
Planning a new year’s eve partay? Don’t just fall back to Auld Lang Syne, or worse, Pictionary. Try out out trusty gadget drinking games instead, right here: we’ve even personally vetted them for inebriety – and scathing satire of the year that was.

Planning a new year’s eve partay? Don’t just fall back to Auld Lang Syne, or worse, Pictionary. Try out out trusty gadget drinking games instead, right here: we’ve even personally vetted them for inebriety – and scathing satire of the year that was.

Yes, it’s getting rather late to do your Christmas shopping. Amazon can’t deliver in two hours and it seems like the End Of Days out on the high street. So what to do? Simple: get your loved one one of our five amazing last minute gadget presents you can order online and give them the same day. Read on, and we’ll show you what they are.
Europe’s biggest tech fest kicks off tomorrow in Berlin (well, the press conferences do, anyway). We’ll be bringing you all the news as it breaks, but what can we expect to see among the bratwursts and the mullets?
We’ve got a raft of predictions right here, so if you want the scoop ahead of the rest of Europe, click through for more tablets you can shake an HTC stylus at, videos of the best kit in action, new operating systems and the craziest desktop accessory of the year.
Jobs has resigned as Apple’s CEO, so it’s time to take a look back over his phenomenal career. But it hasn’t all been hits. The Apple Hi-Fi? The Motorola ROKR E1? Apple Lisa? MobileMe? For every success there’s a flop lurking in the shadows of Apple’s history.
We’ve got the highs and the lows of the products and services that form Jobs’ output, as well as the full speech he gave to Stanford in 2005 that explains his recipe for success.
Facebook has revamped its privacy options, and the good news is you’ll get more control than ever over what’s said about you, which pictures you’re tagged in, as well as who sees your posts, thanks to a system of categorising acquaintances like on Google+.
It’s a major overhaul, and while the company won’t admit it, tantamount to admitting its previous privacy controls were confusing, especially in the face of fresh competition from Google+. So even if you’re not using Google+ all that much, it’s proof competition is a very good thing.
Google needs the television industry. That’s expected to be the gist of chairman Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh international television festival on Friday. After the disaster that is Google TV’s US launch, you’d be a fool to disagree.
So just what does Google TV need to do to succeed in the UK? We’ve come up with a few things.
A new PSP, PS3 price cuts, new Xbox LIVE features for WP7, trailers galore, and a 100,000 player multiplayer game – if you’re a gamer, it’s a very good day indeed.
Gamescom is happening right now over in Cologne. But don’t worry, there’s no need to go site hopping to pick the best news morsels from the mound of fanboy gushings; we’ve got all the news fit to print right here. Let’s dive in.