Tag: news
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Report: Sony Working On New Sulfur Batteries
Today’s mobile devices all require a battery, and increasingly are showing the need for more and more power as they increase in complexity. Power is very much a problem of chemistry – difficult compounds and rare elements are all employed in rechargeable cells, so the field is very much a scientific one. The current battery type…
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Google’s Year In Search Reveals 2015’s Most Googled
Google’s review of the most searched, and indeed the most important events of 2015 has come in at last via Google Trends – top searches included celebrities, this year’s hottest digital media, and some of the most moving headlines to come out of a year that frankly has been extraordinary in so many ways. For…
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How Feedly Will Bring Your News Feed to Apple Watch
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With the sales release of the highly-anticipated Apple Watch just around the corner on April 24th, news aggregator Feedly has given a first glimpse at a handy app it’s been developing which will bring an abbreviated version of your news feed to Apple’s first wearable. Feedly has taken the casual-use nature of the Apple Watch…
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Twitter Posts To Return to Google Search
Twitter posts haven’t been seen on Google’s search results page for a while now. Back in 2011, the search engine withdrew the feature where Tweets showed up on results pages due to an agreement between Google and Twitter expiring. During the first half of 2015 Tweets will make a comeback, appearing alongside links in a special…
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Android One Gets Lollipop 5.1 Early
Remember Android One, the standardized version of Android for first time smartphone users? First rolled out throughout developing markets in September 2014, the mobile operating system focuses on making the Android platform less cluttered and more widely available for those getting hold of internet capable devices for the first time. The OS is free from vendor modifications,…
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Sony Online Entertainment Goes Private
Former Sony property Sony Online Entertainment, a game studio responsible for a multitude of earlier game titles, has been sold off by the company and has now re-emerged as a private studio named Daybreak Game Company, according to a press release from the company through Reddit. The studio was sold off by Sony after seeing…
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Facebook Cracking Down on Hoax News Stories
Facebook will be cracking down on bogus news articles by inviting its users to flag potentially phony posts. To allow Facebook users to report a dodgy news story they have placed a new option in the pop-up menus attached to each post on the website. Before users could use this to report a post for…
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Why Did Phones4U Go Into Administration?
The well-known high street mobile phone brand Phones4U has been facing troubling times recently, suffering from partnership setbacks with some of the largest mobile phone networks in the past few months. Three months ago, EE, the United Kingdom’s largest mobile network, threatened to drop Phones4U partnership in favour of going it alone on the high…
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Sky News Coming to Xbox 360, Not Xbox One
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This is a little bit of a weird one, we’ve been hearing reports from Sky that their news service is well on its way to Microsoft’s Xbox platform, but for some reason unbeknownst to those outside of Rupert Murdoch’s interstellar empire, the Sky News app is only going to turn up on the Xbox 360,…
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BBC and Sky Trial Virtual Reality TV
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TV broadcasters are always trying to remain at the bleeding edge of technology in the TV sector. Pioneers of HD and high resolution content and programming, such as Planet Earth HD, set the bar for high quality content in the last decade, but these days it’s about bringing your audience closer to the action with…
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Feedly Down After a Second DDoS Attack
For the second day in a row news gathering website Feedly has been struck by a Denial of Service Attack (DDoS).
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Feedly down due to DDoS attack **UPDATED**
Popular news aggregator Feedly is currently down for all that use the service due to a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack on its servers. This is leaving many all users, unable to access onto the site. The service is under a denial of service attack. We are working with our network provider to deflect…