Archive for February, 2011

On February 13th, AT&T will formally launch their AT&T Mobile Hotspot application in conjunction with the release of the HTC Inspire 4G. Now there are rumors that it may not be the only AT&T smartphone to offer hotspot capability on that date. The New York Times initially revealed, as part of a review of the […]

There are a few Android tablets out there right now, and some — like the Samsung Galaxy Tab are even pretty good — but it’s still not very contentious to say right now that Android isn’t very good for tablets. Heck, even Google has said as much.
And that’s the whole point of Android 3.0, aka […]

Earlier this week, Canada flipped a bureaucratic switch and became one of the least internet friendly countries on Earth by imposing usage-based internet billing on last mile ISPs.
The scheme would have done a couple of things. First of all, it would have ended up costing most Canadians twice as much money for orders of […]

Fans of the Final Fantasy video game series are no strangers to characters wielding really big swords, like Cloud Strife’s Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII, for example. But could you imagine what a real-life full scale version of such a legendary weapon would look like? It would look impressive undoubtedly, but would it be too […]

The Daily, the much-hyped iPad app from News Corp., launched today with all the expected fanfare. The iPad newspaper is a free download available right now from the iTunes app store, but it will cost you if you want a subscription. After the free trial it will go for 99 cents a week or $39.99 […]

There’s been a lot of movement lately in the online game space switching from a subscription model to a free-to-play with virtual goods solution. While that may be the only way to make some revenue from a game for a lot of publishers, EA isn’t taking that route with the forthcoming Star Wars: The Old […]