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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 No responses 6th January 2012
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 No responses 5th January 2012
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 22 responses 4th January 2012
Microsoft say good riddance as IE6 falls below 1% in the United States Microsoft is today celebrating the further demise of Internet Explorer 6 as it officially falls below 1% market share in the United States for the first time. The US now joins other leading nations Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway where support for the defunct browser had already dropped below this milestone. Darren McCarra 4 responses 3rd January 2012
Wikipedia will survive for another year, reaches $20 million fundraising target Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia, has managed to reach its fundraising target of $20 million, ensuring the survival of the collaborative knowledge source through 2012. Darren McCarra 3 responses 2nd January 2012
Top gaming companies may have pulled their support for SOPA Electronic Arts (EA), Nintendo and Sony Electronics may have all pulled their support for Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), that's according to an updated list of bill champions published by the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee. Darren McCarra No responses 2nd January 2012
New desktop Messenger application keeps Facebook omnipresent Just hours after an initial leak, Facebook counteracted and released a beta version of their first official desktop client - Facebook Messenger for Windows. Darren McCarra No responses 31st December 2011
Facebook phasing out support for IE7 One year after Facebook officially renounced support for Internet Explorer 6, it seems that Internet Explorer 7 is destined to experience a similar fate as support for the ailing browser is lacking in Facebook's most important recent innovation - Timeline. Darren McCarra 23 responses 30th December 2011
Google+ adoption rate accelerating, reaches 62 million users Google+ user adoption rate has accelerated to 625,000 new sign-ups each day, with the social network reaching 62 million users in total by December 27th, according to unofficial Google+ statistician Paul Allen and his team. Darren McCarra 2 responses 29th December 2011
Dropbox experiments with frictionless photo and video importing Dropbox has introduced an experimental new feature to the latest forum build of the application that automatically syncs photos and videos from cameras and smartphones to Dropbox once connected to a user's desktop or laptop. Darren McCarra 4 responses 28th December 2011