Nokia today announced the end of its Ovi mobile services brand, starting today and slowly phasing out over the coming year.
All Ovi‘s products – including maps, email, music, an app store, and more – will continue to operate, but now simply under the Nokia brand name.
In an official announcement, Nokia’s head of marketing Jerri
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As you can see from that shot up top, the PlayStation Network, Qriocity, and Sony Online Entertainment are back, 50 fussy red and blue states are now united in scintillating neon green, and all’s right with the world.
Well, almost. The network’s back for some of you, but not all, and Sony’s restoration of service, which began on …
It happens sometimes. Occasionally, a Chinese company will manage to get their hands on Apple’s designs for its upcoming phones, and start manufacturing cases before release, giving me and you a brief sneak peek into what Apple has got planned.
An iPhone case has shown up on an Asian trading site, Alibaba.com. Kulcase, a company based …
PS3 owners, our long national nightmare is finally over. On Saturday May 14th, Sony exec Kaz Hirai delivered a video address that announced that Sony would be beginning a gradual roll-out of restoration for their Playstation Network and Qriocity services. (In a separate statement, the Sony Online Entertainment division also announced …
Wondering why the FBI doesn’t name phone and internet service providers that help them in surveillance programs? They’re trying to protect those companies from the wrath of the snooped-upon customers.
The explanation comes from an FBI section chief named David M. Hardy, as part of a court declaration recently made public following a …
Disgruntled iPad owner? Suffering iPhone “retina” display envy? Who says you can’t have your piece of pretty faux cake and gobble a crazy high-res version of it, too?
Certainly not Samsung, who’ve just announced a 10.1-inch LCD display with 300 dpi (a measure of how many dots they’ve crammed into an inch—300’s high for a …
It’s getting to the point where Anonymous is like the Eye of Sauron: You don’t even want them looking in your general direction. As reports of the internet bogeyman collective’s splintering eke out, people formerly affiliated with Anonymous–who may or may not be responsible for the Playstation Network outage–continue to wreak havoc …
“Don’t call us, we’ll call you.” That’s the gist of a new, reportedly leaked letter from Sony to its publishing partners about the PlayStation Network outage, handed off by an anonymous source to Industry Gamers. If legit, it suggests Sony’s vague public tale of when and how the outage occurred doesn’t gain any insightful …
Disney must really be regretting its August 2010 purchase of social gaming company Playdom by now. Not only has Playdom already cost Disney an additional $34 million on top of its $534 million price tag (in the process becoming one of the main reasons behind Disney’s disappointing financial quarter, according to CFO Jay Rasulo earlier …
Activision’s Call of Duty series is the biggest gaming franchise in the world. The quasi-realistic military FPS games boasts more concurrent users than Facebook and every installment over the last few years has been met with the kind of rabid anticipation that few other entertainment events can match.
It’s always a big deal when a COD …
Well, well, well… what have we here? Seems U.S. officials have found many things while searching Osama bin Laden’s million-dollar Abbottabad hideout. And what have they found most recently? Yep. Porn.
“The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically
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Reports are circulating that several iOS developers are being served legal notices for violations of patent infringement in the Apple App Store. What’s worrisome is that the plaintiff, Lodsys, is bypassing Apple and its daunting legal infrastructure and going straight after the vulnerable indie parties.
The patent in question concerns …
