Xbox One, PS4 'are a generation ahead' of best PC, says EA
Games and GearBoth the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 are more advanced than the best PC money can buy today, according to EA's chief technology officer Rajat Taneja.
Writing on LinkedIn, the videogame exec claims the new consoles' integrated systems-on-a-chip architecture "unleashes magnitudes more compute and graphics power than the current generation of consoles" and are "a generation ahead of the highest end PC on the market". Continue reading...
Acetrax is closing: Download movies by 21 June or lose them
Home CinemaMovie streaming and download service Acetrax is being shut down by owner Sky on 21 June -- so if you've bought films through it you need to download them pronto.
The Swiss company was bought by Sky in May 2012, and is best known in the UK for its smart TV apps, which let you stream films directly to tellies from the likes of Samsung, LG and Panasonic. Like many streaming companies it lets you rent movies for 24 hours or buy the right to stream them whenever you want, which will obviously be affected when the service closes. Continue reading...
Samsung 276ppi screen defeats Apple MacBook Retina display
LaptopsPrepare to have your eyeballs melted: Samsung is readying a screen so crisp, so sharp, so detailed, it actually destroys retinas. Or to be more precise, it beats the resolution of Apple's famous Retina display.
Samsung has announced it will unveil the new high-resolution laptop screen this month. It's a 13.3-inch 3,200x1,800 screen likely to find its way into slimline ultrabook laptops, offering a stunning 276 pixels per inch. Continue reading...
iOS 7: What it needs, and what it won't be getting in video 
Which features does iOS 7 desperately need, and which will Apple probably not bother with? That's the subject of the video you can see above, so click play to see what we anticipate from the next iteration of iOS.
What would a Jony Ive-led redesign look like? Will we get a kids' mode to stop younglings blowing your hard-won cash on Smurfberries? And is the power to change default apps a plausible reality -- or just wishful thinking? Continue reading...
Alt-J open for Soundhalo app, lets you instantly buy gig footage
Mobile PhonesSoundhalo is a new Android app that means you'll never have to hold up your phone and record grubby bootleg footage again -- or go to a gig for that matter.
The app, which is currently in beta but readily available on the Google Play store, launched last night at a gig by Mercury Prize-winning acoustic jazz-dubsteppers alt-J. Continue reading...
Android 4.3 rumoured for 10 June launch
Mobile PhonesAndroid 4.3, the next update to Google's world-conquering mobile software, will come out on 10 June, according to Android and Me's Taylor Wimberly.
Wimberly went hands-on with the heavily tipped but so far unannounced white version of the Nexus 4, and whichever unnamed Google-related bod had the snowy blower revealed that 4.3 will start rolling out next month. Continue reading...
Archos 80 xenon is a pure Android 3G tablet for £160
LaptopsProlific French bargain-basement filler Archos has a new 3G Android tablet out -- and in line with the rest of the company's low-cost devices, the Archos 80 xenon is cheap as frites.
The 80 xenon is an 8-inch slate with built-in 3G for surfing the Web on the go, and it'll set you back just £160. Continue reading...
50 billionth iOS app downloaded, bloke wins £6,550 gift card
SoftwareLucky chap -- Brandon Ashmore, from the sleepy lakeside town of Mentor, Ohio, has just won $10,000 (£6,550) in Apple App Store credit after he downloaded the store's 50 billionth app.
The 50 people who downloaded apps after Brandon's milestone also bagged $500 (£330) gift vouchers. Continue reading...
Android gaming powered up by Google Play game services
Mobile PhonesGoogle is powering up Android gaming with a bunch of cool new features, including leaderboards, easy multiplayer and achievement, collectively called Google Play game services.
Announced today at Google I/O, the software giant's developer conference, the new features will let Android game makers bake in the kind of social features iPhone gamers are used to with Game Center. Continue reading...
Microsoft defends Windows 8 changes as reacting to feedback
DesktopsWindows 8 has come in for plenty of stick in its relatively short life, but now Microsoft has gone on the defensive, slamming its detractors.
Articles this week in the Financial Times and The Economist accuse Microsoft of backtracking, pointing to the return of the Start button as evidence its latest operating system is a failure. This prompted Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's corporate vice president of corporate communications, to accuse such publications of providing "stark black-and-white caricatures" rather than "shades-of-grey reality". Continue reading...
