“One shall stand, one shall fall.” Technically, the line refers to the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, but it could easily apply to the rivalry between Amazon.com and Google. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is creating an Amazon Prime-like shipping service for other online retailers to compete with Amazon. Details are […]
Remember The Last Starfighter, where aliens used a video game as a recruitment tool for intergalactic fighter pilots? Apparently someone at GHCQ, a British government intelligence service that works with MI5 and MI6, remembers this 80s classic, because they’re using the same basic technique to recruit new intelligence agents, according to The Guardian. (It’s also […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Pool Bar by Future Games of London, which […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Jelly Defense by Infinite Dreams, which usually runs […]
Every night at 12:15 AM Pacific, Amazon gives away a free paid app through their Amazon app store. As I am usually awake at 12:15 AM Pacific, why not let you know if today’s app is useful, or just more clutter in your app drawer? Today’s free app is Cross Court Tennis by Refined Games Inc and usually […]
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kdHgEeE1HQ’] Samsung’s offering at CTIA 2011 was, shall we say, slightly less exciting than it was supposed to be. You could kind of tell that from the display booth they had. It was large, but felt like it was missing something. That said, Samsung didn’t come to the show empty handed. It’s not like […]
Back to the Future 2 has become the litmus test for whether or not we’ve actually entered “the future.” It looks like we may be one step closer to entering that reality — a team in France has made a hoverboard. That said, the device doesn’t have “the POW-ah” to float more than 2cm off the […]
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50I0Wp3mxc’] The Sensation XL wasn’t the only phone from HTC I got to go hands-on with at CTIA 2011. I also received some play time with the Titan, their ginormous Windows 7 superphone. The phone is 4.7″ of Microsoft-powered mobile goodness. The good news is, this one has actually been announced to come out […]
[yframe url=’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbI1uKqcqrA’] The headlines from CTIA 2011 may be a bit subdued after Samsung and Google postponed their big announcement, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything awesome to look at from the show. I managed to get a hands-on with the HTC Sensation XL, which may be the first cell phone to come with […]
According to a statement made from a Samsung rep to CNET, the debut of the Samsung Galaxy Prime Droid (or whatever they are officially calling it) and the latest update to Android, Ice Cream Sandwich, has been delayed out of respect for the passing of Steve Jobs, the guy who created their biggest competition. So […]
