Web browsing to be monitored
If the government get their way a massive data base will be built and no this is not going to be a list of names and addresses, this is going to be much more serious than that, in fact Big Brother will not be watching you, it will be monitoring your online activities.
It has been [...]
Google gets a second life
Google has recently been working on their next assault on the internet, this time it is a site that can only be described as a sort of Second Life.
But unlike Second Life maybe this time it will be policed in way that makes it both interesting and useful for business and individuals, this where Second [...]
The fifty year old digital TV
A television set made in 1957 that receives digital TV sounds rather suspicious! Well so it should because clearly a TV that in encased in a thick wooden case and sporting a seventeen inch black and white screen is not really going to be made for the digital age.
But for the owner it would have [...]
Games hit high sales targets
The threat of the credit crunch does not appeared to hit the games market, as the in the UK the first quarter of the year has seen manic buying of games in records that have been compiled by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) and compiled by Chart-Track.
In the first quarter of the [...]
Betting on your life
Being told that you have a terminal illness is not the best thing that could happen to anyone, but when you are told that you have only two years to live, some people may say “I’ll take those odds” like ex Car Dealer, Jon Andrews, 58 he liked those odds and decided to do something [...]
April 29, 2008Games sales soar
As the latest game to hit the shelves is released, in a report released today by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) and compiled by Chart-Track, it has been found that UK gamers are far from feeling the credit crunch as they spent a massive £418.4 million in the first quarter of the [...]
January 23, 2008Online games has ten million users
World of Warcraft is one of those online games that you either know about or find that it is something new, but the company who run the game have announced that the game is more successful than ever.
Around the world there are over ten million users playing the game, which is a fantastic amount of [...]
Entertainment industry set to change
Despite being around for sometime now, the internet is still in its early days, because in many places the data is being transmitted along old copper wiring, some of which have been there for many years. But now there are fibre optics being introduced and this will radically change the face of the internet as [...]
January 11, 2008Microsoft tries to get writer sacked
Writers beware, is the message here! Imagine a games writer that has been writing for a couple of gaming websites over the past few years only to have the largest software company in the world asking for your head.
But why? Its all down to the Xbox, Xbox live and how to pay for their services, [...]