Gadgets
Google Launched Corporate Map Service
Google started to bring a range of new products into the corporate map market. An industrial source on May 23 reveals, Google Korea has started its sales activities for its cloud based geographical information service (GIS) for Korean companies. Google authority confirms that its cloud GIS service is much cheaper than the existing GIS services. Besides that, companies which are [...]
First Windows Phone 7 Update Not Going Smoothly For Some Samsung Handsets
So this is why they do phased rollouts, eh? If Twitter is the font of truth and reality that we suspect it to be, it sounds like users of some Windows Phone 7 models by Samsung are struggling with that minor first update that Microsoft started pushing this week. Basically, it sounds like the update [...]
China Getting Mysterious Motion-Controls for MMO
With the “eBox”, China already has a Kinect-like motion sensing controller. And apparently, the country is also getting a totally different motion-sensing-controlled PC game. If only there was more to go on than some lady waving her hands around. According to website ChinaGame, massively multiplayer online game Land of Lords Online is getting motion controls. [...]
I Just Used A $400 Joystick
For the price of a PlayStation 3, Saitek’s new X-65F Flight Control System for the PC had damn well better be the best video game peripheral ever made. The Basics The X-65F is a fully-featured “flight control system”, meaning the pack includes a joystick, throttle control and auxiliary instrument panel. Designed to work with every [...]
Twitter CEO shoots down talk of a Twitter-branded smartphone before it starts
Think Twitter’s going to follow Facebook and lend its brand to a smartphone? Think again. Twitter CEO Dick Costello said during his Mobile World Congress keynote yesterday that while he does see a need to better integrate Twitter into existing platforms for phones, he sees no need for a Twitter-branded smartphone. Costello cited the ability [...]
Motorola exec nearly rules out Windows Phone completely, laments ‘Closed Platform’
Motorola may have once said that it was “open” to developing Windows Phone 7 devices, but it looks like that possibility is now a whole lot less likely than it already was. Speaking at Mobile World Congress this week, Motorola’s corporate vice president of software and services product management, Christy Wyatt, said that while she [...]
A Review of Mobile Magnifier and ZOOMS Screen Magnifiers for Cell Phones
Since May 2003, AccessWorld has published articles that have evaluated the accessibility and usability of cell phones and add-on software applications. In this article, we at AFB TECH continue this effort by evaluating Code Factory’s newer version of its screen magnifier, Mobile Magnifier 2.8, which we previously evaluated in November 2005. We also take our [...]
Eschalon: Book II – Old School cRPG
Eschalon: Book II is an old-school cRPG game that being developed by Basilisk Games and will be available for GNU/Linux, mac and Windows OS’s. Basilisk games like some other indie developers really listens to the community. They implanted many new features based on community feedback and greatly improves the experience compared to their first game [...]
Logitech FreePulse Wireless Headphones
The Logitech FreePulse Wireless Headphones are remarkably light, flexible, and resilient. The sound quality is decent overall with an emphasis on bass. The Bluetooth transmitter can be used with any audio source that has a minijack (3.5mm) headphone output. Compared to the range of options out there for Bluetooth MP3 player headphones, the Logitech FreePulse [...]
AverMedia M780 PCIe TV Tuner
The AverMedia M780 PCIe card allows you to watch TV on any Media Center PC. It features a dual tuner design, enabling two shows to be viewed at once, one digital and one analog. As well as supporting over the air HDTV the M780 also is a Clear QAM tuner. In addition this the AverMedia [...]
Educational Requirements Needed to Start Your Career in Game Design
Even though the field of game design is very competitive, following these following tips can help lead to a rewarding career. This article will help you discover how to land your dream job in game design. Game Design is such a fascinating career prospect that the idea of being a designer has likely crossed the [...]
Joe’s Adventures DLC
The second (and final) piece of downloadable content for Mafia II hit Xbox Live and Playstation Network back in late November. Entitled Joe’s Adventures, this add-on puts you in the shoes of Joe Barbaro, the right-hand man of Vito Scaletta, and covers the roughly 10-year period during which Vito is incarcerated for stealing gas stamps. Unfortunately, like Jimmy’s Vendetta, there’s [...]
Google Car Home App – Updated then Pulled, We Have It
This is an odd series of events indeed. Yesterday evening, Google posted a new and updated version of the Car Home app on the Market. I happen to be browsing around the Market at the same time, so I downloaded it, intending to look at it further this morning. By this morning, however, as I [...]
Why use iPhone App Review Sites
The iphone has spawned a whole new industry built around applications for use with the iphone. These are commonly known as apps and they perform a vast array of different functions There are in excess of 200,000 apps now available for the iphone and they consist of both free and paid apps. With this amount [...]
AT&T Sold a Record 5.2 Million iPhones This Summer
It’s maybe not that big a surprise, given the huge number of iPhones Apple moved this past quarter, but it’s still a big number: AT&T activated 5.2 million iPhones this summer. That’s nearly 70% of their entire integrated device activations. About 24% of those customers were new to AT&T, meaning about 1.3 million people joining the [...]
AppESP Generates Predictive Android Market Recommendations
Android: AppESP is an Android Market enhancing application that analyzes your current applications, what’s popular in the Marketplace, and trending topics related to Android apps, to give you personalized app recommendations. AppESP scans your existing roster of applications, searches for patterns (lots of games, a focus on productivity apps, a love of widgets), and then [...]
WebOS 2.0 Now Official, Arriving On Palm Pre 2 “In the Coming Months” In US
It’s always nice when rumors actually hold up: HP just officially introduced the world to webOS 2.0 and confirmed its flagship handset, the Palm Pre 2. So this is why HP spent all that money. Let’s take a quick spin. Much of what we saw in those leaked webOS 2.0 screen shots has been confirmed: Stacks and JustType, baked [...]
Americans Happily Exchange Privacy for Trinkets
Hey there—you, the consumer. How would you like $1 off a Frappuccino, or a free Croissanwich, or just a meaningless virtual corporate-assigned “title?” You’d like it a lot. All we need is every bit of your personal information, free. The NYT reports that the latest neato “app” that a savvy technology company is using to [...]
How to create IPhone Apps
There many ideas and suggestions for applications for the iPhone as this piece of technology takes off. With these guidelines you can go through the process of creating your own application for your iPhone and putting your ideas into practice. With so many iPhone App Reviews and iPhone Game reviews around wherever you look, you may get [...]
