Prototype 2 PC Delayed Until July, RADNET Edition Unveiled (video)

PC gamers looking forward to the launch of Prototype 2 will be disappointed to learn that its launch date has now been delayed until July 24th. The announcement by Activision was made via their Facebook page, but no reasons were given for the delay.

However on a brighter point the announcement also revealed a new RADNET Edition of Prototype 2 would be available at launch, for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and will be available in “a limited number of the launch quantities”.

The RADNET Edition will offer you access to RADNET, which “gives fans 55 free pieces of additional content delivered for seven weeks following the game’s launch.”

Ken Rosman, Studio Head, Radical Entertainment explains:

“Radical Entertainment has always focused on bringing long lasting fun to its fans, and PROTOTYPE 2′s RADNET content is our way of rewarding the game’s most loyal supporters – the early adopters, the one’s who will replay it over and over again,”- “We think this is great because we’re giving our fans hours of additional gameplay outside PROTOTYPE 2′s main narrative, and cool rewards – all delivered weekly following the game’s launch!”

The weekly RADNET Edition content will include a range of items, from in-game mutations to Avatar items and videos.

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RIM Accepting Android Apps For BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0

RIM has announced that they are now accepting Android application submissions for their BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0, and developer have to submit applications for approval by next Monday the 6th of February 2012.

RIM are expected to launch the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 some time next month, although they haven’t given an exact release date as yet.

Seeing the great response for the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps at CES, developer meet-ups and conferences that we’ve attended over the last few months, we’re expecting a huge interest in the consumer space for these apps when the update is made available next month. We want to ensure that you are able to capitalize on this unique opportunity by having your applications available when BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is launched!

Android applications which run on the BlackBery PlayBook OS 2.0 will also be compatible with RIM’s latest smartphone OS, BlackBerry 10 which is expected to launch later in the year, you can find out more details over at RIM.

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London Bins Now Equipped With LCD Screens

The City of London has started rolling out and installing high tech bins that are equipped with LCD screens to keep pedestrians up to date on the news and travel services.

Called Renew Bins the project has been developed over the last couple of years and is now looking to makes in mark in the 2012 Olympics which will be hosted in London later this year. The Renew Bins are equipped with two LCD screens and can be enabled to also act as mobile hotspots.

The company behind the project Renew is backed by private investment from City workers and entrepreneurs. Each bin costs £30,000 to build and install and are large enough to contain around a typical wheelie bin volume in rubbish. Over the course of their 21-year contracts they will cost Renew £500,000 each, says the Daily Mail newspaper. Robin Hepburn, a senior member of the team at financial communications company Waughton told the Mail Online:

“There are currently 25 units (that’s 50 screens) around The City with a view to 75 more being installed between now and the Olympics. Those supplying content so far include the London stock exchange and The Economist. It would be nice to have a sponsor, like Barclays with the Boris bikes, but it’s not critical. It’s taken at least five years to get to this point and we’re delighted to finally get them out on the streets.”

What are your thoughts on the new LCD bins? Good or bad idea?

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Apple Releases OS X Lion 10.7.3 Update

Apple has released a new update for its Mac OS X software, the latest version is OS X Lion 10.7.3 and the update comes with a range of improvements and bug fixes.

The OS C Lion 10.7.3 update adds in support for a range of new languages, which include Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian, as well as a range of bug fixes.

Some of the bug fixes include solving an issue with the Wi-Fi connection when your Mac is waking from sleep, as well as graphics performance issues with ATI graphics.

You can find out full information in everything that is included in the Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 update over at Apple.

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Steam For Android And iOS Comes Out Of Beta, Now Available To Everyone

Last week Valve launched their Steam app for mobile devices, the app was available on Google’s Android platform and Apple’s iOS platform, and the app is now out of beta and available to everyone.

The app was previously only available to a select few, but it is now available to everyone to use on your Android and iOS devices, as long as you have a Steam account.

With the free Steam app for Android, you can participate in the Steam community wherever you go. Chat with your Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, read the latest gaming news and stay up to date on unbeatable Steam sales.

You can find out more information about the Steam mobile app for Android here and the Steam mobile app for iOS here.

