch with regards to deals as direct competitor service Steam. However, a recent initiative known as ‘on The House’ hopes to change that opinion. On The House has recently provided a free games […]
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Free Game Creator ‘Project Spark’ Goes Live
Back at E3 2014 we heard about Project Spark, a free to play game creation studio from Microsoft which lets gamers build and create their own games with simple tools. No coding experience is required, instead gamers can create their games using inbuilt customization and pre designed functions, making it accessible to everyone. SEE ALSO: […]
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Anonymous Facebook Posting App Rumored
Not only has Facebook been pushing its new advertising service for local businesses, but also the social network is rumored putting a new ‘anonymous posting’ app into play, for users to browse the site with full anonymity. A recent controversy around the site’s ‘real names policy’ – which requires users to use their real names […]
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Windows 10 ‘Runs On Everything’ Says CEO
More cross platform compatibility news from Microsoft now, as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has reinforced the ‘unified operating system’ strategy recently in an announcement to attendees at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo. First and foremost with regards to Windows 10, ‘it can run on everything’ according to Nadella. The main point the Microsoft wanted to highlight […]