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Hey, Steve Jobs, where’s my iPhone 5?
So where – where – is the iPhone 5? (Or, as we’ve been hearing from informed sources, what will actually be called the iPhone 4GS/iPhone 4G?) Obvious answer: not at WWDC. Second obvious answer: it’s coming in September/October, and will be right up there when iOS 5 comes out of beta and is released properly. [...]
Read moreIPv6 address system receives ‘test flight’
Facebook, Google, Yahoo and hundreds of the world’s largest websites are now testing the enormously expanded internet address system, known as IPv6, in preparation for the time – expected within the next year – when it is impossible to add new sites to the web using the existing system, called IPv4. The biggest problem though [...]
Read moreBBC serves up Wimbledon in 3D
Forty-four years after the BBC beamed its first ever colour pictures from SW19, its Wimbledon coverage will again be at the technological cutting edge when Centre Court hosts its first 3D broadcast. The men’s and women’s finals will become the first 3D TV broadcast to be available to the public without a subscription on the [...]
Read moreFacebook in new privacy row
Facebook has come under fire for quietly expanding the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about its privacy practices. The feature, which the giant social network automatically enabled for its more than 500 million users, has been expanded from the US to “most countries”, Facebook said on its official blog [...]
Read moreInternational Space Station crew blast off from Kazakhstan
US astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa begin their mission aboard the Soyuz TMA-02M {lang: ‘en-GB’}Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2011/jun/08/international-space-station-blast-off
Read moreCrowdsourcing firm puts $5k bounty on app patents
An American commercial patent research company says it plans to seek out “prior art” to invalidate a patent being used by MacroSolve to sue Apple, Android and BlackBerry app developers, and has invited developers to join in the search, the Guardian can reveal. Anyone who discovers earlier information that leads to the patent’s withdrawal could [...]
Read moreiCloud and iTunes Match: all we know so far
Steve Jobs took the stage to announce iCloud on Monday at Apple‘s Worldwide Developer Conference. Cloud computing? From Apple? iCloud also encompasses iTunes Match, which is in effect an amnesty – 10 years after the original file-sharing Napster was ground into the dust – for people who have illicitly downloaded music from filesharing networks, and [...]
Read moreChromebook to transform how we think about computers
On 15 June, Google will officially take the next step on its road to global domination. From that day onwards, online shoppers will be able to buy the Google Chromebook, a device that the search giant hopes will change the way we think about computers – and in the process rain on the parades of [...]
Read moreWWDC 2011 in pictures: Steve Jobs reveals iCloud, iOS 5 and OS X Lion
Chief executive Steve Jobs kicked off the company’s annual conference for software developers on Monday with showings for iCloud, iOS, and OS X Lion {lang: ‘en-GB’}Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2011/jun/07/icloud-ios-5-lion-in-pictures
Read morePlayStation Vita has 3DS in its sights
So, as widely guessed in the media, the Sony NGP is now called PlayStation Vita and it’s launching this winter, with a Wi-Fi-only model at $249 (£151) and a 3G and Wi-Fi model at $299. The price announcement drew loud cheers from the 6,000-strong audience at Sony’s E3 press briefing on Monday – many pundits [...]
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