Valve: Steam Hacker Gained Access To Transaction History [Valve Says Steam Hacker Accessed Transaction Records Which Contained Encrypted Credit Card & Billing Information]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

As far as the video game community is concerned, 2011 will go down in history as the year of the security breach. Not only was the PlayStation Network completely brought down and kept offline for more than a month, but countless video game websites were hacked as well, often with [...]

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Blizzard & Valve Headed To Court Over DOTA Trademark [Blizzard Files Notice Of Opposition Against Valve, Attempting To Stop Valve From Using DOTA Trademark]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

Back when both DOTA 2 and Blizzard DOTA were announced, I was wondering why neither Valve nor Blizzard appeared to have a problem with the other company using the phrase DOTA in the title of their game. As it turns out, Blizzard does have a problem with Valve’s use of [...]

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The Top Seven Gadget-Based Gifts For Valentine’s Day [We Run Down The Top Seven Gadget-Based Gifts For Valentine's Day For The Ladies, Including 3D Printing In Chocolate, Ballistic iPhone 4S Cases, & A Membership In Your Favorite MMO]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

It was something of a surprise, reverberating throughout large chunks of the blogosphere that–surprise, surprise–ladies like the gadgetry too. Indeed, the word from the Consumer Electronics Association–you know, those guys who put on the Consumer Electronics Show every year?–says that eight out of ten ladies surveyed said they were interested [...]

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Acer CloudMobile Android 4.0 Phone To Get Big Debut At MWC 2012 [Acer's Flagship Phone, The CloudMobile, Is Set For An Unveiling At The Big Show In Barcelona]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

The big Barcelona show, also called the Mobile World Congress event, is only a couple weeks out, and being as it’s one of the biggest shows of the year (not quite on par with, say, CES or E3, but still a big deal in its own right), it’s not a [...]

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MacBook Pro To Get Substantial Redesign, Say Reports [Apple's Popular MacBook Pro To Get A Serious Retooling By The End Of The Year]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

We’ve been hearing quite a bit of news about Apple’s iPad line out here lately, but the MacBook line has brought forth another piece of interesting news along with it. Seems that Cupertino’s looking to put some substantial modifications into the popular MacBook Pro line, and though it might end [...]

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Nine Inch Kindle Fire May Hit This Year, Say Analysts [Amazon May Be Looking To Step Up Its Kindle Fire Game With A Slightly Larger Model, According To Reports From Analysts]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

We’ve been hearing a lot about the iPad, and the possible new release of same that we might be seeing before too much longer has passed. But there’s a bit of news out this morning around what’s regarded as the iPad’s primary competitor, the Kindle Fire from Amazon. Seems that, [...]

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Phones 4u ‘JUMP’ Upgrade Plan Announced [Phones 4u Announces Their JUMP, Just Upgrade My Phone, Will Allow For An Upgraded Handset Every Six Months]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

Phones 4u has recently announced a rather unique upgrade option. The offering is dubbed JUMP, or Just Upgrade My Phone and just as the name would imply — it deals with customers being able to upgrade their phones. Or more specifically, it will allow customers to upgrade their handset as [...]

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Samsung Galaxy S II Looks To Land Ice Cream Sandwich March 1st [Reports Emerge Saying Android 4.0 Update For The Samsung Galaxy S II Will Land Sooner Than Some May Expect]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

One of the biggest bits of news in the mobile device sector that has nothing at all to do with Apple has to be the Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich, rollout. And it’s been coming in fits and starts to the massive array of Android devices out there for [...]

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Verizon Wireless Valentine’s Day Specials Include a BOGO 16GB Droid RAZR [Verizon Is Celebrating Valentine's Day By Offering Some BOGO Smartphones, Double Data, Discounted Pre-Owned Tablets & More]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

If your idea of celebrating Valentine’s Day involves getting a deal on a smartphone, you may want to check out Verizon Wireless. Yup, Big Red has officially listed the Valentine’s Day offerings which include a nice mix of free, low priced and buy-one-get-one smartphones. Plus, as some icing in the [...]

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White MacBook Exits Market, Pulled From All Relevant Sales Locations [The White MacBook Is Pulled From Its Last Known Sales Branch In Education, No Longer Sold Even To Schools]

By on Friday, 10. February 2012

If you were looking to get your hands on a white MacBook, it was already hard enough to do so. Sure, they’d show up every so often in the refurbished section of Apple’s online store, and if you were a school you could generally order them, but now, they’ve been [...]

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