Blizzard Entertainment has done us a solid this afternoon, confirming a public Diablo III beta launch for the third quarter of 2011. A release date is still out of the question, but CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed “company-wide testing” began last week in a recent investor call.
May, 2011
Nearly four percent of T-Mobile UK‘s customers have been overcharged according to the carrier. T-Mobile believes a glitch in its billing system resulted in an estimated 700,000 incorrect bills. If you’ve noticed an error on your own bill, keep a close watch because an automatic refund should be headed your way.
Proud owners of the Verizon Wireless branded Motorola Xoom will be treated to a fresh new build of Android Honeycomb, version 3.1. The news hit the Android community this morning at Google I/O in San Francisco, CA. We’ve reached out to Motorola’s UK team in hopes of tracking down our own release date, but it appears a time frame for the UK has not been established. In the meantime, let’s take a look at Android Honeycomb 3.1, shall we?
BREAKING: Sure, Apple’s AirPlay is an easy way to stream music from your iPhone to your speaker system. But can it let you turn your lights on and off, adjust your heating and scan CDs with NFC? No? Google’s new Android ecosystem extension, Android At Home, can. Ladies and gentlemen, you are going to like this.
While Android Ice Cream Sandwich might be the next big update for your smartphone, there’s another little API that’s just been introduced to Android 2.3.4 (currently available on the Google Nexus S): “Open Accessory”. It lets you plug any supported device into an Android phone: on stage, Google demoed how an exercise bike could plug into a phone, letting you see your fitness stats on its screen, and even play an adorable racing game with the famous Google mascot.
A Google Movies Android app for tablets and phones is coming! The service, which will let you rent and buy movies from within a section of the Android Market, which can be watched on the web, on Honeycomb Android tablets and Android phones.
Univeiled at the Google I/O developer conference in the US today, the service is supposed to launch on the web and Android tablet devices today, with an Android 2.2 and up app hitting in a few weeks. However, we’re not seeing anything just yet, and we suspect that cursed rights issues might make this US only – stay tuned as we dig for details.