Archive for November, 2010 - Page 23

Barcode scanners that work with Android or iOS phones have become all the rage thanks to a myriad of apps that allow people to do searches for products simply by using that scanner. Amazon has recently come out with a shopping app for just such a reason and now EBay [...]

Remote devices that allow streaming of video from them to a television seem to be coming out at a rapid pace over the last few months. Just a few months ago Western Digital released the WD TV Live and since its release, Western Digital has apparently been working hard to [...]

WiFi Direct has long been considered the biggest rival to Bluetooth technology thanks to the ability to allow devices that have been certified to connect to one another without needing a router or some other bridging device. The LG BD690 has recently been certified as the first Blu-ray player to [...]

EA  is apparently all about Thanksgivings sales and their festive spirit extends to Black Friday as well. Mirror’s Edge is not so much in impulse buy iPad App Store territory as it is on Impulse Buy mountain firing signal flares and showing skin to passing helicopters at $5.99, and from [...]

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the PSP 2 / PlayStation Phone. Is it real? Is it fake? Sony Ericsson CEO (and TFTS friend) Bert Nordberg seemed to think it was real. Now, an inside source who was briefed on the phone has talked to popular tech website MobileCrunch. [...]

It appears Microsoft and Activision had their signals crossed and the news of the Black Ops Double XP bonanza has been greatly exaggerated. You’re going to have to settle for scalping pretend Russians for regular stinky old single serving XP. We know. And to think we dusted and wiped the [...]

Yahoo Connected TVs are kind of a big deal – it’s platform that Yahoo developed that allows widget-style “apps” to be run on the TV set. They’ve been around for over a year, but because it’s, well, Yahoo, behind it, nobody is really paying attention to them. But, with Google [...]

Yep, he said it, and I’m not even going to bash him for School For Scoundrels, either. In a recent interview with Telegraph.co.uk, Thornton explained why he thinks the movie industry is currently seeing a decline: “They’re geared toward the video game-playing generation. And these video games, which I’m on [...]

We’ve seen a bunch of rumors lately here and while I usually advise you to carry a grain of salt with you at all times when taking such information in then I’m going to tell you now to make sure you’re sitting on a mountain of salt right now for [...]

Man what is it with disgruntled employees suddenly becoming whistle-blowers these days? I mean, I won’t start to complain about it since it makes for great news, but there sure are some unhappy ex-employees out there. The latest one comes to us from Activision, and in an episode of the [...]