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The World’s leading social sound platform, SoundCloud, has announced some changes to its membership plans this week. The music sharing site, previously offered Lite, Solo, Pro and Plus plans, but is now dropping its user accounts down to just 3; free, Pro, and Pro Unlimited. Paying customers will not... Read more
Microsoft May Lower Windows 8 Prices
News March 14, 2013
There is no doubt that the performance of Windows 8 so far has been below satisfactory. Microsoft is getting worried and trying every trick up their sleeve to turn the fortunes around for the latest version of its operating system (OS). However, everything they have tried so far has... Read more
Microsoft has been focused on ensuring that Windows 8 becomes a success over the past six months or so. This has led to several of their products being ignored. Hence, it came as no surprise that the company decided to launch the new version of their internet browser, Internet... Read more
Roli’s Grand Piano: A New Way to Play
News March 13, 2013
Roli has introduced a new touch sensitive Grand Piano called the Seaboard GRAND. What makes the particular piano so unique is the fact that no foot pedals are required. The keys are pressure sensitive and can flex in order to distinguish between intermittent and continuous input. This device blends... Read more
Google Acquires Neural Net Developer DNNresearch
News March 13, 2013
Google has agreed to acquire neural net developer DNNresearch. The company, founded by University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton and grad students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever, was sold for an undisclosed sum. The startup was incorporated last year and very little is known about the groups research. In fact... Read more
Marvel Comic’s “Merc with a Mouth” has developed a cult-like following from his previous battles with heros and villains alike. Deadpool, who made his comic book debut in 1997 finally gets his own game. Deadpool was first revealed at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con, however High Moon Studios... Read more
Mycestro – The Tiny New Mouse That Fits On Your Finger
News March 12, 2013
Nick Mastandrea, Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Mycestro is working on his patent-pending technology via a Kickstarter Campaign for a tiny 3D mouse that you wear on your finger. On Kickstarter’s website, Mastandrea tells his story of the birth of the device that took place while on... Read more
Facebook Announces Updated News Feed
NewsSocial Media March 12, 2013
Facebook has recently updated its Timeline, but the one area of the site that has been somewhat neglected since the start of the site in 2006, is its News feed. For this reason, on Thursday, Facebook revealed its updated version of the news feed, which will provide the users... Read more
This Is How China Censors Its Version Of Twitter
NewsSocial Media March 12, 2013
The rest of the world may live in the Twitter stream, checking updates and sending tweets more often than they check email, but in China, it’s Weibo that rules. Weibo is the Chinese term for microblog, and it was originally launched in 2009. In 2011, the domain name was... Read more
Twitter Gets Rid of its TweetDeck
NewsSocial Media March 11, 2013
If you are a heavy Twitter user, you may be disappointed by Twitter’s announcement that they will be shutting down multiple TweetDeck apps. If you aren’t familiar with the app, TweetDeck is a Twitter tool that tracks real-time conversations, across multiple accounts and topics. It’s official that TweetDeck AIR,... Read more
Facebook is a stomping ground for hoaxes and the social networks newest attack involves its popular “Like” button feature. According to the hoax, users receive a free electronics item in exchange for simply hitting the “Like” button. If users step back and think about it for a moment, earning... Read more
The latest instalment of popular city-building computer game SimCity has not been the smoothest – following server crashes and angry, locked out players. Following its launch in North America on March 5, servers for the video game, which has a new added ‘online’ element, filled up in a matter... Read more
PAR Works has launched a new platform based on augmented reality to help users find information about many everyday items. This application has many practical uses. For instance, a user may create an augmented reality for a shopping center and identify where a specific store is located. It could... Read more
Path 3.0 was officially announced last week, with new features that may or may not entice new users to install yet another social networking app. When Path was first announced in 2010, my initial reaction was exactly that – “Not another social network!” How many do we need anyway?... Read more
Google has just announced that it is adding a new feature to the Google+ platform. Google made the announcement on the Google+ Developers Blog, which is Google’s official source of information about the Google+ platform. Application sign-in will allow users to sign in to your app with Google. Whether... Read more
The early indications for Microsoft’s rebranded email service Outlook.com are good. They have managed to notch up over 60 Million active users in the 6 months following last summer’s launch. That makes Outlook.com the fastest growing email service ever. Those figures could be interpreted as a little misleading however, as a... Read more
Seagate Introduces New Hybrid Hard Drive
News March 9, 2013
Seagate has released its new generation of Solid Storage Hybrid Drives. Not only have they just launched new drives for desktops, but they have also released an entirely new line of Solid Storage Hard Drives for laptops. There are a few different options to choose from when selecting a... Read more
The recently held Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought many interesting things to the forefront, Mozilla’s Firefox OS being one of them. There is a glut of mobile phones in the market, ranging from the cheapest to the ridiculously expensive, but I am sure that having an alternative mobile... Read more