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Google have launched their first television advertising campaign ever. To be shown only in the US, their ad is promoting Chrome. Chrome being Google’s Internet browser that caused much hype in 2008, grabbing 1.4% of the market. This may not sound a lot, but for the browser market that’s huge. Any company that can take a chunk of Microsoft’s monopoly definitely has something to brag [...]

Two years after being available in the US/Canada, Microsoft Surface has finally reached British shores. Retailing for a whopping £10,000 means we’re probably not going to see them popping up all over the place any time soon, unless you often stay in 5 star hotels (Sheraton Hotel group use Surface tables for self-check ins by tapping your credit cared on the table – creepy) . Microsoft [...]

It’s hard to believe policies like this still exist, this is the 21st Century for goodness sake. But apparently, no one told Microsoft. A woman has been banned from the Xbox Live service for including her sexuality in her status on the social platform. Microsoft say it is against their term of service to advertise your sexuality on your custom profiles. They insist this is not an anti-gay policy, [...]

We managed to get early access to SF IV on Friday and we’ve been playing it to death over the weekend. This game is huge! Before I start, here’s some footage of us playing the first round of Arcade mode with Ryu; The game has a great graphical style, although the cut-scenes leave something to be desired (the 3D models are quite ugly compared to the 2.5D models during gameplay). It has [...]

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So Nintendo finally confirmed their latest model of the Nintendo DS will be launched in Spring time. The Nintendo DSi will be the third generation DS to hit the market in four years. They’ve definitely been doing something right. But can Nintendo keep a hold of the handheld market, when the highly anticipated Pandora will also be released this year. In their own words, Pandora “is by far [...]

StopBadAware provide an  service to google, to prevent users from visiting phishing sites, or sites with trojans and all kinds of nasty stuff. You may have noticed on the odd occasion when you try and browse somewhere dangerous from Google, you receive the warning “This site may harm your computer.” If you try and visit the site, you’ll instead see a page which informs you “Warning [...]

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