This week saw the announcements of one of the most talked about mobile software releases since Andriod. Windows Phone 7 Series, while sounding clunky, managed to score high acclaim from the various journalists and bloggers who where at the Mobile World Congress to see it. Reasons aren’t hard to find: the interface is the first one I’ve seen that makes the iPhone look dated. Despite the new mobile OS being heralded as a return to [...]

I think every PC gamer has experienced a particular brand of annoyance when they’re engaged in a long or intense session: quitting the game to find an open instant message, a missed skype call or reams of Twitter posts. At the moment solutions are fairly crude – I periodically alt-tab to check for new messages. Others use secondary devices such as smartphones or even laptops in order to keep track of their social network while [...]

I remember reading a tweet recently from someone about how the internet was evolving from standalone websites that function independently from each other, and towards a collection of service and content providers interlinked through shared APIs and XML. It’s already possible to see it in action in various locations across the web – the popular website Mashable contains a good amount of coverage on how new products are emerging that are powered by these new [...]

It’s not every day that a new product stands up and makes you do a double take, and having it announced this week makes it even more surprising. The Game Developers Conference is usually a quiet affair, with maybe a casual announcement or two about a console price drop or a new title in production. Today’s announcement has literally screwed up conventional wisdom and thrown it in the trashcan, in more ways than one. The [...]

The approaching week heralds the start of the annual Game Developers Conference over in San Francisco. As the name suggests, it’s more of a developer shindig than a marketing exercise, but you generally tend to get a bucket of announcements before, during and after the event that tend to mix things up a little. However, instead of just pulling through what’s going on during the week and what’s in the announcement pipeline, I thought I’d [...]