Archive for July, 2011 - Page 29

A few days ago Motorola started a private Android Gingerbread beta in order to test the Android 2.3 build for the Atrix 4G, and it looks like Moto is ready to offer the software upgrade to the crowds today.

While Apple’s computers, whether laptops or desktops, offer better protection against viruses, malware attempts and various hacks than regular Windows-based machine, they’re not completely problem-free. Charlie Miller, a security researcher, has found an important new hack that can affect current MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook models.

Apple’s overall iPod business is on a downwards spiral and while the company increases the number of total iPad and iPhone sales quarter after quarter, the iPod line is losing more and more popularity; not that would hurt Apple’s overall record numbers. But of all the iPods, the iPod touch [...]

Microsoft has released a nearly-five minute long gameplay trailer for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, 343 Industries’ first outing with the Halo franchise. This trailer was originally shown behind closed doors to the press at E3 2011, and now, more than a month after E3 has wrapped, fans get a extended [...]

A little over a week ago Apple launched iOS 5 Beta 3 and developers, or basically anyone with access to a developer’s account, were able to test out the latest iPhone, iPad and iPod touch firmware version. Today Apple released iOS 5 Beta 4, so you can forget all about [...]

Fans of Turbine’s free-to-play MMO Lord of the Rings Online will be pleased to know that Turbine’s getting ready the launch the beta for the game’s third expansion, Rise of Isengard, next week. At the same time, they may not be that pleased to hear that the beta is invite-only, [...]

Bethesda’s on a roll lately: first, VP of Marketing Pete Hines called out developers that tack on multiplayer modes to games that work fine as a single player experience (a sentiment that I heartily support), and now Skyrim boss Todd Howard has said that he “couldn’t care less” about 3D [...]

Apple was all over the news this week, with a variety of products getting released, from updated MacBook Airs all the way to the brand new copy of OS X Lion. But one strange bit of news that showed up and got picked up in more than a few places [...]

Developer Q-Games is starting to broaden their horizons by bringing the PixelJunk series to a new platform, but not by bringing it to Steam or Xbox Live like some may be hoping. Instead, they’ve announced that PixelJunk Monsters will be getting its very own browser-based, free-to-play version later this year.

The ereader market is apparently still quite alive and well, with the folks out at Panasonic bringing out another new piece of hardware in the form of the Panasonic Raboo UT-PB1. And not only is this interesting for what it actually brings to the table, it’s also interesting for what [...]