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As we all know, Australians usually pay more for everything. Gadget’s, Games and up until now, Apps. But one of those is about to change.
Apple App Store prices get a little cheaper for Australians
Ballmer: Windows 7 has sold 400 million licenses
It looks like Microsoft has recovered from the car crash of Windows Vista, with Steve Ballmer announcing at their Worldwide Partner Conference that Windows 7 has sold 400 million licences since it’s birth in 2009.
HP webOS now led by Stephen DeWitt, Jon Rubinstein takes charge of ‘product innovation’
Jon Rubinstein with the original Palm Pre
HP has today announced that, just eleven days after the anniversary of their purchase of Palm, they will be giving Stephen DeWitt the task of leading HP’s webOS global business unit. Previous head Jon Rubinstein will now take over as Senior Vice President of Global Innovation for HP’s Personal Systems Group (lovely name HP).
JailbreakMe 3.0 released, works PC-free with iOS 4.3.3
iPhone’s, iPod touches and iPad’s are great. But Apple sure does love to keep it’s ecosystem closed. That’s why Jailbreaking was discovered. The practice, frowned upon by Apple, allows any user to do whatever they want. But Apple usually locks it down in updates.
Report: PlayStation 4 coming in 2012
Digitimes is reporting that a Taiwanese manufacturer has told them that the PlayStation 4 will be released in 2012. The source is also saying that the next Sony console will have “body movement-based control like Kinect”.
Review: Portal 2
In 2007, Valve released Portal and became a huge success. And while it was part of a collection of other games developed by the company, it was announced that a sequel to the popular game. Now in 2011, we see the results of their hard labour.
Editorial: Why I don’t think Google+ will be successful
Google’s latest foray into social networking, under the banner Google +, has plenty of people talking. Unlike Google Buzz, the new service is getting some major hype and good press. And there are plenty of innovative ideas being thrown behind the project, like Circles and Hangouts (Basically web Skype). And I’ve been enjoying using the new service and will likely call it my social home when it’s released to the public.
TECHGEEK Weekly 50: Where’s Our Cake, Microsoft?
We have turned fifty, Nokia says that we should not look at “Sea Ray”, and has Apple made a fatal mistake with its new version of Final Cut Pro? All this and more on this week’s special edition of TECHGEEK Weekly.
Microsoft celebrates the new version of….Firefox?
What a fun world we live in. Whenever Firefox releases a major update to their browser, Microsoft sends them a lovely cake. It’s a funny and positive tradition and Firefox 5 is no exception to it.
TECHGEEK Weekly 49: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERENCE!!!!!!!!
In this weeks episode, we discuss Rebecca Black’s legal troubles with her song on YouTube, Microsoft’s monopoly of the IM market and the things that LulzSec do to, well…. make us Lulz.
E3 2011: This is the Nintendo Wii U
Nintendo just announced the Wii successor, the Wii U. The biggest news from the Wii U is that the new console will have a large, resistive (we’re guessing by the stylus) touchscreen controller with two ‘circle pads’, a D-Pad, the classic Nintendo face buttons, a front facing camera, a gyro and accelerometer.
E3 2011: The Next Generation Portable is now the PlayStation Vita
Sony has finally decided what to call it’s PSP successor, the NGP (or as many call it, the PSP2) and that name is PlayStation Vita. The name of the console comes from the Latin word “Vita” which means “Life”. Yes, we don’t get it either.
Minecraft coming to Xbox Live this Summer
Source: Fileplanet
Microsoft’s E3 conference brought big news for indie developer Mojang, the creators of Minecraft. The game will be coming to Xbox 360 this Summer (probably December – February). And all that Microsoft announced was Kinect support and possible exclusivity.
One More Thing: iTunes Match
Steve Jobs just delivered one more thing at WWDC 2011, announcing iTunes Match.
For US$24.99 a year iTunes Match will scan your ripped (or pirated) music and match it with 256kbps DRM-free AAC songs from iTunes servers.
iCloud: Free Music, Calendar, Mail, Contacts, App Sync
Last but not least from WWDC 2011, Apple has announced MobileMe is dead and has been remade into iCloud. Apple admitted that MobleMe tarnished their reputation and has announced iCloud, a much better service, will be completely free instead of $99.