March 26, 2012
Haptics is one of the next big advances for touchscreen technology, and while there are always new ideas for tactile technology coming down the pike, the field is still wide open to innovation. NEC and the Tokyo Institute of Technology partnered up on an interesting concept that utilizes directional force to shift the whole touchscreen [...]
March 26, 2012
Time to kick of a new week, with a fresh batch of HOT deals, courtesy of our friends at LogicBuy. On tap for you all this Monday morning, we have an HP ENVY 17 3D laptop bundle, a 20” Dell LED-backlit LCD monitor, an 8GB B&N Nook Color, an HP LaserJet Pro 100 color multifunction [...]
March 26, 2012
AT&T today announced plans to exclusively carry Nokia’s upcoming Lumia 900 smartphone starting on April 8, 2012 (exactly two weeks from today). The Lumia 900 is one of the first two 4G LTE Windows Phones in the world, and it will sell for just $100 with a two-year service agreement and qualifying data plan. “AT&T [...]
March 26, 2012
It’s no secret that 4G LTE smartphones are unbelievably popular right now. Of course, who wouldn’t want a phone that can surf the web at drastically faster speeds than with previous technologies? New research from Strategy Analytics expects 4G technology to have a breakout year in 2012. In fact, the research firm expects global LTE [...]
March 26, 2012
Those Angry Birds everyone likes to fling at thieving pigs and shoddy structures have only been in space for three days, and in that time have already amassed more than 10 million downloads, Rovio announced on Twitter this morning. Angry Birds Space is latest title in the popular franchise, and it’s gotten off to a [...]
March 26, 2012
The arrival of Kepler was a double-win for consumers. First, NVIDIA’s highly anticipated GeForce GTX 680 graphics card upped the pixel pushing performance ante and took pole position as the fastest single-GPU card on the planet, pulling ahead of AMD’s Radeon HD 7970 videocard in almost every situation (check out our review here). And secondly,…
March 26, 2012
Last week, we previewed the launch of Wing Commander Saga: Darkest Dawn, the fan-built companion to Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger that’s been in the making for the past ten years. We were excited for its launch. But now that the game is available, how’d the team do? Let us illustrate it thusly. [...]
March 26, 2012
We like to play with custom systems around here, and the latest from Digital Storm looks to be a real gem. The Aventum is the result of diligent research on the part of Digital Storm, as the company has gone back to the drawing board regarding every part of the system, from the chassis design [...]
March 26, 2012
Microsoft and its allies seized control servers Friday in two states as part of an operation to not just stop the botnets but also to disrupt how criminals use them. [Read more]
March 26, 2012
Yahoo stripped off its glove and whacked dissident investor Daniel Loeb across the face with it, naming three new directors as alternatives to Loeb’s outsider slate. [Read more]