Archive for June, 2011

For most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, this time of the year is hot. However, after ogling over our latest time-lapse video featuring the frosty mountains of Switzerland, we feel a little bit cooler. Photographer Patryk Kizny is back with another great video. Kizny recently released a stop-motion video along with Mateusz Zdziebko that […]

Back in January, we reported that a Hulu Plus streaming app would soon be coming to Android smartphones. Hulu’s CEO, Jason Kilar, made the announcement as part of Samsung’s keynote at CES 2011. At the time, Kilar noted that the app would come to select Android 2.2 smartphones and now we know who the lucky […]

Remember when having a camera on your phone was a novel feature? Nowadays, almost every phone has at least one camera, and some even have two. Then, phone cameras started featuring a flash, and we wondered how phone photography could get any better. If the rumors are true, Apple will be releasing a dual-flash for […]

The holy grail of energy production is a totally clean burning fuel that can be produced without waste. We do have such a fuel in hydrogen, but producing it in a clean and efficient way has always been a stumbling block to it ever becoming an alternative to the fuels we use today. Hydrogen can […]

Smartphones are a crazy technology market to watch. The tech and features are moving as fast as computer technology did in the early days of the Intel Pentium M and Core processors. We’ve got fast dual-core processors stuffed into phones with high resolution screens and more gaming power than last generation game consoles. Strap onto […]

When you think of Research In Motion (RIM) it’s hard not to think of mobile email which most would agree is the bread-and-butter of their business. RIM made its mark through the launch of its BlackBerry handhelds and complimentary BlackBerry service that allowed corporations to extend the ability to receive and send email to mobile […]

The next big revolution in PC games seems to be the ability to stream them to just about any device as long as you have a decent Internet connection. The two competing services in this field at the moment are OnLive and Gaikai. Gaikai has just landed itself a huge deal that will see it […]

This sounds like a story which should be on The Onion, but unfortunately it’s not meaning it must be deadly serious. BeautifulPeople.com is a dating and networking site with a specific niche it has carved out for itself. As the name implies, you have to be good-looking in order to become a member. New members […]

Google has taken yet another opportunity to change its search page logo, replacing it with a Google Doodle for 24 hours. The reason to celebrate is the fact today is the first day of summer and also the summer solstice. If you are wondering what that means, the summer solstice happens when the Earth and […]

When Oracle acquired Sun in 2009 the company got its hands on a lot of desirable technology. While OpenOffice may have fallen by the way side, Oracle isn’t about to let the Java programming language and its associated patents remain untouched if they can generate some additional revenue. In fact, the company is currently in […]

At the beginning of last week we learned that Microsoft is set to introduce a new model Xbox 360 Slim. The benefits of the hardware update include the CPU, GPU, memory, and logic all being on one piece of silicon. That in turn means less power consumption, less heat, and a smaller power brick. This […]

Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will be the first Halo game to support Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller. That much was confirmed by Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s general manaer of game studios, during an interview with GameSpot yesterday. Beyond that we know very little of exactly how Kinect input will be added to Microsoft’s number one gaming brand. […]