Back in August, it was revealed that Facebook, the owners of the Oculus platform, would shortly require users to have a social media account with them before their latest VR ...
October 25, 2020 at 10:00 am by Mike Sanders
As far as we were aware, Facebook wasn’t planning on officially revealing it’s brand new Oculus Quest 2 VR headset until later this week. It seems, however, that ...
September 14, 2020 at 11:28 am by Mike Sanders
As you may be aware, Apple and Epic Games are currently in the opening sessions of what will undoubtedly be a long legal battle over the former’s policy of taking a 30% ...
August 28, 2020 at 9:50 pm by Mike Sanders
Around a year ago Facebook decided to give its social media interface a facelift which, at the time, was received with some mixed reactions. Largely because people had become ...
August 21, 2020 at 10:25 am by Mike Sanders
Back when Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014 (for a figure believed to be roughly in the region of $2BN), to date the two companies have (perhaps surprisingly) been run pretty ...
August 20, 2020 at 12:25 pm by Mike Sanders
It’s certainly been a rough few months as we all look to try and stay safe in these troubling times. For social media, however, attempting to keep on top of the masses ...
August 12, 2020 at 8:57 am by Mike Sanders
So, last night we received the bombshell news that Microsoft was officially shutting down its Mixer streaming platform. Well, more accurately, that it had been sold and would ...
June 23, 2020 at 12:11 pm by Mike Sanders
Well, 2019 is coming to a close and it’s certainly been a year that has kept us busy here at the eTeknix offices. Not that (while thinking about it) any other year has ...
December 25, 2019 at 9:00 am by Mike Sanders
With it being just under a week now until the ‘Storm Area 51’ social media group supposedly attempts a mass raid on the highly-secure military site, it’s ...
September 14, 2019 at 11:53 am by Mike Sanders
You may recall a couple of months ago, that a new Facebook group was taking the world of social media (and alien hunters) by storm. Named ‘Storm Area 51 – They ...
September 10, 2019 at 9:24 am by Mike Sanders
When using your social media accounts, do you tend to use a lot of emojis? -If you do, then it may be revealing something about you that you didn’t realise. Particularly ...
August 20, 2019 at 3:10 pm by Mike Sanders
A little over a month ago, a social media group that was effectively looking to organise a ‘raid’ on Area 51 (presumably to say hello to some aliens) started going ...
August 7, 2019 at 1:12 pm by Mike Sanders
Unless you’ve had your head in a social media exclusion hole for the last month, you have probably heard about the Facebook group that was attempting to organise a mass ...
August 6, 2019 at 9:45 am by Mike Sanders
Facebook is now facing a $5 billion fine from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in relation to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This fine is in violation of a 2012 FTC ...
July 24, 2019 at 4:07 pm by Ron Perillo
Even if you are not on social media recently, you have most likely heard about people planning to storm Area 51 in the news. The Facebook campaign has gone way beyond viral. ...
July 22, 2019 at 7:43 pm by Ron Perillo
