Archive for December, 2010

We’ve said this before, but it’s worth saying again: SMS messaging is a huge scam perpetuated upon mobile customers by companies who are making most of their money selling something that is absolutely free to them. SMS messages only came into being because they were free: engineers designed the SMS system to “fill in the […]

Statistics. If there was a course carrying that name at school or college most of you probably avoided it. Who wants to learn all about how to compile bits of information and create graphs and pie charts from them anyway?
Well, stats can be boring, but Professor Hans Rosling has set out to prove they can […]

The video games we play today on the PS3 and Xbox 360 have well-crafted physics engines as standard. All the well-known game engines include them, and there’s a whole host of companies offering physics engines as plug-ins, e.g. Havok and NaturalMotion.
NaturalMotion has made a name for itself providing very realistic physics systems for some of […]

Usually publishers look to the new game releases for sales figures, but when you’re as big as Nintendo and have Mario as part of your IP catalog, even 4-year-old games can still perform.
This week, the 2006 game New Super Mario Bros. became the best selling DS game of all time and the first to surpass […]

As the new year approaches we are beginning to see more and more evidence that a Verizon Wireless iPhone is likely. Reports have speculated that the device would be announced during the first or second quarter of next year. Now, a new report says that such an announcment could come by Valentine’s Day.
Bloomberg cites an […]

If you’ve been looking for an official explanation on why Skype’s servers crashed so hard last week besides a cryptic statement about imploding supernodes, the VoIP company has thoughtfully explained the situation over on their official blog.
Here’s what happened. On December 22nd, the servers handling Skype’s offline messaging became overloaded and slow to respond, which […]

If I was asked to recommend an e-reader right now, I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest the latest generation Kindle. It has a great screen for reading, long battery life, and very large selection of books offered through Amazon.
But for some people, the color-less screen of the Kindle isn’t good enough, and they want a bit […]

Samsung didn’t just see fit to announce one new camera today, they announced two. Meet the WB700, their new premium point-and-shoot.
The successor to Samsung’s WB600 and WB650 digicams, the WB700 boasts a fourteen megapixel sensor, a wide angle zoom lens crafted by Kreuznach capable of 24x levels of magnification (eighteen of which are optical, the […]

The North American PlayStation Network is getting four Squaresoft PSOne classics many fans have been chomping at the bit to play again on their PS3 or PSP.
If you owned a PlayStation, chances are you fell in love with at least of of these games:

Xenogears
Vagrant Story
Legend of Mana
Threads of Fate

All four titles have been rated by […]