The Samsung Nexus S, the once rumored Android follow up to the HTC Nexus One, was front and center at the Web 2.0 Summit this morning. Not only did the Nexus S make an appearance, but Google’s Eric Schmidt confirmed that Android Gingerbread (version 2.3) will be available in the “next few weeks” with NFC in tote.
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November, 2010
Apple might have fun-loving TV commercials and largely successful products, but not all is sweet and peachy for the Cupertino-based company. Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who originally coined the term “net neutrality”, now fears Apple posses the greatest risk to the freedom of the Internet.
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The Xbox 360 Kinect is flying off retail shelves worldwide with a reported 1.3 million units sold in the first ten days since launch. Those 1.3 million units have raked in a cool $250 million in revenue for Redmond’s camp and officially thrown the Playstation Move into the rear-view mirror.
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We all know what voice chat is used for on Call of Duty: Black Ops, or any game for that matter: smacktalk. Sure, you could carry out a polite conversation, but where’s the fun in that when you could be slinging insults at the Yank you just shot in the face? We’ve got a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops for Wii, as well as a PDP Headbanger Chat Headset for Wii to give away – all you have to do to claim them is give us your best trash talk right here. Read on for the details.
There’s a Call of Duty Black Ops Wii headset? There’s a Call of Duty Black Ops for Wii?! We wouldn’t blame you if both of those came as a surprise, seeing as Nintendo’s console isn’t exactly known for graphically intensive, gung ho first person shooters. But both indeed exist, and to prove it, we’ve got one of the online chat headsets here to unbox on camera for you.
Remember Facebook.me? It was a project for customising your page tinkered around with by some Faceook engineers. Well we’ve been chatting over here at Electricpig Towers and it’s got us wondering. Wouldn’t Facebook.me be the ideal branding for Facebook Email? After all the yoof already say “Facebook me” don’t they? We can’t help but think it makes sense. Don’t be surprised if Mark Zuckerberg pulls the covers off Facebook.me in 1hr and 30 minutes.
Update: Facebook.me, which seemed to point somewhere a few days ago, is “temporarily down”. Could we be waiting for someone to flip the switch?
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