July 1: Google Reader=Gone It’s happening, like it or not, sign a petition or not, angrytweet it or not. Google Reader is being shut down by the Google powers that be. And the spokesperson for said powers is none other than Urs Hölzle, Senior VP of Technical Infrastructure. Sorry folks, its over come July 1….
Galaxy S3 Plus/Advance? Samsung is reportedly working on an advanced variant of the Galaxy S3 to join its latest flagship device, Galaxy S4. According to the latest reports via Eldar Murtazin, the Russian tech blogger, the new and updated variant of the Galaxy S3, could launch with enhanced internals to keep the current flagship phone…
Universal’s fear of R-rated films led to severe budget cuts to the Bioshock movie project The the details behind the cancellation of the ill-fated movie adaptation of the 2007 video game classic BioShock have always been shrouded in a fair amount of mystery. However, creative director and co-founder of Irrational Games and one of the…
New pictures have emerged of a previously unseen (and rather good looking) Motorola phone that might be the much awaited Motorola X. The leak includes a set of pictures and a video too. Tinh tế has uploaded a set of images as well as hardware information it has on this unknown device, which bears an…
Clearly, popes and Twitter don’t go well together: Several months after joining Twitter, Pope Benedict XVI decided to resign. Is this purely coincidental? Also, take a look at Pope Francis’ fake Twitter account! The online and offline worlds both have been in quite a rumble since the new pope, Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), has been…
YouTube may have not only found, but bred its toughest competition yet. Better yet, the competition is the founder of YouTube; Chad Hurley plans to launch a video sharing site. YouTube has had its share of competitors like Vimeo or more privately owned companies in the likes of Hulu and Netflix. Although as you may…
Mico Headphones Select Music For Your Mood We recently talked about ambient intelligence here at Geek, and I thought I was so freaking clever joking how Pandora always plays guilty pleasure music at inopportune times. Ha! Music selection connected to what’s going on, it’s almost like Pandora is sentient! New Mico headphones from Neurowear will…
The rumored Amazon smartphone that we have been hearing about for so long is taking too much time contrary to Amazon’s prime two-day shipping service. We have the latest reports that suggest the smartphone’s release date has been delayed even further. Keep in mind that the company hasn’t shared any details about the device, so…
Check it out: Astronaut Ron Garan explains how he tweets from space. Also, some breath-taking space shots will be featured in this round-up. Ron Garan, a member of Expedition 27, is popularly known in Twitter as @Astro_Ron. You got that right – aside from carrying out his daily NASA missions, Ron Garan still finds time…
Facebook disappointed phone enthusiasts when it launched its Graph Search in January 2013. People had been hoping Facebook might enter the smartphone arena with a Facebook Phone – but instead only got a semantic search tool. Nevertheless, the Facebook Phone rumors are back – and this time with some reliable confirmation too. HTC and Facebook…
Holodecks, you know, those incredible training areas in Star Trek (that were WAY underused by the way), aren’t just a piece of science fiction any more. In the 21st century we call them virtual reality simulators…though honestly, holodeck is easier to say. Regardless, the technology is growing closer to what we always saw on TV…
I’m not sure why educational games are the unloved, unpopular side of the games industry. Beloved classic PC game Oregon Trail is an edu title, and it’s still very playable today. A recent Facebook version from Blue Fang shows how much love and nostalgia early players still have for it. Educational games might not get…
Samsung has rolled out another teaser video for their next flagship phone, Galaxy S4 ahead of its launch. This teaser video doesn’t reveal any juicy details about the device at all, its just like the last one, but it sure is building up hype. The successor to the Galaxy S3 is set to launch on…
Can a 40-year old be a Social Media Manager? Recently, I heard from a colleague that’s it’s better to hire a young social media manager because they have their finger more solidly on the pulse of the tech world and that older people (people 30 years and older), should not have opportunity in these roles…
Today, there are so many apps available to download to your Smartphone and tablet. Some apps are awesome and can be used on a regular basis. Then there are those that might make you wonder, what were they thinking? Some of these awful apps were influenced by the thing that influences us all: television. Check…