Archive for November, 2011 - Page 21

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone in the world is not officially available in the USA yet, but it looks like the device is already testing great in benchmarks. The Galaxy Nexus has been proven to beat Apple’s latest iPhone, the iPhone 4S, in [...]

In today’s smartphone industry, the ecosystem can make or break a platform. Apple was first to market with its App Store and leads the game in terms of volume. Android Market comes in a close second. Will Microsoft be able to catch up soon?

Sony has just announced a “new era” in how PlayStation user can consume content, as the PlayStation Home network now lets users watch movies together via the Crackle network, and can expect to listen to music together by December, too.

A few days ago a new report talked about next year’s iPad 3, iPhone 5/6 and the 15-inch MacBook Air/Pro, and we’re particularly interested in the notebook today as we hear Apple wanted to launch the device one year ago.

Earlier this week Amazon released the Kindle Fire, and the low-cost tablet was rooted almost immediately after launch, thus allowing Fire buyers to further customize their Android experience. At the same time Barnes & Noble launched its own ultra-affordable Android tablet, the Nook Tablet, and we’re not surprised to hear [...]

Barnes & Noble has recently released its Nook Tablet as an upgrade to the Nook Color, and a direct competitor to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. But at $50 more than the Kindle Fire, will the Nook Tablet be able to compete, especially in the content ecosystem?

Apple’s iPad gets an 88% share in global web traffic from tablet computers, far surpassing the performance of Android- and Windows-powered tablets. But is this enough to matter in the bigger scheme of things?

VoIP and chat are supposed to usher in an era of free or cheap calls and messages, and now it seems they’re finally succeeding at eating into mobile carriers‘ revenues, according to analysts. Should carriers like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile be worried?

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is supposed to be a Google-branded Android handset that would offer customers  pure, simple, vanilla Android experience. That means users wouldn’t get any custom user interfaces on top of the default Android installation and that there won’t be any bloatware from carriers.

The decision to launch a free-to-play MMO is a risky move. On the one hand, it’s nearly impossible to go up against the successful subscription-based MMOs, but on the other, there’s so many free-to-play MMOs out there that it’s going to be hard to get your game noticed. We’ve seen [...]