Archive for August, 2011 - Page 11

If you think you’ve had enough of Microsoft’s ribbon-based interface with Office, you’re in for a treat. Microsoft is revamping Windows Explorer with a new ribbon interface with its upcoming Windows 8 launch.

Pictures of RIM’s QNX-based BlackBerry PlayBook OS version 2.0 were recently leaked online by a Chinese site. A few changes on the OS are evident by the leaked pictures, and if you’re interested in what they are (especially you folks near Harvey Norman’s Computers in Australia where PlayBook seems to [...]

If you follow the gaming blogs, then you saw last week pictures of a Walmart price tag offering the Xbox 360 4GB Kinect bundle for just $249, about $50 off its regular price. Microsoft responded to press inquiries saying that was Walmart’s decision to sell it that cheap, not a [...]

Remember when, just a few weeks back, we brought you the story of the Facebook bug bounty, in which, if you could discover a way to hack Facebook, and were willing to put up with a few terms and conditions (like not blabbing to the media about the huge embarrassing [...]

Epic Games has decided to jump on the Season Pass bandwagon that’s been revolutionizing the way we buy DLC lately, announcing today that they’ll be offering one of their own for the first four post-launch DLC packs for Gears of War 3. Head past the break for all of the [...]

Make no bones about it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is going to be absolutely massive. Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas were massive games in their own right, and Skyrim promises to be even bigger than those. In fact, you might not be far off the mark if [...]

The war between Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 will almost definitely be decided by console sales, but both Activision and EA should be smart enough to know that it’s a terrible idea to turn your back on the PC crowd, even though they might not get as many sales [...]

Interesting news for you Apple users out there who didn’t want to get in on the Lion fun but still want a shot at iCloud; Apple is reportedly working on a system to get iCloud onto Snow Leopard devices, thus allowing those who didn’t want in on the upgrade to [...]

Are you still in school and need some cash to get by with? Google and AP are teaming up to offer scholarships to aspiring tech journalists to the tune of $20,000. That should help some, right?