Archive for July, 2011

Twitter has announced that it will soon be implementing a new field in their streaming API in order to help application developers filter out sensitive content. Will Twitter be censored soon?

While Amazon has been having both wins and losses in the legal battle against Apple, it’s not forgetting its users and developers. The Amazon AppStore has recently been updated with stability fixes and a few new features that will make the marketplace more usable and user-friendly.

Amazon’s defense over its AppStore name scored a success in the US when courts declined to grant Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction over a supposed trademark infringement. But in Germany, it’s a different story.

HTC has announced that it will soon let users unlock the bootloaders on their Android smartphones and tablets. But if you can’t wait, a team of developers has made an application that can unlock most HTC Android devices, and it’s currently available for download.

Since Apple started selling OS X Lion via its Mac App Store (which is currently the only way to get it; well, at least legally) we’ve received various reports from customers that were charged more than once for their Lion purchase. But the one that takes the cake is from [...]

A fresh report is suggesting that Apple will launch not one, but three different HDTVs by March 2012, in a clear move to become an even more important content provider for our living rooms.

The existence of Timesplitters 4 has been rumored for quite some time now, as both a release for this generation and as a possible launch title for the next Xbox. Now, new rumors are saying not only that Timesplitters 4 exists, but that we’re heading for an announcement soon as [...]

Certain retailers are trying to get rid of their remaining iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 stock in view of the arrival of the next-gen Apple smartphone. On the other hand, some rumors out there saying that the iPhone 3GS will be kept in Apple’s lineup even after the launch of [...]

Nokia released its latest smartphone recently, the N9 also known as Lankku. Surprisingly, for everyone, especially those people that know there’s no plan B for Nokia if Windows Phone 7 fails, the N9 is a MeeGo device. Nokia’s first, and one of the very few ones to run this particular [...]

As many of you already know, Minecraft is primarily a game about digging, exploring, and building. To the Minecraft newbie, this description makes the game seem like a carefree romp though an ever-changing sandbox, but the weathered Minecraft veteran knows that, at times, the game can be downright terrifying. Exploring [...]