Author Archive: Kevin Schram - Page 3

The folks at Microsoft are doing something we saw them do before back when Windows Vista and Windows 7 came out. Want to buy a new PC, but don’t want to pay top dollar for a copy of Windows 8 when it comes out later this year? Don’t worry, Microsoft [...]

The US government wouldn’t let US wireless giant AT&T buy T-Mobile, but the company still wants all the spectrum they can get for their 4G LTE rollout, so, will they gobble up a smaller company? Perhaps. New rumors making their way through the financial press say that AT&T is in [...]

In a world where everybody seems to care about smartphones, tablets and laptops, does anybody care about brand new discreet graphics cards? If you’re like yours truly and you do, then  we have a bit of news for you, as NVIDIA announced this past week the new GTX 670. The [...]

The Witcher 2 showed up at the top of many gamer’s “Best Of 2011” lists. While folks may have already known CD Projekt from their GOG.com website or the first Witcher video game, the second game with its tight storytelling and amazing graphics really put the developer on the spot. [...]

Do you work for the US military and want to use one of the newest BlackBerry smartphones? You’re in luck, considering that this week, the US Department of Defense has approved BlackBerry OS 7 for use. So no BlackBerry 10 support yet, but if you want to use an OS [...]

I have to stress this every time we do a Siri story, but the iPhone 4S’ new digital assistant, Siri, is not actually a person, nor any kind of artificial intelligence. It is a pretty advanced program that processes your voice queries and does simple tasks for you, but there [...]

Mobile TV (D-TV) is a bit more popular in Japan and South Korea here, and to promote the 3D craze via their Nintendo 3DS gaming handheld, Nintendo had been running their own 3D video service through Japanese Nintendo 3DS. However, what may be a portend of bad sales, Nintendo has [...]

If you’ve played Battlefield 3 lately, you may have noticed a lack of official servers from the folks at EA and DICE. Oh sure, there are thousands of servers being run by other people, but the DICE/EA official ranked servers are disappearing. Despite some fears that Battlefield 3 was waning [...]

If you follow the car industry, then you’ll know that the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be the return of the big Cadillac sedan, after a few years’ departure following the cancelation of the DeVille and DTS. Cadillac is probably America’s premiere luxury car brand (Lincoln fans may argue), and to [...]

It’s been a while since we talked about anything related to the Tony Hawk franchise here at TFTS, so it makes sense that this time we would be talking about a remake of the first Tony Hawk game. Awhile back, Activision announced Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, a remake of [...]