The world’s largest retailer – Amazon, has been rumored to be coming up with an Android phone for long now. Recently, a report emerged claiming that the company would soon launch one this year and for free. Amazon however, has denied this – at least partly. Amazon Phone Coming Next Year? Last week, Amazon was…
The countdown is well underway and nearly complete for Apple’s Announcement Conference today. Today a new range of iPhones and iPads will be unveiled to the world. This is fairly certain. What they may look like, what they can do and what else Apple plans to bring out with a lower-case ‘i’ name is much…
According to the great words of Douglas Adams from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (you know, the one who solved all our problems to the life, the universe and everything with the number 42), dolphins are actually more intelligent than humans: “On the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than…
According to the German news site Spiegel, the National Security Agency seems to be particularly fond of the iPhone. No, I don’t mean that people who work at the NSA use iPhones. I mean that the NSA likes the fact that you have an iPhone because it is apparently an information heaven for them. …
Yahoo’s ’30 days of Change’ campaign came to an end last week on September 5th, and the company concluded by unveiling its final, new logo. Unfortunately, it failed. The internet major began to show a new logo for itself every day on its website as part of its corporate re-branding strategy. However, the public doesn’t…
Kinect on the Xbox 360 had a bit of a problem. It simply wasn’t that great –or workable –as a gaming peripheral. Most developers barely paid it any mind, relegating it to little more than a gimmick. Of those games that did end up using it exclusively, only the barest few were even remotely memorable….
Lemegeton Master Edition is a metroidvania Android game that has made its way over to the Ouya. It draws it’s name from a 17th century grimoire on demonology. Within the pages of the book there are 72 demons detailed, and that serves as the inspiration for the game. You control one of two heroes as…
If you like comics and MOBAs (Mobile Online Battle Arenas) then you might have heard about DC comics newest game Infinite Crisis. It takes the typical MOBA formula and slaps a super hero inspired coat of paint. You get to take control of your favorite DC super heroes and villains as they battle it out…
The ad wars have begun – and the battle is being fought over Android KitKat. While Nestle is mocking Apple’s advertising style with its KitKat parody, Nokia is taunting Samsung on the same subject. Nestle vs Apple Google recently announced that the next update to Android – version 4.4 – will be called ‘KitKat’. The…
In Greek mythology Zeus is the ruler of Mount Olympus and the ruler of all gods. The new AIO Robotics Zeus seems to be following in the steps of it’s mythological namesake as the lord of all 3d printers. We’re all more than familiar with the 2d printer/copier combo that resides in just about every…
I polled many of my geeky friends to find out what they think is the best part of being a grown-up geek. I did this in hopes of coming up with a top ten list, but the myriad responses I received all boil down to a top 5. Here they are, the 5 best things…
With the newest release of a Final Fantasy MMO I started to think about what the greatest game of the main series was. If you yelled Final Fantasy VII then you’re wrong. If you said Final Fantasy IV then you are less wrong, but still wrong. FFIX is unequivocally the greatest to ever make its…
100 Rogue is a rogue inspired dungeon-delving game where you guide your titular hero on a quest to kill Satan. It takes a child-like view of the typical role-playing experience adding a unique level of humor. The OUYA is seriously lacking on the RPG front, so how does this old school game stack up to…
Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer today command 84.5% of the browser market worldwide. About a dozen or so browsers fight for the remaining share of 15.5%. Maxthon, a cloud-based browser is one of them. Let’s find out what sets it apart. Maxthon started off as a pet project by Jeff Chen way back in…
I’ve been doing a little bit of sightseeing in the beautiful countryside of Wales; an oft-overlooked, much-mocked country (think New Zealand to Australia or Canada to the US) . But it actually has some amazing landscapes, and a fantastic history to boot. The BBC certainly think so too, and it is in a grand country manor that I find some artifacts from…