Tech

Google have announced a newly redesigned desktop version of their popular mapping service Google Maps, set for release later this year. [...]

That’s right, the Doggfather Snoop Dogg has launched his own photo-sharing app. Available for iOS and Android devices, the Snoopify Sticker Camera lets users take photos and turn them into “Snoop-themed masterpieces,” with a number of unique sticker packs to make any photo ‘more gangsta or Rasta’. [...]

Hotmail, the pioneering e-mail client has finally come to an end. [...]

Popular photo-sharing app Instagram has introduced a new feature that allows users to (finally) tag friends in photos. [...]

The rumours about Twitter releasing a standalone music app have proven true, as the social network took to American morning TV show Good Morning America this week to unveil the app, aptly named Twitter #music. The brainchild of audio discovery service We Are Hunted, which was recently acquired by the company, the iOS app recommends [...]

YouTube has announced that it now has 1 billion monthly viewers, a steady increase on the 800 million month viewers the video-website reached in October 2011. The announcement, made at YouTube Pulse (a company event in Los Angeles to highlight YouTube’s premium channels to potential advertisers) put the company in the same league as Facebook [...]

Social news website Digg has announced its intentions to release an RSS service to replace Google Reader. [...]

Lupe Fiasco furthered his entrepreneurial efforts at this year’s SXSW by unveiling a new social media analytics app inspired by health and wellness, called Higi, in a partnership with Wrapports chairman Michael Ferro. [...]

Sony recently announced the PlayStation 4 at a live event in New York, revealing a large amount of information and introducing a number games. While the actual console itself wasn’t shown, a number of details about the hardware were mentioned, with Sony promising “supercharged PC architecture,” 8 GB of GDDR5 unified system memory and an [...]

The age of digital distribution has reached another milestone following the release of an independent British film via a games console rather than through the Cinema or DVDs for the first time. Pulp, a comedy focusing on a stressed comic book publisher who gets recruited by the police to take down a criminal gang, has [...]