Archive for December, 2010 - Page 8

Ikea iPhone App Definitely Not What You'd Expect

Ikea iPhone App Offers A Bit Of Fun, Not Much To Do With Furniture
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Whatever it is that you associate with Ikea or would expect from an app bearing the famous Swedish furniture retailer’s name, you’d better put that aside. Because this isn’t it. It’s not a catalog, it’s not a furniture comparison tool, it’s not even an interior decorating app. No, what we’re [...]

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Xbox Live Indie Games Winter Uprising To Be Featured On Dashboard

Xbox Live Dashboard Will Highlight Indie Winter Uprising Games
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Even though Jonathan Blow got pretty mad at the press twisting his words to say that Sony does more for the Indie developer than Microsoft, apparently Redmond took it to heart and have decided to help the little fellows out with a bit of a publicity boost. Since, you know, [...]

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Sony PS3 "Private Key" Discovered, "Full Control" Over Console Reportedly Possible

New PS3 Hack Will Allow Unsigned Code To Be Run, According To Authors
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

It’s not all roses for the PS3 following further developments on the thriving PS3 hacking front today, as the group responsible for the Wii’s Homebrew Channel, going by the slightly counter-intuitive moniker of fail0verflow have turned their attention to Sony’s pride and joy and have summarily proceeded to strip it [...]

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Motorola Tablet To Be Called "Xoom", No 4G Yet

Motorola's Tablet Will Be Called Xoom At Retail, But Won't Have 4G Yet, Says Droid Blogger
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Droid-Life blogger Kellex gets some of the best stuff out there, and now he’s reporting that the Motorola Android tablet that will be unveiled next week at CES will, in fact, be called the Motorola Xoom. No codenames here, that’s what it will be called at retail. Previously, we had [...]

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Chad Ochocinco To Endorse Motorola Tablet?

NFL Star May Be Starring In Commercials For Motorola Android Tablet After Last Year's Devour Commercials At The Super Bowl
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Wide receiver for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, and prolific Twitter user Chad Ochocinco is getting a Motorola tablet. That’s the word according to the man himself via his Twitter feed. Does this mean that Ochocinco will be tapped by Motorola once again to endorse their products in television commercials? Last year, Ochocinco [...]

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PETA Awards Adult Swim Flash Games For Being Animal-Friendly

PETA Gives Polar Bear Payback & Tofu Hunter An Award For Being The Most Animal-Friendly Games Of The Year
Filed by on Thursday, 30. December 2010

Well, everyone’s favorite hypocritical organization is delving into the work of video games once again. They’ve given their Proggy Award For Most Animal-Friendly Game of the Year to none other than Polar Bear Payback, a game about a rampaging Polar Bear who shows baby seal hunters a thing or two, [...]

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Xenogears, Vagrant Story Up For PS3 & PSP Release According To ESRB

Revered PS1 Era JRPG's Xenogears, Vagrant Story To See PSP, PS3 Release
Filed by on Wednesday, 29. December 2010

We’re not entirely sure anyone can stop playing old JRPG masterpieces on their hacked PSP long enough to buy them from PSN, especially with most of them probably already sitting on a true aficionado’s shelf on good good old fashion Compact Disc format with a prominent PS1 logo emblazoned on [...]

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University of Glasgow Researchers Create Thousand Core CPU

Researchers Use Technology Commonly Found In Plasma Televisions To Boost Computer Processing Capabiliity
Filed by on Wednesday, 29. December 2010

Oh, sure, you’re probably thinking that you’re pretty hot stuff because you’ve got a Core i7 in your desktop. And under normal circumstances, you would be. And you will be for quite a while to come. But your days as a computer champ are numbered thanks to a discovery out [...]

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Intel's New Solid State Drive Puts Big Storage In A Small Space

Intel's New SSD Puts 80 Gigs of Storage In The Size Of A Credit Card
Filed by on Wednesday, 29. December 2010

Ever wanted to carry 80 gigs of storage space around with you in a space better suited for a credit card? Move over keychain flash drives, because Intel’s about to show you up with its new solid state drive.

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Burn The Rope iOS App Could Be Next Addictive iPhone Game

Burn The Rope Is Physics Based iOS Game
Filed by on Wednesday, 29. December 2010

One of the neatest features of iPhone and iPad games is that the programming has allowed for quite a bit of physics based games to become hugely popular. Even more popular are the physics based games that actually respond to the way you tilt your device.

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