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Today at WWDC 2012 Scott Forstall, the senior VP of iOS Software at Apple, unveiled iOS 6, the latest version of Apple's operating system.

We were surprised to see that the new MacBook Pro announcements didn't overshadow Apple's software developments, as iOS 6 comes packed full of cool new features and updates. Here are a few of the most important changes we can expect to see:

Siri gets a revamp

Despite the fact Siri is a pretty ground-breaking feature, no one can deny there have been a LOT of issues with Apple's elusive voice activated assistant since it was launched last year.

So, it's exciting to see a whole raft of new changes are being introduced with iOS 6, such as integration with sites like Yelp and Rotten Romatoes for better restaurant and movie reviews, the ability to tweet just by talking to your phone (this could be VERY dangerous/annoying), lots of new languages added, a better understanding of sports with game summaries and stats and finally Siri will be coming to the new iPad too. It's about time.

Apple Maps! Apple Maps!

We've heard rumours for months now that Apple has been busy working on its own mapping solution and it finally arrives with the iOS 6 update.

So there's not that much to report on here, it's not like there was a way to blow Google out of the water. A map is a map after all. However, the interface looks a little different and there are some cool new features, such as local search information, live travel updates, business profiles and custom mapping.

It looks like Apple will be competing with Google in a big way when it comes to mapping as it's already experimenting with 3D views of interesting sites, just like the big G.

VIP Mail

You'll be able to have both "VIP" and "Flagged" mailboxes, which will make sorting through all of your emails much, much easier.

DEEP Facebook integration

We've seen this kind of integration with Twitter in iOS 5, but now Facebook gets a piece of the action too.

Apple admitted that it's been working "very closely" with the Facebook team to get the integration just right, so expect a single log-in and the ability to share all kinds of content, like apps, photos and movies, through Facebook.

We also love the fact that events and birthdays will automatically sync up to your iPhone's calendar too, which is a welcome touch (assuming you don't hate all of your Facebook friends of course).

"Do Not Disturb" mode

The new "Do Not Disturb" mode will be a way of collecting all kinds of notifications until later. So you'll be able to read your messages, emails and see any calls as soon as you switch "Do Not Disturb" off, but while it's on you won't be irritated by anything at all.

There are some interesting and necessary settings for the new mode too, which will allow you to let certain calls or repeated calls through to you.

Facetime goes cellular

Facetime will be able to run via 3G and 4G connections after the update and you can choose which device you'd like to answer your calls on.

Safari gets offline reading

When browsing the web with Safari you can save pages to an offline reading list, which will make the whole experience similar to the likes of Instapaper.

Do more with your photos

You'll be able to quickly upload photos from Mobile Safari and with Photo Stream you'll be able to share photos with friends, which are synced to all of your devices.

Passbook keeps all of your important things safe

Passbook is kind of like an app that's designed to keep all of your important ticket information, passes and other bits of valuable information safe and sound. So keep your Starbucks balance, flight details and movie tickets all under one super safe umbrella. Unless you lose your phone of course...

OK, I NEED it now

We know, we know, they're a pretty impressive set of changes, right? We're pretty sure it'll feel like you've got a completely new phone in your hand. But, you're going to have to wait a few months as developers will have access to iOS 6 today, but regular users won't be able to get their grubby mits on it until the autumn.

iOS 6 will be available for the iPhone 3GS and later (sorry if you've still got a 3G, sort it out though, yeah?), as well as 2nd and 3rd generation iPads and the 4th generation iPod Touch.

Related: Next generation MacBook Pro revealed at WWDC 2012: Retina Display, super-thin chassis

[Image via GSMArena]

Potentially huge news today as the European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of a pub landlady from Portsmouth who has been showing live football from foreign channels in her establishment, rather than subscribing to Sky.

The ECJ said that national laws which prohibit the import, sale or use of foreign decoder cards are contrary to the freedom to provide services.

What this means is that pubs across the UK can bin their Sky subs and now get their Prem footage from Greek TV stations at a tenth of the cost. But it isn't just pubs who can benefit. Football fans can also take this route and save a few quid too.

