Verizon announced plans to offer an iPad app capable of showing television shows in real time to the company’s FiOS subscribers. Due to hit next year, the app will only show live channels at first—no recording or time-shifting just yet. Essentially, it turns your iPad into another TV if you’re a FiOS subscriber.
The service will …
Google’s Mark DeLoura took the stage at the Game Developers Conference in Europe and said that the Chrome Web Store will launch this fall, “most likely in October.”
Games look to be plentiful, thanks in part to Google’s aggressive revenue sharing plan. Where most app stores take a 30% cut of purchases, leaving 70% to the developers …
Renderings of what a Google Chrome OS tablet could look like first showed up in early February when Google’s Senior Software Engineer Glen Murphy posted a handful of images and a video of what the UI might look like. Then in May, the WSJ and Bloomberg reported that Verizon was working closely with Google on an Android-powered tablet. …
That mysterious peripheral that the Microsoft Hardware team was teasing via Twitter a couple weeks back is indeed the Arc Touch Mouse, as proposed by documents unearthed shortly after the guessing game started.
PC owners jealous of Apple’s Magic Mouse will be happy to hear that the Arc Touch packs the same type of touch scrolling …
Nearly two years after the launch of the first Android smartphone in the world, the G1, comes its successor from T-Mobile.
Late last month, T-Mobile launched a mystery teaser site that many speculated was a reboot of the Sidekick franchise because a peak at the source code suggested that it was. Turns out that it isn’t. The G2 will …
Hot on the tails of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and PC announcements from Gamescom comes news from the Xbox 360 team – Kinect will launch November 10 in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Those of us in the United States of America will get it a week earlier on November 4. That’s great and all but we’re not getting Windows …
Microsoft’s Gamescom announcements aren’t just limited to Windows Phone 7. Oh no. The PC crowd will be getting Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight, along with Fable III, which was previously announced.
Robot Entertainment continues their run on Age of Empires with Online and will feature:
• A persistent online capital …
At this year’s Gamescom, Microsoft announced the first wave of what they promise is only a small portion of games that will be available for download when Windows Phone 7 devices launch this holiday. Earlier today in Manhattan, we got a chance to sit down with Kevin Unangst, Sr. Director of PC and mobile gaming at the Redmond …
This whole Google/Verizon net neutrality debate has reached critical mass and is quickly entering the “beating a dead horse” territory, but AT&T threw a bit more gasoline on the fire last Friday with its “Wireless is Different” post on the company’s Public Policy Blog.
As the title suggests, the post asserts that wireless internet is …
According to Boy Genius Report, there’s “a pretty intriguing block of code” found within Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4. Apparently this code determines the network the device is …
Having been to things like E3 and GDC, I’ve poked and prodded Nintendo and Sony about Apple’s move into the mobile gaming space. Neither party has provided a worthwhile quote on the subject. But Sony has directly targeted the mobile platform in its latest PSP ad. According to Marcus, the iPhone wasn’t built for “big boy …
Samsung’s much-rumored Android-powered Galaxy Tab could end up being a total wash. A firmware update that was released over the weekend supposedly reveals a few key specs.
The Super AMOLED screen on the 7-inch Galaxy Tab could end up with a sub-par 480 x 800 resolution or 1024 x 600. The rear camera isn’t much better with 2048 …
