Archive for December, 2011 - Page 8

If there’s one game series that you know gamers and critics will both go crazy for, it’s Grand Theft Auto. Critics have sung the praises of each installment in the series while fans made each one a multi-million seller, and it seems like no one can get enough of Grand [...]

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded Apple another important patent that describes “core iPhone multitouch” technology that can now be used by the company to defend its iOS ecosystem especially against the most important threat that’s currently out there, Google’s Android.

The Carrier IQ smartphone scandal is not yet over and now we hear that there may another security threat, this time affecting all GSM phones – that’s regular handsets too in addition to smartphones.

LG unveiled the Prada 3 smartphone a few days ago and it looks like South Korean smartphone fans will be the first ones to have access to LG’s latest Prada-branded smartphone.

Apple and RIM have received some unexpected Christmas “gifts” from two governments in Europe and South America this year, as Italy decided to fine Apple $1.2 Million for anti-trust practices while Argentina banned iPhone and BlackBerry sales in the region.

We might have been giving other sales some more attention in the past week or so, but anyone with an Xbox 360 likely knows that there’s currently an Xbox Live holiday sale going on now as well. Today’s offer slashes the price on the things no serious Halo: Reach player [...]

And so ends, conclusively, the story of FLO TV. Our own Robert Nelson brought you the story that AT&T was looking to take over Qualcomm’s bandwidth just over a year ago, and now, the job is done, the papers signed, and AT&T has some impressive new bandwidth counts on its [...]

Most of us probably had a good Christmas, but Nintendo had a great one. It turns out that Famitsu was right when it predicted that the 3DS might hit 4 million domestic sales in Japan by the end of the year, because the handheld did just that last week. Nintendo [...]

Well, that’s pretty much it, folks; the iPhone 4S, which launched just a couple short months ago, has just picked up the necessary network access permits to get in on the shelves at China Unicom. We first filled you in on Apple’s permit odyssey back in late November, and now, [...]

You’ve got to give LG due credit. In a time when television makers are looking to get rid of glasses on their 3D televisions, the folks at LG are looking to fill in the gap between what we have now and the magical era of no glasses on 3D television [...]