Archive for August, 2010 - Page 11

If this new technology of NEC picks up, a lot of people and groups are going to be identified easier regardless if they have aged or put on some weight.

RIM has something brewing on its end, something about a flipping and rotating keyboard. With a lot of enhanced keyboards like foldable and angled keyboards, this one has to be interesting.

We already know that Toshiba is interested in making an iPad alternative and it looks like we have more and more details about the unreleased tablet. Or shall we call it a Smart Pad, as that’s what we’re apparently looking at. Or shall we call it the Folio 100? As [...]

Amazon has stopped selling Xbox Live Arcade games – the pint-sized downloadable games that many enjoy on their Xbox 360s. When you buy the game from Amazon, you’re given a 25-character code that allows you to download the game for free from online. It’s a little odd, since a year [...]

Are you looking for a new, portable external hard drive? Well LaCie has launched a brand new line of such hard drives, the LaCie Rikki Go and you might want to check them out.

Blockbuster, the American rental chain giant that dominated the home rental business since 1985 is preparing to declare bankruptcy. This is according to the Los Angeles Times, who cites people brief on the matter. According their sources, top executives from Blockbuster met with top executives from the movie studios and the banks [...]

If you believe internet rumors, Verizon is going to turn on their LTE network to the public sometime around October. That rumor makes this rumor much more interesting. An unnamed Samsung executive told Dow Jones that metroPCS will turn on their LTE network in September with the LTE-ready Samsung Craft. [...]

Virgin Mobile US’ prepaid unlimited data $40 plan has been getting a lot of coverage in the tech blogs lately. Mainly because we cover tradeshows and keynotes and this will make a lot of us happy. In all the excitement over the new offerings from Sprint’s subsidiary, it was lost and underreported that [...]

So far, all the Microsoft Kinect games shown have been two player only. Bummer, right? That’s not a limitation of the hardware, says Microsoft. That’s a developer choice. The guys at VideoGamer.com chatted with Xbox general manager Kudo Tsunoda at the GamesCom trade show in Europe and he says it’s [...]

Computer hardware enthusiast site Anandtech has posted quite the coup. They’ve managed to secure a leaked engineering sample of one of the fabled upcoming processors from Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture generation. Like any good site, they dropped it in their test bed and ran some benchmarks on it. What [...]