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…
By Emily Price |
Steve Ballmer took the stage at BlackBerry World this morning to announce that Bing would be the default search engine and maps service in BlackBerry devices. Search will be integrated at the OS level, and will be the option, rather than just an option (not…
By Noah Kravitz |
We get to play with the latest gadgets, it’s true. We test them, we review them, we compare them … and then we have to move on to the next “Newest, greatest thing evAr!” Such is the life of a tech reporter – there’s always…
By Emily Price |
Google is test driving voice search on Google.com. The functionality is only available to select users, with those users seeing a small grey microphone at the end of the traditional search box on the page. Voice search is already available on mobile phones, bringing the…
By Sean P. Aune |
As was widely speculated this past week, Apple has indeed updated the iMac line today, and while they contain the same external looks, there is a whole lot of new stuff going on inside of them. The biggest news is that while Apple never specifically…
By Adriana Lee |
Living with parents may not be easy, but it’s usually worthwhile for people who are strapped for cash. It’s shocking how much you can save by squatting in your old bedroom or basement. But there’s also another hidden plus: Since you’re right there, you never…
By Sean P. Aune |
Typically when a company drops $320 million on a purchase, you would think they would have a clear idea of their plans. To hear Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen talk about the fate of Blockbuster Video, that wouldn’t seem to be the case. Speaking during…
By Emily Price |
There’s nothing quite like a geeky coffee mug to get your day started right. Spotted on Photojojo are these uber-realistic camera lens mugs. The mugs are available in both Canon and Nikon varieties, have a lens-cap lid, rubber-grip focus and zoom rings, and an autofocus…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 and Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 media players have finally had their official launch today, but it’s still unclear when you’ll be able to walk into a store in the United States to pick one up. We first got a…
By Noah Kravitz |
Get the kids and hide the grandparents, we’re going live! TechnoBuffalo is signed on and ready to stream our way into your hearts via Vokle live videostreaming.We can broadcast, we can chat, we can take your calls, and we can talk it out. So we’re…
By Sean P. Aune |
In the wake of the recent PlayStation Network security breach, Sony has been trying to get its security under control, but it looks like the company have faced another set back today over at its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) division. The following statement was posted…
By Jon Rettinger |
Finally, the long road of the Droid Charge comes to a close as we have one in hand for an unboxing! It feels like this phone has been haunting us for ages, but in reality we saw it for the first time as CES back…
By Adriana Lee |
A new survey from Spike TV helps corroborate what many of us have believed for a while — that mobile devices are actually changing people. In this case, the subjects are smartphones and the modern male. The results should shock no one here: Apparently, guys really…
By Adriana Lee |
Research In Motion (RIM) must be overjoyed. At this week’s BlackBerry World conference in Orlando, Florida, the company unveiled the first app to offer a PlayBook-optimized interface. And it’s an official Facebook application, no less. According to RIM, 30+ million BlackBerry smartphone owners use Facebook on their handsets,…
By Sean P. Aune |
Move vs. Kinect is the focus of Console Wars Season 2, and in this third round, LP takes a look at the killer apps that could potentially decide which system is right for you. The Sony Move and Microsoft Kinect were released within just a few months…
