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GetJar Removes Opera Mini From Its Catalogues

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Handheld, Tech On: 11 Mar

A tweet from the GetJar Networks, an alternative marketplace for mobile applications irrespective of the platform, has confirmed that the app store that the Lithuanian company offers will now exclude Opera Mini, one of the most popular cross platform mobile web browsers in the world. The company has clarified their move by providing reasons which [...]

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Study Reveals Exergames Are Authentic Exercise Activities

Posted By: Alex In: Blog On:

People who prefer to stay in the warmth and comfort of their homes rather than going out to exercise in gym halls or parks now have an avenue to reap the benefits of exercise right in their living rooms. According to researcher reports which have recently come out, the so called brand of exercise video [...]

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WoW Still Has Many Years and Will Be Taken Over By Titan

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Blog, Gaming News On: 10 Mar

For six years World Of WarCraft has dominated the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market while its competitors tried unsuccessfully to come up with new games that would take its place. Now that the WoW is starting to get old, Blizzard has already starting working on its semi-successor “Titan”. But what about the [...]

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Youtube Acquires Next Next Networks

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Tech On:

YouTube, as of now, is looking more interested in incentivizing its existing video sharing community to come up with better and more high quality videos rather than attempting to tap into the limitless possibilities open to it if it provides cable TV content to its users. However, Google’s video sharing portal doesn’t look like shelling [...]

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Android Topples RIM From Top Market Leader Position For Smartphones

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Console News, Handheld, Tech On:

After Comscore’s latest monthly US smartphone data report it now appears that Google’s Android has finally succeeded in overthrowing Blackberry and iOS from the top of the consumer US’s share of smartphone subscribers. The report, which measured the usage of smartphones, established that 65.8 million people used smartphones in the US in the period from [...]

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Adult Rating Decision Postponed By Australian Government

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Tech On: 08 Mar

No vote was taken on the issue of adult ratings for video games in Australia at a meeting of the various censorship ministers from the different government levels. However, a draft which suggested a possible introduction of the problem in the next meeting in July was passed on to the state, federal and territory attorney-general(s). [...]

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Mozilla Releases The First Developer Release Of Their Web App Project

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Handheld, Tech On:

Mozilla have at last come up with the first release of their web apps project for developers which can be used to create an open web application ecosystem based infrastructure. The announcement for the Web Apps Project from Mozilla came in May 2010 which was essentially a web store in response to Google’s release of [...]

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Political Tensions Seen Behind DDoS Attacks On WordPress.com

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Tech On: 07 Mar

WordPress.com yesterday recovered from the largest ever Distributed Denial of Service attack that the service had ever seen which went to the magnitude of multiple GBs per second. The service, however, was under attack again in the early hours of this morning, and services were finally restored at around 11:15 UTC.

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Sony’s Demand For Subpoena Against GeoHot’s Host Granted By Magistrate

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Console News, Gaming News, Handheld, Tech On:

Sony’s request to subpoena the web host of a hacker called GeoHot and also Google, Twitter and YouTube has been granted by federal Magistrate Joseph Spero in order to get information about anyone who comments, accesses or views any information which relates to the Sony hack. The proceedings are being called irresponsible in Sony and [...]

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Verifone Adding NFC To Their New POS Terminals

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Console News, Tech On:

According to CEO Douglas G Bergeron, the point of sales (POS) terminal giant Verifone is all geared up to use the new near field communication (NFC) technology in the latest line up of point of sale hardware equipment to be launched by the company. Bergeron says that the convergence of social networking, payments and electronic [...]

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New Update For Samsung Phones On Windows 7 Still A Headache For Users

Posted By: Alex In: Blog, Handheld, Tech On: 06 Mar

Feedback from Windows Phone 7 users who are on a Samsung handset suggests that the much talked about glitch in the update process of the software which affected Samsung users specifically still hasn’t fully been resolved after new updates from Microsoft.It’s only been just over a day since Microsoft finally resumed its update push for [...]

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Fifth Resident Evil Movie Set to Release in 2012

Posted By: Angela Min In: Blog On: 05 Mar

In not-so-surprising news, the fifth installment of the Resident Evil movie is in development. Milla Jovovich will be reprising her role as Alice, the zombie slaying heroine in the series. Sony Pictures has announced that this sequel will be released on September 14, 2012.

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