Microsofts Steve Ballmer Says 500 Million People Will Have Windows 8 By 2013

According to Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer, he is expecting Windows 8 to become extremely popular as he has announced that he estimates there will be over 500 million people using the new version of Microsoft’s Windows OS by the end of 2013.

Microsoft is expected to launch Windows 8 around October of 2012,

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Samsung Blocking Leaked S Voice App

Earlier this week we heard that the Android 4.0 ROM for Samsung’s new Galaxy S III smartphone had been leaked, and along with the ROM, Samsung’s new S Voice app, which is Samsung’s own voice activated virtual assistant was also leaked.

Samsung has now said that the app that was leaked was an initial test version,

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Facebook Launches Group File Sharing Service

Facebook has this week launched a new group file sharing service to a “small percentage” of users and will be rolling the features out to all members of Facebook groups shortly.

The new Facebook Group file sharing features allows users to upload files up to 25mb in size, which can then be shared with all users within that

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SIM Free Nokia 808 PureView Headed To The US?

The Nokia 808 PureView will launch in selected countries this month, Nokia had previously said that they had no plans to launch the handset in the US, and whilst it won’t be available with any of the US carriers it is possible a SIM free version will launch in the US.

The news comes from Nokia’s US President, Chris Weber, who  recently told PCMag that

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Video shows off Samsung Galaxy S III gestures

The Samsung Galaxy S III was unveiled last week and it was impressive, showing off several nice features. Now some video has shown up showing off a few phone gestures that we hadn’t known about before. There are three gestures shown in the video.
The first gesture looks useful, but unfortunately it didn’t really very well

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Samsung Galaxy S III Service Manual And Specifications Leaked?

The guys over at Sammobile have got their hands on a service manual which is apparently for the new Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone, and if this turns out to be the real deal ten we get a look at the final specifications on the handset.

According to the leaked specifications the Samsung Galaxy S III will

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RIM To Launch First BlackBerry 10 Smartphone In October?

We know that RIM is working on devices that will run the next version of their mobile OS, BlackBerry 10, and according to a recent report by the guys from N4BB, RIM will launch their first BlackBerry 10 smartphone in October.

RIM has already said that they will launch their first BlackBerry 10 device in

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Sony Patches PS Vita PSN Game Hack, Same Hack Found In Others

After news that two of its games allowed the PS Vita to run homebrew software, Sony pulled Hot Shots Tennis and Motorstorm Arctic Rift from the PSN store to patch up the Vita firmware to 1.67 . However, the two games were seemingly not the only ones harbouring the vulnerability, as a new video has sprung up of a Vita running the hack post-patch, but using a different

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Alienware M11x Gaming Laptop To Be Discontinued

Further to the news that Alienware are launching a new range of larger gaming laptops in the form of the M14x, M17x and M18x. Dell has also revealed today that it will be discontinuing the smaller 11 inch version in the Alienware range, the M11x.

The removal of the smallest laptop from the Alienware range will now

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Awesome Slo-Mo Footage Captured With $100K Phantom Flex Camera

Some of you might remember when we first featured the super slo-mo Phantom Flex $100,000 camera back in April last year. The Phantom Flex camera has been designed to capture and record video at an amazingly high frames per second slowing the world to a crawl.

This slo-mo features has been put to great use before but the footage captured for the Danish

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iPhone Boom Mic

If you are looking to add a little more professional audio to your iPhone videos. You might be interested in this new Boom Mic which has been created specifically for Apple’s iPhone.

The Boom Mic measure just 4 inches long and is super lightweight. It attaches to the iPhone’s headphone jack and adjusts to hold on to the back of your iPhone, and can be used

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Alienware M14x, M17x and M18x Laptops Updated

Alienware has today released details about its new range of gaming laptops, and their updated components. The refreshed 2012 range of Alienware laptops will include the M14x, M17x, and M18x which Alienware has now made even more flexible providing 4x graphics choices, 2 x single core, 2 x dual-core, 23 x storage options, 7 x memory choices, 2 x optical

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Facebook Plans To Go Public On May 17th 2012

It now looks like Facebook has finally penciled in a date for the company to go public. According to sources close to Facebook has now planned the date for its IPO as  May 17th 2012. As long as Facebook can ready all the necessary paperwork for both its IPO and its recent purchase of Instagram for a cool $1 billion, ealier this

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Grand Theft Auto V May Be Delayed

GTA 5 will arrive at some point, but will it be before the end of 2012? The jury is still out on that. Their focus right now is likely on making sure that Max Payne 3 is perfect before release in May. A few new rumors may shed some light on when we might see the latest Grand Theft Auto game.
Dutch site GameLiner cites a ‘freelancer’ who says that GTA 5 has been postponed

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