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Battleship Movie Review

, May 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

While this summer has no lack of action adventure movies going for it, what with the likes of The Avengers, Prometheus, and The Dark Knight Rises on deck, Battleship is prepared to be the cleanest selection of the group. The blockbuster category requires that a movie be spectacularly large in its on-screen scope, and the movie Battleship does this – and little else. Like each of the interviews you may have heard thus far on the film, including our most recent interview on Battleship with Industrial Light and Magic, this movie is definitely a “popcorn” flick – that means you should come prepared to quite simply sit back and be entertained, and entertained well.

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Facebook founder secretly marries after IPO

, May 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

Organizing the Facebook IPO obviously wasn't enough of a headache for Mark Zuckerberg: the social site founder has also been quietly arranging his wedding, which took place on Saturday evening. Fresh after raising $16bn for Facebook, Zuckerberg and fiance Dr. Priscilla Chan held a small ceremony at their home in Palo Alto, California, with the less than 100 guests in attendance being told beforehand that the event was in fact to celebrate Dr. Chan's recent graduation. Read The Full Story

CTIA 2012 round-up: Devices

, May 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

The first of two round-up posts we’ve got here for the US-based mobile show of the year CTIA is one of devices exclusively, everything you need to know about what was well worth seeing down in New Orleans here in 2012. This year we had a look not only at the devices and accessories that the show had to offer, but hit the attack on social networks as well, with several galleries for your perusal and snapshots throughout our journey so you could take on the trip with us. As for devices, there really wasn’t a whole lot of new action coming on from this week specifically, but what was new was fabulous, and what was once only overseas was brought on with a fury.

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Spotify co-founder touts “platform” initiatives at CTIA 2012

, May 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

This morning at the 2nd full day's CTIA 2012 keynote, Spotify CEO and co-founder Daniel Ek shared his views on the future of mobile streaming music with the world. With both free and premium offerings, Spotify is the second biggest revenue stream in the whole country in the UK, this model of course being hoped for by Ek as Spotify grows in the USA. They're already doing fairly well with the average Spotify user in the USA listening to 100 minutes of music a day, they having created 700 million playlists with Spotify software in the short number of months the service has been available in the states. Read The Full Story

Marvel’s Avengers cast doubt on movie piracy fears

, May 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

In case you hadn't heard, The Avengers crushed box office records this weekend to take home more than $200 million domestic for Disney and Marvel Comics. But if you're not part of the Internet's seedy underbelly, you probably didn't know that a pirated version of the superhero team-up movie appeared on BitTorrent networks a full week before the May 4th release. Even with a massive amount of illegal downloading, The Avengers assembled to crush the popular wisdom of piracy opponents. Read The Full Story

Verizon pioneering 911 texting service

, May 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

Although it is sure to pose a lot of problems, the idea of being able to send a text message to emergency services is something that is long overdue. Texting is becoming the primary means of communication for Americans throughout the country. You can think of many reasons where it might be more useful to text - when you're in a noisy situation and can't speak clearly, or when you're in a life-or-death spot and can't talk. Or, for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Read The Full Story

EA recants on Rock Band

, May 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Though earlier this week hundreds of owners of the iOS app Rock Band were sent a message with a death notice on it for months end, EA games now says nay. This message we're speaking about said quite specifically that on May 31, the game Rock Band would "no longer be playable on your device" - now Electronic Arts is saying that the message itself was a complete error. Speculation for this chain of events includes EA reacting to backlash from their own announcement as the gaming world was certainly not happy at the news once it dropped this week. Read The Full Story

Privacyscore scans Facebook apps for privacy rating

, Apr 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

While it may soon be worth a gazillion dollars, there are many out there still scared to death by Facebook and certain privacy issues, not to mention the large numbers of apps and sites across the web that use your Facebook as a passport of sorts. PrivacyChoice is hoping to alleviate such fears, today launching a Privacyscore app for Facebook. The app will let users see which Facebook apps protect their privacy, and which don’t. Read The Full Story

Space Shuttle Discovery up close and personal

, Apr 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week marked the arrival of the space shuttle discovery at its final destination. Discovery is now parked in its hangar at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, never to fly again. I've rarely seen close-up images of the space shuttle that show its true condition. From afar, it looks white and mostly clean. Like many, I have generally presumed the marks on the spacecraft are cleaned up after each mission. Read The Full Story

Nokia’s Smartphone Beta Test campaign takes shot at iPhone

, Apr 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Nokia and Microsoft are making a big play for the United States with the Lumia 900 and Windows Phone. One of the biggest questions on everyone's minds is “how are Nokia and AT&T going to market the Lumia 900?” Will they be able to plant the seed of Windows Phone and allow it to germinate in the brains of the public? Judge for yourself. Nokia have begun their assault with a new website, Smartphone Beta Test. Read The Full Story

Apple, Foxconn promise to fix violations found by labor audit

, Mar 29th 2012 Discuss [0]

In what's considered one of the most detailed labor investigations of a Chinese manufacturer, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) has found excessive working times and various health and safety issues at the factories of Apple supplier Foxconn. Foxconn as vowed to rectify the violations and bring all factories up to spec by July 2013. Read The Full Story

24 Must-Have iPad Retina Display apps for new users

, Mar 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the 2012 iPad comes out, the third edition of the ipad with no less than a Retina Display for the sharpest graphics you’ve ever seen! What we’ve got here to compliment our full review of the new iPad is a collection of apps developed specifically to make the best use of your newfound power! Each of the apps you see here has been touted by Apple to be perfect for your first day with the new iPad, each of them containing full 2048 x 1536 Retina-quality graphics and awesome optimization for the most up-to-date action!

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