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by Published on October 24th, 2012 20:18- Categories:
- Apple iPad
Revealing the iPad mini wasn't enough for Apple, as the firm has also unveiled a 'fourth generation' iPad.
Why release another when there was a new iPad released back in March, you ask?
Well, Amazon souped up its original Kindle Fire at the Fire HD launch and Apple seems to have followed suit.
There's no difference in terms of size – it still measures at 9.7-inches – but this time comes with an A6X chip which is designed to double the graphics and processing performance of the A5X found in the iPad 3.
As with the iPad mini and iPhone 5, the fourth generation iPad sports Lightning connector support, while it has wi-fi only and wi-fi and cellular connectivity options.
Wi-fi models will be available from Friday, November 2nd priced at £399 for 16GB, £479 for 32GB and £559 for the 64GB.
Wi-fi and cellular models will ship a couple weeks after the wi-fi only, with pricing at £499 for the 16GB, £579 for the 32GB, £659 for the 64GB.
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...pad-too/019672 ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 20:14- Categories:
- Apple iPhone
MobileInsurance.co.uk has provided some interesting insight to the claims they tolerate each day, compiling a list of the strangest phone claims they've had over the past year.
Prepare yourself, this goes beyond basic water damage or having it stolen from a sticky-fingered rapscallion...
1. A farmer in Devon claimed his iPhone disappeared into a cow's back passage when he used the torch during a calving.
2. A lady in her early 40s from Nottingham baked her Nokia 6303i into a Victoria Sponge she'd been making for her daughter's birthday, suffering a heat of gas mark 5.
3. A lady in her 30s claimed she'd been walking her dog in Wales, when a seagull swooped down and took her Samsung Galaxy from her hand.
4. A woman in her late 20s from Bristol claimed the vibration function on her BlackBerry Bold 9900 phone stopped working while she used it as an adult toy.
5. A 40 year old construction worker said his iPhone 4S had fallen out of his back pocket when he pulled his jeans down before sitting on the toilet. Not realising, he went about his business and flushed the chain.
6. A man in his 30s claimed he'd been filming monkeys from the car window in Longleat Safari Park with his HTC One X when a monkey climbed on the roof and snatched it.
7. A couple re-enacting the "I'm King of the World!" scene from Titanic lost their phone over the side of their cruise ship, whilst trying to take a photo of themselves.
8. A pyrotechnician was setting up a show for the National Fireworks Championships in Plymouth, and having left his iPhone 3GS within the "blast zone", it was nowhere to be found when he returned post-show, having been fired 3,000 feet into the air before exploding.
9. A lady in her 20s from Liverpool admitted she'd thrown her HTC Desire X at her boyfriend, whom she'd discovered was cheating, but it missed him and hit a wall; breaking the handset.
10. Rather than pay £60 for a ticket to see Blur at their sell-out Hyde Park shows, one customer tried to film the event on his iPhone from up a nearby tree - he got a little too excited as the band came on stage though, and dropped his phone onto the ground below.
An additional stat shows 64 per cent of claimants say they've walked into an object while texting.
John Lamerton, MD, MobileInsurance.co.uk, said: "I must say, we tend to see a lot of weird and wonderful claims coming in from customers, but these 10 had to be the most bizarre.
"I'm not sure how some of them even came about, particularly in the case of the farmer and the cow."
