New Platforms
Sony Announces New Portable Device At E3 Conference
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011At the E3 conference in Los Angeles, Sony unveiled its next generation portable game device called PlayStation Vita. Vita features GPS location tracking, touch interface and motion sensing capabilities to enhance the gaming experience. Vita will be available in stores before the holiday buying season. Company executives are calling the device Sony’s biggest product launch [...]
Introducing the iWatch!
Friday, April 22nd, 2011According to Retrevo, this is the next generation Apple product! iPhone & iPod on your wrist. Coming Soon? Apple, you listening?
Sony PSP-2 Release Delayed By Japanese Disaster
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011ZDNet & Bloomberg are both reporting that the expected world-wide release this year of Sony’s new hand-help platform will be delayed. According to ZDNet: Sony’s CEO and president for computer entertainment, Jack Tretton, said that the global launch for the NGP will be scaled back to “a single region this year instead of starting sales [...]
Back To The Future! 1988 / 2011
Sunday, March 20th, 201124 years ago, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wosniak laid out a vision for what the computer would become. The year they gave was 2000 – a bit optimistic it turns out. However, today 2011, everything in their vision has come true! When this video was created in 1988, there was no World Wide Web, no flatscreen [...]
Tablet Market Trends 2011
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011The Tablet Universe 2011 Tablets appear to be stratifying in their segements: Apple iOS for the iPad; Windows (both Starter Edition on the loaw end, and the full Windows 7 Home Premium or Prefssional editions), and the specrum of Androids. Windows is not expected to be the leader, but does fill essential niches, especially for [...]
Apple releases iOS 4.3 beta
Friday, January 14th, 2011Apple has released to developers a beta of iOS 4.3, the newest operating system update for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. iOS 4.3 will include several feature upgrades including the addition of personal Wi-Fi hot spots, new multitouch gestures for iPad, and customizable messaging alerts. Also included in the first beta of iOS 4.3 is [...]
Sony Ericsson Z-System: the PlayStation Phone’s gaming platform?
Monday, November 1st, 2010A bumper crop of circumstantial evidence surrounding the Android-based PlayStation Phone is starting to come together today — when it rains, it pours, as they say — and one particularly interesting thread suggests that the ecosystem surrounding the device might be called “Z-System.” An astute tipster notes that the term appears in the upper left [...]
Windows Phone 7 Is the Real Facebook Phone
Sunday, October 24th, 2010When Microsoft and Facebook announced that they were partnering to integrate Facebook and Bing for social network–powered search, it confirmed something I thought Monday: Windows Phone 7 is the real Facebook phone. I don’t know whether Facebook has a secret team working on a phone where they control the OS. But the company don’t need [...]
Hands on: Windows Phone 7 review
Thursday, October 14th, 2010Microsoft might have been working on Windows Phone 7 for a year and a half or so, but only now is it getting to the point where it can be considered ready for market. We bagged some hands on time with a near-final version of the software and gave it a thorough test ahead of [...]
webOS 1.4.5 bug with 3D gaming / PDK Apps
Monday, July 26th, 2010webOS 1.4.5 has landed for Europe and Canada and as we mentioned in that post, the new PDK features bring with them a new PDK bug that may affect people who update over-the-air (OTA) – however thankfully it should only affect a small number of apps. Here’s the deal: 1.4.5 is designed to allow any [...]