Archive for August, 2011 - Page 5

AT&T originally kicked off their “It Can Wait” campaign back in 2010 and while we have mentioned it here on TFTS in the past, it looks like they have returned with another piece. The latest arrives in the form of a BlackBerry app called DriveMode.

It looks like Microsoft has offered up another thorough breakdown in terms of new features that we can expect to see once Mango comes available for the general Windows Phone 7 using public. The latest is offering a look at the features that will come along with the Pictures and [...]

Steve Jobs has never met his biological father. But in an interview, Jobs’ dad Abdulfattah John Jandali says he would like to get acquainted with his son, even if it were just over a cup of coffee.

US patent licensing firm Lodsys has lodged a complaint against various smartphone manufacturers and app developers. When patent litigation hits individual app developers, how far will the platform owner go to protect its ecosystem? Will RIM come to the rescue?

“Aside from a couple of new LCD monitors, LG is planning on demonstrating something a bit more exciting during the upcoming IFA 2011 in Berlin. According to LG, the company will show “the world’s first OpenGL-based 2D to 3D game conversion engine” for smartphones. The program was conceived in order [...]

Kim Swift was one of Portal’s designers, but she’s recently been working on a different game introduced during PAX Prime 2011. Together with her team at Airtight Games, Swift has created the dimension-shifting game Quantum Conundrum. The game puts you in the role of a 12-year-old boy dropped off by [...]

Rumors about a white iPod Touch 5G have been circulating for quite a while, along with a few images purported to be the front panel of the media player’s white iteration. This time, more photo evidences emerge, including what’s supposedly the back panel of a yet-to-be-released white iPod Touch fifth-generation.

It has been interesting to see the many revolutions going on in the Middle East. It’s also interesting to see the role the Internet and social networking has played in those uprisings. One graduate student from Yale actually believes that the cutting of the Internet or blocking of social networking [...]

Child of Eden for the Xbox 360 may not have sold well, but the game has been a darling among critics as well as quickly garnering a cult following. And now, it’ll be exposed to even more people as it’s been announced that Microsoft will be including the mind-bending Kinect [...]