Tag: Near
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PlayStation Ends YouTube and Maps Support for PS Vita
Sony will be removing the YouTube application from its PlayStation Store for PS Vita from today. The Maps app is also being dropped from March. The popular Google-owned video app will be taken down from the store on the 28th of January and support for YouTube will be terminated on 20th of April. This means if…
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Apple NFC Chip Only Works With Apple Pay
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Near field communication news now, and we’ve heard Apple is going to only allow the use of the iPhone 6’s internal NFC chip for Apple Pay purposes. The new payment method allows wireless payment with cards digitally stored on the iPhone. The reports coming in mention that the NFC chip might one day become usable…
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UPDATED: Sony’s PS VITA Updates to Firmware 1.65 to Fix Bugs, Add Numerous Tweaks
Sony PS VITA users will soon see a firmware update notification on their handheld consoles, taking the software to version 1.65. The new update has only just been announced by Sony themselves, but numerous consoles are already downloading the update as we speak. While you won’t see any new apps appearing on your homescreen, the…
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Apple and Starbucks’ latest blend brings mobile payments to UK high street coffee house
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After offering UK and Ireland customers free iTunes tracks with a hot beverage through high street caffeine temple Starbucks a month or so ago, Apple is once again working on a special blend of coffee and tech by offering to help pay for your tea break. But before you get excited and rush off to…
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Sony explains PS Vita’s four online modes
Sony has announced and kindly explained for us the four key online modes we will find on the forthcoming PS Vita handheld games console; Near, Party, LiveArea and Activity. Each of the different modes will be combined within games and the general online experience of the PS Vita. They range from gifting items to chatting…
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BlackBerry Bold Touch (9900) set for August release through Play.com?
RIM’s BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 isn’t officially set to drop till September 15th – but if online retailer Play.com can be believed we may get to grips with the dual-functioning QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen smartphone more than a month earlier. Suggesting the handset – also known as the Bold 9900 – will be released on…
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E3 2011: Sony NGP becomes the Playstation Vita with Wi-Fi and 3G versions
Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP) console is no more… long live the Playstation Vita, yes at last night’s Sony Keynote the Japanese manufacturer finally laid to bed the NGP codename for its PSP successor console and has revealed that the portable gaming device will now be called the Playstation Vita. Well, we are not sure…
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Google NFC payment scheme to roll out in the US – United Kingdom next in line?
Trials of a mobile payment system through Google are expected to begin in a number of US cities – kicking off speculation that we UK residents could be next in line. The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is currently working hard with developers and will begin to roll out of the scheme which will…
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Android 2.3 Gingerbread comes to HTC Desire range late April
It’s been reported that mobile operator Three will be releasing the latest version of Google Android software- that’s version 2.3, the tastily titled “Gingerbread” – on HTC Desire handsets as early as next month. Living up to the promise made in February that the newest update to Google’s Android platform would appear in the second quarter of 2011, a…