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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