Ultimately it is very difficult to say at this point how the ruling will affect the English game. It could force Sky to lower its subscription costs and thereby pay less to the clubs. They would then have less money to pay players and it might mean that the gap between the super rich billionaire-owned clubs and everyone else starts to become huge. Anyway we'll see.

If you are considering ditching Sky, be warned though, tuning into Greek (or any other type of foreign TV) isn't exactly plug and play. But if you do fancy giving it a whirl here's how you do it. It's relatively inexpensive to set up, and offers many matches not available on Sky Sports, particularly 3pm Saturday kick-offs.

It's a moderately complex process, but this beginners guide will point you in the right direction for viewing football via foreign sports channels, and offer some links to where to find more info should you want to delve a little deeper into international satellite TV.

What You Will Need:

A satellite dish - This is used to pick up the broadcast signal and pipe it into a set-top box. You need one at least 78cm in diameter, but a bit bigger than that, around 100cm, is probably optimal for residential use. Signals from European channels tend to be weaker than UK ones, hence the need for a larger dish.

Dishes can be manually pointed at the orbiting broadcast satellites, or you can purchase a motorised one that does the hard work for you, particularly useful if you plan on accessing channels from multiple satellite sources (more on that later). We'd recommend the
110cm Hi-Gain Satellite Dish from System Sat (£60, Amazon seller) or the 80cm Satgear Anthracite Satellite Dish (£31.95, Amazon seller).

A satellite receiver - These are designed to pick up European channels, perfect for getting Premier League matches, as well as La Liga, Serie A football and other European competitions. There are plenty of receivers to choose from, but a quick search around the web shows Technomate branded ones such as the TM-3000D (£53.75, Amazon seller) to be well recommended.

A universal LNB and cable - The LNB (Low Noise Block-downconverter) sits on an arm pointing at the dish, and is used to focus the satellite signal, converting it a lower frequency which your receiver can take via coaxial cable.

A viewing card or Cam - These are used like a Sky Viewing card, and are needed to de-scramble encrypted signals. Different cards and Cams provide access to different channels, and are also needed If you're looking to access Pay-TV channels.Spend a bit of time researching the channels you're after before buying a card or Cam, but one good place to pick them up is www.pulsat.com. They also provide receivers too.

How To Set It Up:

Setting up a satellite dish can be a potentially frustrating process, though the actual steps aren't necessarily that complex to carry out. Either way, if you're not particularly comfortable with installing equipment (or are afraid of heights if you're planning on wall mounting your dish on an outer wall), you're probably best off getting a professional to come around and install it. Megasat offer a UK wide installation service, but for a comprehensive list of engineers check out the Confederation of Aerial Industries trade lobby website.

Alternatively, there's the good-old-fashioned DIY method. Thankfully you don't necessarily have to wall mount a dish, so long as you've got a bit of open ground in your garden that can house it and point between East and West without being obscured by trees or towerblocks. Either way however, wall mounting is preferable, even if merely not to clutter your finely-mowed lawn.

From here you need to point the dish towards one of the satellites throwing out the appropriate footy channels. The best for receiving Premiership Football on are Hispasat, Astra 1 and Hotbird. A great list of channels and kick-off times can be found on Liveonsat.com, which also handily shows which satellites you'll need to be pointing your dish at to view the appropriate channels. Many matches will be broadcast on free-to-air channels, though some will require a viewing card, as mentioned earlier.

If you've nabbed yourself a nifty motorised satellite dish, it can be programmed to automatically point at numerous orbiting satellites. It's a process that can take some hours to fine tune, but it saves a lot of manual faffing about.

Otherwise, it's time to grab your compass, and maybe even a satellite signal strength monitor, and get tweaking your satellite direction. A whole list of satellite positions and the channels they pick up can be grabbed from www.satellitetvlinks.net (to whom we are indebted to for help in researching this post), but the main three we mentioned earlier are positioned at:

Hotbird: 13 degrees East

Astra 1: 19.2 degrees East

Hispasat: 30 degress West

Remember, if you haven't grabbed a motorised dish you'll have to manually realign it every time you want to pick up channels from a different orbiting satellite. Alternatively, look into grabbing a dish with multiple LNBs built in and then align each of those individually, or buy a compatible multi-LNB arm and attach it to your dish. Most decent receivers will have a little signal strength icon that will help you fine tune the dish placement to the best possible angle.

