Archive for November, 2010 - Page 10

HTC originally announced the Gratia smartphone back in mid-October and at the time it was expected to come available across Europe sometime before the end of November. Well, the month is almost over and it looks like HTC has quietly [...]

If anything beats murdering aliens dead with spaceships while taking a break from murdering aliens on foot it’s doing it with friends and Bungie are well aware of that. Which is why they prototyped an entire multiplayer mode based on [...]

With Black Friday out of the way one would think that the big sales have officially come to an end. Well, in theory that would be correct but there are a few exceptions to that rule. First, as we have [...]

We usually relish a nice reveal, the thrill of decyphering clues, tearing up screenshots and the like. We like to hear from developers about their upcoming games, is what we’re saying, even if we do live in perpetual dread of [...]

Which means now it looks like this: photo realistic car porn half a decade years in the making at number one, the formerly reigning explosive cutscene with occasional raisins of gameplay calling shotgun and Leonardo da Vinci’s tanks on what’s [...]

The newest version of the DARwIn Robot is beginning to make the rounds of various tech blogs and trade shows and while the look and feel is pretty impressive, what is really making noise is the software that runs it.

After South Korea’s defensive answer to the North Korean shelling of an island that saw four dead, two civilians and two marines, was delayed by thirteen minutes and didn’t actually hit anything, the South Korean Defense Minister Kim Tae-young received [...]

PayPal has recently shared data on Black Friday 2010 transactions. Payments made via PayPal went up by 27% compared to Black Friday 2009. Online and mobile shopping trends suggest generally higher online spending than in previous years. Mobile shopping saw [...]

A Google-branded device running Chrome OS is rumored to come out before the year ends. Google is also planning to release Chrome OS for TVs, tablets and other such devices. Will Chrome OS compete directly with Android?

A recent Microsoft patent filing involves technology that transforms a touchscreen’s surface into a real, tactile keyboard (among other things). If this technology flies, will this render real keyboards obsolete?