Fans of NBC’s Chuck won’t have to wait until September 20th for more of the nerdy spy show after all; the series is launching a daily web series spin-off for the next week, tying into the launch of the videogame Halo: Reach. Who said this isn’t the era of unexpected cross-promotional marketing efforts?
The five-part series, Chuck …
Wondering if your iPhone or iPod touch will be compatible with Apple’s Game Center when iOS 4.1 launches? Looks like the touch 2nd through 4th generation touch models along with the iPhone 4 and 3GS will support the “social gaming network.” If only we knew when iOS 4.1 will make its debut. Earlier rumors and a leak on the UK site …
If you’ve got an iPad and Apple’s $29 Camera Connection Kit, you’re all set up for “the only hard drive in the market that can connect directly to the iPad without using a computer.”
That’s the HyperDrive, which was announced today.
As portable external hard drives go, it’s not cheap—not by a longshot. Pricing starts at $249 for …
The release of the Fascinate this week on Verizon marks the fourth and final Android-powered Galaxy S smartphone from Samsung in the US this year. Much like its brethren on T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint, the Fascinate shares the same basic hardware specs with slight modifications here and there, including an LED flash for the 5-megapixel …
EA Sports’ latest hockey-based offerings are available in North America today: NHL 11 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and NHL Slapshot for the Wii.
NHL Slapshot joins 2K’s NHL 2K11, which was released late last month for the Wii. Sadly, it appears that PC owners may never again see an NHL title from either EA Sports or 2K, as yet another …
With The Twilight Saga and Harry Potter both winding up their cinematic runs in the next couple of years, it’s no surprise that a lot of attention is being focused on the movie version of The Hunger Games, the first book in Suzanne Collins’ YA sci-fi crossover trilogy about a teen girl forced to fight for her life in reality television …
Whenever I do something spectacularly stupid or self-defeating, which is about every 8 seconds or so, I hear a little voice in the back of my head that says “IDIOT!”
It says it in this slow, growly voice, like a drunk leprechaun: ID-EE-YUT!
This is because I have spent many aggregate months of my life playing Myth and Myth 2, which …
Google CEO Eric Schmidt took the stage at Berlin’s IFA conference to deliver the show’s closing keynotes. The full video is available here (it’s a little over an hour), and here are some of the highlights.
Augmented Humanity
The idea of “information at your fingertips.” Schmidt gave the example of a tourist using a smartphone to …
Nike’s Nike+ GPS will finally let you untie that monitoring device from your shoe and run free with your iPhone or iPod Touch, the way nature never intended.
The Nike+ App tracks your distance, speed and route with the help of the iPhone’s GPS. (If you get the app for iPod Touch, you won’t have the mapping function.) You can brag …
It’s two weeks into Notre Dame’s foray into their iPad-piloted class, and students and professors claim that the new interface is easier and better to use. The project management class led by Professor Corey Angst is part of the university’s eReader study and Notre Dame’s first paperless class. All materials for the 40 students are …
The coming of another national holiday landing on a Monday puts us all in the familiar territory of new comics Thursday. So let’s all just dig in and hold on. We can make it. In the mean time here’s the list of new comics dropping on Thursday. Tomorrow we will dive a bit deeper and look at the featured pull list.
(A ♠ marks my …
Of all the Android-based tablets to hit the market later this year, Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab Is one of the more impressive iPad competitors. However, if the rumors that its price will be carrier-subsidized at somewhere between $200 and $400 turn out to be true, it’s in big, big trouble.
For most people, tablets are a third …
