Facebook Targets Google with Smear Campaign

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Evidence has come to light that reveals that Facebook Hired a PR firm to plant negative stories about Google in the media.  This was revealed by a blogger who was approached by the PR company and refused to take part in the scheme and instead revealed the operation to the public. Facebook hired top PR firm Burston- Marsteller   to target Google with negative stories about ant-privacy.  They accused Google of violating federal fair trade laws and the privacy rights of millions of people with their Gmail feature social circle. 

Microsoft Acquire Skype for $8.5 billion

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Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5billion (£5.2billion), this is Microsoft’s largest ever buy out. Following Speculation Microsoft has bought the instant messaging and Voice chat service as Directors from both Microsoft and Skype agreed a deal. Facebook and Google were also in talks with Skype. The service has 663 million users.     

Duke Nukem PC Spec Revealed

Gearbox ,a developer, revealed the Spec Your Computer will need to run Duke Nukem Forever. 

Minimum Specifications 

• Windows XP/Vista/7 
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.0 Ghz 
• Memory: 1 Gb 
• Hard Drive: 10 Gb free 
• Video Memory: 256 MB 
• Video Card: nVidia GeForce 7600 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

Recommended Specifications 

• Windows XP/Vista/7 
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 Ghz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 @ 2.6 Ghz 
• Memory: 2 Gb 
• Hard Drive: 10 Gb free 
• Video Memory: 512 MB 
• Video Card: nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS / ATI Radeon HD 3850 
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

HTC Profits Rise by 200 percent

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HTC‘s Profits have risen by a record 200 percent. They are certainly catching up with Apple’s dominance of the smart phone market; the company posted a record profit of £315 million. HTC’s Products are increasing in popularity, the question remains can HTC overtake Apple?  

Google Testing Voice Search on the Google website

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Google is testing voice search functionality on google.com. It will only be available to a few users; a small grey microphone appears at the end of the traditional search box. Voice search is already available on most android smart phones.

LTC Podcast episode 2

In this weeks podcast I interview my friend Joe and we talk about The PlayStation outage, Gaming and various other topics. subscribe to the show and follow @leatstechcorner on Twitter

PlayStation Network and Quirocity services will resume this week

Sony revealed on their blog that they would be rolling out PlayStation network and Quirocity services in the upcoming week. A press conference took place in Tokyo   this morning and a press release is being distributed worldwide. They went on to thank everyone for their patience; the roll out of services will begin regionally. Users will be greeted with a mandatory update which will require users to change their password. At the press conference Kaz Hirai offered his apologies for the outage and also said that the PlayStation store would not be up and instead would be back up within a month. Approximately 10 million credit card numbers may have fallen into the hands of the hackers, 1/10 of the people that use the PlayStation network.  The motive behind the attack is still unclear.