Jul
26

Apple set to acquire Hulu?

apple Apple is said to be considering buying Hulu, the US online streaming video service currently owned by News Corp, Disney and NBC. The service streams TV shows and movies from popular.. more
Jul
26

Steam dominates digital game sales

Steam Store Digital video game distribution platform Steam has dominated digital game retail throughout H1 2011, according to independent research. It’s no real surprise, but the report from Forecasting & Analysing Digital Entertainment.. more
Jul
26

Minitel est mort

internet France is finally to bid adieu to Minitel, the proto-internet service launched nearly 30 years ago. The videotex service ran on adorably retro dumb terminals, with monochrome screen, which were actually.. more
Jul
26

Konami reveals Blades of Time details

Konami has released details of its upcoming action title, Blades of Time. Developer Gaijin Entertainers has previously worked on games including IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey and Apache: Air Assault. The game focuses around the character of Ayumi, a gun-sword wielding treasure hunting woman, whose.. more
Jul
26

LG 55 inch OLED TV for 2012

LED TV sets are expensive. Very expensive. And that’s just the smaller models – so who knows how much the set LG has just said it’s planning to release in 2012 will cost. While detailing its Q2 results, LG reportedly revealed that it’s set on.. more
Jul
26

Galaxy Tab 10.1 out a week today

Samsung’s latest full-size Galaxy Tab is set to go on sale a week today. The new refreshed Tab 10.1 was tinkered with after the iPad 2 came out with its slimmer lines, and made the original 10 inch Tab look like something of a chunky.. more
Jul
26

Google Toolbar dropped from Firefox 5

Google has decided that it will no longer maintain support for the Google Toolbar in modern versions of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. In a post on the Google Toolbar blog, the company noted that Firefox 5 already did much of what the toolbar could achieve with.. more
Jul
25

Samsung to overtake Apple in smartphones

The iPhone is, of course, hot property in the smartphone world. Hotter than the innards of one of those apple pies you get at fast food chains, in fact. And following the UK market on a monthly basis, the iPhone 4 was the favourite handset.. more
Jul
25

LinkedIn launches job application plug-in

LinkedIn has launched a new plug-in designed so users can apply for jobs using their public profile. The new button, ‘Apply with LinkedIn’, which can be found on participating websites, sends your profile directly to employers who can then view all of your professional achievements,.. more
Jul
25

Zuckerberg top in UK media stakes

Mark Zuckerberg has been declared the most important person in UK media, according the Guardian’s Top 100. This means the Facebook boss has jumped ahead of both Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch. It was only four years ago that Zuckerberg entered the top 100 list.. more