Posts Tagged ‘news’

T-Mobile US to Get Old Model iPhone?

Wired editor Chris Anderson issued a strange bit of information via a tweet last night. Apparently, he was told by a T-Mobile manager in no uncertain terms that the nation’s number four carrier would be getting the Apple iPhone 3GS later this year. The new iPhone 4 is apparently left out of the...
September 8th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

New Shooter from Former Tribes, WoW Devs Is The Most Amazing-Looking Game You Don’t Know About

These days, it’s rare for a game to drop out of nowhere and turn us into sweaty, drooling masses capable only of slobbering out the words “Woah,” “Dude,” and “[Speechless],” but to say Firefall pulled it off would be a serious understatement. See, the game heralds from Red 5 Studios,...
September 8th, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

Breaking: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Former CEO Hurd

HP’s former CEO Mark Hurd was forced out in the wake of a scandal which may or may not have involved a romantic relationship with a contractor. What it did involve was filing bogus expense reports. Hurd left, and got a pretty smashing severance package. HP may have been planning to let things...
September 7th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

BSA Gives £10,000 Reward to Software Piracy Whistleblower

The Business Software Alliance has a bounty program that rewards software piracy whistleblowers. The latest beneficiary of BSA’s bounty program, which offers up to $1 million in reward money, is said to have received £10,000 ($15,300) for blowing the lid of his former employer’s use of...
September 7th, 2010 | Software | Read More

ExoPC Accepting Preorders for Windows 7 Tablet

The tablet market continues to inch closer to a competitive field instead of just a one-man show dominated by Apple. ExoPC, for example, is now taking preorders for its upcoming Windows 7-based slate. Preorders were originally limited to 1,200, but now it’s open to everyone. The 32GB version will...
September 6th, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

Intel Finally Jumping on the USB 3.0 Bandwagon

The USB 3.0 SuperSpeed spec really is all that and a bag of Baked Lays (unless you’re not a fan of Baked Lays, in which case insert your own awesome variety of chips). For starters, USB 3.0 crushes USB 2.0 in maximum theoretical transfer rates at up to 4.8Gb/s versus 480Mb/s. But speed isn’t...
September 6th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

Apple Announces Over One Million Signed up for Ping in the first 48 Hours

Apple announced on late Friday that it’s Ping Social networking service has hit 1 million users since its launch 48 hours ago. Few doubted that the service would be an instant hit since, like Google Buzz, it was shoehorned into existing products that we are forced to use everyday. According to Apple...
September 5th, 2010 | Software | Read More