After Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set the bar as to what the franchise could achieve, nobody envied the shoes that Treyarch had been asked to fill with producing the next installment. Their previous involvement and lackluster contributions to the franchise were what Aquaman brought to the table...
If there are two things I enjoy in life, it’s mob movies and shooting people in video games, so naturally, I was excited to play Mafia 2, the recently released mobster offering from 2K Games. This excitement was soon shot down like Spider in Goodfellas.
You play as Vito, the generically named...
LiveJournal users are up in arms over a modification to the service that they say allows users commenting to their online journals to also post those comments on Facebook or Twitter, even if the journal is set up to be restricted only to the owners' friends.
In response to the uproar,...
Warnings have been issued today not to complete a customer satisfaction survey that appears to come from McDonald's and promises cash for your answers. A bit like fast food itself, something that looks appetising and promises a quick fix is often not actually that good for you.
IT security and...
It's official - Apple says it will be offering individual TV episodes for download 'rental.' While many are already heralding the announcement from yet another much-hyped media event in California as another nail in the coffin of old school television, Daniweb spoke to Dan Rayburn, a principal...
After Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 set the bar as to what the franchise could achieve, nobody envied the shoes that Treyarch had been asked to fill with producing the next installment. Their previous involvement and lackluster contributions to the franchise were what Aquaman brought to the table... Read More
LiveJournal users are up in arms over a modification to the service that they say allows users commenting to their online journals to also post those comments on Facebook or Twitter, even if the journal is set up to be restricted only to the owners' friends.
In response to the uproar,... Read More
Warnings have been issued today not to complete a customer satisfaction survey that appears to come from McDonald's and promises cash for your answers. A bit like fast food itself, something that looks appetising and promises a quick fix is often not actually that good for you.
IT security and... Read More
It's official - Apple says it will be offering individual TV episodes for download 'rental.' While many are already heralding the announcement from yet another much-hyped media event in California as another nail in the coffin of old school television, Daniweb spoke to Dan Rayburn, a principal... Read More
Come with me if you want to rock.
What is easily the greatest thing you’ve seen all week looks like an alternate ending to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, one that didn't leave me in tears and featured Ahhhnold rocking the main stage at Ozzfest, which isn't a far stretch this year with a... Read More
It's been rumored for a few months, but on Monday morning, Intel made it official: it is purchasing the Wireless Solutions (WLS) business unit from Infineon Technologies for $1.4 billion.
The purchase gives Intel a one-stop semiconductor offering in its quest to take mobile market share. The... Read More
AMD’s acquisition of ATI has finally come full circle. It is officially time to say goodbye to the ATI brand. In an official announcement today, AMD reveals that they will ditch the ATI moniker in favor of their own. Market research indicates “permission”, as AMD puts it, to consolidate the... Read More
Lately, we've been feeling rather sorry for Dell's media relations people - they keep having to put out press releases about how their employer has purchased data storage company 3Par, only to learn later that it hasn't actually happened.
Dell first announced its acquisition of 3Par a couple... Read More
A lovely juxtaposition of two articles at TechCrunch this weekend: One expressed concern about discrimination against older workers in the computer industry; the other said that if women weren't successful in the tech industry, it wasn't men's fault.
(H/T to @jmhodges, whose Twitter posting... Read More
With the Android developer community buzzing about how easy it is to pirate apps, one outfit took it upon itself to try and track down the pirates. The results are truly shocking.
The provocatively named Android Police site last week claimed that most Android apps can be simply patched and... Read More
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