We recently argued that console gaming's default $60 price point can't compete indefinitely against other gaming options. With over 6,500 comments, it certainly sparked some passionate debate. So we decided to take a deeper look at the alternatives. It's clear that if you're a game creator, the riskiest possible market to ...
You obviously bought your game console to play games, but these days, you can do more with an Xbox 360 or PS3 than rampage through Modern Warfare 3 maps. A lot more. Thanks to a number of awesome updates, both the 360 and PS3 are now viable all-in-one entertainment hubs, offering ...
The Android phone you carry around in your pocket can help you find restaurants, tweet, and navigate your around the city, but it might soon have another unwanted feature--creating a black hole in your bank account. That's because hackers are working on viruses that could quickly rack up charges on ...
Picture this: Facebook is the proud new owner of Instagram, the photo-sharing mobile app. Cost of the acquisition? A cool $1 billion. News of the purchase immediately sent the web into overdrive, launching the company into a trending topic on Twitter and causing a frenzy of searches on the social ...
China has said it will aim to bring faster and cheaper Internet access to more people, following complaints that a near monopoly by state-backed firms had hurt service. China has the world's largest number of Internet users at half a billion, but Beijing maintains strict controls over content and recently it ...
A growing dissatisfaction among office workers with the clunky computers their employers force them to use, in contrast to the sleek Apple devices many have at home, could yet benefit incumbent suppliers like Dell, a top Dell executive said. As Apple's third-generation iPad went on sale on Friday, accompanied by the ...
Despite continued poor sales, Research in Motion (RIM) isn’t ready to give up on the BlackBerry PlayBook yet. TechRadar reports that the 7-inch tablet will be upgraded to RIM’s long-awaited BlackBerry 10 OS when it is finally released later ...
Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate the financial success of Apple Inc's iOS platform. Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods ...
From the makers behind the viral iPhone 5 concept that envisioned the device with a stunning laser keyboard comes a breathtaking new vision for the iPad 3, with an edge-to-edge retina display and 3D multiplayer hologram for gaming. Now, this is exactly what not to expect ...
Built Without Compromise and Less Than an Inch Thin Revolutionary Design Borders on Borderless: A 14-inch Screen in a 13-inch Form Factor Designed to Help Professionals Power Through Their Day – and Look Good Doing It Dell unveiled its XPS 14z laptop, one ...
Angry Birds Space (Image courtesy Rovio) They've conquered smartphones and social networks. Next up for the Angry Birds? The final frontier. We've got the exclusive scoop on the next official game in Rovio's blockbuster, bird-flinging franchise: "Angry Birds Space." The game is due ...
Google will reportedly soon jump into the consumer electronics market with a “home entertainment device,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The fabled device will first work as a wireless music streaming unit, but could later be updated for other purposes. Currently, ...
Android gamers looking for lightning-quick action and the thrill of chasing a high score should look no further. These are the top 10 of the best arcade games on Android, designed to take players to the limits of their skills. 1. ...
Without the hope of the iPhone 5 anytime soon, the Apple rumormongers have turned to Apple TV for all of their tech-gadget fantasies. (Above, one of the many totally made up "concepts" that fanboys have posted to the Web.) Today we get the latest round, with USA Today igniting the ...
Sometime in the future, Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad and MacBook might work longer than ever on a smaller and lighter battery pack. How is this possible? By using hydrogen fuel cells, which convert oxygen and hydrogen into water, heat and electricity. The US Patent & Trademark Office has ...
To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd in the U.S. market, just ask eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe. The world's biggest online auction site had about a hundred engineers developing new iterations of eBay's shopping app for Apple Inc's iPhone a few months ago, and another hundred ...
Apple Inc is in talks to buy Israel's Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, for as much as $500 million, according to a report published on Tuesday. The Calcalist financial daily said Apple is in advanced negotiations to buy Anobit for $400 million to $500 million. Anobit has developed a chip ...
Samsung is developing an 11.6-inch tablet with a 2560x1600 pixel display, which might put the display of Apple's next generation iPad to shame, Boy Genius Report claims, citing a "trusted source." The tablet will reportedly run Android 4.0 with a 2 GHz dual-core Exynos 5250 CPU, and it's likely to be ...
OnLive, the startup whose technology streams high-end video games over an Internet connection, is expanding its service to tablets and mobile devices. OnLive Inc. said Thursday that it will now stream console-quality games on tablets and phones using a mobile application. Users could already stream such games using OnLive's "microconsole," a ...
The first tablet to run Google's Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 version of Android is headed for the U.S., with a lightweight price tag of $99. But the Chinese-made device is no bargain-basement entry into the space. Manufacturer Ainovo -- with partners MIPS Technologies and Ingenic, who made the processor and semiconductors ...
Dell said it would halt sales of its Android tablet computer in the US market, as rival Amazon's new Kindle Fire has heated up in a market dominated by Apple's iPad. A message on the Texas-based computer's website said that the seven-inch (17.8-centimeter) Streak tablet powered by Google's mobile operating software ...
Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them. Amid a broad outcry, Sen. Al Franken is calling for an investigation. A class-action lawsuit has been filed ...
The race to pack as many megapixels into the most pocket-friendly products has been heating up for awhile. While camera manufacturers have their work cut out for them, the smartphone industry has also taken notice. Picture quality has become important to smartphone users, which makes sense given that the iPhone ...
Android users with App envy may be interested in the latest Siri Contender from a startup named Tronton. The company launched Cluzee on Tuesday, labeled as a “talking intelligent personal digital assistant,” and the app has began to create some buzz. Cluzee is a free download, 19M in size and is ...
It's no surprise to analysts, but it's newsworthy all the same. China has overtaken the United States for the first time to officially become the world's largest smartphone market. So says Strategy Analytics. The market research firm reports that smartphone shipments reached a record 24 million units in China during ...
Game publisher Square Enix announced on its blog today that it plans to release a version of the beloved role-playing game Chrono Trigger for the iPhone and iPod touch next month. Originally released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo, Chrono Trigger is hailed by many as a landmark game for its ...
It's been a huge week for digital music lockers. First Apple made iTunes Match available to U.S. customers, then Google Music launched. These two services are competing with with Amazon's Cloud Player (which is integrated with the new Kindle Fire) in a new realm of cloud music storage. The three major ...
Juniper Networks is raising eyebrows in the mobile industry this morning with a new report claiming the incidence of malware targeting Android devices has risen by 472 percent since July of this year. Presumably, that number is augmented by “hundreds” of malware samples the company uncovered in a series of ...
Amazon will untie the bow on its long-anticipated iPad competitor, the Kindle Fire. While no company to date has been able to make so much as ...
Google has released Android Ice Cream Sandwich earlier than expected, but we don’t think anyone will complain. In an Android developer group on the company’s Google+ social network Google informed developers that it has released the source code for Ice Cream Sandwich. So the question you might be asking now ...
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