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Today on Tech Brief: Inception for gamers, the must have iPhone App and Microsoft hope Zune will be music to British ears.
• After reading the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Nerdcore: hip-hop for rhyming geeks you may be wondering what the difference between a Geek and a Nerd is. An email sent to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News sheds some light on the subject.
"Nerds have limited social skills and/or are socially awkward. Geeks are socially aware and know how to interact and converse with members of the opposite sex."
So now you know.
• Not content with making over $753 million from his summer Hollywood blockbuster Inception, director Christopher Nolan has revealed that he is looking at a spin-off videogame based on the film. that Mr Nolan said at the film's Rome debut that a video game had "all kinds of ideas that you can't fit into a feature film".
"That's something we've been talking about and are looking at doing long term."
• Andy Payne, the head of the video games industry trade body UK Interactive Entertainment Association (formerly known as Elspa) has lifted the lid on one app that is on David Cameron's iPhone: Angry Birds.
Developed by Finnish firm Rovio, the game has players catapulting birds into fortifications, with the goal of knocking out pigs who have stolen their eggs.
that "The Prime Minister is a huge Angry Birds fan and has paid for the full game".
This means the PM now has a common bond with former footballer Gazza who, , bought his copy yesterday.
"Gazza is hooked on Angry Birds. He downloaded it for free but paid for the add-on so he could try the extra levels."
• Rumours are around that BlackBerry looks set to enter the tablet market, following the success of Apple's iPad.
that the firm could unveil its new tablet computer, as well as the operating system that will power it, next week at a developers' conference in San Francisco.
The newspaper's sources say that so called Black-Pad would come with a 17.8cm (7 inch) touch screen, one or two cameras, Bluetooth and wi-fi but the makers have declined to confirm or deny the rumours. Wall Street Journal say if they do release a tablet, it won't just be Apple they will be competing with.
"RIM's tablet will face stiff competition in an increasingly crowded market. The launch of Apple's iPad in April sparked a rush to build similar devices by a raft of firms from Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. to Taiwan's Acer Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. and Dell Inc. of the U.S. Many of those competing tablets will run Android, meaning RIM's new operating system will go head-to-head with Apple and Google offerings in tablets as well."
•, Microsoft is to bring its Zune music service to the UK ahead of the launch of its Windows Phone 7.
The phone synchronises with the Zune software - much in the same way iPhones do with the iTunes. It also has built in wi-fi, touch screens and FM radio.
The magazine speculates that the addition of Zune is hoped to help sales of the phone.
"The timing of the project - weeks ahead of the launch of Windows Phone 7 - suggests the company will use the service as a sweetener to boost sales of handsets.
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