By Todd Haselton |
Skype calls can now be initiated directly from an Outlook.com inbox, Microsoft announced recently. The service is currently available in the United Kingdom but Microsoft said support will soon be available in the United States and in Germany. The company is billing the current service…
By Joey Davidson |
Batman: Arkham Origins is the brand new entry in the Arkham series of video games that’s won so much praise over the last several years. This story, though, is a prequel. It all goes down on Christmas Eve, as the images in the gallery below suggest.…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 3 on Monday morning, a new Android tablet that will make its debut in May. The device is equipped with a 7-inch 1024 x 600-pixel display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a 3-megapixel camera, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing…
By Todd Haselton |
Google Now just launched for iOS devices. If you’re an Android user you’re likely familiar with the option, which made its debut in Android Jelly Bean. The software constantly keeps you in-the-know with up-to-date information such as the weather, sports scores, packages, stocks and so…
By Brandon Russell |
Sony is bringing some of the aesthetics that made its RX100 such an attractive point-and-shoot and dressing it up into its new HX50V. For $450, the new Cyber-shot is for all intents and purposes a spiritual cousin to last year’s RX100, a cheaper option of…
By Joey Davidson |
Sony has announced a brand new, episodic series for the PS Vita: Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery. Developed by Lucid exclusively for the PS Vita, Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery is a brain teasing puzzler with a unique aesthetic and, supposedly, a great…
By Todd Haselton |
We already brought you an early look at the Galaxy S4 innards, but now the folks over at iFixit have ripped the phone apart and provided a bit more detail on its innards. The device received an overall repairability score of 8 out of 10,…
By Todd Haselton |
The Samsung Galaxy S4 isn’t just another Android smartphone; it’s the fourth version of Samsung’s incredibly popular Galaxy S device. It’s about to take not only the United States, but the world by storm, and it packs so many features that it makes an iPhone…
By Ron Duwell |
2K Games has confirmed that their long lost 1960s XCOM third-person shooter has been given a huge overhaul, and has been re-branded as The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. The game was originally panned when announced to gamers, with many decrying the fact that it looked nothing…
By Brandon Russell |
An all-touch webOS smartphone has been uncovered from the Bermuda Triangle of mobile oblivion, but sadly it’ll never rest in your pocket. As bad as you want it to sit beside your collection of iOS, Android and Windows Phone devices, this webOS smartphone is a…
By Brandon Russell |
It wouldn’t be right if we did a series of camera comparisons and left out the Lumia 920, which launched last year with one of the top mobile cameras we’ve ever see. When we pit the 920 against HTC’s self-professed UltraPixel game-changer, the results were…
By Brandon Russell |
Ever since the iPhone 4 hit, Apple’s mobile handsets have consistently pushed the boundaries for camera quality. Aside from its excellent build, the iPhone 5’s camera is, even months later, still one of the best on the market—even with the Lumia 920 and HTC One…
By Todd Haselton |
As expected, Nokia on Wednesday unveiled the Asha 210, an entry-level Series 40 device destined for emerging markets. The Finnish phone maker took a page out of HTC’s book by adding a dedicated button for quick access to WhatsApp. HTC tried this method before, with…
By Brandon Russell |
Without a doubt, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One will spark one of the biggest Android battles in recent memory. Samsung has a lot of resources and past success behind the S4—its predecessors, S III, S II and S were all extremely popular—while the…
By Jon Rettinger |
So it begins, Samsung’s first foray into the Full HD market—one that by now has a handful of already very noteworthy devices, like the HTC One. The company’s S III was enormously successful worldwide, so the Galaxy S4 has a lot—a lot!—to live up to,…
By Joey Davidson |
Gamers that have been enjoying each piece of extra content that’s been thrown at the fictional universe of Assassin’s Creed III have a new reason to be excited today. “The Redemption” DLC will be available for download once each platform updates its store. The trailer above…
By Todd Haselton |
Yahoo announced just last month that it was acquiring Summly, an application that provided short summaries of news stories that was developed by a 15-year old. On Monday the company released a brand new application that includes Summly built-in. The application looks barebones on the…
By Brandon Russell |
The attraction of point-and-shoot cameras has traditionally been their compact size. But, with so many great smartphones on the market, that attraction has been overshadowed by advancing mobile technology. And so companies began taking a new approach. More features are nice but, taking that even…
By Todd Haselton |
Just last week we published a story that included photos of several alleged parts of the iPhone 5S. Now, NoWhereElse has published a new image that reportedly shows us a glimpse of the front-facing camera module. The photos apparently first surfaced on a Japanese retailer’s website,…
By Brandon Russell |
Osito for iOS, previously known as Sherpa, is Bill Ferrell’s answer to Google Now. A former Googler himself, Ferrell has created a predictive intelligence experience focused around traffic info, travel alerts, weather forecasts and your personal calendar. It doesn’t live on your home screen, and…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter’s new #music project is trying to make discovery more social. The platform isn’t just for immortal celebrities; it’s a tangible grid of trending artists according to Twitter. If you’re up to speed with all the latest top hits, #music is essentially a Top 40…
By Brandon Russell |
A new weather app developed by Yahoo is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in the App Store this year. If Apple and Yahoo are planning further integration—outside of Stocks, basic Weather and some Siri info—please implement the online company’s new app, which…
By Todd Haselton |
Twitter officially revealed its own music service on Thursday, appropriately dubbed Twitter #music. The application is available for iOS and basically scans through Twitter to find new and popular music. “[Twitter #music] uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most…
By Brandon Russell |
A leaked build of Windows 8.1 has leaked onto the darker corners of the Internet, revealing some iterative tweaks coming to Microsoft’s platform. Aside from the ability to hop straight to the traditional desktop, Windows 8.1 will also introduce improved multitasking and a Metro file…
