Amazon does not readily share its sales figures, but much to the annoyance of Jeff Bezos, someone working for the company has decided to leak details of just how many people are pre-ordering the Kindle Fire. The numbers are simply staggering. According to leaked screens from Amazon’s Availability Lookup and SKU Aggregator (Alaska) system, used [...]
Security software running on your PC is a necessary evil, and depending on your choice of security suite, one that can have a significant impact on the performance of you system. So if a company offered you a security suite that boasts a 6-second install, only required 6MB of storage, and system scans that took [...]
Online music streaming service Rhapsody has announced that it has acquired Napster in a deal that will boost its user base and help it compete with such services as Spotify and Last.fm. In a deal that is expected to complete around November 30th, Rhapsody will acquire Napster subscribers and other assets. Former owner Best Buy [...]
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The rise in popularity of LCD HDTVs has had many effects on the TV industry, but did you know it also affected computers? As LCD manufacturers were producing more and more 16:9 ratio LCD panels, it became less cost effective for them to make the 4:3 and 16:10 panels we were used to in our [...]
We thought a six-foot-tall LEGO model of Lord of the Ring’s Barad-Dûr tower — you know, the one that features the terrifying Eye of Sauron — was impressive enough, but there’s a new contender in the LoTR LEGO arena. A team of builders that go by the name OneLug recreated the classic scene of The [...]
Just when I thought there was no more room for surprises relating to tomorrow’s iPhone announcement, we get a couple of doozies. Actually, it’s more like one big piece of legit-sounding iPhone news, and another that is so bizarre that it could be right at home in the National Enquirer. First, the Wall Street Journal [...]
If you’ve ever looked at your Android device and then back at Google Chrome on your desktop and scratched your head in confusion, rest easy. Google thinks the Android browser is due for an update, and the company fully intends to let Google Chrome take over web surfing duties. A change has finally landed in [...]
The day Apple fans have been waiting for is almost here. Tomorrow, Tim Cook will take the stage at Cupertino and announce the next iPhone. While the exact details of the announcement will have to wait until 10am PST tomorrow, we already know what the best thing about the next iPhone will be: it will [...]
After sifting through the latest version of iTunes 10.5 (beta 9), Twitter user @sonnydickson has revealed references to something that may surprise you: iOS app rentals. While the possibility of renting apps is certainly interesting news in itself, it gets really intriguing when you imagine what Apple’s motivations for the move could be. Could it [...]
If you’ve ever had the (dis)pleasure of clicking on a “news” link in your Facebook feed that takes you to a bogus website designed to wreak havoc on your computer, it looks like Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are looking out for you. The social network is set to introduce a new system that will check [...]
As the PS3 and Xbox 360 has shown, if you’re going to release a new piece of gaming hardware it has to support online features including digital game downloads. That also applies to mobile platforms now that the iPhone and Android devices have made app stores popular, and Nintendo is making a big deal about [...]
With millions already playing with the Windows 8 developer preview, it’s hard to imagine that this month marks the second anniversary of Windows 7 on retail shelves. Widely considered to be “what Vista should have been,” initial sales of Windows 7 were very strong, and that momentum has continued to this day. Windows 7′s global [...]
Google has recently opened up its first “Google store” in Tottenham Court Road, London within UK retailer PC World. The small pop-up store is currently only selling Chromebooks and a few accessories, like headphones, but is set to remain open only until Christmas. The store, called the “Chrome Zone,” is an experiment for Google. Though [...]
