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Google Keep note-taking service officially launched

Google Keep note-taking service officially launched
  • Posted March 20, 2013, 4:43 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Software With Video
  • Google has officially launched Keep as a web and Android app. The service allows you to quickly jot ideas down when you think of them, create checklists and save photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices.

EU Commission: Piracy doesn't hurt music sales, may even help

EU Commission: Piracy doesn
  • Posted March 19, 2013, 10:27 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in The Web, Industry News With Video
  • Although music labels remain adamant about piracy's harm to sales, illegal filesharing sites may actually boost industry revenue according to a report from the European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. After studying the browsing habits of...

Capcom, Valve unite to create Resident Evil 6 / Left 4 Dead 2 crossover

Capcom, Valve unite to create Resident Evil 6 / Left 4 Dead 2 crossover
  • Posted March 18, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming With Video
  • What do you get when you take two of the most successful survival horror franchises and put them in a blender? We aren’t entirely sure either but we’ll find out soon enough as Capcom and Valve have decided to create…

Philips' swank new DesignLine televisions are a work of art

Philips
  • Posted March 16, 2013, 10:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • Television design has come a long way since the advent of flat panel displays, much to the praise of interior decorators the world over. But even still, some of today’s slickest sets are considered an eyesore to many. To that…

Dropbox acquires recently-launched Mailbox app

Dropbox acquires recently-launched Mailbox app
  • Posted March 15, 2013, 2:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, The Web With Video
  • After a few months building up hype with promises to revolutionize email, Mailbox finally launched its streamlined Gmail client for the iPhone last month, along a waiting line mechanism that quickly became absurdly long. They’re not even done letting everyone…

Saints Row 4 trailer loaded with insanity, shipping this August

Saints Row 4 trailer loaded with insanity, shipping this August
  • Posted March 15, 2013, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming With Video
  • Most probably never expected to see another game in the Saints Row franchise after THQ went belly-up late last year but things started looking up when it was revealed the following month that Koch Media purchased the rights to the…

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expansion Review

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Expansion Review
  • Posted March 15, 2013, 2:59 AM by Jason Schreier | Filed in TechSpot, Gaming With Video
  • When you're not building and recruiting, you're following arrows and doing what the game tells you to do. There are optional side-quests, yes, but they're almost always marked on your mini-map, and they're way too easy to find and finish.

    But it's still StarCraft. It's still a joy to go through the now-familiar ritual of training and killing, and even the easiest missions are designed with the attention to detail that we've grown to expect from this series. And even the easier moments exercise your mind in the way that only a real-time strategy game can.

Galaxy S4 touts 5" 1080p display, tons of new features, coming April

Galaxy S4 touts 5" 1080p display, tons of new features, coming April
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 7:40 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing Breaking News With Video
  • Following months of rumors, teasers and leaks, Samsung took the stage in New York City this evening to unveil the Galaxy S4. As you'd expect, the device brings many improvements to the Galaxy S3 and could become the market's leading handset according to analyst chatter...

SimCity can be played offline indefinitely

SimCity can be played offline indefinitely
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming With Video
  • During a recent interview, Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw said it would be impossible to play SimCity offline without a significant amount of engineering by the design team as the game offloads a large amount of calculations to their servers…

Breathometer is the world's first smartphone breathalyzer

Breathometer is the world
  • Posted March 14, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • Meet the Breathometer – a keychain-sized portable breathalyzer designed to work in conjunction with your smartphone to determine if you are fit to get behind the wheel after a few (or several) adult beverages. The $20 gadget has already raised…

Download: Minecraft 1.5 Redstone Update is out now

Download: Minecraft 1.5 Redstone Update is out now
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 12:30 PM by Erik Orejuela | Filed in Gaming, Software Breaking News With Video
  • If you are one of the millions of people playing Minecraft, you'll be glad to know the Redstone Update has been officially released today. The brick universe created by Notch Persson is ever evolving and now includes various new items…

MobileBurn asks: who wants to make phone calls on a 7-inch tablet?