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1 iPad version via its own iPad app with added video and interactivity.

2 PDF version that anyone can download which is compatible with PCs, smartphones etc available from Magcloud and Scribd.

3 Printed magazine version - this will be available via Magcloud and will cost around £5 per issue.

What's in the first issue? - It focuses largely on gadgets - so there are stories on - the top 20 gadgets of summer 2011, the three key gadget trends for the year (3D, in car gadgetry and tablets), 4G mobile phones. There are also features on how technology is changing art, how social networking is making us all liars and more.

Why is it different from most other iPad mags? - 1 It is free. 2 It is designed from the ground up as an iPad mag and doesn't just ape a print mag.

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There are some people who say that there is no real reason to buy an iPad as all the core things it does are covered by laptops, smartphones, games consoles and ereaders. Well I say that those people are somewhat lacking in imagination. Here then are five definitive roles that an iPad can play in your life

1 It is the ultimate toilet gadget - Yes this is the gadget that men who enjoying prolonged sessions on the old seat have been waiting for. It is easy to hold and is ideal for a quick bit of web browsing or gaming to distract your mind while the rest of your body focuses on something else. The wipe clean screen could prove to be a bonus here too.

Accessory opportunity - All we need now is the iPad toilet roll holder - surely one of the accessory makers is working on that now?

2 It is perfect for watching video in bed - Your laptop doesn't work that well in bed and your smartphone's screen is too small. The iPad is perfect especially if you arch your legs so it can rest against them. It is even more of a useful gadget now that the BBC iPlayer is available on the iPad.

Accessory opportunity - How about an iPad lap tray - you can then have breakfast in bed while watching the iPad which is on a stand integrated into the tray.

3 You need never talk to your children again - It might be a bit pricey but the iPad is brilliant for kids. They instantly get touch screen, will very quickly get addicted to Paper Toss and can do all manner of creative things using Adobe's Ideas. The long battery life coupled with its superb video performance means that it is the business for keeping kids quiet on long car journeys.

Accessory opportunity - Plenty. Disney Princess themed cases anyone?

4 It is the only gadget you need to take on a plane - Forget the rubbish in-flight entertainment with the iPad you can watch your own movies, listen to music, read mags you have downloaded, play games and shedloads more. They'll be dolling them out in first class flights very soon.

Accessory opportunity - Well not so much an accessory but a gimmick. How about a free iPad with every long haul flight BA? That'll get the punters back.

5 It is the ultimate camping gadget - Who wants to sit around a campfire singing Ging Gang Goolie, when you can be tracking the stars and planets using GoSkyWatch or working out your route using one of the many GPS add-ons we'll be seeing shortly.

Accessory opportunity - A direct to Nandos navigation app would be perfect for when the outdoor life gets too much.

Apple fans are a hardy lot, and a somewhat crazy bunch too. Queues of Apple fanboys and fangirls were wrapping around the block outside the flagship Regent Street store this morning, eager to be among the first in the UK to get their hands on the iPad.

There were plenty of great stories, with many camping out all night, but our favourite was from student Kendam. After sleeping on the streets all night to grab his Apple wonder tablet, he had to rush off straight away to sit his final uni exam, just an hour after leaving the store.

Whatever you think about Apple's new toy, you certainly cant knock its fans' conviction! Good luck Kendam!

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The Consumer Electronics show, the behemoth of tech, the Valhalla of gadgetry, has come and gone for yet another year. But this time, rather than arriving with a bang, it slinked into sight with something more like a whimper.

CES 2010 had really had the wind knocked out of it before it had even got into the ring this year. All eyes were already on Apple and their rumoured Tablet in the run up to the event, despite the fact that Apple are traditionally a no-show at CES, instead planning their own top-secret unveiling at the end of January. Likewise, Google delivered a sucker-punch in the shape of the Nexus One, their flagship handset revealed at their own event on the eve of CES 2010's opening.

