Archive for December, 2010 - Page 18

It’s been a rough couple of weeks for Google TV in the tech blog rumor mill. First, it was reported that Google was telling HDTV manufacturers not to show their Google TV products at CES 2011 next week. Then, it was reported that Logitech was freezing sales of the Logitech [...]

We haven’t had any serious beef with the frankly just ducky Rock Player or anything, but it’s always nice to have choices and the guys behind the much loved video codec-redundancy inducing player aim to gives us some more. Yes, VLC is slowly but surely making its way to Google’s [...]

Watching the development of the digital camera over the ages has been something of a quest for perfection. Between expanding megapixel counts and better ranges and image stabilization and face detection and the lot, it’s been all about reproducing an image as close to actually being there as possible. So [...]

Apple is being rather quiet about this chunk of news, for reasons that baffle me. They’ve managed to sell their one millionth unit of Apple TV, which is no small feat, and since it only took them about three months, the question remains: why isn’t Apple saying much about this?

That whole “It’s on like Donkey Kong!” trademarking thing a while back? Not only had everyone forgotten about it but now it doesn’t even register compared to what Nintendo have just gone and done. You know that rising sun symbol on the Japanese flag, and how it’s known as Land [...]

Those of you still tormented by flashbacks of brutal Soul Calibur defeats at the hands of unforgiving friends should probably sit this one out. Here, we have some pretty Pokemon news and this whole plague of unliving beings thing you can look at to take the edge off. On the [...]

There are a lot of people out there for whom getting something for nothing is a thrill on par with nothing else. Whether they engineer a tiny television into a big screen, discover a way to modify a device into doing something it was never meant to do, some people [...]

Capcom have been doing their darnedest to stoke the fires of anticipation for their upcoming Dead Rising 2 DLC for a minute now, when all they had to do was mention Frank West. And this time around, they’re doing more than mentioning, as they’ve finally put their DLC where their [...]

We, umm have a confession to make. We haven’t ever played a single Pokemon game, ever. Oh, sure there were some false starts with Pokemon Red on the GBA, but we never made it out of the lab, so it doesn’t count. The probably even more terrible admission (to Pokemon [...]

If you’ve found yourself butting up against the limits of your hard drive space for any of a number of reasons, or just wanted to provide epic amounts of storage likely sufficient for your entire neighborhood, then you may want to check out Synology’s new network attached device, the Disk [...]