By Adriana Lee |
Call it the Androidification of our homes. If you like the Android operating system in your hands, on the go, on your lap, well then Google would love for you have it on your exercise bike, microwave, vacuum cleaner and every other appliance in your house…
By Joey Davidson |
Remedy Entertainment, the developers of the long-time-developed 360 title Alan Wake, have confirmed to Joystiq that a portion of their team is at work creating the next Alan Wake installment. The clever portion of this confirmation, however, is that this new game is neither DLC…
By Noah Kravitz |
Google and Samsung handed out Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to everyone at Google I/O. Including us! Tab 10.1 doesn’t hit stores for another month or so, but I got ours out of the box this morning live from San Francisco. Galaxy Tab 10.1 is like…
By Emily Price |
Noah’s talking tech right now from the middle of Google I/O in San Francisco. Join the conversation, ask him about mobile, TVs, social media, or how many ice cream sandwiches he plans to eat tonight at the I/O afterparty. Live today at 11am Pacific /…
By Adriana Lee |
Who hasn’t complained about Android fragmentation? Waiting for different versions to finally arrive for your device, wondering when Honeycomb features will arrive for your smartphone, etc. — these things aren’t fun. Not for you, the end user, and not for tech bloggers. (TechnoBuffalo’s own Jon…
By Jon Rettinger |
Google just took the wraps off a brand new movie rental service via the Android Market. There are a lot of subtly interesting things at play here, aside from the ability to actually watch the content on any Android 2.2 or newer device. 1-click purchasing…
By Emily Price |
Google announced “Music Beta by Google” this morning. The currently free (for a limited time) music streaming service allows you to sync 20,000 songs to a cloud, and allows you to listen to those tunes on any phone or tablet running Android 2.2(or higher), your…
By Jon Rettinger |
Mere moments ago Google took the wraps off the next major Android update, appropriately dubbed ‘Ice Cream Sandwich.’ This presumed 4.0 looks to address the growing fragmentation problem by unifying smartphones and tablet under one OS. Here’s hoping for a quick carrier adoption process. Google…
By Emily Price |
Google’s I/O Developer Conference kicks off in just a few minutes in San Francisco. If you weren’t one of the lucky ones to score a ticket in (the event sold out in just 59 minutes) that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all…
By Adriana Lee |
In the past, tech trade shows were the primary domain of nerds and business people. At most, they were worthy of short, four-minute packages on the nightly news — usually in a spot designed to show laypeople a glimpse of some vague futuretech — and…
By Joey Davidson |
Yesterday, May 9th, 2011, it was confirmed that Microsoft purchased popular VoIP service Skype for $8.5 billion dollars. Billion, with a “b,” not million. While there are myriad options in front of the massive corporation concerning how Skype and its video conferencing services can be…
By Emily Price |
Microsoft announced this morning that it will be acquiring Skype. The company paid $8.5 billion for the VoIP service, which it will make a new business division within Microsoft. Skype CEO Tony Bates will become the president of that division. Speaking on behalf of the…
By Adriana Lee |
Improv Everywhere strikes again! If the name sounds familiar, it might be because these are the guys who perpetrated the infamous Best Buy prank a few years ago. (They got 80 strangers to wear blue shirts and tan pants, and then show up at the Big…
By Joey Davidson |
Capcom-Unity represents the massive community arm of one of the most successful and storied third-party publishing companies in the gaming universe, Capcom. One forum member asked if Capcom had anything to say about the current PlayStation Network outage: ”Do you have anything to say about the ordeal going…
By Noah Kravitz |
We get the latest Google phone out of the box on the eve of Google I/O. Sprint’s Nexus S 4G is basically the Nexus S we all know and love, but with a Sprint-compatible CDMA/WiMax radio. Features a 4″ Super AMOLED display, Android OS 2.3…
By Noah Kravitz |
Note: Bookmark our Google I/O 2011 Home Page for all of this week’s news! Google I/O kicks off Tuesday morning in San Francisco with a 9 am Keynote followed by two full days’ of sessions with a second Keynote, a few lunches, and a whole mess…
By Adriana Lee |
While many Google/Android fans may be looking toward Google I/O with great anticipation, I know at least a few who are already thrilled today with some news that hit the wire. WatchESPN for Android has just debuted in the Market, allowing users with select TV…
By Noah Kravitz |
Google I/O doesn’t start until tomorrow (I’ll be there!), but the Google Family PR machine is already in full force today. YouTube Head Salar Kamangar announced the expansion of the video portal’s movie rental service this morning via a post on the official YouTube Blog.…
By Joey Davidson |
Nintendo has just announced that they’ve filled the vacant Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing position in the Nintendo of America arm of the corporation. The position was held by the oft-maligned Cammie Dunaway until the fall of last year; she left the gaming…
By Adriana Lee |
Microsoft has announced that it will officially show off the “Mango” WinPho update for analysts and members of the media this month — May 24, to be exact, at a VIP event to be held in New York. Execs had promised that the developer tools…
By Jon Rettinger |
The once sparse world of 4G smartphones is getting more crowded by the day. Meet the newest member vying for elbow room: the Samsung-built Droid Charge for Verizon Wireless. We’ve been covering the Charge since its CES introduction as the “unnamed Samsung 4G device” (although…
By Emily Price |
HP is getting into the 3G data game. Today the company announced Datapass, a service which allows you to purchase 3G data on your laptop. The data is purchased by HP from Sprint, with the company branding the service and setting the customer pricing for…
By Noah Kravitz |
Having gained major marketplace and mindshare traction already this year with their Tegra 2 dual-core chipsets, NVIDIA this morning announced a new addition to their mobile processor portfolio. The Silicon Valley company says it plans to acquire Icera, a maker of baseband processors for 3G/4G…
By Jon Rettinger |
Few companies are as polarizing as Apple, you either love them or hate them, with not many falling in the middle. Despite your personal feelings on the company, there’s no debating Jobs and Co. know how to make cold hard cash. If you don’t follow…
