Microsoft has finally announced the date for the Xbox One release in Japan. Japanese gamers will be able to get their hands on Microsoft's next gen gaming console a whole ten months after the US release, on September 4th. The Xbox One will debut with; Forza 5, Dead Rising 3, Ryse: Son Of Rome with [...]
One Wednesday, April 23, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps. In what is really quite remarkable, Google is allowing users to access old street view images, essentially opening up a time capsule. "Starting today," the company announced in a blog post, "you can travel to the past to see how a place has [...]
Do you remember Zynga? The gigantic social gaming company that couldn't get it's Facebook hits Farmville and Cityville to mobile fast enough? Yes the same company is now behind What's The Phrase and Words With Friends oh yeah, and Draw Something. But none of those bets could help them on Wall Street, and Wednesday we [...]
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that they had reached content licensing agreement with HBO. The licencing agreement will give Amazon Prime members access to a massive collection of HBO original programming. HBO content will become available for Prime subscribers beginning May 21, and will include access to: All seasons of revered classics such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome and Six Feet [...]
Heads turned earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. At the February event, Samsung took the wraps off the now released Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit smart watch devices. Not only did Samsung do a reup on their original smartwatch, they decided to build the [...]
After just over one week on the market, the Samsung Galaxy S5 flagship handset already accounts for a whopping 0.7% of all active Android smartphones worldwide.Dave Hoch, Localytics Blog, "Samsung Galaxy S5 Grabs Nearly 1% of all Android Smartphones after First Week," 22 April 2014 To break that down, roughly, comScore noted that as of [...]
On Monday April 21, Apple announced a new initiative. As a part of a broader marketing focus on the environmental impact of Apple, or rather the lack thereof, the Cupertino company announced that, "every Apple Retail Store will now take back Apple products for free and recycle them responsibly."Lisa Jackson - Apple Vice President of Environmental [...]
The cost of creating blockbuster television like House Of Cards and Orange Is The New Black is starting to prove costly for the pay for streaming service, Netflix. Although the company hasn't pegged a date just yet, they have said that sometime this quarter they plan on increasing the price of their monthly subscription rate [...]
Thanks to the invention of smartphones, computers and websites, people don't often have to guess what the lyrics are to their favorite songs on the radio. One quick Google search and you can find the words to just about every song ever published. The problem is those lyrics come back from a variety of websites. [...]
Microsoft, during the //build/ conference, "announced that the option would be available for developers to respond to reviews."Bernardo Zamora, Official Windows Blog, "Respond to App Reviews: a phased rollout," 17 April 2014 While the original announcement set May, loosely, as the beginning of this program, the company just announced that they will begin rolling out [...]
