Archive for August, 2011 - Page 8

Notch may be caught up in a legal battle with Bethesda at the moment, but threats of courtrooms and lawyers apparently aren’t enough to scare him away from promoting his new game anyway. That’s right, Mojang has released the first teaser trailer for Scrolls despite legal pressure from Bethesda to [...]

The big news of the month is that Google has acquired Motorola winning themselves a pocket-full of patents and a foot in the smartphone hardware door. Surprisingly, many of the other manufacturers were said to be OK with the merger, including South Korean companies Samsung and LG. Now the South [...]

Everyone knows by now that those who were loyal enough to buy a 3DS early on in its lifespan (or quick enough to grab a discounted 3DS before the “official” price drop) are in for some free games. Twenty free games, to be exact, with ten NES games and ten [...]

Numbers have just emerged for Barnes and Noble, and the store’s results are showing what we’d all kind of figured would happen: everyone loves ebooks, and loves them to the deep, deep detriment of their print matter equivalent. Just how deep is the love for ebooks? The numbers are pretty [...]

Steve Jobs stepped down from the CEO spot last week at Apple, leaving his right-hand man and former COO Tim Cook in the big chair at Apple. A lot of folks have been speculating on how Cook will do running Apple, but he’s already doing one thing as well as [...]

Given the meteoric rise in the popularity of console gaming over the past few years, you’d be forgiven in thinking that PC gaming was on the way out. Indeed it seemed like that might the case for a while, but this little thing called digital distribution caught on and sparked [...]

Back in March, we brought you the launch story of Zite, an iPad magazine that checked your Google Reader and Twitter feeds to figure out just what it was you wanted to read, and then delivered it to your iPad as best the news of the day allowed. And apparently, [...]

Job listings, much like patents, often prove a good way of telling where a company is looking to go. And in Apple’s case, that’s clearly no exception as a recent job listing came to light looking for someone with experience in locations.

Mozilla is about to change everything again, no matter how cliché that sounds, when it comes to mobile web browsing, at least on certain tablets. Today we’re looking at the first screenshots of a Firefox version made specifically for Android Honeycomb tablets.