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Black Ops II Prestige Master Hackers to be Reset

An interesting screen capture turned up on Reddit. Twitter user Max (@Irqendeiner) asked David Vonderhaar (@DavidVonderhaar), game director of Black Ops II, “There are so many guys who glitched/hacked to master prestige on PS3. Any chance that they are getting reset?” David “Vahn” Vonderhaar, answer was short but sweet “100% Chance”. The Prestige users that hacked their way to the top are typically easy to spot, first of all they are not as good as their title suggests, secondly if you check their combat record, and you see... 
 

The Best Games of 2012!

Video Games have had a great year! The top games have out sold every movie released this year solidifying their domination of the entertainment market. Games are no longer for the nerds of the world, but now have mass appeal. The “free to play” games have been killing it as have the social games, anchored by Facebook. But the online multiplayer games have crushed all that have come before them. So who were the winners of 2012? Below are the top twenty one! #21 – Nights in to Dreams Sega is back! Nightopia is a surreal world that you, as either,... 
 

ICO (Information Commissioner Office) Gets Some Teeth!

The UK Information Commissioner Office is starting to ramp up its efforts to ensure organisations are taking the Data Protection Act seriously. In 2012 alone the ICO has issued over eighteen organisations or individuals penalties; with an average fine of over £125,000 and total fines of over £2,200,000. A significant majority of the penalties were to government organisations but included a number of individuals. Most breaches came from data in transit, for example emailed data, faxed data or data left on portal devices such as laptops or memory... 
 

iPad Mini or iPhone Maxi

Apple today announced the new iPad, a slimmed down version of its big brother. However it seems to have a lot in common with the iPhone, for example the processor is the Apple A5 dual-core which is the same chip that was in the iPhone 4S, it will also have the tiny lightning dock connector introduced with the iPhone 5 and there will be versions that allow you to connect to cellular 4g data connections. Obviously it will have the IOS operating system that comes on all iPhones and iPads. The screen will be a healthy 7.9 inches, but will not be the... 
 

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

Back in the fifties everyone had an idea of what the ”World of Tomorrow” would look like, some of the concepts were not far off, for example we do have mono rails, and Under Ground rail, but alas no personal flying transport. According to the people of yesterday we should be living in the sea, maybe they knew more about global warming than we knew, and they thought we should have colonised the moon by now, to be fair Richard Branson is making some strides in the right direction on that one. Below are some images of Vintage Tech, and how the... 
 

Microsoft Forces Skype on Desktop Users

Despite never having the full versions of Skype on their machines previously, many users are today waking up with Skype mysteriously automatically installed on to their desktops. Depending on when your system was set to automatically update users are widely reporting the automatic install of Skype. When investigating how the offending software was installed users will see an update in the “Update History Log” stating the software was automatically installed by the Windows update process. The log also refers the user to knowledge base... 
 

At Least You Can Now Tweet a Joke

Paul Chambers, 27 year old, male from Doncaster has had his conviction for “menacing electronic communication” overturned. Convicted in May 2010, Chambers was fined £385 and ordered to pay £600 costs at Doncaster Magistrates’ Court. Chambers was found guilty after sending a Tweet stating the following “Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”, out of frustration on hearing Robin Hood airport was shut by snow in... 
 

Don’t Tweet About Justice

Kentucky teenager Savanna Dietrich faces jail time. Her crime? Being molested by two teenage boys at a party. You see Savanna went to a party, where she clearly had too much partying and past out. According to Dietrich, after passing out, her attackers molested her, and they also allegedly videotaped the incident and shared it with their friends online. The juvenile defendants were charged with first-degree sexual abuse and misdemeanor voyeurism, reports the Louisville Courier Journal. The teens pleaded guilty to those charges in late June and are... 
 

Not Cool Apple, Not Cool

On July 9th Judge Colin Birss issued a ruling that the Samsung’ Galaxy tablet did not infringe Apple’s registered designs as it was unlikely to be confused with the iPad because they are “not as cool.” Yesterday the Judge stated that the decision of July 9th should now be published widely, including posted on Apple’s U.K. home page for six months and published in a number of newspapers and magazines, including, according to the draft copy of the order, the Daliy Mail, Guardian Mobile Magazine, the FT and T3. The logic being... 
 

Nike Gets Slapped By UK ASA

When is an Advert not an Ad, or more precisely when IS an Advert an Ad? According to the U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), anytime you are promoting a company or its product or services it an Advert, and should be labelled as such. Manchester United player Wayne Rooney and Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere were Tweeting a Nike slogan, without making it clear that the Tweet was a Nike promotion. Rooney Tweeted on the 1st Jan the following, “My resolution – to start the year as a champion, and finish it as a champion…#makeitcount... 
 
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