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Android 4.0 ICS Update Headed To HTC Sensation XE Early This Year

HTC has announced that they will be releasing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to the HTC Sensation XE, and it looks like the update will be released ‘early this year’.

HTC announced that the Sensation XE would get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Twitter, although they didn’t give a specific date on when the update will be rolled out o the device.

@DEANYBOY70 Yup, ICS will be coming to the Sensation XE early this year, Dean! We’ll let you know when we have a more specific release date.

As soon as we get some information on when the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the HTC Sensation XE will be available we will let you guys know.

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YouTube To Offer Video Subsription Service?

Google’s popular video service YouTube recently announced that they server over 4 billion video views per day, the company currently makes money from adverts, but now YouTube may be looking for another way to make money from the service.

According to a recent report Google and YouTube could be looking to offer a subscription based video service, according to YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar.

YouTube already offers a small amount of video on demand, but they could possibly offer a subscription based service where content providers could create their own supscription based offerings on YouTube.

This would allow content providers to create their own subscription channels which they could then charge the user a fee for, and obviously YouTube would get a cut of the revenue.

YouTube doesn’t have a product at the moment in the works to offer such a service, although it would seem that it is something the company is considering.

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RIM Announces Office 365 Cloud Service For BlackBerry Users

RIM has today announced the launch of its new Business cloud services, which have been created to bring Microsoft Office 365 applications to BlackBerry users. The new services have been designed to provide administration and flexible smartphone features to aid an organisation’s BlackBerry deployment in the cloud. Providing Wireless synchronisation with Microsoft’s Exchange Online email, calendar and organiser data directly from a BlackBerry smartphone.

Together with providing a combined view of work and personal content on a BlackBerry smartphone while keeping the content separate and secure. Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management and Marketing at Research In Motion explains:

“RIM is pleased to launch BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. This new cloud-based option allows customers to cost-effectively support mobility across their organizations and easily manage and secure their BlackBerry deployments,”

“We continue to build upon the end-to-end BlackBerry solution for our business and government customers with both on-premise and cloud-based solutions, a range of technical support options to suit any size organization, and a growing ecosystem of apps and services for users.”

For more information on the new cloud service and features which are available from today in more than 50 countries, jump over to the BlackBerry website.

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Unannounced Samsung Tablets Get Wi-Fi Certification

We just heard that Samsung wont launch the Galaxy S III at MWC 2012 later this month, although we are expecting them to launch some other new smartphones as well as some new tablets.

Now two new Samsung tablets, which have yet to be announced have been discovered on recent certifications issued by the WiFi Alliance, the Samsung GT-P3100 and the GT-P5100.

There are no details on what these devices are as yet, and the guys from Pocket Now have said that they are listed as smartphones and that they are probably tablets.

These could be the next generation Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets that Samsung will unveil at MWC 2012, one of which is rumored to feature a high resolution display with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels.

As soon as we get some more information on exactly what these two device are we will let you guys know.

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Volumify Easily Mutes Your Mac Startup Sound

If you are looking to turn off and mute the annoying Mac startup sound, a new application called Volumify has been launched on the Mac App Store. That allows you to easily disable the startup sound in OS X Lion, allowing you to reboot and turn on your Mac without letting everyone around you know.

The new Volumify application not only mutes your Mac startup sound, it can also be configured to act differently in various locations. For instance if you only want to your Mac startup sound turned off in lectures, its ease to configure.

Once back at home or in the office you can simply configure Volumify to turn the volume back to normal. Volumify developers Rolling On The Bed explain:

“Volumify is a very handy utility to automatically adjust your Mac’s volume according to your current location and to disable the startup sound. All you need to do is configure your locations in the app’s preferences. Volumify automatically detects your locations by available WiFi networks and adjusts your Mac’s volume accordingly.”

Volumify features include: Automatic volume adjustment based on your current location, Automatic detection of locations, Configure individual locations and determine the system volume for these locations, Customise each location’s radius to account for large buildings or sites, Turn off the Mac OS X startup sound.

Sure there are other ways to turn off and mute your Macs startup sounds, but Volumify makes the process so simply and for £1.99 is a bargain, to have easy control over that annoying Mac startup sound.

