Month: October 2011
Apple stock price reaches record high after iPhone 4S sales frenzy
Apple have seen their stock price soar to a record high this week, following news that the Cupertino company had managed to shift a massive four million of their new iPhone 4S handsets in just its first three days in…
Canon EOS-1D X unveiled
Canon have revealed the successor to their superb 1D Mark IV DSLR, launching the Canon EOS-1D X today. A spec-heavy beast of a camera, it features a full-frame 18.1MP CMOS sensor with 12fps and 14fps high speed modes, 100-51200…
REVIEW: Three MiFi HSPA+ (Huawei E586)
Three's latest MiFi personal Wi-Fi hotspot certainly is a looker, and with newly-added HSPA+ connectivity, makes some bold claims when it comes to mobile broadband speeds. Can it deliver superfast downloads when out on the road, or will a standard dongle offer similar results? Read on to find out.
PREVIEW: A 3-hour tour of Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim
I barely passed my first year at university, and I lay the blame for my half-hearted studies squarely at the feet of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I sank literally hundreds of hours into Bethesda's open-world RPG. It was a revelation,…
Free iTunes books and music downloads with your Monday Starbucks coffee
Do you want some Coldplay with your Chai Crème Frappuccino blended beverage? Then get yourself down to Starbucks on a Monday morning. As part of a new partnership with Apple, the ubiquitous coffee shop chain will be offering a…
Philips to cut 4,500 jobs as profits fall 85%
It's a tough economic climate for all out there in the working world today, and the tightening of purse strings extends to multi-million dollar businesses too. Philips have just revealed some harsh financial figures, leading to inevitable job losses. The…
Siri slides onto iPhone 4
What's stopping Apple from porting their iPhone 4S-only Siri voice activated personal assistant system onto the older iPhone 4? Very little, according to developer Steven Troughton-Smith. He's been working hard trying to get the thing to run on the…
Sesame Street YouTube channel gets filthier than Oscar the Grouch following porn hack
Sesame Street's YouTube channel, a popular online destination for kids, was hacked in the afternoon of Sunday 16th October, with the entire contents of the video-hosting page replaced with hardcore pornography. Accessible for around 20 minutes before YouTube pulled the…
RIM compensate for BlackBerry outage with free apps, but is that enough?
Following last week's major service outages across their BlackBerry handset range, manufacturers RIM are set to give more than $100 worth of free apps to their customers affected by the problems. Premium apps such as Sims 3, N.O.V.A and Bejeweled…
Star Wars: The Old Republic release date lightspeed jumps forward
EA have now announced that the eagerly-anticipated Star Wars: The Old Republic will have its European release date pushed forward two days to December 20th 2011. This puts the sci-fi MMO's UK release date the same as its US arrival,…