THQ's Cory Ledesma didn't come out and say that used game buyers are the scum of the earth, but it's hard not to feel like you've just been given a verbal wedgie if you've ever shopped at Gamestop or bought a used game off of eBay. "I don't think we really care whether used game buyers are upset because new game buyers get everything," Ledesma told Gamasutra. [......]
Apart from tablets running propriety operating systems like iOS and WebOS, the rest of the tablet market will most likely be dominated by Android and Windows. It is difficult to predict how the impending tsunami of tablets will change the tablet landscape, but one thing is certain: consumers will have plenty to choose from – maybe even too much. ViewSonic is willing to help those likely to vacillate between Windows and Android.[......]
It only takes a tiny fraction of a second for search engines to answer queries but Google is not satisfied with the current state of affairs. The search engine titan is now experimenting with instantaneous search. The idea is to provide dynamic search results that change with each new character the user types into the search box[......]
Well, this is a bit of a bummer. In the wake of Valve's release of Steam for OSX, there were rumors that a Linux version was in the works[......]
Motorola earned a bit of a black eye from the modding community by introducing a hardware e-fuse used to enforce software restrictions, and they certainly aren’t helping their case by sending out cease-and-desist letters to sites offering "unofficial†Froyo updates for Droid X owners. Website MyDroidWorld was the first of many Android sites to receive the takedown notice from Motorola, but it’s unclear at this point how enforceable the notice actually is. My guess is that most sites would rather comply than risk ending up across the table from Motorola in court[......]
Office 14 (2010) has only been out a few months now, but a leaked pre-alpha build of Office 15 suggests that Microsoft is planning a new application known at this point only as “Microsoft Limeâ€. Very little is known about Lime at this point, however ZDnet blogger Mary Jo Foley claims her contacts describe it as a “user-interface utility for Officeâ€. Based on this description it is hard to tell if Microsoft Lime will indeed be a stand-alone application, or perhaps just a new feature similar to the ribbon. [......]
Microsoft made waves in the browser community by being the first to announce GPU accelerated browsing, but oddly enough, it looks like they will be in a neck and neck race with Mozilla to be the first to market with the new feature in an official release. Firefox 4 Beta 4 which is releasing on Monday will include support for Direct2D acceleration; unfortunately however a few technical glitches have kept it from being “on†by default. Luckily Mozilla has released details on how to reactivate it on their Wiki , and the process is pretty simple[......]
Spanair flight number JK 5022, which crashed seconds after taking off from Madrid's Barajas airport on August 20, 2008, may have been doomed[......]
Many ISPs around the world have taken to instituting restricting bandwidth caps, but Belgian ISP Telenet has a fairly amicable system. Lower priced, slower service is capped between 50 and 80GB pr month, but higher packages are governed only by fair use. Telenet recently posted to their forums a list of the 25 top downloaders in the last month[......]
Apple can arguably lay claim to having the world's best tablet, but it's a default victory since there really aren't any widely available competing products to choose from. [......]
Security researcher HD Moore thought he had let the cat out of the bag when he referred to a widespread Windows vulnerability in a tweet on Wednesday. But as it turns out, Moore may have failed to fully gauge the scale of the issue, which he thought affected “about 40 different apps, including the Windows shell.†Mitja Kolsek, CEO of Slovenian security company Arcos, reckons that “most every Windows application has this vulnerability.†Moore had linked to a security advisory issued by Arcos in his tweet[......]
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire security firm McAfee by purchasing the company's common stock at $48 per share. That works out to about $7.68 billion for a deal that was unanimously approved by both boards of directors. "With the rapid expansion of growth across a vast array of Internet-connected devices, more and more of the elements of our lives have moved online," said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. [......]
If you have ever felt the need to search across Gmail, Google Docs and Sites, then the "Apps Search" lab announced today is exactly what you have been waiting for. The new Labs feature makes it possible for the user to search across email, docs and Google sites from the “Search Mail†button in Gmail. The new feature can be enabled from under the Labs tab under Gmail settings. [......]
Adobe said today that it will issue a security update on Thursday to address a critical Reader vulnerability , which was first reported by security researcher Charlie Miller at last month's Black Hat security conference in Vegas. The company had acknowledged the bug earlier this month and promised an “out-of-band†update to patch the bug[......]
With its latest PC push, Microsoft is ushering in a bonafied zombie apocalypse of allegedly “dead†PC gaming legends. [......]
