Archive for January, 2011

Friday evening Engadget posted a number of details about what the future might hold for the iPad 2, the iPhone 5, and also the Apple TV. If accurate it’s the most sizable amount of information we’ve heard about Apple’s upcoming devices, plus it could be very important buying advice for people who are currently considering […]

It seems like every week a hot new Mac app bundle launches. Despite the recent release of the Mac App Store developers are pushing bundles, exactly because they are so popular and they get users such good deal on software they might not have used in the past. So, OS X fans, ready for another […]

If you smoke, then you’re probably used to carrying around one of those cheap lighters you can’t refill in your pocket. When they are empty, you just throw them away and buy a new one.
Well, don’t throw the next couple of empty ones away, as someone has found a better use for them. If you […]

A little less than a year after they acquired Palm for $1.2 billion, Hewlett Packard is making it very, very clear that they’re about to unveil a webOS tablet, and that they’ll do so on February 9th in San Francisco.
During an appearance on CNBC recently, HP Personal Systems Group Executive VP Todd Bradley explained that […]

One of Apple’s biggest innovations of the last few years doesn’t actually get a lot of press: the MagSafe power connector. It’s a brilliant design that guarantees that if someone trips over your power cord, the connector just pops off instead of whiplashing your MacBook across the room.
Great idea, huh? You probably wonder why […]

When hackers make the news these days, it’s because they’ve stolen Pentagon secrets, credit card numbers, iTunes accounts, et cetera.
Not all hackers infiltrate other people’s computer systems for nefarious reasons, though: sometimes, hackers just want to get their deathmatch on, as evidenced by this story in which hackers breached a server back in November […]

Konami has today updated its Japanese website with a whole range of new job listings for Kojima Productions. The open positions are for a new game project referred to as “Next Generation Metal Gear Solid Series”.
Whether next-generation refers to the PS3 and Xbox 360, or an actual new generation of hardware such as the PSP2, […]

Is an ARM processor powerful enough to drive a real life robot? Well, it probably wouldn’t pass either the Turing or Voight-Kampff tests, but yeah, for basic motor and speech functions, it should be… most of the experiments in robotics, after all, have been powered by much wimpier CPUs than the ones we have in […]

They say there is an App for everything and this statement is taken to a new level with news of Initiative for Jewish Women’s LoveSmarts: Sexual Transmitted Disease (STD) App.
Whilst at first you will laugh at the mere thought of what such an app can provide, there is a serious educational factor behind the companies […]