Archive for March, 2011 - Page 8

Google’s Chrome OS has grown popular due to Google’s rolling out of free Cr-48 notebook computers. The concept of cloud-based operating systems is not exclusive to Google, though, and some offer advanced functionalities, like Jolicloud.

Netlix seems to be taking care of their Canadian subscribers lately, just yesterday we saw the Paramount news which meant additional content and today we are learning of a new option to manage video quality.

We saw a fair bit about the Acer Iconia 6120 Touchbook during CES, in fact, the tablet was crowned the “Last Gadget Standing” award. And well, it looks like the tablet has officially come available for purchase.

Its another day and we are learning a bit more about who else will be given access to get through the New York Times paywall without having to shell out any additional money. And while there has been several methods discussed recently for the average non-subscriber to get access, this [...]

Its been a while since Best Buy first launched their Connect mobile broadband service. And almost just as long since they announced that the Connect service would be available with 3G and 4G speed options. Well, flash forward till today and it looks like those interested can go ahead and [...]

AT&T has announced a new offering, a spring sale that comes with discounts on five “premier” smartphones. Of course, while the sale is real, the term premier comes from AT&T and not us here at TFTS. That said, the prices seem decent, but we are not sure we could classify [...]

Amazon has officially launched their online music locker. The service has been dubbed the Cloud Drive and it comes along with 5GB of free storage as well as a Cloud Player for the web and a Cloud Player for Android.

Today, Apple kicked off WWDC 2011 hype with the announcement and tickets went on sale. My colleague Robert Nelson did a great writeup, and people started buying tickets. A lot of tickets. Less than 12 hours after Apple announced WWDC 2011 and the tickets went on sale, they’re sold out. Last year, [...]

T-Mobile US’s Chief Operating Officer, Jim Alling (former Starbucks president – seen below sipping a latte) has written an open letter to all T-Mobile US customers, explaining the acquisition by AT&T from their perspective and why they think it’s a good idea. But, in a FAQ section, Alling seems to be misleading [...]

Tomorrow Arrival comes out for Mass Effect 2. It’ll be the final piece of DLC for the space epic, and it will lead into the story of this winter’s Mass Effect 2. The gang at BioWare have released a launch trailer to get the word out about this downloadable adventure, [...]