Archive for December, 2010 - Page 2

Call this part article, part philanthropy as we help get the word out about a major chunk of camera history that’s been heisted. The first ever Red Epic camera to be shipped out has been stolen from its owner’s house during a break-in.

Oh no! This doesn’t give Android a good name at all. You know Coby, they produce ultra-cheap stuff. Cheap tablets, cheap netbooks, cheap MP3 players. Jay Harden of Illinois purchased two $150 Coby Android tablets for his two daughters this Christmas. When the 12-year-old girl opened her tablet, she found [...]

There are plenty of different programs that can measure how somebody tweets or just how good other people think those tweets are, but it is possible that “Who Gives a Tweet” can change the way people use Twitter.

Since its inception, the Internet has been a pretty good place to make a buck. When it was first around most companies like AOL simply charged to get on and now that is a way of life, but now there are charges for the content on the ‘net itself and [...]

Ford MyKey has been quite the tool for parents controlling their children when it comes to driving their cars. Now a new tool will even allow parents to control what Sirius radio stations their children can listen to.

MiFi’s are pretty popular these days. It’s just something else clogging up the 2.4Ghz band, but I’ll leave that for another day. A few weeks ago, the tech blogs had spied a WiMAX MiFi from Novatel going through the FCC and now, we’ve got what looks to be a picture [...]

When the Vietnam Expansion Pack for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was released about two weeks ago, a race between PC, 360 and PS3 players began. The race is to see which platform’s players could perform 69 million team actions the fastest (dropping medipacks, repairing vehicles, reviving fallen teammates, so forth), [...]

Any way you care to slice it, Kevin Butler has been an undeniable success for Sony’s advertising campaign. He’s quirky, shallow, self-absorbed and just an all-around funny guy. Needless to say, Microsoft’s ad campaigns have been forgettable at best, especially when put up against Sony’s. So, Microsoft has done what [...]

The rivalry between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell is one that will go down in the annals of video game history, thanks in no small part to the stellar documentary King of Kong. Ever since Wiebe regained the record this past September, though, he finds himself stuck at the top [...]

Activision’s executive vice-president and chief public policy officer is once again speaking out against California’s violent video games  legislation that is currently being mulled over by the Supreme Court. This time, his forum is the San Fransisco Chronicle, which has allowed him to write an opinion piece in order to [...]