Archive for June, 2011 - Page 2

While you may think of OfficeMax as the place to go for office chairs and for printer paper, they’ve actually started offering a nice selection of tablets, including the Motorola Xoom, BlackBerry PlayBook and soon, the HP TouchPad. Now, they’ll be offering some mobile bandwidth, courtesy of Virgin Mobile.

Google has just announced that its popular emailing app, Gmail, will change face in the very near future, just like most of Google’s products did in the past few days. To blame for the shake up is, most certainly, Google’s upcoming social networking service, Google+, which has been designed from [...]

The Motorola Droid 3 is one of the most expected Android handsets hitting Verizon in the near future. The phone, rumored to arrive in the following days, quite possibly on July 7, is the third version in the Droid family, a smartphone line that jump-started Android and helped it reach [...]

Amazon is definitely working on a tablet of its own, and considering the popularity of the Kindle, also an Amazon original product, and the efforts Amazon makes when it comes to tablet-ready content (music, movies, apps and eBooks) it would be stupid not to try to come up with an [...]

The web is buzzing about Google’s latest social networking attempts, and this time around Google may have gotten it right. Google+ shows the world Google means business when it comes to social networking and that Facebook may have found a decent adversary. Long-gone are the days of Google Buzz, that [...]

Although we keep getting mixed rumors on the next-gen iPhone version, almost everybody agrees that Apple will not offer any kind of 4G support in the upcoming fifth-generation smartphone. Sure HSPA+ support may be included, but I don’t think Apple will let AT&T, or anyone else, call the iPhone 4S/5 [...]

Valve’s Steam has already become the de facto marketplace of choice for many PC gamers, and has if Steam needed anymore of your money, they’ve just launched their summer sale today. They’re calling it the “Steam Summer Camp Sale” and it looks to be quite the money sink. They currently [...]

Most of the time, when I see a gaming PC, it’s a laptop, or otherwise a huge and imposing edifice that looks like it should have “Mount Doom” etched into the casing. But this is the first time in recent memory I’ve seen one that looks like a little box, [...]

We’ve known for a while that Peter Molyneux has some issues when it comes to restraining his enthusiasm for Lionhead’s upcoming titles, but during a speech today at Gamelab, we got to see a side of the Fable boss that is a rare sight indeed.

We’ve all heard that solid state drives are fantastic when it comes to speed and long-term data protection. And indeed, compared to a hard drive and its moving parts, that’s certainly the case. But the crew out at IBM have found a way to make solid state storage even safer, [...]