Archive for February, 2011 - Page 16

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 $79 per year Amazon Prime membership is that much more [...]

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 thing altogether. Real honest to goodness developers and industry professionals [...]

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.

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.

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 hop, skip, and a jump away. Well, the singularity doesn’t [...]

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 more about the SDK when Microsoft holds their invitation-only press [...]

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, saying that it’s going to be some “cool news” that [...]

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 win an E7.

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 Best Buy stores. Are you excited for the Xoom?

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 offer pretty impressive specs of its own.