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Microsoft is looking at OnLive Desktop at the moment to ensure that the licensing requirements are being met:
We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved.
When the Raspberry Pi launched last week the sellers of the device quickly saw stocks depleting as up to 700 people per minute were trying to make orders. Only 10,000 of them were available at launch.
We now hear that the next batch being made has seen some delays due to the manufacturer putting the wrong type of Ethernet port on the device. Instead of using jacks with integrated magnets, they used magnet-less ones. This will require the factory to unsolder and resolder the correct part on.
“All the stock of jacks we believed we had in place and ready to turn into the ethernet ports on your Raspberry Pis turn out not to be the correct part, so we’re having to start again and move through the negotiating/ordering/delivery cycle as fast as we can,”
Rovio has confirmed more details about Angry Birds Space that is due to launch on March 22. A couple of weeks back we heard that the new game was coming soon, but the details we got were a little scarce in that two videos showed no gameplay but did show that the game was set in space.
Apple has released iPhoto for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The new app allows you to browse, share and edit photos with the key being the ability to use multitouch to manage the pictures.
Apple has uploaded a video of the iPad/Apple TV announcement yesterday. The keynote is about 90 minutes in length and is available to watch on the Apple website.
After a few months of iOS 5.1 being in beta 3, Apple has now publicly released iOS 5.1. The latest version of iOS is available for the iPad, iPod touch and iPhone and brings several new features although Siri users might be left a little disappointed.
After many months of speculation, Apple has finally unveiled The new iPad. The device is now just called iPad rather than iPad 3, iPad HD or iPad 2S as some had speculated. The reason for this could be to fall in line with how people view the iPod nano, iPod touch, Apple TV etc… each has a generation, but essentially they are not referred to as the Apple TV 3 as an example. We suspect that the next generation iPhone will simply be called iPhone or The new iPhone as it will be listed on the Apple website later on this year.
Back to the new iPad. The key features of this model are the Retina display, 5 megapixel camera with new optics, A5X processor and 4G connectivity to name a few things.
The Three network in the UK is making changes to a few of its older data plans. The new plans will fall in to the Ultimate Internet Plans or Essential Internet Plans categories and have been designed to put a stop to out of bundle data charges.
Google has changed the name of the Android Market and has combined it with a service called Google Play. Google Play is now the new name of the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBook Store. What the new service does is allow you to access all of your content across all of your Google devices. An example would be that you download a book on your Android Smartphone. All other devices (including computers) connected up to the Google Play account will immediately get that book downloaded and when opening up the book on another device, you’ll be able to continue where you left off.
The same rumours are going around today which is just one day ahead of the iPad 3 announcement. Today the three rumours are about a smaller iPad, 4G LTE as well as new smartcovers.
Google has increased the app size limit for apps from 50MB to 4GB. The move will allow developers to upload apps that are more than 50MB in size which would essentially allow for larger game apps, some of which can be over 1GB in size.
PhoneArena has reported that Best Buy has a stockpile of thousands of cases for the iPad 3 which are ready for launch on Wednesday following the announcement. What we don’t know at the moment is if Targus, who created the iPad 3 case, have built it on official dimensions and specs or if they are just guessing based on internet rumours of the iPad 3 being marginally thicker.
