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Posted By Malcolm Owen On March 29, 2011 at 6:32 pm Comments Off

Amazon have found a way to put their stupidly huge data serving machines to good use and compete with the likes of Dropbox with the Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player.

The Cloud Player is directly linked to your Amazon account, giving you the ability to stream the music you buy from Amazon through any [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On March 26, 2011 at 6:37 pm Comments Off

Remember Photosynth? The Microsoft project that allowed you to have “3D-ish” views of events based on a massive amount of photographs taken at the same time? Well, some impressive bods have managed to do the same but on a smaller scale…

This time, Microsoft researchers have come up with a version that actually extrapolates 3D data [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On March 23, 2011 at 3:57 pm Comments Off

Firefox 4 is now available for your browsing pleasure, and in the first 24 hours it managed to reach 5 million downloads. Their record from Firefox 3 was 8 million, so sadly they didn’t manage to reach that, but 5 is a huge amount in anyone’s book.
This time, Firefox will be faster to start-up and [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On March 16, 2011 at 4:01 am Comments Off

Good news all you users of Internet Explorer whom happen to have Windows 7 or Vista: IE9 is now out of beta and is freely downloadable at Beauty of the Web as well as other official Microsoft sources.
Anyone else (Users of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, other browsers, Windows XP, earlier Windows versions and non-Windows users): Carry on [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On March 1, 2011 at 4:58 pm Comments Off

LG has been granted an import ban against Sony, forcing all PlayStation 3 imports coming into Europe to be siezed by governments for the next 10 days.
This stems from a patent row relating to how the PS3 does Blu-Ray playback, which if unresolved could mean the ban being extended further. Americans aren’t safe from this [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On February 24, 2011 at 3:47 pm Comments Off

Sony’s new VAIO S Series notebooks are looking damned sexy. There, I said it. I know it is supposed to “increase productivity” as the press release shouts at me due to a hefty amount of great features, but I think the design alone is enough for a posting.

It features a 13.3″ screen, a “Dynamic Hybrid [...]

Posted By Malcolm Owen On January 6, 2011 at 4:28 pm Comments Off

Microsoft have announced that they have worked on a new mouse. The “Touch Mouse”. I can sense the lack of excitement already…
It essentially does what a normal mouse does but with the added extra of gestures like flicking to scroll and other actions. No, it’s not a case of someone at Microsoft seeing an iPhone [...]