With Microsoft's Xbox 360 console now getting a little long in the tooth, rumors are circulating about what the Redmond outfit has up its sleeve for the next generation of hardware.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
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We're only a few short hours away before the entire United States is gripped by the excitement and downright fear of Black Friday.
It's that time of year again where everyone gets together with long lost family members and eats too much turkey. No, not Christmas, the other one.
With more and more smartphones being released on a seemingly weekly basis, manufacturers and carrier partners are understandably looking for any and every way of differentiating their devices from the competition.
We've all heard the old adage of 'if you can't beat them, try to ridicule them,' right? No? Well perhaps someone should have told Samsung that.
Oddly, one of the most controversial changes to Apple's music and now iOS app management application, iTunes, to happen over the last couple of years is its new icon. Some don't mind it. Some can tolerate it. Some plain old despise it.
If you're even slightly interested in the life of Steven P. Jobs then the chances are you're also at least mildly intrigued by the second company he founded, NeXT.
OK, before we go any further we just have to say this: we're officially one or two steps away from living in the Star Trek world, and it is awesome!
It seems Steve Jobs' death has only managed to increase the mystery surrounding his life. Despite the official biography of the Apple co-founder selling by the truck-load, many would argue that the biographer Jobs chose wasn't really the right man for the job.
When Apple launched Game Center in iOS 4, one of the many arguments laid fairly and squarely at its feet was its severe lack of any sort of messaging system. When you look at similar services on other platforms such as PSN, Xbox Live or Steam then you'll see that sending messages between players is integral to the experience. Apple missed that, completely.
