By Scott M. [......]
Archive for March, 2010
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Just four days ahead of the iPad's first day of availability, iTunes has received an upgrade which adds sync for the new device. According to the software updater, the new version of iTunes lets users "Organize and sync books you've downloaded from iBooks on iPad or added to your iTunes library," and "Rename, rearrange, or remove Genius Mixes." The icon under "Library" which formerly was called "Audiobooks" is now simply, "Books," and Genius mixes can now be re-named and moved. [......]
At long last, the wait is finally over for Motorola Droid owners. Starting today, Verizon said it has begun rolling out the Android 2.1 update [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Back in December, I tried to enable everything I use on my Motorola Droid with text-to-speech , with only limited success. Ideally, I would have been able to have all of my incoming text-based media from Twitter, RSS, email, and SMS read aloud to me so I could use my phone while driving. Unfortunately, Android's built in TalkBack functionality is very limited, and the talking apps I've tried are also pretty limited in what they do[......]
MSI forum members last week received a mass email imploring them to RTFM (Read The Flipping Email, to put it nicely). [......]
If we were to ask Maximum PC readers which they would rather have, a netbook or an iPad, we suspect the netbook would win by a landslide. Pose the same question to the mainstream, however, and the results are a lot closer, according to a recent NPD study . NPD pinged a group of 18-34 year olds to see which they'd prefer, and while the netbook came out ahead, it was a slim margin of victory. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Using a Firefox 3.0 add-on created by developers in Hong Kong, Betanews was able to briefly establish a connection with the Internet via a proxy based in mainland China[......]
Life is good for HTC, the handset maker riding the wave of Android in the smartphone market. So good, in fact, that the company is on pace to hit a new high in handset shipments this quarter[......]
How do you look good while toting around 1TB of data? Ask Toshiba's new 1TB Canvio portable hard drive , which combines an easy-to-use backup solution with oodles of storage and shoves it all into a stylish casing[......]
For those of you rocking a Mac, Apple on Monday released a software update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard bringing the current version to 10.6.3. The latest update plugs a whole bunch of security holes, addressing everything from improved validation of MPEG encoded movie files to preventing remote attackers from extracting information from Open Directory, as well as a little love for more secure Wi-Fi. [......]
As they sometimes do, another “inside source†has decided to don their feature-obscuring trench coat, find a spot in the corner of a parking garage where the shadows cover their face just so , and make with the blabbing. The topic? [......]
While it’s still technically “ early 2010 †by our arbitrary standards, we’ve reached the point where Battlefield 1943’s absence on the PC is starting to grow more conspicuous by the day. The BF 1942 reimagining has been out on consoles since last July, after all. [......]
Apple is expected to release an update to the popular iTunes software this Saturday in conjunction with the launch of the much anticipated iPad. Many of the software enhancements are meant to support features of the Apple tablet. Some updates that users can look forward to are improved Genius mixes, redesign of iTunes store categories, and an improved device management interface. [......]
With Fermi cards now street legal, PC makers are scrambling to convince you to buy a system from them using the new GPUs. Almost immediately after the announcement, CyberPower updated their build options with the Black Pearl, Black Mamba Fang Series and Gamer Xtreme 3D[......]