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/read/...ackside/019678 ...by Published on October 24th, 2012 00:22- Categories:
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- Android News
Amazon are releasing the Kindle Fire HD in 1 days time, heres some info regarding it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...rd_i=341677031 ...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 22:22- Categories:
- PS3 News
Sony is waking up to a new PlayStation 3 security nightmare after a day in which a brand new, PSN-enabled custom firmware was released for hacked consoles, swiftly followed up by publication of the console's LV0 decryption keys - which some say blows the system wide open.We've been here before of course. Over two years ago, the first piracy-enabling firmware and USB dongle combo - PSJailbreak was released, which exploited a weakness in the PS3's USB protocols, allowing for the system software to be patched in order to run copied software running from hard disk. This was followed up some time later by the release of tools from hacker group fail0verflow, which allowed users to encrypt files for the system in the same way that Sony does, allowing for a new wave of piracy. Geohot's public release of the "metldr" root key also added to the challenges facing Sony, resulting in a messy legal battle.The firm's response - firmware 3.60 - plugged many of the holes, neatly working around the entire root key problem, and even with the release of the new custom firmware, any console running system software 3.60 or higher is effectively locked out. Only hacked consoles, or those still running 3.55 or lower can run the new code unless expensive, difficult-to-install hardware downgrade devices are utilised on older hardware.Despite the effectiveness of firmware 3.60, PS3 has still had to contend with piracy issues, notably the JB2/TrueBlue dongle, but this hack still locked consoles to 3.55 and stopped compromised consoles gaining access to PSN - until recently at least, where the "passphrase" security protocol protecting PSN was leaked, giving hacked consoles full access to the service.The release of the new custom firmware - and the LV0 decryption keys in particular - poses serious issues. While Sony will almost certainly change the PSN passphrase once again in the upcoming 4.30 update, the reveal of the LV0 key basically means that any system update released by Sony going forward can be decrypted with little or no effort whatsoever. Options Sony has in battling this leak are limited - every PS3 out there needs to be able to decrypt any firmware download package in order for the console to be updated (a 2006 launch PS3 can still update directly to the latest software). The release of the LV0 key allows for that to be achieved on PC, with the CoreOS and XMB files then re-encrypted using the existing 3.55 keys in order to be run on hacked consoles.So just how did LV0 come to be released at all? The original hackers who first found the master key - calling themselves "The Three Tuskateers" - apparently sat on its discovery for some time. However, the information leaked and ended up being the means by which a new Chinese hacking outfit - dubbed "BlueDiskCFW" planned to charge for and release new custom firmware updates. To stop these people profiteering from their work, the "Muskateers" released the LV0 key and within 24 hours, a free CFW update was released."You can be sure that if it wouldn't have been for this leak, this key would never have seen the light of day, only the fear of our work being used by others to make money out of it has forced us to release this now," a statement from the hacker group says.We have approached Sony for comment....
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...the-final-hackby Published on October 23rd, 2012 21:59- Categories:
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- Android News
One of Amazon's subtler but potentially valuable promises for the Kindle Fire HD was its Kindle FreeTime mode -- a fenced-off world that would give kids a simple place to play and their parents the confidence to step away for a few precious minutes. It wasn't part of the initial launch, but a new update to the 7-inch model is rolling FreeTime into Amazon's latest tablet. The upgrade gives as much flexibility as Amazon promised, letting adults introduce filters as well as cap the time their children spend with different kinds of content. Most of the remaining updates pertain to general fixes; that said, we imagine that most parents won't mind the narrow focus once they know Junior can't watch Kill Bill.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=201016350 ...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 21:13- Categories:
- Wii U News
Pre-ordering online is not sufficient, then?
There are two main facts to consider here. The first is that there’s a man whose actual name, according to Kotaku, is Isaiah-Triforce Johnson. We presume this gentleman changed his name himself and was not given it by his parents.
Though that is not confirmed.
The second fact to consider is that Isaiah-Triforce Johnson is already queuing outside Manhattan’s Nintendo World Store for his Wii U. Just under a month ahead of its launch in the region on November 18th.
Johnson has apparently “made a name for himself as the first person to buy just about every piece of Nintendo hardware in recent history”.
Our favourite thing about him is that in the picture above he’s wearing a Nintendo Power Glove.
We have a further question – does ITJ know that Nintendo employees, their family members, key partners and select press will actually get their hands on the machine before him without queuing outside for a month?
Still, good luck to him. We hope the weather in New York is better than what we’re getting in the UK. A workman told us this morning that there’s a chance of snow later this week.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/a-man...-wii-u/0105040
...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 21:06- Categories:
- Wii U News
When the Wii U version of Assassin's Creed III arrives in stores next month, there won't be much to distinguish it from its Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC counterparts. As the game's creative director Alex Hutchinson told GamesIndustry International at a launch party last week, that's a good thing.
"I'm super excited whenever we demo the Wii U," Hutchinson said. "It is exactly the same game that's on the other platforms. And I know that sounds ridiculous, but it's been a long time since I've shipped a game on more than three platforms where you could say it's all the same. It's not like some radically diminished version, so that's exciting."
