The games console as we know it is dead. When Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One earlier this week, it was clear that this was more than a device that would enable you to play Call of Duty or FIFA – this was, in Microsoft’s own words, “an all-in-one home entertainment system”.

Taking advantage of Sony’s rather lacklustre PS4 announcement earlier this year, Microsoft did everything it could do ramp up the hype pre-launch. This was particularly true of its social media platforms, where it pushed its hashtag  #XboxReveal, used creative content and jumped on news events to get some topical momentum. Read More »

Major brands may not be talking to as many people as they thought, according, to a new report.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has said Twitter is generating more advertising revenue from its mobile platform than from its website on many days in the last quarter.

This will go down as one of the world’s biggest hacks. A South Korea social networking site, Cyworld, has had the account details of 35 million users stolen — that is almost two thirds of the South Korean population.

The site was hit along  with the Nate portal, both run by SK Telecom, in an attack being blame on Chinese hackers. Read More »

Sony has released a couple of videos previewing its forthcoming S1 and S2 Android tablet computers.

They look very nice, and one of the promos is reminiscent of Honda’s classic cog ad, though they don’t give all that much away, but then with a flood of tablet computers now on the market maybe less is more? Take a look and see what you think. Read More »

It is the most successful computer games franchise of all time and publisher Activision Blizzard is planning to cash in on that and begin charging gamers to play with the next instalment of

Infinity Ward’s ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’.

The eagerly awaited PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 3 is due in November and with the £40 plus price tag will likely come a subscription of around £5 a month as publishers of all kinds look to making their content pay. Read More »

Can a virtual online community create a real life computer museum? The Centre for Computing History is adopting the #winning ‘Charlie Sheen business model’ to try and make this reality. Read More »

The images and video of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming PlayStation Phone just keeps coming. To be honest is it just us or does this video of the Xperia-branded phone look at little lame? And heavy. It could be the poor quality video. Read More »