To make matter's worse, Microsoft's opening keynote speech (delivered by walking personality drain Steve Ballmer) was pretty darn dull. First a power cut, then a load of waffle on the 2 month old Windows 7, Ballmer hardly seemed to be trying to keep our attention. Though the Christmas release date for Project Natal was welcome news, it revealed nothing new about the device, whilst the partnership with Hewlett Packard for the new Slate device seemed merely like a case of keeping-up with the Joneses. Or should that be the Jobs-es?

But the Las Vegas event wasn't without its highlights. Far from it in fact. Maybe it's the recession, or the generally pocket-pinching mood in the air these days, but for once the most sought after tech wasn't in the realms of dreamy aspiration, but was actually fairly affordable.

Take for instance the brand new 3D TVs on show, of which the Sony BRAVIA XBR-52HX900 (video above, courtesy of Ashley) was the pick of the litter. Finally shaping up to the standards set by its cinema siblings, company reps promised that the average 3D TV will cost little more than a top-end Full HD set. Skype and video calling in many TV sets too will help turn your living room into somewhere the Jetsons could only dream of.

E-readers are also looking to be both big and affordable in 2010. As a comic book fanatic I'd have liked to have seen more attempts at a colour screened e-reader (I'm not including the MSI offering, which is really just a dual-touch screened PC, super-cool as it is). Plastic Logic's Que Pro e-reader looked great though, with a massive, durable screen, and was far lighter than the hundreds of books you'd be able to store on the tabloid-sized device.

There were, of course, tablets aplenty. The dual-booting Viliv P3 may be an underdog in the category, but seemed way more exciting than Microsoft's offering. The offer of both Windows and Android on the same device showed a respect for user choice not often seen in the back-slapping world of consumer tech.

There was still time for fun too. The Parrot AR Drone Quadricopter was fun and fresh, combining real-world toys with augmented reality controls. A little less high-tech but full of retro-chic was the Lasonic i931 iPhone dock/ghetto blaster mash-up. Odd's on its at the top of Flava Flav's Christmas list. And there was still some time for the weird and the plain old dumb, too.

Though less prevalent than other years, there were some great examples of brand new tech on show that were genuinely exciting. A real head-turner and my favourite item of the show was the Light Blue Optic Light Touch. Using a pico projection engine and a touch sensitive sensor, it'll turn any flat surface into a touchscreen. It works ridiculously well despite still being in the development stages, and has almost unlimited potential.

Some detractors say that, recession or not, CES looks to be on its last legs. It's sad, but not unlikely, when you consider the audiences that companies like Apple and Google can command for just a single product launch. However, for emerging companies like Light Blue Optics CES is still vital to gain some exposure, not to mention the fact that such a prominent date in the calendar forces the tech giants to have made some significant, competitive advances in their gear, year-on-year.

So here's hoping the old dog's got a bit of life left in it yet. Hopefully next year will kick off the recessionary cobwebs and kick the show back into high-tech gear. It wouldn't take much to tempt us back to the City of Sin once more.

Click here for full CES 2010 pre-show, day one, day two and day three round-ups.

Microsoft have caused quite a stir this week, banning over 600,000 Xbox Live users for having modded their consoles. The move is an attempt to deter piracy and cheating in online games, two problems that obviously and validly need addressing. But have the bans hurt users with more innocent intentions for their modifications? Read on to find out.

Piracy in the games industry is no new thing; I can remember way back to weekend car boot sales in the early 1990s where dodgy Del Boy types would be selling knocked off Amiga 500 floppies for peanuts. Sales of software for the original PlayStation were marred by piracy-enabling mod chips, and the Dreamcast too was ridiculously easy to exploit, requiring just a boot-disc to play copied games.

Widespread peer-to-peer piracy is rife too, with illegal downloads being cited as a major contributor to ever declining PC software sales.

