You’ve made it through the snow drifts to the end of the week and we have a reward for you – this handy recap on all of the best gadget news you might have missed. We’ll have our CES catch-up for you at 9.30 but first, here’s your nourishing Techie Breakie…
Insane news first: Lady Gaga has been appointed a creative director at Polaroid. The barmy pop singer will be “developing prototypes in the vein of fashion/technology/photography innovation”. No, we don’t know quite what that means either. Head over to our Lady Gaga story to pick through the clues yourself.
A more sensible hire has been made by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new firm, Square. The iPhone payments system creators have grabbed one of the key developer’s of Google’s Android mobile OS. Square for Android coming up? We think so.
Meanwhile we’ve got a pair of nifty little future stories for you – Vodafone says the Google Nexus One will be in the UK “within weeks” and Sony’s been asking Playstation Network lovers what features they’d be willing to pay a subscription for. The first hour of a game free? Now that does sound good…
Finally, there’s a storm of speculation surrounding Call of Duty. Reports suggest the next instalment, out before Christmas will find you fighting in Vietnam while there’s talk that Infinity Ward won’t make Modern Warfare 3. Head over here for all the runes, rumours and rampant speculation.
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You’ve made it through the snow drifts to the end of the week and we have a reward for you – this handy recap on all of the best gadget news you might have missed. We’ll have our CES catch-up for you at 9.30 but first, here’s your nourishing Techie Breakie…
Call of Duty’s rumour mill has suddenly kicked into life with two titbits about the future of the guns, guts and glory franchise. There’s talk of a Vietnam War based Call Of Duty due this year and rumours that Infinity Ward won’t develop Modern Warfare 3.
The Sony PS3 might not get future instalments of Call Of Duty, Modern Warfare, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and others according to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick. Why? “It’s expensive to develop for the console, and the Wii and the Xbox are just selling better.”
