Archive for May, 2011

AppleCare support reps may have been told to play things cool when it came to calls from end users with Mac Defender malware concerns, but the company was obviously not sitting idly by as the number of infections mounted. A new article has been posted on support.apple.com which tells Mac users how to avoid and […]

The PSN and SOE hacks may be fixed, and those services on the way back to normality, but hackers are continuing to target Sony servers around the world. The latest attack has seen the Sony Ericsson Canada Eshop server fall, and with it hackers managed to retrieve the personal details of 2,000 accounts. The information […]

With more than 500 updates promised in the Windows Phone 7.1 “Mango” bump, Microsoft has clearly been busy taking care of some of the operating system’s biggest misses. Among the new features revealed were several which you may have already seen — like Shazam-style song identification, better Bing integration, and multitasking. The Messaging Hub has […]

March to October 2009 was a cash-rich period for 53-year-old Rodney Reed Caverly. He was able to visit specific Bank of America ATMs and withdraw well over his account limit without a flag being raised. In fact, the machines didn’t even show a record of those transactions. This was possible because Caverly was employed as […]

Square, a company founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been on a roll as of late. The company offers individuals and small businesses a non-traditional method to receive payments via a smartphone or tablet without the need for contracts or monthly fees. The company charges a simple 2.75% per transaction while offering the necessary […]

Today is the day that many gamers thought would never happen: Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold. Developer Gearbox Software announced this morning via the Gearbox forums that the game is no longer vaporware, and that Duke Nukem is definitely returning on June 14 in the U.S. The demo is slated for June 3. While […]

Google unveiled a host of new services at I/O 2011, one of which was a new movie rental service added to the Android Market. In addition to being able to instantly stream your selection, Google offers a “pinning” feature — allowing you to download a movie in the background so you can watch it later […]

Back in February developer Techland and publisher Deep Silver got everyone’s attention with a fantastic teaser video for its upcoming zombie game Dead Island. The trailer contained no gameplay footage, but showed in reverse the plight of a family when faced with a group of relentless zombies bursting into their hotel room/apartment. Skip forward three […]

Now that the mobile arms race between Android and iOS is approaching critical mass, the consumer market is simply not enough. Android and iOS have begun to slowly creep into the enterprise and education markets, and neither OS really seems to be making more headway than the other. That’s because these markets require unique individual […]

As previously noted on this site, wingsuit skydiving looks to be just about the most fun you can have without breaking the law. Even without taking it to the absolute extreme, the jumpers are quite good at making their sport look like controlled insanity. Use of the proper gear helps us viewers live vicariously through […]

Painting a large installment on a wall is usually a pretty time consuming task. However, one group of guys found a way to paint a monster of a picture in literally an eighth of a second. Created as a marketing stunt for the V Energy drink, a popular energy drink in New Zealand and Australia, […]

Of all the portable device displays on the market today, Apple has one of the most impressive with the Retina Display on the iPhone 4. It offers such a high resolution you can’t see the individual pixels while at the same time allowing multiple people to view content with wide viewing angles. That’s all well […]