By Sean P. Aune |
Despite having freed itself of the shackles of eBay, it seems that there are some rumors that Skype is once again in talks to be sold off to another owner, or that it possibly could be looking to form a major joint venture. Reuters is…
By Jack McGrath |
After showing off Mass Effect 3‘s engine in a PlayStation 3-exclusive version of the second installment in the franchise, many gamers have been looking forward to Bioware’s final game in the trilogy. Though it was slated to be released by the holiday season this year,…
By Adriana Lee |
I’ve referenced tech addiction before while talking about other things. Maybe I should’ve given it more of a spotlight of its own. In particular, there’s one subset that seems to be getting attention more and more over the past few years: social media addiction. It’s…
By Sean P. Aune |
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a new game that shares the name of the third film in the series, but instead of just being a game version of the movie, it will fill in gaps of the story of what has happened since Revenge…
By Adriana Lee |
How will we be living in the future? This is exactly what Microsoft has been dreaming up, with the Redmond company manifesting its most innovative concepts in its Home of the Future, a proprietary testing environment for next-gen and next-next-gen tech. The 360-degree laboratory space offers a peek…
By Emily Price |
Vintage Buffalo is a weekly feature here at TechnoBuffalo where we take a look at our old gadgets, why we bought them, and what made us replace them. Are you like us and hanging on to some gadget relics of the past? Submit your story…
By Adriana Lee |
Spotify is making big waves in the digital music business today. If you don’t know the application, that might be because it’s not available in the U.S. yet outside of a very limited beta release, but the streaming music app and service is hugely popular…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Nintendo Wii is officially dropping in price come May 15th. The rumor first broke last month that Nintendo would be dropping the price of the popular console, but with the rumors of the next console, codenamed Project Cafe, having hit in the meantime, the…
By Noah Kravitz |
Last week I posted an Ask the Buffalo call-out before heading to AppNation SF to spend a day with app developers, marketers, sales people and users. I watched some panels, I sat on some panels, and I walked the show floor and checked out the…
By Jon Rettinger |
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has been better known as “the PlayStation Phone” through most of its development due to the fact that it will indeed play Sony games. This is the first PlayStation certified phone, but is it going to be able to live…
By Emily Price |
Apple has released iOS 4.3.3. The small update to the iOS software is a reaction to recent news regarding iOS’ tracking feature – a feature that keeps track of the locations an iPhone or 3G iPad visits in order to keep track of where cell…
By Jon Quach |
Jon Q is live now! Feel free to drop by and say hi. Update: The event has ended. Thank you guys for dropping by!…
By Sean P. Aune |
We haven’t heard too much about the HP Veer since it was originally announced at an event back on Feb. 9th. While it was promised for a spring release, there hadn’t been another word on it until now, and at some point HP decided to…
By Jack McGrath |
Set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland, Bethesda’s iconic Fallout franchise has been praised for giving players complete freedom and addictive game mechanics. The most recent installment in the series, Fallout: New Vegas, was well-received by critics, but was deplored for its bugs and glitches. Alongside…
By Adriana Lee |
How do you get people to do things they normally wouldn’t? Or even excel at things that are difficult? Simple. You turn it into a game. Called gamification, the approach has existed for a while, long before there was even a term coined for it. You…
By Emily Price |
American Airlines is going to be offering in-flight streaming to personal devices. With the service you’ll be able to purchase content from an in-flight library, and stream it to your computer, tablet, or mobile phone while you’re in the air using the plane’s built-in Wi-Fi.…
By Jack McGrath |
After Ubisoft representatives announced the date and time of their E3 press conference, information regarding the next installment of the critically-acclaimed Assassin’s Creed series was accidentally released on the company’s Facebook page. Though the well-known game publisher was rumored to announce the title this May,…
By Maximum PC |
Say what you will about Twitter, but it’s ubiquity is startling. Consider the following statistics: • An average of a billion tweets are sent each week. That amounts to approximately 140 million tweets per day. Per day! • When Michael Jackson died back in June…
By Jon Quach |
The 2011 iMac spring update is running the new Sandy Bridge Intel processors, also known as the second generation of the “i” CPUs. The July 2010 iMac update was running the first generation of these systems, and only saw a quad-core option on the the…
By Emily Price |
TechnoBuffalo Defines is a weekly column where we ask you, the TechnoBuffalo readers, to give us your thoughts on a particular topic or word. Each Tuesday we give you guys a new tech term to define, and you give us your best shot at a…
By Jack McGrath |
After acknowledging that personal information stored on Sony’s online gaming service was compromised, many gamers became irritated by the company’s lack of communication with its user base. It comes as no surprise that one gamer took that anger to the courts, and thus the inevitable onslaught of…
By Sean P. Aune |
We love hearing from the Herd here at TechnoBuffalo, but one thing we’ve never done before is throw open the doors and allowed you to tell us what you want our next video to be. With that in mind, take a few moments to cast…
By Noah Kravitz |
Noah’s talking tech right now. Join the conversation, ask him about mobile, TVs, social media, or how he gets his head so shiny. Live today at 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern!…
By Sean P. Aune |
There’s a rumor going around today that online retailer Amazon is finally going to make a big play for the tablet market and will be introducing its own tablet some time in the later half of this year. According to DigiTimes, Amazon has reportedly placed…
