Archive for December, 2011 - Page 59

That time has arrived, the beginning of another month and that means we now have another set of Android Platform Version numbers from Google. The latest come as previous months have showing what percent of users are using each version of Android.

As the holiday shopping season gets into high gear, we get more developments in the ongoing Apple vs. Samsung legal battles around the world. In Australia, the Federal Court has overturned a lower court’s grant of a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, but the sales ban will [...]

The holiday season is supposed to be all about spending time with family and friends, exchanging gifts with the ones you love, and being thankful that you survived another year in this chaotic universe we call home. However, anyone who isn’t a total loser knows that the true lesson of [...]

Google has updated the features of Google+ Hangouts to include talking to people on regular telephones. With this, users can invite, and talk to, people on their landline or mobile numbers — no Google+ account required.

In between all of the awesome new releases and all of the crazy sales for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and autumn in general, I can’t possibly see how you would need anymore games to play, but if you do, then you may want to consider entering Steam‘s daily wishlist giveaway, [...]

South Park and video games have a long and storied history with one another. Even though Acclaim’s 1998 South Park FPS was poorly received by critics, it’s gained something of a cult following in the past 13 years, and who can forget the classic Make Love, Not Warcraft episode, where [...]

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the developer of one of the biggest games of the year delivers a patch to players plagued by glitches and bugs. The patch fixes some of the issues that players were having, but at the same time, creates all new problems for [...]

We knew this was coming as Google has been working relentlessly on a new design for its online services and YouTube wasn’t going to be an exception. Just a couple of days ago we told you that the horizontal black menu bar that so many of you hated was going [...]

Twitter has launched a self-serve advertising platform that lets advertisers purchase “promoted” tweets and accounts. Currently available in beta, the service will soon open to the public, for direct ad spot purchases with a credit card.

Yesterday I was telling you that we may soon see U.S. Congress schedule a hearing to investigate Carrier IQ’s business practices when it comes to its rootkit software that’s apparently able to track a whole lot more than just smartphone issues, and it looks like we’re heading in that direction [...]