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Dead Space Demo Creeping Onto Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store

EA's survival-horror experiment finally gets a playable demo tomorrow. By Dustin Quillen , 11/24/2008 Good news for anyone that's still on the fence about picking up EA's latest foray into original IP: a Dead Space demo will be available very soon. Interested parties should be able to ... More...

Hack Enables Hidden Google Maps Features on IPod Touch

Apple  may not have wanted you  to be able to check out the streets and buildings from up close in Google Maps but there's not much they can do to stop the hackers from figuring out ways around the artificially imposed restraints. It didn't take long for someone to come up with a w... More...

Businesses Eye Smartphones to Supplant Laptops

Artwork: Chip Taylor Businesses are planning to boost the deployment of smartphones during the next three years, while laptop deployments will slow dramatically, according to survey of 340 companies in the U.S. and Western Europe. The survey of small and large businesses, released last week b... More...

Black Friday will be Big Despite Lousy Economy, Survey Says

If you're planning to join the 3 a.m. line of bleary-eyed bargain-hunters on Black Friday, expect a lot of competition for those HDTV sets and gaming consoles. A new Consumer Reports survey shows that 85 percent of Black Friday shoppers plan to purchase tech gear, up from 70 percent a year ago.... More...

Atari Officially Confirms Ghostbusters Game

By Earnest Cavalli November 07, 2008 | 5:32:21 PM Categories: Console Games    Though it's no secret that a Ghostbusters game is on the way, this morning publisher Atari officially announced the "highly anticipated" title as in development f... More...

Video: The WarCraft Retrospective

By Earnest Cavalli October 22, 2008 | 5:45:36 PM Categories: PC Gaming    Presumably as a tie-in to the November 13 release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft , Gametrailers has released the first part of their video ... More...

THQ Closing Several Internal Studios

Economic hardship closes four studios, reduces at least three others. By Steve Watts , 11/03/2008 THQ is closing or severely reducing staff in several of its internal studios, reports Gamasutra. The hardest hit studios are the ones being closed completely: Paradigm Entertainment, Mass Media, ... More...

Atlus Teases New Persona For DS

By Jean Snow October 30, 2008 | 3:29:00 PM Categories: Japan , Portable Gaming    Atlus is teasing a new Nintendo DS title in Famitsu , with a two-page ad that promises more details in next week's issue, out November 7. All we know for now is that the game is ... More...

Move Over, Android: Here Comes BlackBerry Bold

(Updated 10/22/08 at 4:15 p.m. PT to remove incorrect mention of the Bold's ability to run Windows Mobile.) Research In Motion doesn't mind stealing Android's thunder. Details about the long-delayed BlackBerry Bold , RIM's new weapon in the 3G battle, were revealed Wednesday -- yep, right smac... More...

Dell and Vodafone join forces

Dell and Vodafone join forces 05 September 2008 Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 to feature built-in Vodafone broadband Vodafone has agreed a deal with mini laptop manufacturer Dell to include its mobile broadband in the new Inspiron Mini 9. Users will have instant broadband access wherever they are wit... More...

Orange Admits to Limiting 3G Speeds in France

Complaints about the speed of the iPhone 3G have become almost commonplace, with users generally blaming the phone for the problems. However, a story on France-Info.com indicates the problems in that country are not Apple's fault. France's iPhone 3G provider, Orange, has admitted to limiting the ... More...

Canon EOS 50D

Pre-Photokina2008: No surprises to hear that Canon has launched the much anticipated EOS 50D, an upgraded version of EOS 40D. On the surface it looks almost similar to its predecessor. However, there are quite a few significant improvements; fifteen megapixel CMOS sensor, faster DIGIC 4 processor... More...

Rewrite Film Festival

Rewrite Film Festival 18 July 2008 Young filmmakers asked to enter mobile phone film competition Southwark Playhouse and two Street Geniuses has launched the Rewrite Film Festival, a film competition with a twist. All entries must be filmed on a mobile phone, though each entry can be edited o... More...

HP to Begin Shipping iPAQ 900 Smartphone

posted Jun 10, 2008, 12:09 PM   by Eric M. Zeman First announced in the third quarter of 2007, HP has set June 30 as the worldwide ship date of its iPAQ 900 Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone. The 900 has tri-band UMTS/HSDPA and quad-band GSM/EDGE radios, as well as GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 3... More...

Portuguese IPhone Plans Revealed by Vodafone

It's time to add yet another country to our iPhone world tour list of service plans. This time we venture to the land of Portugal--personally, I like to picture one of those Indiana Jones-style red lines flying over Google Maps. As you may remember, Portugal was one of the ten countries included... More...
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