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Apologies in advance to those who drop by the site, I will be messing with the themes and appearance of the site. I had settled on the brilliantly simple Journalist theme by Lucian E. Marin. After suspecting a problem with my net connection and trying a Google search for this site, I found out that another similarly named site called The Techstatic (not in any way related to this site) is already using the theme, oh well, on goes the search For now you’ll have to put up with this

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According to Steve Ballmer, there will be a new Xbox 360 coming in 2010.  Rumours have been going around of a new model of Xbox 360 and not a complete replacement for the current Xbox 360. 1up have speculated that the new model of Xbox 360 will be a bit more powerful than the current models of Xbox 360 and will include the hardware for Natal, which will be available for existing 360 owners to purchase separately. Now the rumours and speculation have been confirmed by none other than Steve

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What happens when there is a rush to buy and activate iPhones….Apple’s activation server goes kaput. What happens when a long awaited release such as iPhone OS 3.0 go live on iTunes, people want to update so they can use Cut Copy and Paste as well as this new fangled MMS. So many people try to update that once again, the activation server goes down.   Thanks to another service known for its dubious reliability, Twitter, word is getting around that the small trick of disabling your

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At 0000hrs EST, the rush for Facebook’s vanity URLs began. Getting a vanity URL meant that out of Facebook’s 200million people, your acquaintances wouldn’t have to search for you by name and recognise you from the picture, for example, like Twitter, FriendFeed, Myspace, Qik et al. you can just direct friends to facebook.com/yournamehere. As with domains, there has been a rush to grab sought after names, brands, memes, phrases and totally random URLs. I grabbed mine,

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Sony’s E3 press conference was longer than Microsoft’s but the content wasn’t as densely packed with quite a few trailers to pad things out. Jack Tretton, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, came on with a reference to the leak of the PSP Go days before the conference. Tretton went on to say there will be 364 games coming out on the PlayStation platform this year before going on to bust out some facts figures and promotion of the brand. The PS2 at $99 is still

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Sandwiched between the Monday’s Microsoft conference and the Sony conference on Tuesday evening. Last years Nintendo showing received a bit of stick for not being compelling enough, maybe things changed this year. Read on to find out… Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of Americas Vice President of Sales and Marketing did the job of opening Nintendo’s conference. She began explaining how the market has changed, where once the gaming market was aimed solely at those who actively games, and now the

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You may have read my E3 rumours roundup for Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony…I wasn’t until yesterday that the three companies revealed their cards. Microsoft was the first of the companies to present their works to the press, beginning with a montage of gameplay footage of Beatles tracks, indicating that there would be a Beatles version of the Rock Band game. Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney came on stage to have a bit of a natter to promote the game and approving of their in-game characters.

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October 22, 2009. This is the date that Windows 7 will be available, according to a Microsoft Senior VP, Bill Veghte in an interview with CNET (via Ars Technica). Currently Windows 7 is at Release Candidate 1 and available for anyone to try via the Community Technology Preview. A short and to the point post. Check out the links for more info.

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Google Wave could transform how we communicate over the web, instead of email, we may all use Google Wave, after all it is being described as what email would be like if it was invented today. The video is embedded below in which Lars and Jens Rasmussen and Stephanie Hannon presented the demonstration of Google Wave at Google’s developer conference, Google i/o. Google Wave compared to the web of today, provides some ‘wow’ moments without Flash, the video shows this better than

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Taking place next week is E3, a yearly even where games, consoles, services and related paraphernalia are revealed. In the run up to every E3 is a huge amount of speculation as to what may be announced, this year is no different. So what announcements are expected from the big three: Microsoft and Nintendo and Sony? Here’s a rumour roundup. Microsoft – Motion Camera There has been a lot by way of rumour flying around regarding Microsoft’s recent purchase of 3DV Systems, an Israeli

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