Google TV – much more than a hobby, way cooler than Apple TV

Mar. 19, 2010 (7:24 pm) By: Christian Zibreg In: Android, Apple, Apple Picks, Consumer, Geek Pick, Google

Google will be stepping all over Apple’s toes with a rumored Android-powered networked television that runs apps. If Google has its way, there’ll be no escaping those text and display adverts. Google already feeds you a bunch of ads when you surf the web on your desktop or notebook. Have a smartphone? Google ads. Your [...]

Apple pays tribute to its director Jerome B. York who passed away after a stroke

Mar. 19, 2010 (5:10 pm) By: Christian Zibreg In: Apple, News

Apple has paid a tribute to its board member in a statement and on the Apple.com homepage, by replacing all its features with an appropriate message. Jerome B. York, Apple’s board member, passed away after a stroke at the age of 71. Memphis, Tennessee-born, he graduated from the United States Military Academy, and received an [...]

Papercraft Nintendo Gameboy almost looks real enough to play

Mar. 19, 2010 (4:39 pm) By: Doug Osborne In: Games, News

I hate to say it, but when I was a young lad, I was never really good at making art from cutting out pieces of construction paper and gluing them together. Often my paper artwork looked like something that went through a shredder several times and was assembled together in a mound of glue. In other [...]

LinkedIn for iPhone v3.1 available

Mar. 19, 2010 (4:05 pm) By: Brian Osborne In: Apple, Mobile

Back in December, LinkedIn launched version 3.0 of their iPhone app. Three months later and the professional social network has updated its app with the latest enhancements and performance improvements. Those improvements concentrated on improving speed and stability for users with large networks. A lot of work was also done to streamline the use of the [...]

Molyneux worried as Fable III has no combat for first 30 minutes

Mar. 19, 2010 (3:38 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Games, News

Fans of the Fable games will be looking forward to later this year when the third game in the series arrives. But the game may go through a few major changes before we hit release day. Peter Molyneux, Creative Director of Microsoft Game Studios, Europe, and Lionhead’s optimist designer, is a little bit worried after playing [...]

Review: JVC Everio GZ-HM300 camcorder

Mar. 19, 2010 (3:00 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In: Gadgets, Gadgets Picks, News, Reviews

If you have to shoot a lot of video, and quality matters, you really can’t beat a camcorder. Today’s point-and-shoot cameras take good enough video and some DSLRs can take great video, but a camcorder is still the best way to get high quality, maximum versatility, and excellent ease-of-use. JVC’s Everio GZ-HM300 is a compact [...]

Limbo wins 2 awards at IGF plus extended gameplay trailer

Mar. 19, 2010 (2:40 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Games, News

The very dark and unique game called Limbo was confirmed as an XBLA release earlier this month. It was also nominated for Technical Excellence and Excellence in Visual Arts at the Independent Games Festival. The game walked away with both awards earlier this week. The video you see above contains an interview with Limbo producer Mads [...]

Chrome is a rocket strapped to your back, IE is a dead horse

Mar. 19, 2010 (2:15 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

If you had to depict your browser of choice as a means of transportation, what would you draw? theNextWeb has brought together a collection of images from CollegeHumor showing the difference between Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Chrome. You can see Chrome above, and IE below. They seem to be the two extremes of web browsing [...]

GameStop rewards program starting this May

Mar. 19, 2010 (1:34 pm) By: Meghan Watt In: Games, News

The rumor is true: GameStop will launch a rewards program based on the one its already implementing across seas.

The App Store is now on Facebook

Mar. 19, 2010 (1:21 pm) By: Christian Zibreg In: Apple, Apple Picks, Mobile, News, Social Networks

Apple has launched a dedicated App Store page on Facebook late Thursday night. Interestingly, the App Store fan page is accessed via the facebook.appstore.com subdomain on the Apple-owned appstore.com domain. A short description explains that the page is meant to promote the new iPhone and iPod touch software arrivals (no mention of iPad apps): Welcome to [...]

Commodore computers make a return this year

Mar. 19, 2010 (12:53 pm) By: Doug Osborne In: Chips, News

If you ever owned a Commodore 64 computer back in the early eighties, you remember how cool it was to have a compact computer that, at the time, contained pretty decent audio and video capabilities. Then unfortunately, just a few short years later, the PC revolution occurred and all the Commodore computers of the world became [...]

Blame Wintek for the iPad delay, not Apple

Mar. 19, 2010 (12:13 pm) By: Christian Zibreg In: Apple, Mobile, News

It appears that Apple’s touch panel supplier Wintek is to be blamed for a slight iPad delay. According to a Taiwanese semiconductor trade paper Digitimes, which relayed a Chinese-language report on Liberty Times, Wintek’s low yield rate has forced Apple to push the launch of its iPad from the original late March target announced at [...]

Possible release date for Dragon Age 2 inside copies of Awakening expansion

Mar. 19, 2010 (11:34 am) By: Meghan Watt In: Games, News, Rumor

Tucked into new copies of the Dragon Age Origins: Awakening expansion lies a card stamped with a blood dragon and a date, February 1, 2011. Although nothing has been confirmed, this could very well be the release date for Dragon Age 2.

Mac security expert: “OS X is safer, but less secure.”

Mar. 19, 2010 (11:08 am) By: John Brownlee In: Apple

Exactly a year after he hacked a Mac in seconds, famed Mac security analyst Charlie Miller is ready to do it again: he intends to disclose the method he used to find up to twenty zero day security holes in Apple’s Mac OS X at this year’s CanSecWest annual security conference. According to Miller, “OS [...]