Archive for January, 2011 - Page 8

While Microsoft is not yet offering its flagship program in Office in the Mac app store yet, the company has said it will not rule out doing so in the future. Amanda Lefebvre of Microsoft says that doing so is actually something the company is looking at, “It’s something we [...]

When most of us are inputting new passwords to various websites around the net, we know that one of the things that is most important is that we make sure that we have the caps lock key on or off and that we have to remember what the password is [...]

Yeah, we knew that Barnes & Noble’s NookColor eReader would be running Android. But did we suspect it would do this much? Modders have managed to root it, install the Android Market on it, and do all sorts of things on the device. Who knew that the little eReader would [...]

While Wikileaks has been successfully vilified in the court of public opinion thanks to the slapdash way they seem to release information, a new site that is purported to be very similar launched yesterday with some caveats the site administrators hope will keep them from joining the ranks of the [...]

In response to several different protests that turned violent as the police were called in, the government of Egypt took steps that few countries have been able to manage. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak basically cut his country off from the rest of the world by effectively turning of his country’s [...]

The battle between hackers and Sony continues. The latest salvo fired off by Sony is that they have launched a new firmware upgrade that is mandatory for all users to download. This upgrades the Sony PS3 firmware to version 3.56 and is a security patch that is supposed to be [...]

Anyone who has even a passing interest in video games probably knows that game-to-movie-adaptations have a history of failing miserably. I don’t know exactly why Hollywood can’t seem to get it right (though I’d guess it mostly has to do with Uwe Boll and the importance of taking “artistic license”), [...]

While the sales numbers may not be all that impressive when you stack them up to the Apple iPad, the fact that Samsung has sold over 2 million Galaxy Tabs since they were first put on the market three months ago is impressive.

While companies like Google are always looking for new ways to bring in a little extra revenue any way they can, the newest way they have decided to get money might be a little more annoying to their users. While Google has incorporated text ads into the right side of [...]

While there has been plenty of competition of late between Sony and Nintendo in the hand held video game fields, the head of Nintendo says that Sony’s latest announcement of the new PSP does not worry him at all as he thinks the Nintendo 3DS is different enough that it [...]