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- Medal of Honor video: launch trailer revealed
- HP Envy 14: UK price mimics Macbook Pro
- Orange mobile broadband: new deal offers unlimited happy hour
- Red Dead Redemption DLC: free co-op mission pack due June
- Cupidtino: Apple fan dating site planned
- Medal of Honor reboot dated
- Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia to battle Blackberry
- Lunchtime Lowdown: HP Envy 14 unleashed, Call of Duty: Black Ops and new iPhone 4.0 features
- Google Editions ebook store arriving this summer
- Boxee adds Facebook and Twitter to your TV
| Medal of Honor video: launch trailer revealed Posted: 05 May 2010 09:00 AM PDT
The Medal of Honor video is entitled "Leave A Message" and that's literally what we see happening. It opens with a woman and her daughter on a family answering machine message. Then scene fades in and shows us soldiers on a helicopter flying in Afghanistan. We hear the message he left. He tells his wife that he'll be OK: "We're rangers, this is what we do." The soldiers hit the ground and all hell breaks loose with the helicopters being shot down. Cue the portentous music and another glimpse of the bearded special ops soldier who’s starting to become the familiar face of the new Medal of Honor. While the new Medal of Honor video is pretty hard hitting, the earlier Medal of Honor trailer shows a bit more of the gameplay we can expect. On the basis of this short trailer, one thing's for sure: EA's aiming to inject some realism into this modern Medal of Honor instalment. Due October 15 | £39.99 | Medal of Honor Related posts:
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| HP Envy 14: UK price mimics Macbook Pro Posted: 05 May 2010 08:00 AM PDT
Of course, HP Envy 14 has a few features on its side in a battle with the 13in Macbook Pro. There's that larger 14.5in screen, the option to add 3G and a newer Intel Core i5 processor versus the Macbook Pro's older Intel Core 2 Duo chip. Apple claims the 13in Macbook Pro will give you up to 10 hours of battery life while the HP Envy plumps for 6 hours. That more powerful processor plus the ATI Mobility Radeon discrete graphics draw quite a lot of juice. We've talked about the Apple tax plenty in the past and it seems HP has pulled a similar trick. If you changed the US price of $999 into pounds sterling, you'd get a much more palatable £660. Still, the HP Envy 14 remains a pretty desirable machine. Which would you opt for if you had £999 in your back pocket? The HP Envy 14 or the 13in Macbook Pro? Out July | From £999 | HP Related posts:
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| Orange mobile broadband: new deal offers unlimited happy hour Posted: 05 May 2010 07:30 AM PDT
The first of the three new Orange mobile broadband packages, Dolphin starts at £15 a month with 3GB data on an 18 month contract or 2GB on a rolling 1 month contract. The clever bit is that it also gives you one hour of unlimited surfing a day. You can choose between the morning commute (8am – 9am), lunch break (12pm – 1pm), late afternoon (4pm – 5pm) or late night (10pm – 11pm). If you need a more data, Orange has the new Panther package which starts at £25 a month with 10GB of data on a 1 month rolling contract. If you want to nab unlimited data (subject to fair use), you can go for the £35 a month plan with an 18 month contract. The final new Orange mobile broadband plan is the cute little Racoon which starts at £10 a month for 1GB of data on a 1 month rolling contract. All of the new Orange mobile broadband deals include a free Huawei E1752 3G dongle and 8GB memory card. Out now | from £10 a month | Orange Related posts:
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| Red Dead Redemption DLC: free co-op mission pack due June Posted: 05 May 2010 07:00 AM PDT
The Read Dead Redemption DLC free co-op mission pack will include six multiplayer missions for between 2 and 4 players. Rockstar has unveiled three of them so far. In Walton's Gold, Walton's gang has taken control of a gold mining camp. You'll have to fight your way through, load up your mine cart and escape before the whole place explodes. The River features a raft ride down river attacking rebels along the way before you reach their base and battle it out for a massive cache of weapons. Finally, Ammunition finds you battling it out against the Mexican army. Want to get an idea of what the Red Dead Redemption DLC will be like? Try our Red Dead Redemption multiplayer preview. As well as the Red Dead Redemption DLC free co-op mission pack, Rockstar has announced that there's two other Red Dead Redemption DLC packages to come but they won't be free. Due June | £free | Red Dead Redemption Related posts:
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| Cupidtino: Apple fan dating site planned Posted: 05 May 2010 06:00 AM PDT
Cupidtino says it’ll launch on Apple platforms only when it's unveiled in June 2010. And inevitably it promises location-aware iPhone and iPad apps so you'll be able to track down lovelorn Apple fans around you. Do you think a shared admiration for Steve Jobs and love for all things Mac is really a good basis for a love match? We can't help but think a mutual love of Macbooks would outweigh your admiration for each other. Do you even believe this dating site is the real thing? Due June 10 | £TBC | Cupidtino (via Techcrunch) Related posts:
