Archive for October, 2010 - Page 2

Using green gadgets is one thing. Actually wearing green apparel is another. This is just what Timberland is promoting, in partnership with Bionic Yarn. The outdoor-wear company will be producing boots made with recycled rubber and PET. Yes, PET is the same material used in making soda bottles.

I have a spotted past with Xbox Dashboard Updates, even though there’s only been one so far. Back when Microsoft introduced the New Xbox Experience, I complained very loudly about it because I liked the way my Dashboard was, and I hated the idea of goofy looking avatars getting in [...]

Snowblind Studios may not be a name that is instantly familiar to you, but if you’re an RPG fan, you’ve probably played one of Snowblind’s games. They’re responsible for games like Champions of Norrath and Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, isometric dungeon crawlers that went over well with console players. They’re [...]

We kid you not when we say this quaint little town will be using chicken crap to power their homes–at least partially, that is. Alfagy, which has built a turnkey biogas station in Cotswolds, in the heart of England, will process manure and other agricultural wastes into biogas, which will [...]

Samsung announced its Q3 2010 financial results and the numbers are very interesting, at least from the mobile business point of view. The South Korean conglomerate is not just a smartphone or mobile phone creator, but that mobile side of its business is definitely flourishing.

I don’t want to delve too much into the realm of politics on a tech blog, but let’s just say that my political ideologies land somewhere to the left of Rush Limbaugh’s. I disagree with him on almost everything, but I have to give credit where credit is due. When [...]

The more we look at all the rumors, the more real the Google Nexus Two seems to be. Just yesterday we’ve seen some more specs and features of this next Samsung Android handset, and now we have some hints suggesting that the device has already passed through the FCC. ∂

November is getting closer and closer and that’s the month when Apple will finally unify iPhone/iPod touch and iPad iOS versions and, more importantly, bring iOS 4 features to the tablet. iOS 4.2 is going to be available in the near future for download, and, as soon as the official [...]

It seems like a lot of companies are celebrating Halloween by offering up some crazy deals – Epic is offering 31x XP this weekend for playing Gears of War 2 online multiplayer, Valve is in the middle of their second annual Scream Fortress event, and now EA is marking down [...]

Motorola has decided to sue Apple over patent infringement recently and that move certainly didn’t go unnoticed. In fact I think it’s safe to say everyone writing about the current, modern mobile business assumed that Apple will strike right back with a counterclaim of its own, and Cupertino didn’t disappoint.