The Digest: Console sales rise… and 4 other things people are talking about today

[nextpage title="Next"] Console sales up dramatically in 2014 as Xbox One finishes strongly | Engadget "Console fanboys, get ready to gloat - or mope. Actually, (nearly) everybody can be cheered by the latest data from NPD, which showed console sales up a cool 20 percent from last year to to over $5 billion. Leading the…

Nexus 9 available from O2 today

O2 has announced that Google's newest tablet, the Nexus 9, is available in its stores from today. The Nexus 9 sports an 8.9" screen, and perhaps most attractively runs a completely clean version of Android as Google envisages it - with no bloatware added by the manufacturers. O2 says that the tablet is available on…

Why Samsung should just give up on Tizen

Yesterday there were reports that Samsung has finally released a phone running its non-Android "Tizen" operating system. The Z1 has gone on sale in India six months after it was indefinitely delayed. The reason the operating system exists is essentially to satisfy some executive egos. Samsung, unlike Google and Apple, doesn't control the platform which…