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Seagate bringing Mobile Armor encryption to laptop hard drives

By gavin robinson Mar. 2, 2009 9:03 am

Pre-loaded software is rarely a good thing, in my experience. There are anti-virus and chat programs, game demos, and unnecessary drivers. Of course, there are exceptions, but usually users would prefer to install […]

Games

EA Sports Announces Wii MotionPlus Titles

By gavin robinson Feb. 20, 2009 2:37 pm

The new Wii MotionPlus attachment is an exciting step forward for Wii owners. There’s no doubt that the idea of true 1:1 controller wagging was on the mind of every person that has […]

Mobile

Green mobile phone tech far from mainstream

By gavin robinson Feb. 19, 2009 4:49 pm

Though the “greening” of products it might be a great way to sell more of them, it is also the very legitimate future of technology. It has to be, right? Resources are running […]

Mobile

Milestone release of Mobile Firefox now available (for some)

By gavin robinson Feb. 12, 2009 1:35 pm

If you are like me, you have some pretty high hopes for the mobile version of Firefox, Fennec. You’ve been not-so-patiently waiting for it to be released, and you’ve freed up some room […]

Gadgets

New Allio Lite Announced – Intel Atom in a 42″ HDTV

By gavin robinson Feb. 6, 2009 4:21 pm

Late last year, Allio became the first company to introduce an HDTV with a Blu-Ray touting PC built in. We had the opportunity to talk to Tré Cates, the CEO of Allio, last […]

Time Crisis Is Now On The iPhone

By gavin robinson Feb. 5, 2009 4:28 pm

One of my favorite arcade games of all time is Time Crisis. I have put so many quarters and dollar bills in that series of machines, I could have already bought the PS2 […]

News

Chicago to host major Comic Con in 2010

By gavin robinson Feb. 3, 2009 2:17 pm

There is nothing more geeky than the geeks, themselves. In that spirit, I bring you great news for the Mid-West. The same company that has introduced a Comic Con in New York is […]

Games

E3 publishes 2009 exhibitor list

By gavin robinson Feb. 3, 2009 8:32 am

E3 was the center of the video game universe for many, many years. I can remember watching keynotes live online and dreaming of the day that I’d be able to attend. That never […]

Connect USB-to-HDMI with the Grand HD Cinema

By gavin robinson Jan. 29, 2009 5:26 pm

A USB-to-HDMI converter might not be the top item on your Must Have list, but it exists now. Thanks to electronics company Lancerlink from Tokyo & GRANDTEC ELECTRONIC from Taiwan comes the Grand […]

Games

New Orleans looking to become next tech capitol

By gavin robinson Jan. 13, 2009 5:49 pm

When Electronic Arts announced, last year, that they planned on opening a video game testing facility in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that was to be affiliated with Louisiana State University, it marked a decisive […]

Nintendo patents “Kind Code” system for lazy gamers

By gavin robinson Jan. 9, 2009 5:04 pm

The video game market (or at least the journalists who cover the video game market) has seen a line be drawn firmly between the “casual” gamer and the “hardcore” gamer for years now. […]

D-Link’s DIR-685 router features 3.2″ screen, BitTorrent goodness

By gavin robinson Jan. 7, 2009 3:46 pm

There was a time, before routers, when there were simply switches. They were simple, sleek, and really easy to use. All you had to do was plug everything in with Cat-5. Nowadays, nobody […]

News

Sony’s new X-Series Walkman has noise cancellation, OLED display

By gavin robinson Jan. 7, 2009 1:22 pm

With Apple eating up the MP3 Player market and pretty much everybody else floundering around, trying to find the right combination that it takes to de-throne the king, it’s nice to see that […]

Watch StarCraft II Battle Reports

By gavin robinson Dec. 22, 2008 5:21 pm

Starcraft used to be the most important thing in my life. I know that I am not alone in saying that, and that there are plenty of people the world over who are […]

News

RIAA To Work With ISPs, End Mass Litigation

By gavin robinson Dec. 19, 2008 5:48 pm

Remember way back when, in the time of Napster and Kazaa? The RIAA had this brilliant plan to sue the pants off of anybody that they thought was possibly downloading music illegally? As […]