The Microsoft Building Windows 8 blog has announced plans for Internet Explorer 10 to jettison the ability to install plug-ins or extensions, in the Metro user-interface they’re developing for it. In its Metro form, IE 10 uses HTML5 throughout, largely negating the need for Adobe Flash and other such video plug-ins. While this may amount […]
PlayStation Network users are receiving emails from Sony Corporation announcing an immediate transfer of its online services operation (including wallets and any funds they contain). Sony Network Entertainment America (SNEA) becomes Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (SNEI), and in the transition, users must agree to a revised terms of service agreement and privacy policy. In […]
Feral Interactive announces development of a native Mac OS X version of Deux Ex: Human Revolution. This title marks the third installment of the Deux Ex series of games, released in August for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In this game, set 25 years before the original Deus Ex, you play the role of […]
Own an Android smartphone on T-Mobile, but no data plan and you want to web surf? There’s an app for that. Smozzy (in beta) acts as a wrapper around the standard Android browser, but cleverly redirects the traffic into SMS messages instead of a typical 2.5G, 3G, or 4G cellular data connection. Because T-Mobile offers […]
The official Google blog announces today the acquisition of the famous Zagat restaurant and entertainment guide. Google plans on integrating the Zagat reviews and ratings with their Google Maps and other search results, as well as eventually adding the content to the Google Places service. Zagat has provided comprehensive guides for 100 major cities since […]
The idea of simulating an entire city on the computer has been around since at least 1987, when Maxis Software was founded and began releasing their popular Sims series. IBM now takes the idea a step further, with CityOne — a software simulation that places the user in the role of city planner, dealing with […]
Parallels announces version seven of their virtualization product for Mac OS X, with expected availability as soon as September 6. Parallels is widely known as the first product for Intel-based Macs providing the ability to run copies of Microsoft Windows inside of OS X. (A product called Virtual PC gave older PowerPC based Macs this […]
During a trip to the Chicago area last weekend, I found time to stop in a Tiger Direct outlet store and browse around. It turns out this particular location sold more televisions than anything else (much to the chagrin of the salesman I spoke with, who said they wanted to carry a better representation of […]
Sprint begins selling Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 in mid-October (along with the CDMA version of the iPhone 4), according to yesterday’s announcement in the Wall Street Journal. On one hand, this is a big win overall for Sprint who has failed to grow their subscriber base significantly since the troubled Nextel acquisition. Unfortunately, the move […]
Zombie cookies aren’t dead yet! Over a year ago, lawsuits were filed against Disney, Warner Brothers, MySpace, ABC, and NBC Universal for using persistent tracking cookies able to defeat most attempts to disable, block, or purge them. These zombie cookies were originally spawned using Adobe Flash technology, but Adobe promised to update their software to […]
