Imagine the unthinkable: Sony’s next PlayStation, or whatever it’s ultimately called, arrives not next year and not the year after that, but sometime in 2015. Three years out — a lifetime in console years. Could you live …
Borderlands 2 Review: Looting with Purpose
The best thing about Borderlands 2 is that it doesn’t feel like an empty, exploitative raid on our dopamine supplies.
You couldn’t say the same about the original Borderlands, which merely proved that the numbers game of …
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Barnes & Noble’s New Nooks: The Cheap Tablet Wars Continue
In the short history of post-iPad tablets, the holiday 2012 season is shaping up as an important moment — the first time that there will be a bunch of decent low-priced models to choose from. You’ve got your Google Nexus 7. Your …
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BlackBerry 10: Good Enough Won’t Be Anywhere Near Good Enough
So help me, I want to be excited about BlackBerry 10, the all-new operating system powering the BlackBerry handsets which are now supposed to show up in the first quarter of 2013.
I was keeping an open mind about it almost a …
Finally, You Can Buy Your Very Own Zoltar Machine for $9,000
I won’t pretend that this is the first Zoltar machine to ever be made available for purchase and subsequent private enjoyment inside a single-family home. These things were probably flying off the shelves back in 1988.
But …
5 Dependable iPhone and iPad Apps That Filter Content for Kids
“What is that?” I heard my 7-year-old shriek from his room. I ran in to find him and my younger son watching a video of a woman giving birth. It was shocking to them — and especially shocking to me because I thought we had all …
“We have not done anything yet.”
Torchlight II Review: I’ve Made a Huge Mistake
To quote George Oscar Bluth, “I’ve made a huge mistake” — I chose to play Torchlight II at the maximum difficulty setting. That would be “elite” in Torchlight II parlance, intended for the very best players.
I’m not …
ReadyCase iPhone Case Features USB Drive/Kickstand, Multi-tool and More
I’m not really an iPhone case guy, but this ReadyCase makes a compelling argument.
It’s only about a tenth of an inch thick, yet the backside houses an interchangeable photo lens ring, 8- or 16-gigabyte USB thumb drive that …
Voice Recognition’s Future: Hands-Free Siri Could Someday Be Possible
Controlling your phone by voice is great, but it’d be even better if you could do it without ever laying hands on the device.
Nuance Communications, the maker of Dragon dictation software, is working on it, according to a …
Why PC Companies Fear Amazon
Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market-intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to Big Picture, an opinion column that appears every Monday on Techland.
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Foxconn: Riot Strikes Chinese City Where iPhone 5 Was Reportedly Made
The melee was sparked by security guards assaulting a worker who failed to show his identification when entering a dormitory, according to local NGOs.
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