Google+ Adds Real-time Search & Improved Hashtag Support (video)

This week Google has started rolling out some new features to its Google+ social network, which have been designed to provide you with improved real-time searching. Together with the ability to search using Hashtags.

Now if you place a hashtag in your Google+ updates, that hashtag it will now automatically link to the search results for the term automatically. Watch a video after the break in which Google+ engineer Vic Gundotra takes you through the new additions.

Google+ Adds Real-time Search & Improved Hashtag Support (video)

This week Google has started rolling out some new features to its Google+ social network, which have been designed to provide you with improved real-time searching. Together with the ability to search using Hashtags.

Now if you place a hashtag in your Google+ updates, that hashtag it will now automatically link to the search results for the term automatically. Watch a video after the break in which Google+ engineer Vic Gundotra takes you through the new additions.

RIM Responds To BlackBerry Service Outage

Over the past few days many BlackBerry users have been unable to access BBM and other BlackBerry services, the problem started in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, and users in the US and Canada had similar problems yesterday.

RIM has now issued an official statement, and have said that they are seeing significant increases in service levels and are continuing to work to fix the problems.

Facebook And eBay Team Up To Create New Social Shopping Experience

Facebook and eBay have announced today at the Innovate, eBay’s developer conference, being held today through Friday in San Francisco. That the companies will be joining forces to create new social shopping experience for consumers and Facebook users, with eBay integrating Facebook’s Open Graph 2.0 into its commerce platforms.

The new global commerce systems, will come under the umbrella of a new business unit called X.commerce and include eBay, PayPal, and Magento.

Nokia 603 Symbian Belle Smartphone Announced

Nokia has announced its latest smartphone that will come with Nokia’s Symbian Belle, the Nokia 603, and it feature a 3.5 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels.

Processing is provided by a single core 1GHz processor, and there is also a rear facing 5 megapixel camera which can record HD video in 720 at 30 frames per second, plus some on board photo editing software.

Starr Labs iTar Transforms Your iPad Into A Guitar (video)

Starr Labs the creators of MIDI Guitars, MIDI controllers, alternate MIDI instruments have unveiled their latest creation over on the Kickstarter website called the iTar. The iTar has been designed to transform your humble iPad into a 21st century guitar.

At it’s heart the device is a button-based guitar fretboard (Starr Labs patented fingerboard) integrated with a dock for the iPad. The  fingerboard has already been used on instruments built for the likes of Vernon Reid, the Chemical Brothers, Pendulum, Linkin Park and Lou Reed to name just a few.

Apple Releases iOS 5 Cards App

When Apple announced the new iPhone 4S, which will go on sale tomorrow, they also announced a new iOS 5 that would be available with iOS 5, called ‘Cards’, which is basically an application that will let you create a personalized card and send it to one of your friends direct from your iOS device.

The Cards app will work with your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch as long as your device is running iOS 5, and once you have created an purchased your card it will be sent directly to the person and address you have nominated.

Forza 4 vs GT 5–Video Comparison Side-by-side (video)

With Forza 4 already launched in the US and arriving here tomorrow, if you are still undecided as to whether to make the plunge. A great video has been put together with compares the two great driving games Forza 4 and GT5 side-by-side.

The video has been created by GameTrailers and provides a good comparison between the two games sound the differences in graphics, sound and motion. Check it out after the jump and let us know your thoughts on which you think is better in the comments below.

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Martin Jetpack Release on 2012

Martin Jetpack will lastly be made available for public purchase. It originally debuted back again in 2008 and save for some small tweaks and adjustments, its design has remained exactly the same. In order to allow it to be publicly obtainable, Glenn Martin’s jetpack had to become tailored about the FAA’s ultralight requirements, which imply that its speed was limited to a maximum of 63mph and its maximum flight time limited to a mere thirty min…