Apr
23

PSN remains down due to “external intrusion”

Sony has posted an update regarding the downtime of the PlayStation Network, which has been an ongoing situation since Wednesday. All sorts of rumours have been flying around, such as whether.. more
Apr
22

LG Optimus 3D now delayed until June?

As far back as February, the release of the LG Optimus 3D has been slated for late April. And indeed according to Play.com and some other retailers, it’s still due to.. more
Apr
22

ICO penalises less than 1% of security breaches

Some figures have just emerged regarding the amount of fines the Information Commisioner’s Office doles out. Apparently the ICO has only taken action on 36 of 2565 data breaches, and fined.. more
Apr
22

Super Mario coming to Nintendo 3DS this year

It’s-a him, Super Mario… and he’s coming to the Nintendo 3DS in 2011. Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer and Mario creator, spilled some brief details on Super Mario 3DS in an interview with Edge. Apparently the game will be a cross between Super Mario Galaxy and.. more
Apr
22

Amazon web hosting outage hits multiple sites

Yesterday, a number of sites went down as something at Amazon‘s cloud computing centre in North Virginia went pop. The BBC reports that the major outage left a large number of major websites unavailable for considerable chunks of yesterday. These included Foursquare, Reddit and Quora,.. more
Apr
22

Razer Hydra motion controller coming to PC

The Xbox has had Kinect and the PS3 got Move, now it’s the PC’s turn for some motion controller goodness it would seem. The Razer Hydra is powered by Sixense technology, which provides “six degree-of-freedom magnetic motion tracking”. Yes, magnetic tracking – a base station.. more
Apr
22

Samsung flings legal mud back at Apple

You know what happens in the world of technology when a company instigates a lawsuit against another for patent infringements and copying their gadgets? That’s right, they fire a counter-suit back accusing the original firm of violating their patents. It’s what happened between Nokia and.. more
Apr
22

Google doodle marks Earth Day 2011

Today is Earth Day 2011, and Google has marked the event with a flashy doodle. The animated doodle responds to the mouse pointer in a number of different ways. Hovering over the river, for example, causes a salmon to leap upstream and get eaten by.. more
Apr
21

TalkTalk tops Ofcom’s complaint league

TalkTalk is the most complained about telecoms provider in terms of consumer grievances lodged with Ofcom between October 2010 and February 2011. And it’s top in both landline and broadband complaints. With landline services, TalkTalk averaged 1.78 complaints per 1000 customers. That was way above.. more
Apr
21

Kindle e-reader to get library lending service

Owners of Amazon‘s popular Kindle e-reader will soon be able to borrow e-books from libraries across America. Many libraries have a well stocked range of electronic publications which have been available to users of alternative reading slates, such as Sony’s Reader. However, Amazon has previously.. more