Mornin’. As you mull over which low-fat, high fibre cereal to chomp through, allow us to take you through the tech happenings you might have missed…
November, 2011
Everybody’s doing it. Tesco has a mobile network, IKEA has a mobile network, and now a grime collective from London has its own mobile network, Boy Better Know Mobile. Wait, what?
The Apple iPhone 4S has set a pretty predictable trend for Apple’s iPhone naming conventions for the future. After the next handset, the iPhone 5, we can pretty safely assume they’ll launch the iPhone 5S. Figured that out? You’re not alone: Porn pushers beat you to it. Read more
The Amazon Kindle Fire, the Barnes and Noble Nook, any HP TouchPad running Android and a host of other devices all got a little bit tastier today. Google’s made it possible for them to access the full remit of the Android Market, and in doing so has waged war on the walled-garden approach of the likes of the Amazon Android app store.
Microsoft Kinect is getting beefed up for 2012. The motion sensor is undoubtedly a powerful piece of kit, but it’s currently limited to what the now aging Xbox 360 can process. Despite Kinect packing its own GPU, it’s hampered by the console it’s bound to, which is why Microsoft wants to move the future of the Kinect tech to your desktop in 2012. And not for gaming. Read more
The whispers around a new Apple TV continue. In a new report this week, an analyst claims that an LCD screen giant is gearing up to start producing the displays for the unicorn device in February next year, just in time for summer.
Subscription gaming is coming to the iPad. Big Fish Games, a publishing and hosting company based in the US, has passed the rigorous Apple testing to become the first publisher to offer gaming through a monthly subscription on the App Store. Read more