Archive for January, 2011 - Page 7

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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) [...]