Tesco branches out into pre-owned video games

Tesco has announced that it will be moving into the pre-owned video games market. Customers will be able to trade in their games at the supermarket, and receive a credit for.. more

Gaming now edges music and movies in online popularity, says Ofcom

According to Ofcom’s recent Communications Market Report 2010, online gaming has now become marginally more popular than downloading music or films. Very marginally, mind you. The statistics from the organisation’s research.. more

Internet Sales Soar

Internet shoppers are taking advantage of the savings available on the web with Internet sales growing at their fastest ever rate last month. UK shoppers spent £5bn online in July, according.. more

BT to deliver faster broadband for 140,000 North West homes

There’s some good broadband news for the residents of Allerton, Kirkham, Middlewich, Penrith and a number of other exchanges around the North West. As part of its 21CN programme, BT has announced that it will roll out fast broadband to twenty communities in the region,.. more

X Factor trailer launches on Facebook

The bookies are predicting that the new X Factor series will attract the highest number of viewers yet and TalkbackThames Digital is helping this along with a bigger and better digital marketing campaign this year. Fans who sign up to the show’s Facebook page will.. more

PS3 cracked by hackers with USB dongle

Hackers have finally managed to crack the security on the PS3 console, or so they claim. A group called PS Jailbreak has created a USB dongle which plugs into the PS3 and allows owners to copy games to the console’s hard drive, the BBC reports... more

Nokia snaps up mobile analytics outfit Motally

Nokia has bought up a small mobile analytics outfit based in California for an undisclosed sum. Motally, which employs just eight people, develops technology to track the usage of mobile websites and applications. Nokia will doubtless be hoping to use this expertise to track how.. more

Google moving into Unified Communications?

Google’s recent acquisition have led business research & consulting firm, Frost & Sullivan, to the conclusion that the search giant is positioning itself as a unified communications and collaboration (UCC) provider, with a focus on the SME and consumer market. UCC uses an internet protocol.. more

HTC Desire HD and Desire Z confirmed by another retailer

It seems that the HTC Desire HD and the Desire Z smartphones are definitely in the pipeline. Amazon recently put up listings for both phones, pricing them at £415 and £455 respectively, but pulled the product pages no sooner than they were up. These could.. more

BlackBerry Bold R020 details leaked

Details of another smartphone have been leaked online, this time the successor to the BlackBerry Bold 9700. And it would seem that the Bold R020, as it’s named in the leaked internal document Boy Genius Report got hold of, is pretty much the same as.. more