New Nexus 7 tipped for June release with sharper screen
LaptopsGoogle has a new Nexus 7 tablet in the wings, ready to be announced at its I/O conference next week and go on sale in June or July. That's according to KGI Securities analyst Mingchu Kuo, 9to5Google reports.
Kuo reckons Google will keep the price the same, but beef up the specs to include a 1,920x1,200-pixel display (up from the current 1,280x800), a 5-megapixel camera, wireless charging, and Android Key Lime Pie. Continue reading...
Sony makes first profit in 5 years as Windows 8 hybrid leaks
LaptopsSony has turned a profit, marking the first time in five years that the company has ended a financial year with more money than it started with.
The Japanese tech giant harvested 43bn yen (roughly £280m) in the year leading up to 31 March, the BBC reports. Continue reading...
Acer umming and ahhing over Windows RT tab, waits for RT 8.1
LaptopsWill Acer launch a Windows RT slate? It's thinking about it, according to company president Jim Wong.
"The plan for an RT tablet is ongoing," Wong told PCWorld, adding that it'll wait for Windows RT 8.1 before making a firm decision. But that shouldn't be too long, seeing as RT 8.1 is due around the same time as Windows 8.1, in the second half of this year. Continue reading...
Acer W3-810-1600 leaks, world's first small Windows 8 tab 
LaptopsAcer may have been busy bombarding us with laptop-cum-tablets yesterday, but behind the scenes it seems it's working on something far bigger. Or smaller, rather.
Because Amazon.com accidentally leaked the Acer W3-810-1600 -- the world's first small Windows 8 tablet, PCWorld reports. We've heard a fair bit of buzz surrounding smaller Windows 8 tablets coming our way, but this is the closest we've come to official confirmation. Look at it, you can almost taste it. Continue reading...
Acer Aspire P3 is an ultrabook convertible, joins R7 and A1
LaptopsIs the Acer Aspire P3 a tablet? A laptop? It's both. Acer is calling it an 'ultrabook convertible', but it's basically a Windows 8 tablet with a detachable keyboard dock. And if you're thinking that sounds a bit like the Microsoft Surface, you'd be right.
It's just one of Acer's new toys it's shown off in New York. There's also a laptop with a new hinge, and a tablet designed to be used in one hand. Continue reading...
Nook HD and HD+ get Google Play to go with price drop
LaptopsBarnes & Noble has dropped the price of its Nook ebook tablets, also granting its literary gadgets access to Google's Play store and all the apps therein... including the Kindle app.
Accompanying a significant £29 price slash for the Nook ereader, the 7-inch Nook HD -- which we reviewed in November -- now costs £129, while the larger Nook HD+ has a new £179 price tag. Continue reading...
Android tablets catch up to iPad, as Windows 8 struggles
LaptopsApple's iron grip on the world of tablets is starting to ease, with Android-powered rivals starting to catch up to the hugely popular iPad.
New stats from research firm IDC proclaim that at the end of the first three months of 2013, Apple held 39.6 per cent of the global tablet market, down from 58.1 per cent in the same period during 2012. Continue reading...
Promate lumiTab is a bonkers Android tablet with a projector
LaptopsOf course! Why didn't I think of this? The world's been waiting, breath bated, for an Android tablet with a built-in projector and thank goodness for Chinese vapourware tech maker Promate -- it's only gone and drawn one built one.
The concept is simple. And totally nuts. You want to share your legitimately downloaded movie with your friends and adoring family -- instead of plugging your device into your TV with a clunky HDMI cable, you just turn on the built-in projector and BAM! 100 inches of low-res entertainment on your wall. Continue reading...
BlackBerry boss predicts tablets will be dead 'in five years'
LaptopsThorsten Heins isn't a big fan of big screens. The BlackBerry boss reckons mobile phones will become so good you won't need a tablet.
"In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet any more," he told Bloomberg. "Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model." Continue reading...
Samsung plotting Nexus 11 octa-core tablet, report says
LaptopsSamsung could be behind the next Google-branded tablet, if fresh Nexus rumours are to be believed.
The South Korean tech giant is beavering away on a slew of new tablets, SamMobile reports, citing a purported product roadmap for 2013. One of those is tipped to be an 11-inch Nexus tablet, that could sport the same octa-core processor that powers some versions of the Galaxy S4. Continue reading...
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