Archive for April, 2011 - Page 29

When EA Sports revealed SSX: Deadly Descents last year during Spike’s Video Game Awards, gamers were introduced to a darker, more realistic take on snowboarding than we were used to from SSX. After more details about the game began to trickle out, it became apparent that the arcade style gameplay [...]

The God of War trilogy may have “ended” with 2010′s God of War 3, but Sony isn’t done with Kratos quite yet: they’ve already said that they’re planning more for the disgruntled Spartan, and now it appears that he may be returning to the PS3 as soon as next year.

4G is a pretty hot buzzword right now in the American mobile landscape. All of the four major carriers now have something they call 4G, and they’re all pushing 4G phones on the consumer. So, with all that attention, you expect the next iPhone to have 4G, right? Not so [...]

Ever since the first iPad came to life Amazon has been suspected to create its own tablet, but that hasn’t happened yet. 2011 might be the year we see the first Amazon Android tablet, and the word on the street it’s going to be a Samsung-made device.

Today, a report from security researchers showed that the iPhone was tracking your every move, without your consent, and could be pulled up to show everywhere you had been. You aren’t the only one concerned about that – now the US government is paying attention. US Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota) [...]

Recently we uncovered a way of unlocking the iPhone 4 that didn’t require actual jailbreaking. It was all based on somehow getting into Apple’s database and unlocking any iPhone unit by choosing the right IMEI (a code that is unique to each iPhone out there). The procedure was certainly expensive, [...]

As expected Apple has posted its quarterly earnings report today and, as expected, we’re looking again at a record non-holiday quarter for the Cupertino-based company. Apple added an extra $5.99 billion in profit in the past quarter after an impressive $24.67 billion in revenues. That’s 83% revenue growth and 95% [...]

The tech blog digerati will tell you that BlackBerry is a dead brand and that nobody is interested in them anymore – but don’t tell that to the BlackBerry PlayBook. One analyst is reporting that a respectable 45,000 units were shipped on release day, putting the BlackBerry tablet on track [...]

iOS 4.3.2 was jailbroken, the tethered way, from day one, which is something we’ll expect for all of Apple’s future firmware updates, at least the ones that will be available for the current iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G and the iPad 1.

Finally, you can get a 3G Motorola Xoom outside the United States and Verizon. UK phone retailer Carphone Warehouse has started selling the Xoom 3G with various mobile contracts. Carphone Warehouse is the only place to get a Xoom in the United Kingdom as it’s the exclusive retailer for the [...]