Archive for October, 2010 - Page 15

Oh dear. Jobs’ attempt to rush the Flash Castle have just taken another step. New Apple MacBook Air laptops (the ones announced at the Back to the Mac event recently) are coming with one thing missing – the Adobe Flash plugin for web browsers. While previous Mac OS X computers [...]

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and the Dell Streak are two Android devices that certainly annoyed their owners when it comes to Android OS updates. Luckily for Dell Streak owners Dell has decided to jump to Froyo instead of Eclair but the same thing isn’t happening with Sony Ericsson.

Well, they decided to go with “4G”. After much speculation and rumors, T-Mobile US has officially unveiled their T-Mobile myTouch 4G, a new Android device for the carrier. As with the previous myTouch phones, it’s being manufactured by HTC and it’s release date is sort of soon.

A recent report shades some light on the future of the next-gen iPhone, maybe even the upcoming iPhone 5. Apple is now getting ready to include in future smartphones its own custom SIM that means Cupertino is thinking about avoiding any carrier hassles when it comes to iPhone sales, but [...]

All of our more environmentally friendly readers may have a reason to ditch the Wii and go with something else. According to a new report released by Greenpeace, Nintendo placed last in an evaluation of environmentally friendly electronics companies. Nintendo was given a score of 1.8 out of 10, which [...]

A few weeks ago, we told you about how Call of Duty: Black Ops pre-order sales have already surpassed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 pre-orders and (back then), it was still a few more weeks before the game’s release date. Pre-orders for the game are still flying in and [...]

Lots of technology enthusiasts like us use PayPal on a regular basis–whether it’s the cashier for our eBay transactions or numerous other web sites, paying by PayPal, or receiving payments through same, is a way of life in many circles. But its use in the real world is somewhat limited–don’t [...]

The HP Slate 500, the first Windows 7 tablet launched by HP so far, was announced last week and we already know the 8.9-inch machine will cost $799, thus making it a lot more expensive than the iPad or the Galaxy Tab but we had no idea when the device [...]

Do you remember the story of Justin May? The alleged thief who tried to steal unfinished game code from a video game developer’s booth at a gaming expo, right in front of the developers? After blowing off his first court appearance, he’s returned to court but reached a pre-trail probationary [...]

The OnLive MicroConsole has emerged from the depths of FCC testing, and apparently, pretty smoothly as well. But it didn’t come out without a little surprise that we hadn’t heard about yet, namely, ZigBee functionality.