MobileBurn asks: who wants to make phone calls on a 7-inch tablet?
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
  • Smartphone screen sizes have reached ridiculous levels since the so-called "phablet" era began, but few sights are as bizarre as the idea of making phone calls on a tablet. That doesn't mean that making phone calls on an Asus FonePad…

Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this year

Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this year
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 5:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News Breaking News
  • The dominance of iOS will be challenged later this year as Android hurdles toward becoming the most-used mobile operating system on tablets, according to IDC. The researcher has updated its forecast to reflect the surging interest in slates such as…

AMD launches "Richland" A-Series APUs: slight speed bump, better power management

AMD launches "Richland" A-Series APUs: slight speed bump, better power management
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • AMD has formally announced its next generation of A-series processors, codenamed Richland, ahead of their planned availability in laptops starting next month. As we’ve mentioned before, this new APU uses the same base silicon as Trinity, including a Piledriver-based CPU…

Get vehicle stats sent directly to your iPhone with Automatic Link

Get vehicle stats sent directly to your iPhone with Automatic Link
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • A San Francisco startup called Automatic Labs is now accepting orders for a device designed to monitor your vehicle’s vital stats and send them directly to your smartphone. The program is able to keep track of a variety of parameters…

Apple belatedly patches App Store security hole reported by Google researcher

Apple belatedly patches App Store security hole reported by Google researcher
  • Posted March 11, 2013, 5:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Apple With Video
  • Last week Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller was quick to poke some fun at Android security, posting a link on Twitter to an F-Secure report that paints a dire -- if not overblown -- picture of the malware situation on…

Microsoft offers students up to six months of Office 365 for free

Microsoft offers students up to six months of Office 365 for free
  • Posted March 11, 2013, 12:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft, Software With Video
  • Microsoft has launched a new promotional campaign to get students using its Office 365 University and SkyDrive products. Under the new offering announced today, students with a qualifying .edu e-mail address can register to access the productivity suite at no…

ModernMix lets you run Windows 8 apps as desktop apps

ModernMix lets you run Windows 8 apps as desktop apps
  • Posted March 7, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Download of the Week With Video
  • Stardock already offers a way to bring back the familiar Start menu in Windows 8 instead of the much criticized tile-based home screen. But if you’d still like to use “Metro” apps from Microsoft’s Windows Store and can’t wrap your…

Latest Humble Bundle supports Android, offers Super Hexagon, more

Latest Humble Bundle supports Android, offers Super Hexagon, more
  • Posted March 6, 2013, 5:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming With Video
  • The Humble Bundle has launched its fifth Android-friendly event offering six popular indie games for a fraction of their individual retail price. In addition to working across Windows, OS X and Linux, the games will run on Google's mobile operating…

Google Play celebrates first birthday with special offers

Google Play celebrates first birthday with special offers
  • Posted March 6, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing, Gaming With Video
  • It’s already been a full year since Google announced they would be replacing the Android Market with a new service called Google Play. The new store not only replaced the old but expanded it by including eBooks, music, video content…

Roku 3 arrives with faster CPU, new UI and private listening mode

Roku 3 arrives with faster CPU, new UI and private listening mode
  • Posted March 6, 2013, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, The Web With Video
  • Roku officially announced a brand new version of its popular set-top box last night. Simply dubbed Roku 3, the tiny media streamer received a faster processor and dual-band Wi-Fi support, as well as a revamped user interface that should make…

Samsung's Galaxy S4 will continue to use a plastic body

Samsung
  • Posted March 6, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing With Video
  • Details about Samsung’s next generation Galaxy smartphone continue to trickle in as we’re just over a week away from the big reveal. The latest news on the Galaxy S4 comes courtesy of Samsung executive vice president of mobile Y.H. Lee…

Opera releases first beta of new WebKit-powered Android browser

Opera releases first beta of new WebKit-powered Android browser
  • Posted March 6, 2013, 8:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Mobile Computing With Video
  • Moving ahead with its plan to drop its own Presto rendering engine in favor of WebKit -- the same used by Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome -- Opera Software has released the first public version of its revamped mobile browser…

Microsoft's plans for Kinect include future laptop, tablet integration

Microsoft
  • Posted March 5, 2013, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft With Video
  • Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie recently spoke at the company’s TechForum in Seattle, revealing where Redmond hopes to take Kinect in the coming months and years. The long-term goal is to make the device as cheap and…

Green Throttle launches Android-based gaming system with local multiplayer support

Green Throttle launches Android-based gaming system with local multiplayer support
  • Posted March 5, 2013, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Mobile Computing With Video
  • Between crowd-funded consoles, gamepads and handhelds it would appear that Android has a bright future in gaming. Today, yet another company is throwing its hat in the ring. Led by Guitar Hero co-creator Charles Huang, Green Throttle aims to turn…

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