Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to be unveiled in April

It seems that the wraps are about to be taken off the next big instalment in the mega-selling Call of Duty franchise. Modern Warfare 3 is expected to be announced next.. more

Dell calls enterprise fail on the Apple iPad

It’s certainly a brave rival executive who will stand up and call fail on the iPad, particularly in the wake of the sequel’s current global sell-out success. But despite Apple’s device.. more

Jack Dorsey returns to be Product Chief at Twitter

Jack Dorsey, one of the Co-Founders of Twitter, is to return to an active role as product chief at the social network. The Wall Street Journal reports the move, which it.. more

BBC websites crashed for an hour last night

Late yesterday evening, the BBC experienced a technical outage of its sites and services including the iPlayer. The Beeb says that the downtime lasted for around an hour due to what big-wigs called a “major network problem”. Beyond that, no explanation was given. Which of.. more

Spotify says sorry for malware ad payload

Spotify has apologised for an embarrassing incident whereby the streaming music platform served up a dose of malware via its third-party adverts on the free player. Users running Spotify Free or Open in the UK, Sweden, France and Spain were potentially hit by the virus.. more

Sony Ericsson to unlock boot loader on forthcoming Xperia phones

Sony Ericsson has announced that it intends to unlock the boot loader in certain upcoming models of the Xperia range. According to an article on 3G.co.uk, the Xperia Play, Arc, Neo and Xperia Pro will all come with the keys to the boot, which will.. more

Half of Twitter content produced by 20K “elite” users

A study carried out by Yahoo Research has made some interesting revelations about Twitter. Apparently 50% of the tweets made on the social networking site (in an eight month sample period) were produced by an “elite group” of 20,000 users. The research authors noted that.. more

Amazon Cloud Drive launched, online music service with 5GB storage

Amazon has pulled a move which surprised many today, with the announcement of its own online music storage service. The retailing giant’s online music solution actually has two prongs, the Amazon Cloud Drive and the Amazon Cloud Player. The Cloud Drive offers 5GB of free.. more

Google to turn smartphones into credit cards

Since the inception of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, the talk has been of mobile phones becoming credit cards, allowing a swipe of your handset to pay for goods. NFC has been used for mobile payments in Japan for quite some time now, and plans.. more

Apple iPad 2 sells out across the globe

Yes, you’ve quite probably heard enough about the iPad 2 since its launch in the US a fortnight ago, and then internationally on Friday. But we’re afraid you’re going to hear some more, because Apple’s tablet sequel appears to be selling faster than freshly baked,.. more