Archive for November, 2009 - Page 19

Richard Schaeffer is the NSA official who said before the Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security that the National Security Agency has been working closely with Microsoft to enhance Windows 7′s security guide, igniting fear that the software giant has deliberately coded a backdoor into the newly announced operating [...]

Motorola has announced a new touchscreen phone, and this time it’s not an Android device. And this time it is not coming from one of the big four carriers in the USA. The Crush, that’s the name of it, has been officially announced and it will be available from US [...]

Software developers who want to come up with their own software for Microsoft’s touch-based Surface technology can now do so for free, as the Microsoft Surface SDK is now free for all at the Microsoft Download Center.

If you wanted to get your hands on a Barnes & Noble Nook eBook reader but didn’t order one yet and decided to get a better price during the holiday season, we have some bad news. Apparently the pre-orders for the Nook have exceeded all expectations (who would’ve thought) and [...]

Super hero-themed MMORPG Champions Online is having its second free-play weekend, after only being released two months ago and having its first free-play weekend one month ago. The upcoming free-play weekend, which will be based around Thanksgiving, will coincide with an in-game content update called ‘Nemesis Confrontation’, and will feature [...]

Just when we thought the OpenOffice Mouse debacle and the Sony Vaio X “dead rat” are going to be the most popular models this month, we laid our eyes a new mouse introduced by the folks from Smartfish Technologies. The Smartfish Ergomotion mouse functions like any other run-of-the-mill wireless laser [...]

AT&T has a brand new phone for us and this time it’s coming from Pantech. The Impact will be available starting this Sunday, November 22, and it will cost $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate when purchased with a new 2-year contract.

If the BlackBerry Pearl lineup has been lacking media attention as of late because RIM has been more interested in their QWERTY mobiles, apparently the Canadian manufacturer has been working behind the scenes and plan to revive it with the new BlackBerry Pearl 9100.

Just yesterday we showed you the first leaked picture of the upcoming Motorola Motus Android phone and today we already have more details for you. Motorola hasn’t announced the handset yet but it looks like the full specs and features have been also leaked.

Cloud Engines has announced today the second generation Pogoplug. That’s all fine and dandy but what’s a Pogoplug most people will ask. A Pogoplug is an interesting device that will let you access all the content you want from your USB drives over the Internet. That means you don’t have [...]