Category: Industry News
Microsoft made big news today with the announcement of their next generation gaming console, the Xbox One. The main idea of the new console is to be an all in one entertainment device with games, movies, interactive live television, music, and web. The announcements comes three months after Sony’s announcement of the PlayStation 4, as… Read More »
The biggest news story on the internet today is that Yahoo has acquired the blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. It’s a landmark transaction as Tumblr has over 300 million monthly unique visitors, with over 50 billion blog posts. Yahoo officially announced the acquisition this morning, and confirmed that Tumblr will continue to operate as… Read More »
Google I/O is Google’s annual developer conference, similar to Apple’s WWDC, and Google held their keynote today with a bunch of new announcements. A number of their announcements are geared towards iOS, and that’s our focus. First off, Google has released a brand new iOS app today, known as Hangouts which they revealed this morning…. Read More »
Today was a big day for Samsung as they announced the next version of their flagship phone, the Galaxy S4. The device comes with the usual fixings including bigger screen, better processor, and improved camera as many expected. Samsung also showed off their own accessories including a wireless charging pad, scale, and game pad. Finally,… Read More »
The computer interface hasn’t changed much over the pat 25 years with the same mouse and keyboard for the most part. There are brand new touch screen devices, but computers still aren’t changing their input methods. There have been futuristic demos and movies that show new computing controls based on motion gestures where you don’t… Read More »
Sony made big news on Wednesday with the announcement of their next generation gaming console, the PlayStation 4. The PS4 comes with a number of great new features all focused on bringing the benefits of mobile gaming to traditional consoles. First off, the PS4 can pause and resume mid-game, and you can turn the system… Read More »
Microsoft is betting big on Windows 8, and in particular their own hardware production with their upcoming Surface Tablets. Microsoft announced their Surface Tablets in RT and Pro varieties back in June, and now the RT model details have been officially announced. The Microsoft Surface RT tablet starts at $499 for 32GB, with a $599… Read More »
Amazon has unveiled their holiday line-up of Kindles headlined by a brand new Kindle Fire. Rather than being the Kindle Fire 2, it’s the Kindle Fire HD that comes with either a new 8.9” screen size or the previous 7” size. The 8.9” Kindle Fire HD offers a 1920 x 1200 display (with 254 ppi),… Read More »
Last month, Verizon introduced the first shared data plans of the major U.S. mobile carriers, and today AT&T announced their own shared data plan. The new plans revolved around one shared pool of data that up to ten devices can access. All of the shared plans offer unlimited talk and text, and they differ based… Read More »
There has been a big tech conference every week in June, and now it’s Google’s turn to take the stage. They had a whole bunch to show off beginning with a brand new tablet, the Nexus 7, to take on…the Kindle Fire? It seems so, as they released a $199 7” tablet that offers greater… Read More »
