Archive for September, 2010 - Page 29

Ever since the early days home video game consoles have pretty much always featured some sort of hardware controller. That is, a hardware controller with your typical face buttons and/or a directional pad/joystick. If you ask a hardcore console gamer, this is certainly the way to go with such things [...]

There have been a surprising number of Bluetooth-based keyboards out there for the iPad (and from the look of it, possibly the iPhone as well, though there’s nothing saying it would work for it), which is no real surprise given that some are calling the iPad, and those like it, [...]

We’ve been talking a lot lately about GreenPois0n, the first jailbreak tool that is thought to jailbreak iOS 4.1 and 3.2.2 devices in the near future, but that doesn’t make it a real product. In fact if you find it lying anywhere around the Internet and decide to download it [...]

You have waited for a long while to officially upgrade your Motorola Droid X to Android 2.2, and today, just like we told you the other day, you can finally enjoy that upgrade. Even more interestingly, in case you want to root your smartphone after going through the Froyo upgrade [...]

The software that a smartphone is running has become an integral part of a buyers decision process. Some may choose Android, some iOS and some BlackBerry OS, just to name a few. However, no matter which you choose, if a handset isn’t powered by up to date hardware the chances [...]

If you have certain breeds of Sony Vaio laptop, including the Sony Vaio EA laptop, you’ll be able to play Playstation 3 games on them, and conversely, use your laptop in conjunction with your PS3 as a big keyboard.

Mobile carriers have constantly been struggling with increased data traffic on their networks. AT&T has jumped to a tiered data plan with monthly limits, and Verizon is expected to do something similar with their 4G LTE data plans. Sprint is also offering 4G data, but it’s unlimited right now, sans [...]

For those of you who might have been thinking WiMax to be a vaporware technology–and you can hardly be blamed for that at this point–you may now rest assured it almost certainly isn’t, barring some kind of calamity. The map below shows that Clear service–the new WiMax–is at least kind [...]

Those of us who have long made Steam the only place where we purchase PC games have been wondering what has taken so long. The market-savy NPD Group is reporting that finally, digital sales of PC games have surpassed retail, boxed copies of said games.

The Android 2.2 Froyo update isn’t even hitting all major Android smartphones out there yet, although the Droid X is getting it as we speak, and word of Gingerbread devices is already hitting the Interwebs.