Archive for August, 2011 - Page 16

Hurricane Irene raved the lower East Coast today, killing seven people and leaving 3 million without power according to reports. Now, it’s baring down on New York City. Samsung Mobile has canceled a press event that was scheduled to be held on Monday night that was set to take place [...]

Verizon’s 4G LTE network has been growing at an incredible pace, and probably now surprasses Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network which predated it by 12 months or so, or at the very least it matches Sprint’s network. Point is, if you live anywhere near what most people would call a “big” [...]

Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO last week has had some effect on Apple stocks, although the value has rebounded in the few days after. While many wonder how the change of command will affect Apple products’ marketability, the company’s suppliers and OEMs say the impact of this corporate move [...]

A lot of bloggers, webmasters and web publishers are familiar with the scene. You get pingbacks, trackbacks or email alerts of sites linking back to you, only to discover they’ve copied your entire content, including links and have even hotlinked to your images. Now, Google wants to target these so-called [...]

We’re hearing more and more stories all the time about the iPad being adapted for business, but this fall, you’ll see it pop up at an unlikely place – the NFL sidelines. Yep, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (that’s Girdiron Football for our non-American friends, or [...]

Apple is one of the most valuable companies of the world, and you might expect that being the top man at the company would be a pretty well-paying job. And, it is. Today, Apple filed an 8-K form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, notifying them that the Apple [...]

PAX Prime is currently going on Seattle, and the PAX East show in Boston (held earlier in the year) is also extremely popular for the gamers out there. But, what about a third PAX show? It’s happening, according to the folks behind Penny Arcade. According to blog reports, Jerry Holkins [...]

Nintendo took the drastic measure of slashing the price of the 3DS down to $170 due to the console’s disappointing sales. Sales went up in Japan, but things were really bad that Satoru Iwata even took a pay cut. After all these, there are reports that Nintendo is looking to [...]

HP’s recent announcement led many to declare the death of the PC even if tablets and smartphones are still not up to par with full-featured computers when it comes to features. Many argue that tablets and smartphones wouldn’t completely supplant PCs. They would instead supplement PCs in a household, and [...]

We’re all about Facebook and Google+ these days that most of us have already probably forgotten Myspace even if it caught quite a lot of press recently for having Justin Timberlake as creative director. While no official announcement has been made yet, a Myspace exec revealed that the site is [...]