Category: Software
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Adobe report critical vulnerability in Flash Player
Adobe has just reported what it says to be a critical vulnerability that affects its popular Flash player. The vulnerability also seems to affect quite a few older versions of the Flash desktop player as well as the Android version, and also the one which is embedded within Google Chrome. As you would expect, Adobe…
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Google revamps Street View within Google Maps
Today Google has launched a revamped version of Street View which will now allow users to see loads of new locations that were previously inaccessible to Google’s famous mapping car. If you’re not familiar with Street View, it happens to be an excellent tool which will allow you to view street-level images in various towns…
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Microsoft killing off Zune Player range
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Remember Microsoft’s Zune Media Players? No? Me neither. They didn’t seem to take off in the UK, and it seems the US didn’t like them too much either. Bloomberg are reporting that Microsoft will be ceasing to release new Zune music and video players due to “tepid demand”, quoting a source familiar with the decision.…
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Apple creates AirPlay apps category in iTunes
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Apple introduced AirPlay with iOS 4.2, a nifty feature which originally allowed users to stream video from their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to Apple TV and a big screen using Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, it only offered video streaming using the native video application to start with, until iOS 4.3 was released on the 9th March,…
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Playstation games coming to Android with NVIDIA Tegra Zone
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NVIDIA’s TegraZone application for Android went live at the start of this month, offering a dedicated app store for mobile phones and tablets running on the Nvidia Tegra processor. The graphics giant today posted some juicy info within the TegraZone app, confirming that Sony Playstation titles will be making their way to Android devices which…
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 demo video released
Youtube users have been treated to a long and detailed demo of Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab 10.1, thanks to French site AndroidHD. The video is entitled “One day with The New Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1” and seems like more of an unofficial advert for the device, though it does give us a great look at…
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Apple SVP Phil Schiller confirms White iPhone 4 is imminent
We learnt last week that Apple would finally be releasing the white iPhone 4 shortly, thanks to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of Concorde Securities. If that wasn’t enough for you, and you want cold, hard proof then check out Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller’s Twitter here. Phil responds to an Apple fanboy’s question about the…
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Winamp 1.0 for Android now available
Nullsoft, the company behind Winamp has just released the latest version of its extremely popular music player, Winamp for the Android OS. With version 1.0, users can expect to get some cool new features as well as a redesign of the user interface, some of the new updates include: Additional artist news Album art gesture…
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Motorola finish off Adobe Flash 10.2 support update for Xoom
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Motorola’s Xoom tablet hasn’t even arrived on our shores yet but what we do know is that the Android Honeycomb 3.0 sporting tablet will come out of its box and will need to be updated immediately! Yes our American Cousins may have got the first Honeycomb Tablet a month before us but unfortunately for them…
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iOS 4.3 available to download now!
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Apple officially announced the latest version of iOS firmware at their media event last wednesday, along with the iPad 2. It was slated for a worldwide release of March 11th, but the update went live with iTunes last night, almost two days ahead of schedule. iOS 4.3 is the latest software update for iPhone, iPad…
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Sony PS3 Gets firmware 3.6 upgrade bringing Cloud Storage
Today Sony has released yet another new firmware for its Playstation 3 console which for the first time ever will bring access to a cloud based memory service so users can save game, profile and data onto cloud storage. Version 3.6 to will bring cloud storage that will connect users to the PlayStation Network account…
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iPhone 5 will use Dual-Core A5 processor
Coding has been found within the official release of iOS 4.3 that suggests the iPhone 5 will use the same Dual-Core processor found within the recently announced iPad 2. It has been noted by several developers that a device with the reference N94AP is mentioned within the coding of iOS 4.3, which many think is…