The latest stats show that in the UK 600,000 people left Facebook in December 2012. Now figures for the US show that in the same period 1.4m people left the site.

The question is has Facebook reached either saturation point in the UK and US or is it starting to lose its popularity. Social media sites do have a phase of being the most popular and “in” place to be and then they can lose that status just as quick.

Personally, I believe it is starting to lose some popularity but due to the vast numbers of current users it will take forever for Facebook to fade if at all.

In the market today the Nintendo DS, 3DS and Sony PSP Vita are examples of handheld consoles that are suffering from smartphone gaming.

Can these portable devices survive the onslaught of newer and faster smartphones?

In reality I doubt they will, which is a shame as nothing on a smartphone comes close to gaming on a PSP Vita. Analogue controls are just unbeatable for advanced gaming and the like.

What do you think is the future ? Personally I think the future of these companies is in offering their famous games as software in iOS, android, windows and blackberry platforms. That way we can all enjoy Super Mario and Resident Evil again, but on our smartphones.

Musical Fidelity has released details of its new M1 SDAC. This new amp builds on the success of the award-winning M1 DAC and uses parts from the M6 DAC, the M1 SDAC is a DAC, preamp, headphone amp and aptX Bluetooth receiver in one.

Set to retail at £799, the M1 SDAC has a selection of inputs: two digital coaxial inputs, one digital optical input, one AES/EBU balanced input, an asynchronous USB input and two RCA analogue inputs.

The digital coaxial, balanced and USB inputs all accept music files up to 24/192, while all the digital inputs are internally upsampled to 24/192.

There’s a coaxial and an optical output, too, plus an analogue-to-digital converter within the DAC section, allowing a digital output for any input.

Also on board are the aptX Bluetooth and headphone amplifier modules. The Bluetooth receiver is Musical Fidelity’s V 2.1 aptX receiver, which accepts up to 24bit/48kHz files.

Based on Musical Fidelity’s previous audio hardware, this hopefully should be a gem, and having Bluetooth apt-x is excellent.

Sky’s Sky Go service which allows users to stream content based on their Sky subscription will from this week, for £5 per month, Sky will allow up to four users to download on-demand movies and TV, including exclusive content. Each download will last for a month, but you will be free to download as much as your device can hold.

Sky claims that more than a quarter of its 11 million subscribers use Sky Go already, and believes that Sky Go Extra is the first mobile TV subscription service in the UK and Ireland to offer Hollywood movies to download and watch offline. The WiFi-based platform is Sky’s attempt to capitalise on the success of its on-demand offering.

The Sky announcement will increase the pressure on services such as Netflix and Lovefilm, who do not have access to the same content that Sky secures exclusively from movie studios, as well as the programmes it makes itself.
Sky claims that it offers around 70 of the top 100 films, around six months after their cinema release, and that this is more than its rival subscription services combined.

Question is just how much can you really view on your portable device and would you be tempted.