By Emily Price |
If you were thinking about picking up a Nook for school this year, Barnes & Noble is offering some free books for your device to sweeten the deal. If you purchase a Nook and register it before October 31 of this year, the bookseller will…
By Joey Davidson |
GameFly has announced the beta for a massive gaming hub available to both subscribers and non-subscribers starting this holiday. Players will be able to purchase and download games, read a stream of gaming news and share their libraries with friends. Subscribers will, however, enjoy a…
By Mike Perlman |
The Pantech Pursuit II is a 50 dollar touch-screen slider for AT&T, and a cheap alternative to the full-fledged high-end smartphone rockstar lifestyle. The unboxing revealed a “cute” little phone with vibrant color accents and a QWERTY keyboard that rivaled BlackBerry in size, yet a…
By Emily Price |
Apple has successfully blocked the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe. The Regional Court of Dusseldorf granted Apple the preliminary injunction, requiring sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to be stopped across the entirety of European Union with the exception of the Netherlands.…
By Sean P. Aune |
While it was all well and good that Apple decided to make Mac OS X Lion a virtual piece of software without any physical media involved – unless you pay $69 for it on a USB drive – it left folks with an issue when…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems that Sprint is getting ready to unleash three more phones into the world, and thanks to a leak, we’ve got their names, but not a whole lot else. According to a tipster to Engadget, Sprint is getting ready for their own version of…
By Emily Price |
The iPhone 5 may have not been announced yet, but that hasn’t stopped Rob Shoesmith in the UK from starting to plan his time in line for the device. The marketer from the UK has started to construct plans set up a tent outside the…
By Joey Davidson |
We ran a rumor late last week that suggested Walmarts around the United States were prepping to drop the upcoming price cut for the Nintendo 3DS earlier than Nintendo announced. The cut from $250 to $170 is supposed to happen on August 12th, Walmart, according…
By Emily Price |
Spotify now has 1.4 million free users in the United States, and a whopping 175,000 paying customers using the service. The service has been around a little under a month here in the States. The company has been around for years in Europe, and currently…
By Adriana Lee |
The U.S. has seen its fair share of unrest in the streets, but there was a stunning aspect of the riots in north London — the tools Tottenham looters used to coordinate their attacks. Among them was Twitter, Facebook and BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), the latter…
By Mike Perlman |
Well, the title speaks for itself. The Toshiba Qosmio F755 3D, announced today, is not only the world’s first glasses-free 3D-capable laptop–it’s a harbinger of Al Pacino’s famous line “I’m just gettin’ warmed up!” And let’s view the 3D industry as Al Pacino, only significantly more…
By Joey Davidson |
Take-Two has been releasing high quality games for years. Their success rate, especially when coupled with studios like Rockstar Games, is nearly second to none. 2010 was a massive year for both the aforementioned publisher and developer with the release of the massively popular western…
By Jon Rettinger |
After a couple of weeks of switching between the HTC Sensation 4G and HTC MyTouch 4G Slide, it’s time to look at these two phones in an in depth review and comparison, I am going to throw these two phones into the octagon (because let’s face…
By Sean P. Aune |
We put out the call for questions last week, and as always you had a bunch of them! Jon went through and selected a handful of them to answer, and as with all episodes of Ask the Buffalo now, you can see them first on…
By Sean P. Aune |
Overall the stock market did not have a good day with the Dow falling 5.55%, or 634.76 points, to 10,809.85. All of this was in the wake of a recent downgrade of the credit rating of the United States by Standard & Poor’s from AAA to…
By Sean P. Aune |
From the realm of “too little, probably too late,” comes the news today that four electronics companies are teaming up to come up with a standardized version of 3D for home viewing to alleviate some of the confusion in the marketplace. Cue the screams of…
By Joey Davidson |
Revealed last month by Game Informer, Dishonored is the retro-futuristic blend of sneaking and choice from Arkane Studios. The project is being developed from the collective talents behind video games that stand as titans to this day. From the story that accompanied the announcement of…
By Emily Price |
Today Skype it released version 5.3 for Mac OS X, the updated version of the program supports Lion and adds HD video call functionality. 5.3 is built specifically to work with Lion, however, it will work with any version of OS X you may currently…
By Sean P. Aune |
Charlie Kindel, the general manager of the Window’s Phone division at Microsoft, has announced he is leaving the company on Sept. 2nd, after 21 years with the company. You can see Mr. Kindel’s full departure letter below which may rank as one of the longest…
By Joey Davidson |
Gamasutra ran an interesting discussion between the site and a small group from the Irrational Games team. Irrational is the studio working on the upcoming BioShock Infinite, and they’re the studio that created the awe-inspiring original BioShock from several years ago. The Gamasutra story discusses…
By Sean P. Aune |
Is RIM finally working on their first handset that will be powered by the QNX operating system? It looks they may be, but don’t expect to see it until early next year. According to Boy Genius Report, RIM is currently testing a handset codenamed “BlackBerry…
By Joey Davidson |
According to the Battlefield Blog, the goal for DICE with Battlefield 3 is to ensure players “will have as much fun with the game in 2013 as on launch day.” Two years worth of extensive unlocks, rewards, achievements and tireless gameplay is a lofty expectation for…
By Emily Price |
Can the whole Internet share a single Starbucks card? Jonathan Stark thinks so, and he’s offering his Starbucks card up for the sharing. The programmer is offering up a digital copy of his Starbucks card for the masses, which you can download and use to…
By Emily Price |
A 4G-capable version of the HP TouchPad is now available on Amazon. The 32GB tablet is available for preorder now from the site for $700, $100 more than its regularly-priced Wi-Fi counterpart. HP ran a sale on the Wi-Fi version of the TouchPad this past…
