TABLETS Chris Chapman reviewed the New iPad. It's good overall, but are some of the features really necessary? Here are his thoughts.
UPDATE Hello! It's me again, with another update to HackIt. If you remember, HackIt 2.0 was when we announced that we'd be moving to individual blogs on a WordPress-based system, migrating from our Drupal site. Since then, we started numbering our site releases and major changes to our site code by versions. When we carried out our site-wide redesign and rolled out the same constant theme to all of our sites (as you will have seen on the News site before we rolled it out everywhere else), we numbered that version HackIt 2.1. Now we're bringing another update to the table - HackIt 2.2.
HackIt does CES: Full-ish coverage coming soon on our networkEVENT We're by no means big-budget enough to go to CES. We haven't got people on the scene, covering everything live. We can barely afford to make our videos as shiny as we want to. But what we do hear, we'll be posting for your enjoyment. Stay tuned to HackIt News and our other sites for updates and thoughts on what we hear coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show 2012.
FINALLY Amazon's touch-screen e-reader, the Kindle Touch, has arrived on Amazon.co.uk. The device, which will cost £109 (or £169 for the 3G version) when released, is available for pre-order today through the company's UK site.
Iran cuts off Internet accessCENSORSHIP Iran has cut off access to the Internet inside the country, leaving millions without email, social networks and other sites. Sources inside the country confirmed earlier today that Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo mail are no longer accessible, as well as Facebook.
Facebook files $5bn IPOFINANCE Facebook have filed their enthusiastically anticipated initial public offering, joining many other social media and technology giants. Today, Wednesday 1st February 2012, Facebook filed an S-1 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), declaring their intent to go public and start selling shares. According to the filing, Facebook expects to raise $5 billion from the IPO. In comparison, Google's IPO, which was the last major technology company to go public, raised $1.9 billion.
DNS blocking removed from SOPA, to opponents’ delightThe Stop Online Piracy act, or SOPA, which is currently making its way through United States Congress, has been altered to remove the Domain Name System (DNS) blocking requirement. This removes the Internet censorship component of the bill - for now.
Another Nvidia chip outed by Lenovo all-in-one at CESLenovo have released a new series of all-in-one IdeaCentre PCs but, once again, it's the new Nvidia chip inside them that we're excited about.
