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Following hot on the heals of the AE400, ADATA has taken the opportunity to present the brand new DashDrive Air AE800 to new retail customers at the Distree event in Monte Carlo. It offers some cool new features, but will the channel fall in love with this new portable drive? …

As part of its live broadcast from New York, Sony has just unveiled – but not revealed – the PlayStation 4; which we now know is also its official name and not PlayStation Orbis, the oft used codename for the development. The event began with a big showcase of past …

The new controller for the PS4 has now been unveiled and it incorporates a few new features as well as improving on old ones. The controller latency has been improved and shortened, as well as a strengthening of its rumble abilities. The new additions are a little more exciting however, including a …

Google has released a new video showcasing the capabilities of its Glass headset/eyewear. In it we see voice recognition, translation information, video recording, web search abilities and a slew of vocal commands that allow for impressive hands free interaction. A lot of the video revolves around people saying, “Ok Glass…” followed by …

Deloitte, the administrator for beleaguered tech firm HMV, has announced the closure of another 37 outlets, meaning another 464 staff will be let go in the process. This brings the total number of shuttered stores to over 100, on top of the closure of all ROI outlets. This latest move …

The auction of the 4G mobile spectrum which was epxected to raise upwards of £3.5 billion for the treasury has fallen short of its aims, only generating £2.3 billion – just over 10 per cent of what was paid by mobile providers back in 2000 for portions of the 3G …

Our own British Pirate Party has been targeted by copyright lobbyists in the past, and it's happening again with the Swedish version. Copyright lobby group “Rights Alliance” is threatening to sue the political party if it doesn't cease its hosting of The Pirate Bay website. The letter sent to the …

Sky, Virgin Media, Freesat, Freeview and BT Vision customers will be set to gain a new channel in March, when BBC 2 HD is introduced for the first time. They will however be losing access to the long running BBC HD channel, which is officially being shut down at the …

Apple said yesterday that some of their employees Macintosh computers were attacked by hackers. The admission by the company is unusual and highlights that the ‘once impervious' Macintosh computer is also vulnerable to malicious code. Apple admitted that a ‘small number' of computers became infected after employees visited a website …

Taking a picture from a smartphone is pretty much hit and miss however the technology has been improving all the time, as witnessed by the excellent camera built into the Nokia Lumia 920. Things are looking better as researchers at MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory have created a new processor chip. …

Shares in Google topped the $800 mark for the first time in history yesterday. Mobile computing has boosted their growth over recent months. The shares increased by 1.8 percent to $806.85 for the highest closing price since the company went public back in August 2004. Their stock has increased by …

Over at the Distree 2013 event in Monte Carlo, the cream of the European, Middle East and African (EMEA) IT industry have gathered for 3 days of friendly connection, competitive jostling and a little mutual commiseration. Alongside the technology show itself, break out rooms are filled with briefers eager to …

Amazon has been forced to fire one of the sub-contracted security firms working for it in Germany, after it was found out that some members of the organisation has been wearing neo-nazi uniforms and intimidating foreign workers at one of the company's distribution centres. The group in question was known …

While we might have seen the British gaming high street retailers fall apart in recent years, one more hardware and electronics focused company is looking to keep retail gaming alive with the creation of a “gaming bunker,” which sees one Curry's store on Tottenham Court Road, London, make several high …

This week Nvidia are releasing their latest high end graphics card targeting the wealthy enthusiast gaming audience. We can have a quick look at the hardware today, although benchmarks cannot be shared until the 21st February. The Geforce Titan has 2,688 CUDA cores and is built around 7.1 billion transistors. …

The PlayStation 4 is set to be shown off for the first time tomorrow and already fresh rumours are appearing. The latest one is suggesting that it could launch at a lower price point than the PS3 did – as low as £300. This report comes from the Times, which …

If you're taking a trip to China in the near future and you happen to be a big fan of Riot Game's MOBA League of Legends, there's one particular place you might want to make sure you visit: The League of Legends restaurant in Chongqing. What makes it so? Well …

We spoke just the other day about how The Pirate Bay had had its copyright infringed and its terms of service broken by a Finnish copyright group known as CIACP. It was suggested at that time that TPB planned to place the group in an uncompromising situation, by forcing them …

Last December we reviewed the Patriot Gauntlet Node Portable Wireless 2.5″ HDD Enclosure and our guy LUKE gave it a ‘MUST HAVE' award, scoring 9 out of 10 points. Patriot have just released a new version of the Gauntlet which features a beefy 320GB hard drive, for those people who …

Today we are going to look at a budget-friendly case for those users who are looking to build a reasonably compact system with limited funds.  Evo Labs is a budget-focused brand from UK based distributor Target Components, which aims to deliver customers more bang-for-buck than better known brands such as Thermaltake and …

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates has said that Microsoft's strategy for mobile phones was a failure in the early days. When he was asked why it has struggled he said “That's too complicated”. Gates spoke out in an interview with Charlie Rose for CBS This Morning and 60 Minutes. …

According to several reports, the Samsung Galaxy S IV could launch as early as March 14th. The Verge say that sources familiar with Samsung plans claim ‘March 14th is definitely the day'. According to the report, Samsung are likely to launch more than one new device on the same day. …

The Burger King twitter account was hacked yesterday and the offenders decided to post profane messages to the public. They also changed the profile picture to a McDonald's logo. The hackers had control for around an hour until Burger King successfully had Twitter suspend the account. Burger King aren't that …

A group that is affiliated with the Chinese military has stolen huge amounts of data from many companies and organisations, primarily those based in America. The report was released today by a security firm. Mandiant Corp has said in their 74 page report that a group associated with the China …

Twitter could be set to get a big influx of users in the coming few weeks, as Ex-Google China head, Lee Kai-fu, has called for his 30 million+ followers on the Chinese social networking site Weibo, to do so again on his Twitter account, after he was banned from the …

Sony has slashed the price of the PS Vita in Japan, ahead of its conference on Wednesday, where it is expected to debut the PlayStation 4 console, as well as offer potential would wide price reductions for current-gen hardware. According to Reuters, you can now get the 3G Wifi version of the …

Kim Dotcom has announced via his twitter that in the future, Mega, the file locker website launched on the anniversary of the original Megaupload shutdown, will support not only cloud backup services, but encrypted email, chat, as well as voice and video communications. On top of that, this weekend he …

The BBC, an organisation that in the past has championed open standards – according to their own blog – has pledged its support for the W3C proposal put forward by big media giants last week, in an effort to have the standards group push for DRM restrictions on HTML. The …

The last two major attempts to take down a thirty year standing record for Q*Bert have required a tag team duo, presumably for mutual support as much as competitive inspiration. The 2011 attempt failed, but the 2013 one has seen one man go all the way – smashing the 68 …

Apple have released two new TV adverts at the weekend for the iPad and iPad Mini. The two ads are called ‘Alive' and ‘Together' and signal a new style of approach for the company since Steve Jobs died. Both of the adverts start with a quick display of adjectives shown …