Samsung confirms Galaxy S3, "still reviewing" release

http://www.t3.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s3-delayed-beyond-mwc-2012-unveiling

Nasa spacecraft orbits moon on New Year's Eve as part of $500m mission to scan Earth¿s nearest neighbour from crust to core | Mail Online

New Year's Mission: One of the two twin Grail probes entered orbit on New Year's Eve

Grail is expected to help researchers better understand why the moon is asymmetrical and how it formed by mapping the uneven lunar gravity field. The mission will cost nearly $500million. Previous lunar missions have attempted to study the moon's gravity -which is about one-sixth Earth's pull - with mixed results. Grail is the first mission devoted to this goal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080881/Nasa-spacecraft-orbits-moon-New-Years-Eve-500m-mission-scan-Earth-s-nearest-neighbour-crust-core.html

Nokia Lumia :(

It would apear that @Nokia_uk & @microsoft have a big problem with
their new flagship Lumia handsets.
Problems apear to be centred around the battery or power management.
Customers report their phone will not power up, some have to
disconnect the charger a few times and press the power button
intermitantly.

Forum link here

http://bit.ly/vhf1cl

Three SIM card Template / Cutter update iPhone / iPad

Standard SIM card

Please see my past entry re a the template for cutting your standard SIM card to fit a micro SIM ( MicroSim ) card slot.

Military Wives shoot for the number one spot.

It has been revealed that Military Wives and Gareth Malone’s Wherever You Are has become record-breaking as the most pre-ordered music item ever on Amazon ahead of its official release by Decca on December 18.

It looks like X Factor winners Little Mix’s chances of hitting the topspot are getting slimmer by the day as phenomenal pre-order figures have been reported for the Military Wives single.

Amazon UK’s music manager, Roger Greensmith, revealed: “Pre-orders for the single have been so strong they have outstripped those achieved by Take That’s 2010 album Progress almost three times over.”

“This is a tremendous achievement when you consider that Take That’s album marked Robbie’s return and was one of the most highly anticipated music releases ever. With a week of pre-orders still to go, this puts the Military Wives choir in a great position to be Christmas number one.”
   

Get your order in today !!

Music Week

Kevin D. Mitnick has been globe trotting publishing his new book.

Kevin Mitnick (@kevinmitnick) has been doing the rounds of late apearing on verious podcasts including techzilla and Hak.5
He has a new book out called Ghost in the wires, well worth a read, definitely on my Christmas list.
kindle version here :-

There is also a paper back version and an audio book too.

Check out some of the other books Kevin has published on Amazon here Other titles

The Register launched its 1st Kindle book, “The Life and Times of Steve Jobs”

Rik Myslewski has followed Apple since the beginning, as a member of the Homebrew Computer Club, editor of MacAddict, and as San Francisco editor for The Register. In this Reg book he plots Jobs' career from Silicon Valley Hellion to Apple Mk 1, NeXTS, Pixar, Apple Mk II, the iPhone and Cancer. Dick? Prick? Nasty? Mercurial? The world's greatest salesman? Rik considers all these Jobs and more in "The Life and Times of Steve Jobs".

New Xbox kinect software to bring voice commands to Tv services

The Kinect controller will allow users to use gestures to scroll through options. Microsoft says "the new software update will create the biggest interactive TV service in the world"
A free update to the Xbox 360 games console will bring new catch-up TV services and integrated voice control to 35 million users.
The new software will see users able to command their televisions with words such as pause or play, and to ask Xbox to search the web or its own associated services for films, music, TV and other digital content such as games.


Get your Kinect today!









Telegraph

Motorola confirm ICS upgrade to 3 product lines.

A note about Ice Cream Sandwich: We are planning to upgrade DROID RAZR™ by Motorola, Motorola RAZR™, Motorola XOOM™ (including Family Edition) and DROID BIONIC™ by Motorola to Ice Cream Sandwich. We will provide more precise guidance on timing after post-public push of Ice Cream Sandwich by Google, as well as any possible additions to this list of devices.

https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades

Time for a new Xbox ?

CES could we see a new microsoft xbox ? there are definite rumors and
its about time to get people to upgrade.