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Xbox 360 Adds Crackle And CinemaNow Content Streaming

The Xbox team as today announced via the Major Nelson website, that Crackle and CinemaNow have now been added to the media line-up available to Xbox Live users.The new new video from Sony Pictures’ Crackle and Best Buy’s CinemaNow applications now enable users to enjoy even more streaming content.

If you haven’t had a chance to use either of these services on other systems or set-top boxes yet. Crackle it’s packed with tons of free TV shows and movies, and they’re all free. CinemaNow is Best Buy’s streaming rental/purchase movie service.

Both services are currently available to US residents, with Crackle soon arriving in Canada, Australia, and the UK. CinemaNow, however will remain a US exclusive.

Xbox 360 already has a good variety of steaming content providers including: Hulu Plus, Last.fm, Netflix, Zune Music & Video and ESPN, together with TV providers like AT&T U-verse TV in the U.S., TELUS in Canada, BSkyB, LoveFilm in the U.K., CANAL+ in France, Vodafone Portugal, VimpelCom in Russia and FOXTEL in Australia to name a few.

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Mozilla Adds New Developer Tools To Firefox (Video)

Mozilla has launched a bunch of new built in developer tools for Firefox, and the new tools are designed to let developers change the look and feel of web sites in real time.

Firefox has launched the Mozilla Full-Screen API for web applications and web sites, this can be used by developers to create full screen games, videos and more.

Firefox adds support for features that make it easier to build 3D Web experiences with open technologies. Mozilla pioneered WebGL and introduced it in Firefox. WebGL is a Web standard that allows websites and Web apps to display hardware-accelerated 3D graphics without third-party software. Firefox now supports Anti-Aliasing for WebGL, allowing developers to create objects that blend together and move smoothly. Firefox also supports CSS 3D Transforms, which lets developers animate and transform two dimensional elements into 3D using HTML5 without the need for third-party plugins.

You can find out full details of the new developer tools in Firefox over at the Mozilla Blog.

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McAfee Mobile Security Gets Update

There’s nothing like having your mobile phone secured and with McAfee updating their app for Android, Blackebrry and Symbian devices, you can be sure you’re covered against mobile viruses.

McAfee has recently announced an update to its Mobile Security to 2.0 and will now include a wide array of features such as the Complete Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Anti-phishing Protection and even call filtering.

Android users even get an added bonus as they will be able to run McAfee’s App Protection.  What the App Protection does is to evaluate a given app of your choosing and McAfee tells you what data it is accessing and how it is transmitting it. Good for those times you want to make sure how the app uses your personal data.

The update is free to current users of McAfee. If you’re a first time user, the app will cost $29.99.  A worthy investment if you’re using your smartphone frequently.

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Nexus S 4G Ice Cream Sandwich ROM Leaked

The leaked Android 4.0 ROM seems to be an official release and has been published on the XDA Developers Forums, and reports it version as 4.0.4. Once installed it was also discovered that the leaked ROM also provided an update to the handsets baseband.

Google started rolling out an update to Ice Cream Sandwich for the GSM version of its Nexus S back in December last year, however an update for the 4G version, has never been announced. The leak of the new ROM reveals that here is an update in the works and could be landing on devices very soon.

First impression of the leaked ROM provide positive feedback with reports of faster WiMAX speeds with the new baseband installed. Jump over to the XDA Forums if you would like to try the leaked ROM out for yourself, with full instructions on how to complete the installation. Enjoy!

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Apple Motion 5.0.2 Update Rolls Out, Adding Improved Speed And Responsiveness

Joining the new update rolled out by Apple today for their Final Cut Pro X video editingsoftware. Apple has also rolled out an update for its Motion  5.0.2 software. Motion 5 provides Final Cut Pro X users with additional tools to tweak and customise video footage, and is available to purchase for $50.

Enabling users to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects. The new update released today is around 1.05GB in size and improves speed and responsiveness of text editing.

When first released the new Motion 5 packages was updated with an interface had been redesigned specifically for Final Cut Pro editors, with a familiar look and feel. Making it easy to switch between the two applications. A new single-window layout puts all the tools you need at your fingertips, and redesigned icons make it easy to identify options at glance.

The new Motion 5 update also brings with it improved overall stability and performance tweaks and is available as a download via the Mac App Store software on Mac OS X Lion.

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