HTC has confirmed what was pretty much the worst kept secret in the world: The M7 – or now called the HTC One. The phone features a 4.7-inch full HD display and a camera that could rival the Lumia 920′s own PureView technology. But, will this high-end smartphone be enough for HTC to differentiate itself from its Android rivals and, ultimately, its financial results?
Halo Waypoint have just released new screenshots and a Behind the Scenes video of the upcoming Majestic map pack, which includes Landfall, Monolith and Skyline, two small and one medium sized maps. Pushing fun, close quarters combat, the Majestic map pack may be the answer to the current map rotation in War Games and get players back on Halo 4 multiplayer
Two websites have leaked images what HTC will supposedly be announcing early tomorrow (or today if you’re in America). The much rumoured M7 – first leaked out by a Twitter account – looks very likely to be the phone that the Taiwanese company will be releasing tomorrow, and is likely to be shown off at the company’s Sydney event on Thursday.
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Just six months after its initial release, Microsoft’s new webmail service, Outlook.com is leaving the preview stage and is set to replace the old Hotmail brand. Microsoft says that Outlook.com currently has over 60 million current users and will start migrating it’s 360 million Hotmail users to the new platform. While the switch is voluntary at first, Microsoft hopes all Hotmail users will migrate to the new service by summer (or Australia’s winter).
Oh, Justin Bieber fans – where will today’s Internet be without you? Probably a much better place on Twitter. Fans of the Canadian ‘singer’ have been sending abusive messages to The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney after a comment he made about Beiber’s lack of a Grammy nomination.
In a desperate move to get the PS Vita sales up – well, in comparison to the Nintendo 3DS – the company has announced in its PS Vita Heaven Japanese presentation that it will cut the price of the PS Vita in Japan. Both the 3G and Wi-Fi models will be 19,980 yen (or $208 AUD).
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LG has today announced a brand new update to the Optimus G in Korea. Called the Optimus G Pro, the new smartphone features a 5.5-inch IPS display with a pixel density of 400ppi (well, that’s according to them), and runs on the brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset.
With the success of Machinima’s Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Kevin Tancharoen returns to co-write and direct Season 2. With more story and epic fight scenes!
Its finally February 17th, and what better way to start the week with a reveal of Bungies new game, Destiny. In form of a Video Documentary, Bungie finally shows us what they have been up to in the past few years, with concept art, character designs, in-game graphics and gameplay. Striving to create a game with a rich universe and unique gameplay experience, Bungie aims to create a universe just as, or even bigger than Halo, which is a big deal.
Facebook hacked, Iceland hates porn and Rdio makes their app pretty. All this and more on TECHGEEK Weekly. We also talk about the new minimalist Twitter app – Avenue, Google Play and Playstation 4.
This is The Briefing, a ten-minute-or-less podcast of tech news, for the week ending February 16, 2013. In this edition: Facebook hacked; Apple and Microsoft called up to appear in front of the IT Pricing Inquiry; and CISPA is back after Obama urges Congress to act on cybersecurity.
This is Avenue, and it is coming soon to iOS. But what is it? As you can tell from the picture, it is another Twitter iOS client – except it adopts a more minimalist approach, as opposed to other Twitter clients. And based on the images tweeted out by the development team – it looks pretty darn good.
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Facebook has confirmed that they too have been a victim of a “sophisticated attack”, citing a vulnerability in Java. This comes after, a few weeks ago, Twitter confirmed that they too were attacked (resulting in over 250,000 names and passwords being stolen) and hinted that the same Java vulnerability was used.
Rdio, despite all odds, is continuing to compete with Spotify in leaps and bounds, yesterday releasing some new UI tweaks in their iPhone app.
A new UI is now seen in the context menus for music, which are accessed by holding a song or album. You can then add it to your playlists or collection, or share and download the songs locally. The new UI style, where gradients, rich backgrounds and Windows Phone-like text-to-background contrast exist, really is refreshing compared to the Apple’s Music.app and competing apps like JB Hi-Fi Now and Spotify.
FINALLY!! Almost two years after Mortal Kombat was refused classification, NetherRealm have received approval that Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition can be sold on our shores. Given an R18+ rating for its “high impact violence, blood and gore, and moderate impact language and themes”, The Komplete Edition comes with ALL downloadable content, including four characters and classic skins.