Archive for February, 2011 - Page 19

Facebook is certainly a force to contend with. Recently the New York Academy of Art found itself on Facebook’s naughty list when the social network banned its photos for ToS violations. Is Facebook gearing itself to be curator of online culture?

You don’t have to be a conservative, tree-hugging environmentalist driving a small, puny Nissan LEAF EV in order to help save the Earth. Rather, you can be a cool tree-hugging environmentalist driving a sexy, fast sports car like the Nissan ESFLOW.

It’s that time of year again, folks. Apple will soon be announcing new products, new upgrades, and this time, perhaps new technologies. An upcoming MacBook Pro update will likely include high-speed connection Light Peak.

The Prius is undoubdtedly one of Toyota’s more popular eco-friendly cars, but it’s not Toyota’s only fuel-saver. It’s also planning to upgrade its other smaller models, like the Yaris, with a hybrid system.

We’ve previously read and reported about Google getting ready to compete with other major media providers through Android Market. New URLs suggest that Google is getting ready to load up Android Market with new content.

CES and MWC brought us a lot of gadgets, and some of those had been unnamed prototypes. Since tablets are one of our favorite devices, we’ve been on the lookout for models from various manufacturers, such as Toshiba. It seems Toshiba’s yet-to-be-named tablet might already have a name when launched.

A few months ago we were listening in live on an Apple quarterly earnings call which also featured Steve Jobs. We all remember how he basically bashed Google’s available tablets at the time and how he essentially advised us to get sandpaper in order to deal with any tablet with [...]

The other hot upcoming Android device right now, besides the HTC Thunderbolt is, of course, the Motorola Xoom tablet, the first tablet in the world to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, that special mobile OS perfected by Google to fight Apple’s iPad.

We last saw the HTC Thunderbolt in person at MWC 2011 and we hoped to see it in stores really soon. But the phone is still missing in action and there are no clear release dates yet. Best Buy has offered it for pre-order since February 6, and now, two [...]

Maybe it’s the gamer in me, but I think King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is one of the best documentaries in the past decade. The innocent, clean cut up-and-comer Steve Wiebe matched against (rightly) proud and cocky ego that is Billy Mitchell was a match made in gaming [...]