Just when it seemed that Adobe Flash Player was a thing of the past on smartphones, it goes and makes an unexpected temporary return to the Google Play store. This has happened due to a backlash from certain influential strategic partners of the web player, including the BBC. Apparently, the Beeb asked for Flash Player [...]
Last week, the judge presiding over the Google – Oracle lawsuit demanded that both companies reveal the names of the bloggers, journalists and websites that they paid to cover the case. The outcome of the case was pretty decisive, with Oracle being humiliated by having to pay Google’s court fees, rather than get the $1bn [...]
Google Maps is quite possibly one of the internet’s most useful features ever. Now, it’s about to get another booster shot of usefulness, as Google are preparing to update it to contain public transport information for 500 cities across the world. This is to come as part of Google Maps’ update to version 6.10, which [...]
There is no man out there who hasn’t dabbled in fantasies of leading an army. Whether it’s playing toy soldiers at the age of four, playing Risk at Christmas, or – when you’re a disaffected adult – loosely planning on organising a rebel army to overthrow the banks, every adult male has a penchant for [...]
The whole Playstation Mobile phenomenon has been a bit of an anti-climax so far. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it’s the new (and improved) name for what was previously known as Playstation Suite; the service through which Sony lets you play their games on ‘Playstation-certified’ devices other than their own consoles. While [...]
Adobe Flash Player has for a long time been a loyal servant on many a home PC, forcing us to view unnecessarily glamorous Flash videos on websites where we’d much rather just skip the video and carry on getting to whatever content we actually want to see. For a while, it seemed that Flash would [...]
Despite revealing quite bleak financial figures for the last financial quarter, HTC clearly remain on the warpath judging by the kind of devices that have been leaking from their HQ of late. Alongside a promising-looking line-up of Windows Phone 8 handsets and a mysterious new tablet, it seems that HTC are working on a massive [...]
The Google-Oracle lawsuit is now over, with Google having come away victorious after Oracle tried to convince the courts that the search giant had infringed on several patents relating to use of the Java software platform. However, the judge who presided over the case, Judge William Alsup is not ready to end the ordeal just [...]