So, Mozilla wanted to provide an alternative to the apparently propriety and restrictive mobile landscape that we have today, and so it came up with Firefox OS. Announced in 2011, the OS is set to make its debut sometime in July this year. Is it going to succeed? In 2011, Mozilla Corporation announced the “Boot…
I don’t consider myself to be a major snooker fan; but for whatever reason, the game of snooker has always fascinated me. The snooker game of Archer MacLean transfixed me and so far, very few snooker games have come close to this one. That is until the launch of International Snooker. Featured Link: Top 10…
Twitter has updated its Android app to add support for its new Cards feature and has also made the app native for Android 4.0 or above. The latest update for the app brings a completely revamped design that’s on par with Google’s ‘holo’ design. The new design gives the app a fresh new look, unlike…
Images of Nokia Lumia 928, coming to Verizon this month have been leaked online. Reputed for regular (and accurate) leaks, @evleaks has uploaded photos of the front and back of the new Nokia flagship, which has been code named “Laser”. The phone looks identical to the Lumia 920, which AT&T is currently selling –…
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Star Wars games cancelled and 150 made jobless Grim Fandango, X-Wing, The Secret of Monkey Island, Dark Forces, and so many more. The list of landmark video games put out by video game industry veterans LucasArts is one of the longest around. Their legacy has now come to an unfortunate end as Disney, who bought…
Fans of the spectacular Marvel comic book movies have finally received their 10-disc Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One – Avengers Assembled blu-ray box sets; which collect every Marvel film since the first Iron Man, minus the films under the “Marvel Knights” banner. This collection essentially chronicles the origins of each member of super-hero team The…
While North Korea was busy positioning its nuclear weapons at the USA, its Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked by hacker group Anonymous on the 3rd April. Thousands of user data has been claimed to be compromised. Uriminzokkiri (Korean for “Our Nation”), North Korean’s government news agency had its website Uriminzokkiri.com down, possibly by DDOS…
Microsoft has recently lowered the logo requirements for any new Windows 8 devices, to let its partners build Windows 8 running devices with a bit lower resolutions. This move to lower the resolution requirements suggests that Microsoft is looking forward to jumping right into the smaller and cheaper tablet market; to compete against popular tablets…
Avabel is billed as a free-to-play MMO for the tablet market, but a glance at the graphics separates it from the billions of other multiplayer adventure games. The game is just so pretty! Avabel: A Gorgeous Tablet MMO Avabel avatars are detailed and cute, with the anti-gravity hair and stylized fashions we love in import…
In keeping with the game industry’s tradition of pranking its customers, April Fools Day was full of silly jokes that include Apple’s foray into the games console market, a Kim Jong-Un centric mobile app and many more. Check out the best of gaming’s April Fools Days jokes below. Half-Life 2: Episode 3 appearing on Steam…
In a recent report via Reuters, we have learned that the Search giant’s target number of sales for its second-gen Nexus 7 tablet is quite high, say 8 Million tabs starting this July up until the end of the year. This is only the first time we’ve heard Google stating their target numbers for its…
Over the past few years the battle of piracy between the industry and the many civilian pirates has heated up with geeks at the forefront. Industry execs claim that they are suffering major financial losses as young pirates use their knowledge to stick it to the “man”. It may have started with the music, taking…
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Recently, I’ve been reviewing a lot of headsets. Most of them have been specialty or gaming headsets that, while awesome, have a ton of features that someone looking for an everyday computer/phone headset would find superfluous. Obviously, a good yet simple headset is essential for those who need a good headset without all the fluff….