Personal Opinion Category

When I sit down and think about my job, I realize that I am incredibly lucky. 20 years ago, job opportunities like this simply didn’t exist. If you wanted to write for a living, you either needed to have an incredibly wild imagination, or you had to be lucky enough [...]

My, how the mighty have fallen. It wasn’t that long ago that Nintendo was on top of the gaming world. The Wii was (and, in fairness, still is) the best-selling console of this generation, and the Nintendo DS had experienced astronomical success. These days, however, Nintendo seems to be struggling [...]

Today, the technology world was hit with a bombshell when it came out that Dr. Eric Schmidt would be stepping down from his CEO role at Google. Taking his place would be Google co-founder Larry Page. Quite a few sites have wondered (including us) – was Schmidt fired? After all, [...]

The Samsung Continuum is a unique phone. It carries a smaller screen than your usual modern smartphone, but yet, it has a second screen just below the Android menu buttons that Verizon and Samsung are calling a ‘ticker’. It’s something we’ve seen attempted in laptops and popular with featurephones, but [...]

Previously, BlackBerry phones from RIM almost exclusively ruled the landscape of business phones. The iPhone has been slowly expanding into that market, Microsoft is promoting Windows Phone 7 as business-friendly, but what about Android? Verizon and Motorola have teamed up to offer a new Motorola Android device that has a [...]

If you’re contemplating dipping a toe in the populous smartphone market and you’ve furthermore narrowed down your preference to Google’s pastry goods and this particular timeframe, but find yourself unmanned by the sheer membership fee, the LG Optimus P500 (or Optimus One as it’s known in the UK) is probably [...]

Last week Friday, news broke that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would be shedding an incredible 75 million of his Microsoft shares, netting the notable CEO $1.9 billion. There has been a lot of speculation as to the reason. Is he leaving the company? Is he buying the Sacramento Kings NBA [...]

As you may already know, there are plenty of Chuck Norris facts out there, but most of them forget the geeky side of Chuck Norris. And yes, he has a geeky side that roundhouse kicks everyone else’s geeky sides into oblivion. Here are some freshly backed and still unknown facts [...]

Last week, news broke that Microsoft was suing Motorola for patent infringement related to their Android phones. Microsoft was really suing over Android, but like the Apple-HTC case, phone manufactures are ultimately legally responsible for what software they ship, so that’s why Apple and Microsoft are going after the handset [...]

The Samsung Epic 4G is the variant of the Samsung Galaxy S Android “superphone” that is destined for Sprint. Of all the various Galaxy S models hitting the United States, the Epic 4G stands out in two ways. First, it has connectivity to Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network, offering theoretical speeds [...]