Archive for October, 2011 - Page 15

Back before Battlefield 3‘s launch, Electronic Arts and DICE promised that Battlefield 1943, a much-loved shooter from 2009, would be included for free along with PS3 copies of DICE’s Modern Warfare killer. Given the popularity of Battlefield 1943, that’s a pretty attractive deal, and probably convinced more than a handful [...]

It’s strange that we haven’t heard much out of Canon lately, being as Canon is one of the biggest names in cameras out there. But they’ve just brought out a whole new reason to pay attention, especially for you home theater buffs out there: the Canon LV-8235 ultra short throw [...]

It may only come as something of a partial surprise to reveal that the Kindle Fire turned out to be popular. But while we all had a pretty good idea that the tablet that could be bought alongside an iPad 2 without incident would be a big seller, it may [...]

Skyrim is nearly here, but for those of you going with the PC version (which is the only way to play Elder Scrolls games, if you ask me), you might be wondering if your rigs can handle the beautiful visuals we’ve seen so far. Well, wonder no longer, because Bethesda [...]

Okay, home theater buffs out there, for those of you who have ever looked at your various remote controls and said that that just looks way too much like work, there’s a great new solution out there for you. The folks out at Hisense are looking to release their new [...]

It wasn’t so long ago when we were filling you in on Conde Nast’s move to bring their magazines to iPads everywhere via the Newsstand system–only just back in May, actually–and now, roughly six months later, there’s an update as Conde Nast is talking about some big numbers in terms [...]

We’ve all seen some pretty impressive giveaways connected with smartphones before. More than a few out there are available at no cost once you sign up for a contract. But the folks at Orange are planning to sweeten the pot significantly by offering up a free Xbox 360 when you [...]

Coming about eight months after the initial release and about one month after Verizon and Motorola began taking in those previously sold units and upgrading the hardware to support the 4G LTE network — you can now purchase a 4G LTE capable Motorola Xoom from Verizon.

It’s not hard to think that, whenever a new browser comes out, there are inherently performance upgrades that follow. But that isn’t always so, as most anyone running Windows XP will tell you (especially if they’ve also tried Windows Vista) . In the case of iOS, though, a new study [...]

Continuing the game of when will existing handsets get an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and we have some disappointing news for those still rocking the original Nexus One. Of course, while disappointing, we are not all that surprised given the handset is a few years old at [...]