Archive for: August, 2010

The National Peanut Board Joins the iPhone App Craze

Ok I guess about everyone but my dog now has an iPhone app. The National Peanut Board (NPB) has launched the Peanuts: Energy for the Good Life iPhone app. The free app offers recipes, snack suggestions and a five-minute mindfulness meditation exercise with Stephan Bodian, author of Meditation for Dummies — tools to help people […]

Spike TV Renews Deadliest Warrior for a Third Season

Spike TV has renewed “Deadliest Warrior,” the network’s first original franchise hit, for a third season, it was announced today by Sharon Levy, executive vice president, original programming, Spike TV. The series has averaged 1.6 million viewers over it first two seasons, the most recent airing from April-July. The season 2 finale on July 27 […]

3-D TV Has Stronger Interest in Middle East and Africa

Middle East nations, Africa, and Pakistan (MEAP) are far ahead of other regions in terms of interest in, and ownership of, 3DTVs, says a new study from Nielsen. Younger consumers, those ages 25-29, have the highest interest and intent. “This report provides one of the broadest looks at how consumers watch video, to date,” says […]

WiMAX 2 Could Hit the Streets by 2012

Intel’s upcoming  WiMAX 2 standard should be much faster than the existing standard in practice, the WiMAX Forum’s marketing lead Declan Byrne  said this weekend. Existing WiMAX often tops at around 3-6Mbpsdownpipw and a little over 1 Mbps up-pipe in the real worls. The new 802.16m version should provide average speeds over 100Mbps, Byrne told […]

Lost Planet 2 Hits the PC on October 15

Lost Planet 2 is coming to the PCs on October 15 and it is going be a strong 3D title. While this return to Akris will support  Direct X 9, you will get greater enjoyment and even greater detail with its DirectX 11 features.  Smoke will have lifelike volume and depth, water surfaces react realistically […]

Worms  Reloaded Customization Trailer is Out!

Well the kids over at Team17 have been spending a few years figuring out just how give the user more control in the next Worms gate. Well the video below give you a peak into their work. From forts, through hats right the way to skin colours and speech banks, there is now even more […]

Intel Buying TI’s Cable Modem Line

Intel today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Texas Instruments’ cable modem product line. The purchase enhances Intel’s focus on the cable industry and related consumer electronics (CE) market segments, where the company’s expertise in building advanced system-on-chip (SoC) products, based on Intel Atom processors, will be applied. Intel plans to combine Texas […]

Voice Actions Come to Android Phones

Google  has announced voice actions for Android. An add on for the existing Voice Search application, the update lets you control other aspects of phone using your voice. Whether you’re sending texts, listening to music making phone calls or navigating to your favourite pub, you no longer have to deal with the touchscreen. Check out […]

Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launching September 15

Microsoft has began sending out invitations for a special event to selected members of the press, VIPs and developers. Microsoft says the event will serve as a chance to “Celebrate the Beauty of the Web” and perhaps more importantly, as a launch pad for Internet Explorter 9 Beta.   Microsoft’s James Pratt wrote about the […]

BioShock Prequel Coming in 2012

2K Games has announced that BioShock Infinite, a first-person shooter, is currently in development at Irrational Games, the studio behind the original BioShock. This one won’t be a sequel, however, as BioShock Infinite will be set in 1912, and introduce an entirely new narrative experience that “lifts players out of the familiar confines of Rapture […]

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