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New FPS game Bodycount is here , Black fans rejoice

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:29 +0000

For all the hardcore fans of the first person shooter game Black, who think that since Black there hasn’t been a first person shooter that lets you destroy pretty much everything with reckless abandon; things are about to change with Bodycount, a brand new FPS which has on its team some of the developers who worked on Black. Stuart Black, the ...

Virgin Media launches community for young entrepreneurs

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:20:18 +0000

Virgin Media has teamed up with Enterprise UK Today’s to launch a new youth mentoring scheme called Virgin Media Pioneers. The plan is to bring together business experts and entrepreneurs in an online community, which will be conducting a series of skills development sessions and networking events to help support the enterprising activity taking place online and to eventually help build ...

Watchdog urges government to refocus broadband strategy

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:10:48 +0000

A report was released by Consumer Focus, a consumer rights group in UK which pleads the UK government to rethink and redo its strategy related for nationwide roll-out of broadband internet, if it wants to bring the internet to have a 100% reach in UK. It reports that the people without a broadband connection face a number of obstacles when it ...

Mobile operators in talks with Apple to secure iPad distribution

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:58:48 +0000

Apple is in the country looking for suitors for iPad’s phone network in UK, this marriage could be as beneficial for the networks as it was for AT&T in US on whose network iPhone was launched exclusively. According to unverified sources ( rumours ), the three big networks, O2, Orange and Vodafone, will be getting the iPad at launch as Apple ...

BBC iPlayer watchout – here comes MSN Video Player

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:46:45 +0000

BBC iPlayer will have a rival with software behemoth Microsoft launching an online video player named MSN Video Player, a video-on-demand service that enables U.K. consumers to watch TV anytime, anywhere at no extra charge. it will directly rival the iPlayer. The MSN Player which goes live on Saturday will feature thousands of hours of programming allowing users to enjoy full ...

FarmVille Adds Facebook Credits Payment Option

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:46:08 +0000

FarmVille, Facebook’s most widely used application has added the Facebook Credits payment option. In fact, Facebook Credits is now the default payment option in FarmVille and it comes in 2 variants – Farm Cash and Farm Coins. Facebook Credits, the virtual currency floated by Facebook has been very popular amongst the developer community as well as gamers. It’s a win-win ...

Verizon to launch 4G Handsets by Mid 2011

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:38:37 +0000

If you are one of those who craves for lightning cellular network speeds and mobile phones with futuristic appeal, your wishes might just come true next year courtesy Verizon’s latest announcement. Verizon Wireless has recently announced its plans to launch its first LTE handset for 4G networks by middle of next year. However, the launch of 4G might see the ...

Social Gamers Want Marketing Offers For Currency

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:13:01 +0000

A vast majority of social gamers are game to undertake a marketing action in return for virtual currency, according to new research by comScore for Offerpal Media which was released at the Game Developers Conference. Alternative payment methods enable developers to monetize significantly larger portions of their user base and currently they struggle to monetize even three percent of their users ...

Britons spending nearly £200m on MMOs

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:59:42 +0000

Out of a staggering £3 billion spent throughout the world on multiplayer online games, British players contributed around 8% by shelling out nearly £200m. An average of £10.50 per month was spent by 1.5 million Britons on MMO (massive multiplayer online) games in 2009, based on an analysis of the consumer data coming from a report done by Gamesindustry.com. An estimated ...

Google adds wiki-like features to Google Street View

S King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:28:18 +0000

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its Street View by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It will even allow users to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned. Street View was made available in UK last year is an add-on ...