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Details might well be a little scarce when it coming to Microsoft’s already in-development next operating system, Windows 8, but thanks to an apparent leak it seems as though the OS will be ready for release in 2012.

Irish Rail has this week introduced live updates for individual stations available through the main IrishRail.ie page. The service also includes a “Travel Alerts!!” bar, with various major updates that might be of interest to those travelling.

The world just got a little sadder this morning with news that a young man is to marry a character from a particularly addictive game for Nintendo’s DS based on the concept of developing a relationship with a virtual girlfriend.

Good afternoon all, hopefully everyone’s had a good weekend and we’re all reasonably well recovered from last week, which was a bit of a nightmare. Anyway, for those of you who don’t read the blog too ...

It’s started to look as though Facebook will soon allow its users to comment on other users status updates without the inconvenience of having to actually, y’know, leaving the safety and comfort of their own mail client.

With the release of its lastest update to Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.2, Apple has cut support for Intel’s mobile processor line, the Atom. Now though, it seems that some intrepid “hackintosh” users have hacked support for the Atom back into the OS.

Facebook has levelled its not inconsiderable legal arm on marketing centric company USocial, which has been allegedly selling friends to users, bolstering friend counts and, in some cases, allowing users to profit on their profiles.

Word cropped up over the weekend of a new worm hitting jailbroken iPhones, while it might not be the first iPhone worm to appear, it’s certainly one that’s more interesting for the panic-mongers out there, given the amount of activity it manages once it’s infected a device.

Nineteen-year-old Dmititr Guzner is to serve a year and a day in a federal penitentiary for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the official website for the Church of Scientology.

Sony has revealed plans to add 3D functionality to its PlayStation 3 console by the end of the financial year 2010 (or the end of March 2011, in real money).

Google took the time yesterday to show off its upcoming entry to the operating system stakes, Chrome OS, and from what we’ve seen so far it looks to be very interesting indeed.