I spent last night floating in Sydney harbour with Sony Computer Entertainment and a mix of media and members of the Video Games industry for the launch of the Playstation Vita, which will hit retail stores on Thursday. What is the PlayStation Vita? It’s the successor to the PlayStation Portable, the portable games and entertainment device that’s been on the[Read More…]
Owners of Samsung home entertainment and mobile devices will soon have direct access to online streaming movie rentals. Quickflix already offers the largest range of dvd & blu-ray movie and TV show rentals via mail and streaming video rentals to computer along with Playstation 3 and some Sony Bravia TVs, and in the coming months the same service will be[Read More…]
As the National Broadband Network continues to the rolled out across Australia, plans are now in place to ensure that even our most remote areas don’t miss out on the next generation of faster Internet access. Along with new wireless and optical fibre networks, two new satellites are set to launch in 2015 which will assist the NBN reach into[Read More…]
Bigpond is improving the way 4.2 million users access their email by integrating Microsoft’s Windows Live service. Along with email access via Australia’s Number 1 webmail service, Hotmail, Bigpond email customers will also be able to take advantage of the Skydrive cloud storage service and other Windows Live features such as Microsoft Web Apps such as Microsoft Word and Excel.[Read More…]
It’s taken the best part of 10 years, but now Australia is on the road to having an R18+ classification for Video Games introduced. Today I spoke with Ron Curry, the CEO of the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association about the annoucement.
