Archive for November, 2009 - Page 2

Amazon has issued a brief press release today in which it claims that its eBook reader, the famous Kindle, has broken record sales in November. According to Amazon, the Kindle is the “hottest gift this holiday season across all Amazon product categories – not just electronics.”

The ASUS Eee PC 1201HA was discreetly put on sale in the United States this weekend, appearing on the website of big box electronics store Best Buy. It’s on sale at a special price of $330 with free shipping for a cyber monday deal.

If you had doubts that Android was taking over the world, this should help to convince you otherwise as Google’s OS (which was only released one year ago) is now spreading to the ebook reader market, as Netronix is planning to release eBook readers sporting Android.

Are you hotly anticipating the release of the BBC iPlayer on the Xbox 360? Well, your now going to be waiting ‘indefinitely’ as the BBC and Microsoft have reached an impasse over the iPlayer. The disagreement stems from Microsoft wanting to restrict the service to Xbox Live subscribers only.

The Royal Navy will purchase and distribute around 230 Sony PSPs to sailors around the fleet. They will be given to marine warfare engineering techs, and will be loaded with ‘training’ content, like videos about radar, sonar, VHF radio and other communication systems. It’s apart of the Royal Navy’s drive to cut [...]

Users of the HTC Hero will soon be happily getting Android 2.1. This comes after leaked screenshots of a HTC Hero running Android 2.1 started circulating around the internet. The HTC Hero was released earlier this year featuring Android 1.5, and HTC promised a Android 2.0 update last month via Twitter.

Archos is already famous for its Archos 5 and Archos 7 Internet media tablets but that’s not a secret anymore. Either device can be exactly the Internet companion you expect it to be. But will those Archos tablets stand a fighting chance once Apple’s tablet and Microsoft’s Courier come out [...]

I don’t know about you but I am certainly amazed with what Activision managed to do with that Call of Duty franchise. The last game of the series, one which we’ve already seen here at TFTS earlier this month, Modern Warfare 2, has brought in over $550 million in the [...]

A few days ago I showed you a totally inspiring credit card concept, the Live Checking Card, which should, at least in theory, take care of all your credit card related needs. While the Live Checking Card might not be available anytime soon, the Piece of Cake concept I just [...]

Well look what the cat dragged in! A cheaper BlackBerry Bold 9700 seems to be available in Canada. The deal is coming from none other than Best Buy Canada and the giant electronics retailer is even throwing in a $50 gift card.