Despite the might of Microsoft behind it, the Xbox 360 is no better defended against piracy-enabling mods. Specialist services will modify your Xbox 360 for under £100, allowing a user to download and burn their own software. Though Tech Digest does not condone piracy, it is easy to see how strong the temptation of buying cheap knock-off games or downloading them for free could be, especially with games like Modern Warfare 2 commanding an extortionate £54.99 price tag.

Though the gaming industry is becoming increasingly wealthy, piracy costs companies billions of pounds in revenue. While larger publishers may be able to bear the brunt of such losses, small independent companies literally go hungry without legitimate software sales. It results in companies less prepared to go out on a limb and innovate with new creative games, instead focussing on an established series or intellectual property. Cue boring sequels, dire-movie cash-ins and derivative Halo-clones.

Even giants like EA are looking to cut as many as 1,500 jobs in the new year, which will cause a dozen games in the development stages to be canned indefinitely.

However modding does not necessarily equate to piracy.

Here is where the argument gets interesting. Piracy is bad, no question about it. But banning a console modded to increase hard drive space, when the only official alternative is a measly 120GB drive? That can't be fair, right? Microsoft seem very keen to limit the choices available to users to just Bill Gates branded gear; just look at the recent lock-out of third party memory units.

Also, having shelled out for the inflated price of a game, shouldn't a user be allowed to back up their copy? Discs are still a fairly fragile, scratch prone medium. If something so fragile as a disc breaks, should the consumer really have to buy a brand new game? Sure, there is the increasingly available option of legal digital downloads, but, just like with digital music downloads, I think I speak for many people when I say that I like the ritual of walking into a shop, handing over my money and coming home with something physical in my hand.

Modded consoles also open up the Xbox 360 to the homebrew community, with gangs of bedroom designers the world over teaming up to try their hands at game making. This is often a well of creativity and a great entry point for designers with untapped talent. It's easy to forget that massively popular games like Counter Strike started life as software mods themselves.

But perhaps the homebrew community wouldn't seem so vital to creative design if game companies had the money saved from piracy to invest in it themselves. It's a vicious cycle.

Piracy will never go away, but how we deal with it is important not just in terms of punishing cheats and thieves, but also in how we go about protecting consumer rights and defending those who just like to innocently tinker under the bonnet of their favourite toys.

Live Macworld 2009 Keynote coverage. All times are GMT. Reverse chronological:

With thanks to Engadget, Gizmodo, Macworld, Electric Pig.

6.30pm That's it. Tony Bennett takes to the stage to play the keynote out...

6.25pm iTunes

Have sold over 6 billion songs, iTunes world's largest media library, 75m accounts.

1. Price

More flexible pricing. A $0.69 price point and a $1.29 tier also. UK tbc.

2. iTunes Plus

Apple has worked with "all the major companies". From today, 8 million songs will be DRM free right away, 10 million by end of first quarter 2009.

3. iTunes available on iPhone over 3G

Preview and purchase music anywhere using iPhone, sync on computer at home.

More over the jump: 17-inch MacBook Pro, iWork '09, iLife '09...

Astraware's GTS World Racing for the iPhone and iPod Touch should go live in the App Store over the next 24 hours or so, according to one of my industry contacts.

As the name suggests, GTS World Racing is a driving game in which you race a coupe, sports car, or Formula One car around a variety of international tracks using the built-in accelerometer to control the car.

I've been playing with a pre-release version of the game for a couple of hours, and it's a slick application with lots of potential.

Though I love the genre, I'm not a driving game fanatic, and so it's difficult for me to compare it to some of the other big names in racing. I found the cars pretty easy to control from the start, as using the accelerometer (just as in Monkey Ball Island) is intuitive.

Here we go with Steve Jobs' Keynote Speech at Apple's WWDC08 in San Francisco.

All times are BST (GMT+1/PDT+8), entries in reverse chronological order.

1950: All done.

1950: Steve concluding with talk about WWDC08. Go developers, get stuck in to the new iPhone!

More affordable iPhone

1944: More affordable: iPhone 3G 8GB will cost $199, 16GB for $299, also available in white.

Rolling out on July 11th to 22 countries, for a max of 199 all around the world (damn exchange rates)

iPhone worldwide

70 countries over next few months.

