Archive for March, 2011 - Page 17

More bad news for Netflix and other online video rental sites. Starz, the premium cable network that played a role in putting Netflix’ Instant Watch streaming service on the map is taking another swing at the online video service, which seems to get more and more popular every day. They’ve [...]

In-app purchases have enabled app developers to earn from so-called freemium applications, which are free to download, but require payment for certain content. Will Android apps get much-awaited in-app purchases soon?

It appears that Turbine’s decision to change Lord of the Rings Online from a pay-to-play MMO to a hybrid subscription model last September was a good idea: after reporting earlier this year that revenue has tripled since the change, Turbine is now saying that over 2 million new players have [...]

What’s the best way to showcase the features of a tablet-notebook hybrid? Apparently, you don’t have to highlight the features. Just show people you can remove the keyboard.

While you’ve been busy playing World of Warcraft, everybody in Asia has been playing Dungeon Fighter Online, a free-to-play beat ‘em up MMO. In fact, since the game has 200 million registered users worldwide, there’s a good chance that you just logged off right before finding yourself here, reading this [...]

2007 called, they want their GPU prices back. NVIDIA introduced their (long rumored) GeForce GTX 590 today, and like their previous “halo cards”, it’s got two GPUs, has a ton of graphics power, and is disgustingly expensive. Like it’s top rival, the AMD Radeon HD 6990, it’s price breaks the dreaded [...]

Android, iOS and Blackberry are current leaders in the smartphone OS competition, but that doesn’t mean there’s no more space for others. Motorola is rumored to be developing its own mobile OS, after having snagged engineers from well-known smartphone makers.

A month ago today, Motorola and Verizon released the Motorola Xoom. The Xoom was the first Android Honeycomb tablet. A month later, and Google still has yet to release the source code for the OS that would enable other manufacturers to put Honeycomb on their devices. Google had caught flack [...]

The Nintendo 3DS is finally coming out this weekend in the United States. Retailers are already courting those who are pre-ordering the device. Toys R Us is offering a buy one, get one half off deal for 3DS games on Sunday and also offering up to $75 on trade-ins of [...]

In the war between Kinect and Move for the title of “best add-on motion control peripheral because Nintendo is wiping the floor with us,” Kinect seems to be the early winner. With Microsoft saying earlier this month that 10 million Kinects have been sold since it was released back in [...]