The Wii U version of the game will use the system's Game Pad to display the in-game map, or allow players to quickly equip different weapons. While Hutchinson didn't mention the Game Pad specifically, he did speak positively about working with the new Nintendo hardware itself.
"It's always a challenge with new hardware, but it's also exciting," Hutchinson said. "I love the smell of new plastic, that day you get home with your new piece of kit. And it's been a long time since we've had a new piece of kit."
Assassin's Creed III debuts on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC October 30. The Wii U version is expected on shelves at the console's launch November 18.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...other-versions ...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 20:59- Categories:
- PS3 News
Custom firmware puts compromised consoles on PSN, leak of LV0 decryption keys to thwart future security measures
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Sony is facing new PlayStation 3 security headaches today, as Eurogamer reports that hackers have released custom firmware that allows for compromised consoles to go on the PlayStation Network, and LV0 decryption keys that will facilitate circumvention of future security updates.
PlayStation 3 security was largely undermined in early 2011 after hacking team Fail0verflow detailed a technique to get unauthorized code running on Sony's console. At the time, the group said they attacked the console's security as a response to Sony removing the OtherOS feature that allowed installation of the Linux operating system on the PS3. Eurogamer notes that Sony's 3.60 firmware actually managed to plug many of the security holes from that event, but piracy has persisted for those willing to run older firmware and not take their systems onto PSN.
However, the newly released custom firmware contains the current PSN passphrase security protocol. And even if Sony changes that with new firmware, the release of the LV0 decryption keys means that hackers should be able to easily lay bare future security measures in system updates.
According to Eurogamer, Chinese hacking group BlueDiskCFW had planned to sell the custom firmware circumventions, which prompted another group called The Three Tuskateers to release the LV0 keys. They also released a statement claiming to have discovered the keys some time ago, adding, "only the fear of our work being used by others to make money out of it has forced us to release this now."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...3-hacked-again
...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 19:44- Categories:
- DCEmu
Research from Flinders University in Australia have linked late-night game-playing to disturbed sleep.
MedicalXpress reports that 17 participants were asked tom play an unspecified “newly released, fast-paced, violent video game” for either 50 or 150 minutes across two nights and then monitored as they slept in the university’s Sleep Lab.
It found that “prolonged video gaming immediately before bed caused significant sleep disruptions in a group of teenage boys, even when they fell asleep at their usual bedtime”.
The findings suggested a 27 minute loss in total sleep time after 150 minutes and a 39 minute delay in sleep onset.
Those who played for just 50 minutes suffered no noticeable effects. No comparable measurements were taken of those who played non-violent games.
"While they went to bed at their regular bedtime, the adolescents' still experienced significant sleep disruptions caused by frequent awakenings throughout the night," Flinders University child sleep psychologist Dr Michael Gradisar stated.
"Sleep is made up of many different stages and the REM sleep, also known as the dreaming sleep, was reduced by 12 minutes among the teens who played for over two hours.
"This may not seem like a significant reduction but REM plays an important part in helping us remember content we learnt that day so for adolescents in their final years of school who are revising for exams, winding down at night with a video game might not be the best idea."
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/havin...claims/0105050 ...by Published on October 23rd, 2012 19:42- Categories:
- Xbox 360 News
Xbox 720 will likely launch with cut-price hardware subsidised through monthly subscriptions.
That’s the impression given by Microsoft in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in which it describes such retail models as “pivotal to our business” and outlines plans to roll the deals out across the whole of the US.
A $99 subscription-based 4GB Xbox 360 console with Kinect was first debuted in the US back in May, although it was only available at official Microsoft stores, of which there were only 21 in the country.
This was then rolled out to other retailers including Walmart, Toys R Us, Best Buy and GameStop the following month and Microsoft has subsequently hinted at its adoption in other territories including the UK.
Microsoft now plans to expand its offer to include the 250GB Xbox for $99 or the same model with a Kinect sensor for $149.
Microsoft’s interactive entertainment marketing manager Matt Barlow said that the company “wanted to see if we would get sustained consumer excitement and willingness from partners to get this in retail” and that the response has been very positive.
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