Archive for: March, 2012

Rockstar Unveils Touch Edition of ‘L.A. Noire’ Just for OnLive Members

Rockstar Games has launched a version of its crime drama L.A. Noire that will run on tablets and use touch-based controls. The Touch Edition of the game, which will be available only through OnLive, is free to players who purchased a copy through the streaming game service. The OnLive app is available on Google’s Android […]

Sprint Will Launch DirectConnect Now Android App Next Month

Sprint will soon launch an Android app that will bring all the features of its DirectConnect push-to-talk service to handsets without the need for specialized hardware. The information came from a leaked internal Sprint document shared by PhoneNews. Called Sprint DirectConnect Now, the app should also bring the long-awaited Push-to-X feature that never came out […]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Surpasses Box Office Totals of First Movie

Warner Bros. Pictures‘ and Village Roadshow Pictures’ has hit the $529 million benchmark in global box office, with an estimated $186.7 million on the domestic side and $342.3 million internationally, surpassing its predecessor’s worldwide gross of $524.4 million. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, President of […]

Samsung Makes DV300F Camera Available Globally

Samsung has announced that it has started shipping its DualView, Wi-Fi enabled DV300F pocket camera around the globe. However, while the company has made the product available on time, it may retail for anywhere up to $260 although it had been priced at $199 during CES 2012. The camera is the latest in its line […]

HTC One V May Be Coming to Virgin Mobile in the USA

The HTC One V may be coming to Virgin Mobile’s US branch. Tips to PocketNow early this week had the aluminum unibody Android 4.0 phone coming to the carrier in late spring. It would cost under $200 off-contract on Virgin, making it not just Virgin’s most advanced smartphone but also one of its more affordable […]

ZTE N910 with LTE Gets FCC Approval

Chinese maker ZTE has successfully run its upcoming N910 LTE smartphone through the FCC. Introduced before last month’s Mobile World Congress, the phone should sport a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 4.3-inch, 480×800 touchscreen, and Android 4.0. In FCC form, it received AWS Band IV and PCS Band II LTE support, meaning it will likely show […]

BBC Brings iPlayer to Xbox 360

The BBC has finally brought its iPlayer streaming video player to the Xbox 360 for UK residents. The app enables users to access many of the latest BBC television content, along with the company’s radio stations and select programs from other broadcasters. The Xbox app offers the same basic functionality as equivalent offerings for the […]

Coming Soon – Limited Edition Avengers 3D Glasses!

Marvel and RealD 3D are celebrating the May 4th release of Marvel’s The Avengers by giving fans the opportunity to assemble a collection of limited edition Avenger themed 3D glasses. Featuring designs for Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Captain America, beginning in the month of April fans at will be able to collect these limited […]

AMD’s Opteron 3200 Web Server Chips Start to Ship

Chipmaker AMD has just detailed its new eight-core Opteron 3200-series CPUs, meant primarily for cloud and web hosting servers. Based on its current Bulldozer architecture, it can be had in four- or eight-core variants and is rated at 2.7GHz. A Turbo Core mode bumps the clock speed up to 3.7GHz, though only at half the […]

Atom CE5300 Brings Faster Video to TV – Freedom Live Media Gateway First to Use the Chip

Intel’s smart TV efforts got a lift early in the week with a newly updated Atom chip for digital media hubs. The CE5300, nicknamed Berryville, is its first 32-nanometer chip of its kind. Details are short, although it should carry two cores, “advanced” graphics with H.264 B-frame hardware encoding, and support both Hyperthreading (for up […]

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