By Jacob Kleinman |
Qualcomm unveiled its quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor earlier this year and the first benchmarks are starting to crop up. Engadget recently had a chance to give the processor a whirl and published its own benchmarks using Qualcomm’s mobile development platform (MDP) devices. The new processor came away the clear…
By Sean P. Aune |
Apple announced this morning that the offerings on its Apple TV set top box are expanding yet again with the addition of HBO Go and WatchESPN. “HBO GO and WatchESPN are some of the most popular iOS apps and are sure to be huge hits…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft’s new Surface RT devices, which may launch with displays ranging between 7-inches and 9-inches, will reportedly use Qualcomm’s processors. The company will continue to use NVIDIA chips in some devices. The current Surface RT runs on NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor, though the majority of…
By Joey Davidson |
Game over, man. Game over! A few curios lines of code have been spotted in the most recent beta build of Steam. These lines indicate that users might soon be able to lend games out to their friends. Sleuthed up by NeoGAF’s “Grief.exe,” and subsequently…
By Todd Haselton |
HTC on Wednesday unveiled the Butterfly S, the follow-up to the HTC Butterfly which launched on Verizon Wireless as the DROID DNA. The new phone offers many features found in the company’s flagship One phone, including BoomSound front-facing speakers, a 4-UltraPixel camera, support for shooting…
By Ron Duwell |
Indie RPG smash-hit Torchlight is free for the next two days through GOG.com to kick-off its 2013 #NoDRM Summer Sale. Now is the best time to pick up this excellent little game if you’ve somehow missed out on the previous sales. Most fans describe it…
By Brandon Russell |
One of the great things about Netflix’s original content library is that all episodes of a show are made available at once, allowing subscribers to watch at their own pace. But the same thing can’t be said for Amazon’s exclusive show, Alpha House, starring John…
By Ron Duwell |
Longtime PlayStation supporters were heartbroken to find that the latest from Insomniac Games is going to be exclusive to the Xbox One. Sunset Overdrive goes against the flow of tradition for the development team, which has been responsible for a handful of PlayStation defining series…
By Todd Haselton |
Yesterday, I met someone who needed a charger for his iPhone 5 because he was headed to a concert and, unfortunately, his ticket was stored on the phone. He couldn’t reach any friends, either, because said phone was dead. He may not have to worry…
By Joey Davidson |
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the newest entry in this much loved series for the Nintendo 3DS, was announced for territories outside of Japan earlier this year. The only snag? Capcom is set to save scratch by only releasing it in digital form.…
By Sean P. Aune |
Do you have a burning question about tech? Well, it’s time to ask Jon Rettinger and hear him answer one of your pressing queries on video. Until 3 PM PST on Thursday, June 20, leave a comment with your question for him, and then you’ll…
By Jacob Kleinman |
AT&T is now offering its customers an exclusive aurora red model of the Galaxy S4 for $199.99 with a two year-contract, the same price it currently charges for Samsung’s flagship smartphone in black or white. The red smartphone is available for purchase through Samsung’s website or…
By Ron Duwell |
Namco Bandai is once again ready to give a little love to the past with a new entry in the Retro Game Challenge series on the Nintendo 3DS next winter. Known as GameCenter CX in Japan, the two games are an amazing throwback to the…
By Jacob Kleinman |
Today, Yahoo joined Facebook, Microsoft and Apple in publishing the total number of requests it received from the U.S. government to examine its data. In a post published on the company’s official Tumblr blog, Yahoo revealed that over the past six months it received between 12,000 to…
By Joey Davidson |
Ron Gilbert and Double Fine teamed up to release The Cave, an adventuring, multiple character, puzzle-based platformer for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms, back in January of this year. That was, so I thought, the last we’d hear about the title nearing release.…
By Adriana Lee |
With graduation ceremonies behind us now, the world is flush with a new crop of bright-eyed hopefuls chomping at the bit to blaze trails. And for some, that will involve coming back to an environment they had only just left behind: Education. Those with tech…
By Joey Davidson |
Two of Nintendo’s most famous faces, one more famous than the other, sat down together during the week of E3 in order to duke it out in Pikmin 3‘s Bingo Battle mode. As we catch up with all of the videos and assets that have…
By Todd Haselton |
AT&T just announced that it will begin offering the BlackBerry Q10 in stores on June 21 for $199.99 with a new two-year agreement. As is the case with other smartphones, customers can receive $100 toward the deal if they trade in their existing smartphone. “AT&T…
By Joey Davidson |
Who would have thunk it? We’re well into the zombie craze, even though some among us think we should be well beyond it, and another post-apocalyptic title goes all “smash hit” on us overnight. This time it’s the currently Xbox LIVE exclusive State of Decay…
By Adriana Lee |
Yes, developers have ample opportunity to play with iOS 7, but what about the rest of the impatient masses? Well, you could snag the beta anyway and risk glitching (or worse — bricking) your iPhone, or you can play it safe and test drive it…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple has yet to seed an iPad version of iOS 7 to developers, yet a YouTube user has posted what they allege to be a version optimized for the company’s slate. It’s unclear how or even if the version is legit, but paired with the…
By Joey Davidson |
Turns out, May was a great month for Nintendo’s little portable system. Nintendo released a press release last night with news that the Nintendo 3DS was the best-selling gaming platform in the month of May. Over the last year, the console and software maker has…
By Brandon Russell |
Code found buried in the iOS 7 beta suggests Apple is testing deep LinkedIn integration, with a single sign-on functionality similar to the current Twitter and Facebook implementations. According to Hamza Sood, who highlighted some hidden features in the upcoming OS, the LinkedIn code isn’t…
By Jacob Kleinman |
AT&T on Tuesday started offering support for FaceTime video calls over cellular for iPhone 5 owners with an unlimited data plan. The update comes a month after the carrier announced it would support pre-loaded video chat apps on its network by mid-June; though, for now,…
