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Sony says no PS4 announcement at E3 2012
Sony will not be announcing the PlayStation 4 at this year's E3 gaming expo. Microsoft and Nintendo, however, are still expected to press ahead with their own forthcoming console announcements.
Darren McCarra
12th January 2012
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Facebook to reach one billion users by end of summer
Facebook is set to reach one billion active users by August of this year, according to research from iCrossing. Facebook, comfortably the world's largest social network, currently has in excess of 800 million active users.
Darren McCarra
11th January 2012
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Google's latest social search update further integrates Google+
Google has today announced the biggest social update to Google Search in over two years, integrating public and privately shared Google+ posts and images into search results.
Darren McCarra
10th January 2012
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Sony shifts 3.9 million PS3 consoles over Christmas, 15 million annual sales target within sight
Sony has announced that 3.9 million PlayStation 3 consoles were sold worldwide over the Christmas sales season, with the company well on track to reaching its 15 million unit annual sales target in the fiscal year ending this March.
Darren McCarra
10th January 2012
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Netflix officially launches in the UK and Ireland with one-month free trial
Netflix, the film and TV episode streaming service, has officially launched in the United Kingdom and Ireland as of today, complete with one-month free trial. While some users reported early access to the service yesterday, both netflix.co.uk and netflix.ie are officially available from this morning.
Darren McCarra
9th January 2012
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iPad falls from space, and survives
Ever since Apple introduced the original iPad in January 2010, the burning question on all of our minds was whether it could survive a fall from space (right?) - in this case 100,000 feet. The answer is yes, apparently.
Darren McCarra
8th January 2012
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In which country is Twitter more popular than Facebook?
Japan is the only country in the world where Twitter has a higher number of monthly unique visitors than Facebook, that’s according to Business Insider quoting comScore data.
Darren McCarra
7th January 2012
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Next-generation Xbox and PlayStation 4 to be announced at this year's E3 expo
Both the next-generation Xbox and PlayStation 4 are expected to be announced at this year's E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, reports MCV. E3 is the flagship expo of the gaming industry and takes place on June 5-7.
Darren McCarra
6th January 2012
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iPad users have downloaded some 582% more apps than their Android counterparts
Apple iPad users have downloaded some three billion apps cumulatively since the revolutionary device was first introduced in January 2010. Compare this to Android tablets users who are estimated to have downloaded just 440 million so far, some 582% less.
Darren McCarra
5th January 2012
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Number of .IE registrations continues to rise, now totaling more than 170,000
2011 was a stellar year for .IE domains as the IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the body charged with managing Ireland's official top-level domain (TLD), today reported that the total number of registered .IE domains grew by 12.9% in 2011, reaching 173,145 at year's end.
Darren McCarra
4th January 2012