For a company that once denied the threat of smartphone gaming, Sony showed a lot of foresight when it announced PlayStation Suite in January 2011.
PlayStation Suite, now known as PlayStation Mobile, was supposed to bring …
How XCOM: Enemy Unknown Is Like Bowling
Since the XCOM: Enemy Unknown demo arrived, I’ve noticed an interesting line of criticism develop (or as a longtime PC strategy gaming wonk, I should say reappear) in response to the way Firaxis’s turn-based tactics puzzler …
TechnologizerSmartphones
Webtop, We Hardly Knew Ye
The most intriguing product announced at CES 2011 was Motorola’s Atrix, a 4G Android smartphone with an optional laptop dock. The dock looked and worked like a thin laptop with an 11.6″ screen, but didn’t have its own processor …
TechnologizerSmartphones
Will the Android Upgrade Mess Ever Get Fixed?
Over at CNET, Casey Newton and Roger Cheng have a good story on Google’s Motorola division and its decision to renege on its pledge to update some 2011 phones from Android 2.3 Gingerbread to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Acer’s Iconia W700 Is a Curious Tablet-Desktop Hybrid
When Windows 8 launches on Oct. 26, expect to see lots of hybrid PCs that combine a tablet and a laptop into a single, convertible device.
Acer’s Iconia W700 is an example of something different: the tablet-desktop …
XCOM: Enemy Unknown — Definitely Not Halo Reach 2
You’d be forgiven for mistaking the new XCOM: Enemy Unknown launch trailer for a Halo Reach 2 teaser. It’s a slick, one minute, 38 second guns-and-aliens action brief — a festival of body armor, jetpacks, green plasma and …
TechnologizerApple
Apple Without Steve Jobs: The First Year Only Tells Us So Much
This is — as you may have figured out by now — an article about how Apple has fared in the year since Steve Jobs passed away. I suspect that it’ll be one of scads of such stories to be published today, the first anniversary …
AT&T Gets Nokia’s Lumia 920 as an Exclusive
Nokia may once again rely on AT&T to make a comeback in the United States.
AT&T announced on Thursday that it will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for the Lumia 920, Nokia’s next flagship Windows Phone. The companies didn’t …
Nonprofit ScriptEd NYC Teaches Coding to Underprivileged Students
If you read the article in Monday’s New York Times about Microsoft engineers who teach computer science in high schools, then you may be interested in ScriptEd NYC. Led by two New York City professionals and Teach for America …
What’s With All the Dismal Resident Evil 6 Reviews?
Resident Evil 6 is in a pickle, caught in a narrow, lightless corridor of its own design and swarmed by critics using words like hacked off limbs to bludgeon it into Metacritic mediocrity.
I’m probably exaggerating a little. …
Apple’s Rumored iPad Mini: Here’s What We Think We Know So Far
As my colleague Harry McCracken pointed out recently, Apple’s not great at keeping secrets anymore. So although Apple hasn’t announced a mini iPad yet, the smaller tablet is almost certainly about to break cover.
The latest …
TechnologizerApps & Software
Netbot: Good News for App.net’s Anti-Twitter Insurrection
A couple of months ago, I got excited about App.net, Dalton Caldwell's social network which was both a Twitter clone and an anti-Twitter. (It looks and works much like Twitter once did, but charges for service and aims to welcome
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