Facebook always seems to be in the middle of a debilitating privacy row, and as Mashable reports the social networking site could be steaming headlong into another with its new facial recognition system.
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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.
If you're a fan of The Sims - and the chances are you are - you'll be pleased to hear those cheeky little chappies are coming to the home of social, with Facebook being the next frontier to feel the warm fuzzy glow given off by Electronic Arts' avatars.
We barely get one rumor-filled event out of the way and another rumor surfaces to take its place. The new murmurings surround Apple's as yet unannounced iPhone 5 which, according to DigiTimes, will sport an 8 Megapixel camera.
It seems the guys behind Duke Nukem Forever just can't catch a break. As if having their game in development for the best part of, well, forever wasn't bad enough, now their pride and joy has leaked onto torrent sites a whole week before its official release.
One of the much anticipated announcements to come out of WWDC 2011's opening keynote was Apple's new iCloud service. Offering new cloud-based syncing and storage for iOS devices and iTunes, iCloud takes what MobileMe started and promises to turn it into something both useful and that actually works. But with iOS 5 not available to the public just yet, what can existing iOS 4.3 users do that will put the new iCloud service through its paces?
Steve Jobs may have only finished giving his WWDC 2011 opening keynote in San Francisco just two hours ago, but those eager beavers at Apple have already published the video for our streaming pleasure.
Sony is still reeling from its many, many hacker-related problems over the last few weeks. It was only yesterday that Sony finally managed to bring its PSN Store back online across the globe and then, as if the universe was trying to really kick them when they just thought things were getting better, the Music arm of Sony found itself on the wrong end of a fresh hacking attempt. But surely all their hard work behind the scenes have made PSN and Qriocity hack-proof, right? Wrong, according to one industry expert.
Call of Duty Elite, Activision's recently announced subscription based stat tracking oddity has many interesting facets, but one that's not been talked about too much is the mobile applications that will give users access to the world of Call of Duty on their travels. New apps for iPhone, iPad and Android are on the horizon and promise to go some way toward making the yet unspecified subscription free worthwhile.
Angry Birds is fast becoming the one game every platform needs in order to be taken seriously. First released for iOS devices, Android and web-based versions have been equally as popular as well as numerous game sequels and add-ons. It seems we just can't get enough of those little pigs. In an effort to bring Angry Birds to the few people who aren't already addicted, the game's creators Rovio have released a native Windows version for just $5.
We're well and truly in the middle of iPhone rumor territory these days, and everyone's an expert it seems. Today's latest expert to offer claims of knowing what's going on in Cupertino is Hudson Square Research‘s Todd Rethemeier, who thinks the next iPhone will actually carry the iPhone 5 moniker and not the 4S we've been warming to.