The BlackBerry 9000 was officially announced by Research In Motion this morning, and within minutes I was on the phone to my mobile contract provider, arranging the return of the Pearl 8110 I'd just ordered. Even though the 9000 won't be out until Summer, it's still worth waiting for, in my opinion.

Or is it? Do you prefer the 45g-bar-of-chocolate-size of the Pearl 8110, or the BlackBerry Maps featured in the Curve 8310? Let's take a look below the jump at the key features of the three feathers RIM has in its cap...

According to virtually every tech or gaming-orientated blog on the internet superhighway, come July the rumour is that Nintendo will be announcing the next-gen DS console at the E3 expo.

As someone who's rushed out and bought both previous incarnations of the portable gaming console, I can appreciate the huge lead made between the two, and as much as I adore the Lite, I can think of a couple improvements I'd like to see in the next version, which is rumoured to be called the 'Liter' or 'Extreme'.

The rumour mill has already started grinding, with fingers being pointed at 'larger screens', with both possibly being touch-screen, and the hardware being 'lighter and thinner'. So far, the DS fans aren't really thinking outside the box, so if you read below, you'll see my hopes for the next version...

Yesterday the second official teaser trailer for the upcoming X-Files 2 film was uploaded to YouTube (above), churning Files fans' stomachs with the possibilities for the hugely-awaited film. Snow! It has snow! What does that mean? Ooh, Scully looks gorgeous with long hair! Wow, Billy Connolly looks even more insane than normal! Amanda Peet - oh noes! Wait, was that Xzibit?!

To celebrate the film getting a release date of July 25th, I've rounded up some of the best X-Files related products and applications available on the internet. It's what Mulder would've wanted.

1.) Fanmade PC tower case on eBay - currently on $50 with no bids, the tower has six drive bays and two floppy bays, plus several carefully-chiseled see-through bits. Plus a big 'X' etched into that metallic green spraypaint, which, as the seller says, is 'great for THE X FILES Fan!'

The things I do to review camera phones for you lot! I'm a tad bit scared of heights, yet I just went up the famous London Eye to test five of the best models money can buy you. Featuring the Nokia N95, LG Viewty, Samsung G800, Sony Ericsson K850i and Apple iPhone, which do you think will succeed in taking the best shot of the Houses of Parliament?

If any of these handsets appeal to you, find out more about them at dialaphone.co.uk

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A consistently popular article on Tech Digest over the past year has been about Virgin Media's broadband throttling scheme, whereby they slap a speed limit on the customers they deem to be "heavy users" if they download or upload too much during peak hours.

It's certainly got you hot under the collar, as most of the 80+ comments -- plus the search terms you're using to find the article in the first place -- testify.

Here, as a public service, is Tech Digest's Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] guide to Virgin Media's broadband speed throttling.

Hopefully, Blu-ray players will continue to come down in price, even though rival format HD DVD has fallen out of contention. However, there's always room at the top end of the market for super-expensive models for crazy rich people. To wit: Goldmund's Eidos 20 BD.

(No, it's nothing to do with Tomb Raider.)

The player is set to cost $17,000, despite looking like a big, heavy old-skool beige PC. Needless to say, you're paying for the circuitry inside, including an AC-Curator power supply circuit, and mechanical damping. But really, the main reason to buy it is so you can tell friends the price tag while settling down to watch Black Hawk Down again.

(via Born Rich)

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Hey, Sony is doing a pretty cool-looking Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PS3 bundle. You get an 80GB PS3, the game, and a DualShock 3 controller. Just the thing if you've been waiting for Solid Snake before shelling out on Sony's console.

Oh, except there's one snag: the bundle will only be available in the US. At least, that's what Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is saying, as well as denying that a similarly attractive God Of War themed PSP bundle will be crossing the Atlantic too.

Personally, I think Sony should go the whole hog and make a true MGS PS3, which sneaks around your living room hugging the walls, then creeps up behind your Xbox 360 and slits its throat. Before lighting a fag. That would be cool.

(via PSPSPS)

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