Dec
23

New OnLive Android app for Xperia Play

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play OnLive, the cloud gaming service, has announced the update of its free app for Android which was launched a couple of weeks back. The app now supports the slide-out gaming controls.. more
Dec
23

BT extends ADSL2 across Scotland

broadband-news BT has announced another phase of faster broadband roll out is to begin across Scotland, but this isn’t part of the fibre program which is currently underway. In fact it’s a.. more
Dec
22

Game of Thrones RPG trailer emerges

Game of Thrones RPG A new trailer has been released for Focus Home Interactive’s fresh take on Game of Thrones. Previously the company had published a real-time strategy game of the TV series (based on.. more
Dec
22

Ten UK cities to be “super-connected”

The government has announced the latest initiative in its drive to improve the UK’s broadband infrastructure. George Osborne has made £100 million available to share between ten cities, which will become “super-connected” with a network of 80 to 100Mbps being extended by both BT and.. more
Dec
22

Facebook ordered to change data policy

Having settled a number of privacy issues with the FTC over in the US last month, Facebook also faced a European interrogation over its data practices. With Facebook’s international HQ being based in Ireland, the office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) conducted the.. more
Dec
22

AMD Radeon 7970 launched

AMD has officially launched its next-generation graphics card. The Radeon 7970 follows on from the current top end single card solution the 6970, and AMD is claiming the title of the new fastest GPU on the market with the only 28nm based board. The company’s.. more
Dec
21

Google renews Firefox search deal

You might recall at the start of the month, we wrote an article about the fact that Firefox’s search deal with Google was up for renewal. This is the agreement whereby Google is the default search engine in Mozilla’s browser, a privilege which the big.. more
Dec
21

How to remove Win 7 Home Security 2012

Win 7 Home Security 2012 is a piece of malware doing the rounds at the moment, being distributed via infected ads across a number of high traffic sites. Win 7 Home Security 2012 is a piece of malware that hijacks a user’s PC, issues false.. more
Dec
21

Microsoft and Amazon mull Rim deal

Things haven’t been going well at all well for Rim lately, with 2011 bringing forth something of a catalogue of disasters. The company’s smartphone market share has seriously dwindled, its new PlayBook tablet fallen flat, a major service outage back in October caused considerable embarrassment,.. more
Dec
21

TalkTalk top of Ofcom’s complaints table

Ofcom has published its latest batch of telecoms complaints data for the quarter leading up to September. And the bad news for TalkTalk is that, once again, the company is the most complained about ISP by UK consumers. It’s the fourth quarter in a row.. more