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| Posted: 05 May 2010 05:30 AM PDT
While Call of Duty: Black Ops is jumping back to Vietnam, Medal of Honor has taken a leaf out of the Modern Warfare 2 playbook. The game will be set in modern-day Afghanistan and feature a range of soldiers from ordinary infantry to elite Tier One Operators (the bearded guy in the press pic is one of the special ops chaps). We're promised a new Medal of Honor trailer later today but we've had a good look at what to expect in the Medal of Honor teaser trailer. EA promises both a single player game and a multiplayer campaign which is being put together by DICE, the brains behind Battlefield Bad Company 2. Will you be signing up for battle with Call of Duty: Black Ops or marching off with Medal of Honor? Related posts:
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| Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia to battle Blackberry Posted: 05 May 2010 05:00 AM PDT
Targeted squarely at business folk, Microsoft Communicator Mobile lets Nokia E-Series owners see their colleagues statuses in real time then communicate with one click via IM, email, phone of text. Its aim is to challenge Blackberry as the king of connected business chat. Microsoft Communicator Mobile embeds your colleagues’ current statuses into your Nokia phone's contacts app. From there you can join or start IM sessions, begin calls and update your own status. Currently only Nokia E52 and Nokia E72 phones are compatible with Microsoft Communicator Mobile but it'll be rolled out to more Nokia handsets soon. The app is available for free from the Ovi Store now if you're worried the IT department isn't already on the case. Out now | £free | Microsoft Communicator Mobile Related posts:
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| Lunchtime Lowdown: HP Envy 14 unleashed, Call of Duty: Black Ops and new iPhone 4.0 features Posted: 05 May 2010 04:30 AM PDT
First up, some exciting phone news for you: the latest iPhone 4.0 OS beta is out for developers. It reveals several new secrets about the software and the upcoming new iPhone. Over on Android meanwhile, we’ve got guides to all the latest Google phones on sale, including the HTC Desire and Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, while Adobe showed off a tablet using the OS and running Flash – a sharp kick in Steve Jobs’ shin. In gaming meanwhile, Call of Duty: Black Ops has popped up for pre-order already, with the price slashing already in full swing. Could we see some Modern Warfare 2 style cuts from the supermarkets? Finally, in computing, we reviewed the new Sony VAIO E model, while HP dished out a new HP Envy model of just the same unusual size: 14 inches. We also showed you how to set up an easy wireless network without a router using Q-waves‘ streaming tech. Find out more about Q-waves. Still want more news? Head on over to the homepage and help yourself! Check out our Android Invasion, starting with our first robot romance video below! Related posts:
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| Google Editions ebook store arriving this summer Posted: 05 May 2010 04:00 AM PDT
Google Editions has long been rumoured but Google's Manager for Strategic Partner Development, Chris Palma, has finally confirmed its arrival to the Wall Street Journal. Google Editions will feature up to 500,000 books at launch with Google have minted deals with partners who already work with it on Google Books. Ebooks from the Google Editions store will be available to download via your web browser meaning they shouldn’t be tied to any particular device. By making Google Editions ebooks available in your browser, Google will be able to compete directly with iBooks on the iPad and the Amazon Kindle. The Sony Reader already sells itself on access to public domain titles via Google Books so it's likely to welcome the arrival of Google Editions. Related posts:
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| Boxee adds Facebook and Twitter to your TV Posted: 05 May 2010 03:30 AM PDT
We're eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Boxee Box and Boxee pay TV plans which are due this summer but in the meantime, the media streaming program keeps on evolving. You've been able to broadcast your Boxee watching habits out to Twitter and Facebook for a while but you can now see what your friends are digging too. Hop into the Boxee services settings and you can now activate automatic video recommendations from your Facebook and Twitter contacts. When they share a video, it will pop up in your Boxee feed with an icon to let you know where it came from. The latest version of Boxee also adds the ability to easily sort out incorrectly labelled files and media that the program can't identify. If you've downloaded Boxee or upgraded it in the last 2 weeks, the new features should already be up and running. If not, hit the link below to grab the Boxee update. Out now | £free | Boxee Related posts:
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