Month: October 2011
Trick or Tracker app keeps kids safe this Halloween
Halloween is always a bit of a stickler for parents with young-ish children. Your kids think they're old enough to roam the streets at night dressed as ghouls, knocking on strangers' doors asking for treats. You think they're little more…
They're making a Farmville movie! The horror!
Can the world's most popular social networking game be turned into an Oscar-worthy blockbuster? Almost certainly not, but that isn't going to stop Zynga, makers of the mega-successful Farmville game, from turning their crop-growing simulator into a movie. The…
Apple to launch movie streaming service?
iTunes music has already made the jump to the cloud, and it now seems Apple may be looking to do something similar with movies too. The iPad manufacturers are looking into launching a movie streaming service to rival LOVEFiLM and…
BlackBerry services slowly resuming across Europe
BlackBerry services are beginning to come back online across Europe after major outages saw many key features of RIM's handsets stop working. For three days internet, BlackBerry Messenger and email services have been failing on the handsets, but things are…
Seagate GoFlex Cinema expandable multimedia drive bringing HD movie files to your living room
Seagate's latest hard drive release has its sights set firmly on a place on top of your TV stand. A multimedia drive, the Seagate GoFlex Cinema comes in sizes up to 3TB (as well as being expandable through use with…
Nintendo's Zelda lands on iPhone App Store. Er…wait a minute…
Nintendo's Zelda franchise hits the iPhone! Well, sort of. "Ultimate iZelda Climb", developed by Audio Attack is the app in question. Rather than being a swashbuckling adventure full of magic, dungeons and fair maidens however, Ultimate iZelda Climb is…
Sky Anytime added to Virgin Media line-up
Sky Anytime on-demand TV services are being added to Virgin Media XL packages, it has been revealed today. Adding the large Sky Anytime catalogue to Virgin Media's services see's the company's already-sizeable VOD offerings increase by as much as…
Ouch! $2 Samsung Galaxy S II sale steals iPhone 4S Aussie launch thunder
It takes some doing to upstage Apple as they're preparing to launch a new iPhone, but Samsung have managed just that. Samsung have launched a pop-up Samsung Galaxy S II shop just feet away from the major Apple store in…
Sony in PSN, SOE lock down after new hacking attempt
Sony have "locked-down" some 93,000 accounts after they found yet another attempt to hack their PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network, and Sony Online Entertainment databases had been made. Detecting a large number of unauthorised attempts to access accounts "using very…
Smartphone, laptop demands will lead to future metal shortages
Geologists are warning of major shortages of certain types of metals as an "inexorable demand for consumer goods" such as smartphones and laptops is meaning that gadget manufacturers are using up the resources far more quickly than they can be…