Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Kinect Gets a Price Point (and One More E3 Wish)
If you’ve been following the Microsoft rumors in the gadget blogs (and let’s face it, most of you don’t do that), you already suspected that the Microsoft Kinect (formerly known as Project Natal) was going to cost around $150. Microsoft has seemingly confirmed that price-point today, as discovered by Engadget today. Listen Microsoft, we know ...
Hold Your Horses, Slate. Desktops Can’t Fly!
I don’t do a whole lot of writing on the weekends, and I certainly don’t do it at 3:00 AM on a Sunday morning. This morning is different. I’m not sure if it’s due to the pre-Father’s Day nap I took earlier yesterday, a bout of insomnia, or that the article I just read on ...
Android Grows While iOS Shrinks [Infographic]
Millennial Media’s MobileMix report is out this month. The highlights: – Android’s market share continues to grow in the smartphone market, with Android requests growing 15% month-over-month. – iPad requests grew over 160% month-over-month. – Backing up reports that the new HTC Evo 4G Android phones enjoyed monumental consumer demand despite lukewarm reviews, HTC recieved ...
IBM Must Think Small to Dominate the Mobile World
IBM today, in an effort to “help address the explosion in mobile devices,” according to Computerworld, is launching a new software lab in Massachusetts. Earthweb had more details: The lab will bring together more than 3,400 IBM employees charged with designing and developing new and more efficient software applications for enterprise customers. Developing cloud-based applications ...
iPad Data Breach Executed by Drug-Addled (Alleged) Anti-Semite
How horrible is it when your security is so bad, an anti-semitic e-tard raver from the Pacific Northwest is able to find private data on hundreds of thousands of your customers? That’s the question AT&T and Apple must be asking themselves this morning, as news has broke that the AT&T / iPad data breach was ...
What I Wished They Announced at the Microsoft XBox Event Yesterday
As many people noted today, the XBox 360 / Microsoft press conference was yesterday. I wasn’t able to attend in person due to some last minute jockeying by G4.tv to lock out all other live video streamers from E3, and as such I missed out on getting my free XBox 360 slim (yeah, I’m not ...
ESPN and Live Sports Events Coming to the XBox 360
After watching the Microsoft announcement for the last hour, the first real announcement aside from all the new games and add-ons everyone already knew about – ESPN is coming to the XBox 360. ESPN will be available on the “Community Channel,” which includes access to all major sports events (football, baseball, basketball, etc), and will ...
FaceTime is to the Fax Machine as Skype is to EMail [WWDC]
Did you hear? Apple unveiled video chat today. Apple’s iPhone marketing veep Joswiak said at the keynote that “FaceTime is going to change the way we communicate forever.” While Cali Lewis and many other bloggers I followed during the WWDC keynote swallowed the hype hook, line and sinker, I felt my personal reaction sat somewhere ...
Nielsen FINALLY Releases Smartphone Marketshare Data at WWDC
It’s no big secret I’m not a huge fan of Apple. I earned the derision of my peer groups this morning not recognizing the news value of every utterance Steve Jobs made this morning. Mark Pincus bringing Zynga to the iUniverse? We knew that. Two million iPads sold? We knew that, too. WWDC un-invited Gizmodo? ...
Apple to Turn on iAds July 1st
Steve Jobs, in his WWDC speech today unveiled that iAds would be turned on and available for all developers by July 1st on all iOS devices. “We have only been selling iAds for 8 weeks,” said Jobs. “But our clients already include: Citi, Unilever, AT&T, Chanel, GE, Liberty Mutual, State Farm, Geico, Campbell’s, Sears, JC ...
