Square Enix’s Sleeping Dogs has a European (and PAL territories) release date. The open world cop game will be on sale on August 17 – three days after its US release date – for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Gallery can be found, after the jump.
Report: RIM’s former co-CEO wanted “radical shift” before quitting
A new report, if it is to be believed on face value, is claiming that former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie wanted to implement a “radical shift” in the company’s strategy that would allow non-BlackBerry devices access to its own proprietary network so carriers could tap into its network for cheap, inexpensive data plans.
Apple’s “revolutionary” product is coming within 8 months, says designer Starck
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Philippe Starck, who is a well known product designer – designing hotel and restaurant interiors, and apparently some hard drive enclosures for LaCie – has said that he has been working with Apple to create something “revolutionary”. Is this the supposed Apple TV – the one that actually is a TV, not its current incarnation? Or possibly a new iPhone?
German court upholds iCloud and MobileMe push emails ban
Germans won’t be getting push email anytime soon with Apple’s appeal to the Mannheim regional court failed. The court basically sided with Motorola Mobility, and agreed with an earlier decision that saw the company forced to remove the service in Germany earlier in February.
LogMeIn announces new cloud storage service Cubby
LogMeIn is joining the long list of companies to offer cloud storage with its latest venture Cubby – and will give you 5GB of storage for free (as opposed to the 25GB given out on SkyDrive, or the 2GB on DropBox). It is now in open beta, with LogMeIn rolling out the invites to asking users.
US Court rules that lying on social media sites is not criminal
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If you were like many, you would have signed up to Google when you were a ‘minor’, you were until recently breaking the terms of service (and yes, who knew). Well, you are no longer a criminal because a US court has ruled that lying on social media websites isn’t an offence under the law. So, all those profiles with fake ages and birthdays won’t send you to jail.
VEVO finally comes to Australia – but is it too little, too late?
VEVO is finally expanding to Australia after the company – a joint venture between the two biggest record labels – signed a new deal with an Australian company called MCM Entertainment. However, is it just too little, too late for Australians to embrace the service?
Because, this is apparently news – Apple store down, could have new look
The entire Apple blogging community is going nuts with the fact that the Apple Store is down – and what got people in a frenzy was the fact that there is a new design for the Apple Store’s downtime page. OMG! Yes, you can obviously tell I have such an interest in this non-news story. Most likely there’s a new design being pushed out?
Mainstream support for Vista ends – bye, bye?
Today is the day where Microsoft finally ends mainstream support for Windows Vista (remember that?). The company, however, won’t stop supporting the OS altogether as Vista now moves off to ‘extended support’.
Apple Reliving The Glory Days.
Apple must have been tinkering with their website, because now the normal Australian site is back up. This morning, the Beatles announcement page was up, in place of the normal site. But now, order has been restored. Phew.
500px pulls out the big guns with new $19.95 ‘Plus’ account option
Flickr competitor 500px has finally announced a upgrade option that can compete with Flickr Pro. Previously, users who had wanted to store more than 10 photos a week, plus not hit a number of other limits, had to upgrade to an ‘Awesome’ account for a whopping US$49.95, compared to Flickr Pro, which is US$24.95.
Toshiba launches three new quad-core tablets running ICS
Toshiba's Excite 13 tablet (Image: Toshiba/Supplied)
The iPad may be facing some more competition with Android with today’s announcement by Toshiba to launch three brand new tablets in 13.3-inch, 10.1-inch and 7.7-inch display sizes, all running with a quad-core processor and on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
AOL strikes US$1 billion patent deal with Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed to buy over 800 patents from AOL, and license the remainder still with the company, in a deal that is worth US$1.056 billion. And since the payment is in cash – this will give AOL a much needed cash injection for its long-term strategy to become a huge online media player.
Users defend EA after anti-gay activists sends complaints
Image: from GameIndustry
Despite being labelled as the worst company in America, fans are defending the company after anti-gay activists decided to send letters of complaint – like the one above (which I facepalm at since it is stupid) – because of a game’s option to let you participate in a same-sex relationship with another character.
Halo 4 GameInformer Scans Leaked [GALLERY]
It’s crunch time for 343 Industries, and with about seven or so months left until its Holiday 2012 release, there is an increase of Halo 4 information surfacing the web recently. GameInformer Magazine’s May issue not only has a Halo 4 cover but also includes 14 pages of Halo 4 epicness which digs into Halo 4′s Campaign and Multiplayer experience (now named ‘Infinity’).
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