Archive for January, 2011 - Page 7

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Activision Is Shutting Down Luxoflux, Guitar Hero Dev Neversoft Also Affected

Activision Cuts Staff At Neversoft, Completely Axes Luxoflux
Filed by on Sunday, 30. January 2011

Activision are completely shutting down Luxoflux, the developer behind Transformers, and cutting staff at Neversoft, reportedly leaving around 100 people unemployed, depending on the number that can be transferred to Treyarch. Man, I knew music games had it bad so it was only a matter of time before more studios [...]

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LG Optimus One Arriving On Virgin Mobile US As LG Optimus V

LG's Mid-End Android Smartphone Arrives On Another Carrier Under Another Name, Price Set At $150
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

We’ve seen the LG Optimus One introduced all over the world, sometimes with different names, wherever a carrier needs a new mid-end Android phone. Our own Catalin reviewed the phone on Three’s network in the UK and liked it. If you’re an American looking for an Android smartphone on Virgin [...]

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New HTC Thunderbolt Evidence Shows Best Buy February 14 Release Date

Best Buy Reveals Launch Date for the HTC Thunderbolt 4G LTE Android Handset; Verizon Still Busy With the iPhone 4
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While Verizon is busy advertising it’s CDMA iPhone 4, its partner retailers are focusing on a different device, but one that has gotten a lot of attention from the press and seems to be the leader of the 4G LTE Android hanset pack: the HTC Thunderbolt.

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Verizon iPhone 4 February 3 Pre-order Date Confirmed by Big Red

Verizon to Start Selling the CDMA iPhone 4 on February 3 at 3AM EST, Just as We Told You Before
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

A few days ago we told you that the Verizon iPhone 4 will be available on February 3, starting with 3AM EST, to Verizon customers and it looks like Verizon has gone ahead and confirmed that early pre-order date.

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Nexus S Coming To AT&T?

Nexus S Spotted In Bluetooth Approval Process With North American GSM Bands, It's Either Coming Canada Or AT&T - Is The Death Star Carrier Ready To Carry The Googlephone?
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

Is the Nexus S coming to AT&T? That is on everybody’s mind, as folks have spotted a new Samsung phone going through Bluetooth SIG approval with a very familiar model name. The phone is dubbed GT-i9020A, while the already released Nexus S (with T-Mobile bands) is dubbed GT-i9020T. Hence speculation [...]

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Redsn0w 0.9.7 Untether iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak for Windows Coming Soon

iPhone Dev Team to Offer Windows Redsn0w 0.9.7 (Monte) iPhone, iPad & iPod touch Jailbreak Version Soon; Slowness Ensured
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

While iOS 4.2.1 has already been jailbroken, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad customers aren’t simply happy with a tethered jailbreak and can’t wait for the iPhone Dev Team to finally release Redsn0w 0.9.7 Monte that will bring that much expected untethered jailbreak to all iOS 4.2.1 devices.

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Kinect Sales Numbers: Microsoft Says That Kinect Sold 8 Million Units In 60 Days

Kinect Is No Flop For Microsoft, Selling Double What PlayStation Move Does In First Two Months
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

A few days ago, Microsoft announced their Q2 earnings results. Revenues were up 5% for the tech giant, but here’s an interesting little bit that some investors may have missed – Kinect is doing pretty well. In the PowerPoint slides attached to their earnings result, Microsoft announces that they’ve sold [...]

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Google 3.0 Honeycomb Special Event Coming on February 2? Motorola Xoom After That?

Google to Host Special Android Event on February 2, Honeycomb on Display
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

We’re almost there, folks, Android 3.0 Honeycomb is getting closer which means a flurry of Android tablets should run Google’s proper Android OS, starting with one of the most expected tablets of the beginning of the year, the Motorola Xoom.

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Motorola Atrix 4G To Get 1080p Video Recording In Post-Release Update

Motorola Promises They'll Patch In 1080p Recording After Release, Trying To Keep Up With LG In The "Most Powerful Phone" Race
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

At CES on Press Day, LG unveiled the LG Optimus 2X, which they said was the world’s most powerful smartphone and also the first smartphone to have 1080p video recording. Just hours later at their press conference, Motorola announced the Atrix 4G, which they said was also the world’s most [...]

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Study: Americans Most Fear Online Government Monitoring

Study Done By Opera Web Browser Shows Government Intrusion Top US Worry
Filed by on Saturday, 29. January 2011

In honor of Data Privacy Day, the Norwegian company responsible for making the Opera web browser has released a new study that shows some less than practical answers to internet users’ biggest worries. One of the most interesting factoids to come from this study is that more people (25 percent) [...]

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