Is this how you allay customer anxiety — by drizzling information about your service’s security problems?
Valve’s Steam gaming service forums were hacked in early November, but the company didn’t admit as much until Nov. 10, …
Sony PlayStation Vita Review: Beautiful, Expensive and Worth It
The PlayStation Vita is Sony’s biggest gamble yet — a pricey, piano-black, hockey-rink-shaped gaming handheld tricked out with dual joysticks, motion and touch controls and a gorgeous widescreen aimed unapologetically at …
How Apple Could Reinvent TV
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley.
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The Windows Start Button Is Dead! Long Live the Windows Start Button!
Is Microsoft eliminating the Start button–a user-interface element that’s practically synonymous with Windows itself–from Windows 8? Last week, that was the scuttlebutt. This week, Windows superblogger Paul Thurrott says that “ …
‘Anonymous’ Knocks CIA Site Offline
Hacking group Anonymous has apparently claimed credit for knocking the Central Intelligence Agency’s website offline. An update at the YourAnonNews Twitter account reads:
CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/
#Anonymous (via
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According to Google, There’s No Such Thing as ‘Gchat’
If you’re like me, you use the term Gchat regularly as both a noun and verb, as in “I went invisible to avoid him on Gchat yesterday” or “Hey, let’s Gchat!”
I’m not the only one.
The term is used often by the media, …
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Waze Gets a Dash of Siri-Like Handsfree Input
Of all the iPhone apps in the world, none have a greater potential to benefit from Siri’s voice input than ones that provide turn-by-turn navigation–since spoken commands would provide not only convenience but safety. (And, in …
Rickrolling Coming to Rock Band
Strap in, friends. Harmonix has just announced that Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley will be making its way to Rock Band by way of a downloadable content pack that’s being made available on Valentine’s Day.
WATCH: Japanese Scientist Controls Avatar-Style Robot Surrogate
In another case of science catching up to science fiction, Japanese researchers have developed a robot that can be controlled through a special head-mounted display and a pair of gloves. According to AFP, the robot operator sees, …
How Vita-PSP Game Compatibility Works, Launch Support List Available Now
It’s nearly time to bid farewell to Sony’s PlayStation Portable, the little handheld that couldn’t-quite in terms of outpacing Nintendo’s DS, a portable that outpaced every other as well as nearly every games console (it’s …
Quick Cuts: Video Showcases Almost Every Apple Product in 30 Seconds
Boing Boing’s Rob Beschizza strung together this great 30-second video of just about every one of Apple’s hardware and software designs over the years. It’s perfect for Apple fans and people with short attention sp—oh man, …
After Motorola Deal Approval, Can Google Hardware Be Far Behind?
Now that federal regulators appear poised to approve Google’s $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, speculation is mounting about what the Internet giant will do with its newly acquired assets.
via After Motorola Deal …