Sony is clearly going all out with the PlayStation Vita, and with good reason. Ever since the PlayStation Portable, or PSP to its friends, went on sale back in late-2004 in Japan and early-2005 everywhere else, the little PlayStation has had a hard life. Missing the dual thumb-sticks that many argued were a necessity in the post-dual shock world and packing an expensive price point, the PSP struggled for years to make a real impact in a market dominated by machines with Nintendo branding on them.
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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.
Apple certainly made a splash with the release of Siri, even though it is in some sort of beta flavored flux. With nothing quite like it out there on any other device, and the decision to limit its availability to the new iPhone 4S, Apple both gave a reason to upgrade to iPhone 4 owners, and made the competition sit up and take notice at the same time.
Being third to market with the PlayStation three behind Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii undoubtedly hurt Sony, at least in the early days. With gamers already having stumped up the money for the Xbox 360 in particular, Sony's expensive option struggled to gain traction for quite some time after its release. A hugely staggered worldwide release did not help, either.
With Intel's Thunderbolt connector not exactly taking off as quickly as it would have liked, the company is apparently working on a new, standardized docking system which would give ultra-portable notebooks both a Thunderbolt and non-Thunderbolt connector to use, with the latter being reportedly used for things such as power and Ethernet connectivity.
With the battle between Apple's iOS and Google's Android beginning to mimic the Mac Vs. PC battle of the nineties, the same old debates are beginning to arise.
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.
Samsung's second Nexus phone, the Galaxy Nexus, is already on sale in the UK, but those in the United States are still waiting to get their hands on the first smartphone to sport Google's Ice Cream Sandwich.
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.
Chair, the developers behind the hugely popular Infinity Blade, have released a two-minute trailer showing off the game's sequel, Infinity Blade 2.
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.
