For all the hardcore fans of the  first person shooter game Black, who think that since Black  there hasn’t been a first person shooter that lets you destroy pretty much everything with reckless abandon; things are  about to change with Bodycount, a brand new FPS which has on its team  some of the developers  who  worked on Black.
Stuart Black, the …

Virgin Media has teamed up with Enterprise UK Today’s to launch a new youth mentoring scheme called Virgin Media Pioneers.
The plan is to  bring together business experts and entrepreneurs  in an online community, which will be conducting  a series of skills development sessions and networking events to help support the enterprising activity taking place online and to eventually  help build …

A report was released by Consumer Focus,  a consumer rights group  in UK which pleads the UK government to rethink and redo  its strategy related for nationwide roll-out of broadband internet, if it wants to bring the internet to have a 100% reach in  UK.
It reports that the people without  a broadband connection face a number of obstacles when it …

Apple is in the country looking for suitors for iPad’s phone network in UK, this marriage could  be as beneficial for the networks as it was for AT&T in US on whose network iPhone was launched exclusively.
According to unverified sources ( rumours ),  the three big networks, O2, Orange and Vodafone, will be getting the iPad at launch as Apple …

BBC iPlayer will have a rival with software behemoth Microsoft  launching an online video player named MSN Video Player, a video-on-demand service that enables U.K. consumers to watch TV anytime, anywhere at no extra charge. it will directly rival the iPlayer.
The MSN Player which goes live on Saturday will feature thousands of hours of programming allowing users to enjoy full …

FarmVille, Facebook’s most widely used application has added the Facebook Credits payment option. In fact, Facebook Credits is now the default payment option in FarmVille and it comes in 2 variants – Farm Cash and Farm Coins.
Facebook Credits, the virtual currency floated by Facebook has been very popular amongst the developer community as well as gamers. It’s a win-win …

If you are one of those who craves for lightning cellular network speeds and mobile phones with futuristic appeal, your wishes might just come true next year courtesy Verizon’s latest announcement. Verizon Wireless has recently announced its plans to launch its first LTE handset for 4G networks by middle of next year.
However, the launch of 4G might see the …

A vast majority of social gamers are game  to undertake a marketing action in return for virtual currency, according to new research  by comScore  for Offerpal Media which was released at the Game Developers Conference.
Alternative payment methods enable developers to monetize significantly larger portions of their user base and currently they  struggle to monetize even three percent of their users …

Out of a staggering £3 billion spent throughout the world on multiplayer online games, British players contributed around 8% by shelling out nearly £200m.
An average of £10.50 per month  was spent by 1.5  million Britons on MMO (massive multiplayer online) games in 2009,  based on an analysis of the consumer data coming from a report done by Gamesindustry.com.
An estimated …

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Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its  Street View  by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It  will even allow users  to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned.
Street View was made available in UK last year  is an add-on …