Archive for February, 2011 - Page 16

Amazon Launches Free Unlimited Streaming Service For Prime Subscribers [Paid Amazon Prime Subscribers Get Another Perk, Free & Unlimited Movie & Television Episode Streaming]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

This is certainly not the first time we have heard talk of a movie and television service for Amazon Prime subscribers, however there is a bit of good news today in that the service has gone live. And suddenly, the [...]

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Guardian Gamesblog Live: We Interview Dragon Age 2 Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw [Need For Speed Shift 2 Unleashed Lead Designer, Crysis 2 Executive Producer Talk Realism In Games, Game Leak]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

The London Guardian Gamesblog Live media event had me at Dragon Age 2. And just having the pre-release versions of games there would have been tremendous, but also having the “brains behind the games” meant a whole different sort of [...]

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New MacBook Pro Trademark Suggests Light Peak [Apple Updates its MacBook Pro Trademark to Possibly Include Fiber Optic Channel in MagSafe Adaptor]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

We earlier shared information that Apple might include high-speed universal connection options in its upcoming MacBook Pro update. A recently-discovered trademark filing suggests this might be in the form of a MagSafe connection.

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Volvo V60 iPhone App Monitors Charge Status [iOS Application Monitor Volvo V60 Plug-In Hybrid Car's Charge Status; Tells You When Car is Good to Go]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

Is it fully charged yet? This is usually a question that you might find yourself asking if you own a plugin hybrid or EV. With a new iOS application by Volvo, you can stop guessing.

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Jeopardy Champion Watson Headed For A Life Of Mediocrity [After Beating Two Of Jeopardy's Best Players, What's Next For IBM's Watson Seems A Little Less Glamorous Than Expected]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

Ever since the show down between IBM’s Watson and Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, people have been wondering what’s next for the A.I., with more than few nerds out there thinking that the singularity is now only a [...]

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Kinect Software Development Kit Coming This Spring [Microsoft Planning To Release Kinect Software Development Kit For Windows 7]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

Microsoft recently announced that they would be releasing a Kinect Software Development Kit for Windows 7 sometime this spring. In other words: the hackers won. Microsoft didn’t drop too many details, but it seems pretty likely that we’ll be hearing [...]

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Major Xbox 360 News Coming At GDC Next Week [Expect Major, Kinect-related News Coming From Microsoft At The 2011 Game Developer Conference In San Francisco]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

Huge Xbox 360 news is coming next week at the Game Developer Conference. That’s according to Larry Hyrb, also known as Major Nelson, also known as Microsoft’s Director of Programming for the Xbox division. On his podcast, Hyrb announced the news, [...]

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Nokia E7 Contest Launched [Nokia Gives Away 7 E7 Smartphones In Its "Search for 7" Contest]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

If you’re fond of geocaching, you will know what Nokia has been up to. Nokia has hidden seven units of the Nokia E7 smartphone in cities around the world. If you’re the first one to guess the location, then you [...]

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Motorola Xoom Tablets Start Arriving At Best Buy [Spycam Photos Show Xoom Android Tablets Starting To Zoom To Store Shelves, Release Date Days Away]

By on Tuesday, 22. February 2011

After some confusion, it looks like the release date for the Motorola Xoom has been finalized at February 24th. And, in kind, pictures have hit the web of what allegedly spycam images of the first Android 3.0 tablet arriving in [...]

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Sony Brings Out Its New VPL-VW90ES [Sony's New Projector Offers Some Truly Impressive Specs And A Five Figure Price Tag]

By on Monday, 21. February 2011

It’s not every day when two different projector-related items land in my immediate field of vision. And while this one–the Sony VPL-VW90ES, by name–will be just a bit less expensive than the (almost) million-yen baby JVC put out, it will [...]

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