Archive for October, 2010 - Page 22

The blisteringly fast Shanghai-Hangzhou line has opened over in China, and it’s been reported that it opened with a bang, too; a world speed record kind of bang.

Google is known for their (sometimes) questionable tech support, and this latest bit won’t win them any fans. Their Nexus One was a great experiment on selling unlocked phones direct to the customer in the United States and the primary support method was the Nexus One forums. Now, even though [...]

Free stuff and Apple are a combination on par with, say, peanut butter and chocolate or machine guns and high-performance sports cars. Admittedly, this isn’t exactly a huge giveaway on Apple’s part, but if you’ve been considering an iPad for a gift in the upcoming holiday shopping frenzy, well, you’ve [...]

EA Sports MMA may be the first and last mixed martial arts game from Electronic Arts. Regular readers will know that it was their attempt to capitalize on the recent booming popularity of MMA, but following disagreements with UFC boss Dana White, they instead had to blow ahead with Strikeforce, [...]

Details for the Western Digital WD TV Live Hub leaked a little early, of which we mentioned them just a few days ago. Well, the good news as of today is that Western Digital has come forward with the official announcement — the WD TV Live Hub set-top box is [...]

As many of our readers are probably aware, before they joined the Microsoft camp, Bungie was actually a top Mac game developer. They made the great “Marathon” series which back in the early 1990′s, many Mac people loved to brag that “it’s actually better than Doom.” Yeah, Mac people were [...]

Amazon had previously hinted October 26th as the launch day for Office for Mac 2011 and coming just as expected, the software is now available for purchase. Of course, this latest release has (at least) one thing going for it that may be considered a good reason to upgrade — [...]

We have an unlock for all of you iPhone 4 / 3GS / 3G users that are currently on iOS 4.1 or iOS 4.2 beta, and it comes straight from Apple since this particular unlock uses an iOS issue recently found. But, unfortunately for you, it’s not the carrier unlock [...]

While most of us take clean drinking water and electricity for granted, this is not the case in many areas of the world. Potable water is a scarce resource when there are no filtration facilities available, or during natural disasters. Gadgets like The Essential Elements’ Hydra might come in handy [...]

The HTC Desire may have only launched with Telus in early-August, and at the time it had Android 2.1 installed. And all things considered, an Android handset launching in August with 2.1 was pretty good — but that has not stopped Telus from quickly moving on and offering their users [...]