Friday, January 7, 2011

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inFAMOUS 2 to finally get proper marketing support from Sony

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The first inFAMOUS game released rather quietly with very little marketing going for [...] Related posts: Sony to reveal inFAMOUS 2 soon? Sony needs to improve on PS3 game marketing strategy Sony needs to learn from Microsoft’s marketing for PS3

Mac App Store: Lots o’ games, broad price spread

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Graphs and bullet points — what would we do without them? Honestly, meetings would be a lot longer and we’d get a lot less done and less accurately at that. Although it’s still very early in the game, what can soundbite-sized chunks of data tell us about Apple’s Mac App Store? TUAW [...] Related Posts: [...]

Microsoft reveals impressive Kinect sales numbers at CES

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Steve Balmer, head honcho of Microsoft revealed some impressive sales figures for the recently released Kinect. He [...] Related posts: Microsoft: 2011 is all about Kinect for the Xbox 360 Microsoft: Xbox 360 Kinect pre-order numbers are ‘good’ Microsoft sells 2.5 million Kinect units

Steve Ballmer’s keynote at CES 2011 – ‘Windows isn’t going anywhere’

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Steve Ballmer performed well at CES 2011, but was there any content behind the delivery? The future direction of Microsoft is far from locked in. There is, by all accounts, an internal struggle between the [...] Related posts: Steve Ballmer sells off Microsoft stock Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer defends Vista at IT conference Is Steve [...]

Toshiba pushing glasses-free 3D TV

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If you want yet another reason not to invest in a 3DTV set which requires you to wear glasses, here it is. 3D movies can be quite good, as an occasional novelty. I enjoyed Avatar, Alice in Wonderland had its moments, [...] Related posts: Toshiba set to reveal glasses-free 3DTV Toshiba unveils first glasses-free 3DTV [...]

Stringer: Sony’s future is in 3D and Internet TV

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Sony just wrapped up its press conference yesterday and the main focus was around 3D technology and Internet-ready devices. The company unveiled a host of new products ranging [...] Related posts: Sony’s Stringer puts a brave face on it Internet adverts to be replaced by pay walls on all Web sites in future? 5 billion [...]

Spam levels drop off over Christmas

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Spam is at its lowest levels for over two years, with a gradual drop over several months exacerbating over Christmas. But the lull isn’t expected to last long. I don’t know about you but I rarely notice spam emails any [...] Related posts: 9 out of 10 emails are just spam! Symantec: Pornographic spam hits [...]

Android phones dominate Consumer Electronics Show

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If hype is anything to go by, Android will dominate 2011. Announcements this week include a phone that borrows from TVs and digital cameras, a phone that turns into a laptop, and the “slimmest smartphone ever.” In theory the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona [...]

New digital cameras at CES from Olympus, Sony, others

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Everyone who is anyone in the digital camera business has a presence at the Consumer Electronics show currently running in Las Vegas, and most are introducing their newest cameras there. CES in Las Vegas is a must for most companies in the digital camera business. Almost [...] Related Posts: CES flooded with new point and [...]

OS X 10.6.6 delivers Mac App Store

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Although the Consumer Electronics Show is running in Lost Wages (a.k.a. Las Vegas) as we speak, the news is dominated by our favorite fruit company, which has launched the Mac App Store. Thereupon, to get in on the fun you’ll need to download Apple’s latest Mac operating system update — come inside for [...] Related [...]

Mac App Store opens with 1,000-plus apps

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As promised, the mothership has delivered. It’s all dependent on a Mac OS X 10.6.6, which is available via Software Update. With some A-list launch partners, as well as the company’s own iWork, iLife and Aperture on offer there’s a lot to dig into and mull over as Apple makes an obvious play [...] Related [...]

CES brings Xoom, other Apple iPad rivals

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It has taken rival companies about 9 months to give birth to their copies of Apple's iPad, which they seem intent upon doing at CES in Las Vegas. Are they better than those tablets which were born prematurely? There [...] Related Posts: Apple iPad pressure to come from Motorola and Verizon? Are the new Android-pads [...]

Amazon gets its Android app store moving

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Amazon has let it be known that it plans to open an app store for Android phones, following the outlines of the iTunes iPhone App Store that has been so successful. Now Amazon is taking action. Although the Amazon [...] Related posts: Amazon to launch yet another Android app store Amazon launches UK MP3 store [...]

Government security workers get suckered by “White House Xmas card”

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In an age of international cyberwarfare, there’s no doubt Barack Obama and his colleagues had good wishes for his tech workers this Christmas. Unfortunately the President wasn’t behind an electronic card sent to workers: instead the sender was a malware gang. The attack [...] Related posts: Google encourages US legislation to increase cap on skilled [...]

iPhone 3GS price slashed by 50%

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It’s not unusual for AT&T to cut new and refurbished iPhone prices ahead of the launch of new hardware in June. This early in the game is, however, unprecedented and speaks volumes about the increasingly competitive smartphone marketplace and perhaps not a little about the Ma Bell’s Verizon iPhone fears. Wall Street [...] Related Posts: [...]