4th of July App Store sales – EA, Gameloft, Namco, Glu In celebration of the US 4th of July holiday, there are a bunch of sales going on in the iTunes Apps Store, including EA, Gameloft, Glu, Namco, and more. Aside from games, if you have a few moments to spend browsing through Apple’s hundreds of thousands of apps, you might just find a quite a few...

Xbox Kinect, Hands-On I have jumped in front of an Xbox 360 and tried Microsoft’s Kinect motion control system (formerly known as Project Natal) with Kinect Sports, Driving and Dancing Central. I do “ok” at bowling, but I’m clearly a lame dancer… meh. Anyway, the goal of this exercise is to report...

Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney for iPhone- app review Phoenix Wright is Capcom’s latest game for the iPhone. It’s a port of a port (GameBoy to Nintendo DS to iOS) that still retains it’s fun factor through the years and is a great addition to any iOS gamer. The concept behind Phoenix Wright is simple; you are a new a attorney and you have...

Microsoft Commissions 20 New Free Games For Windows Mobile While Windows Mobile used to boast plenty of mobile games for users, that lead has practically been eliminated, thanks to Apple’s introduction of the App Store. That being said, it seems that Microsoft still hasn’t given up on Windows Mobile as the software giant has commissioned Touch...

T-Mobile 4G Network Roll Out T-Mobile has just announced that it is upgrading its network to offer higher speeds, thanks to an HSPA+ network roll out. Seen by T-Mobile as a 4G (4th Generation) network, HSPA+ has been demonstrated at the recent Mobile World Congress and can reach theoretical speeds of 56Mbps (down) and 22Mbps (up). In...

Sonos ZonePlayer S5 speaker system firmware update allows operation in stereo systems An upcoming firmware update for the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 speaker system will enable two of them to function in a stereo system, where each has been designated as a left and right channel. This basically allows users to listen to each on their own separately, which comes in handy for situations where you are...

FCC approves of BlackBerry Pearl 3G A single FCC filing has showed that RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl 3G has been approved, where it will come in a couple of variants – one with 14 keys while the other has an additional 6 keys. Both of them will operate on WCDMA Bands II and V, which means they will play ball with Bell, Telus, Rogers and...

Google Nexus One handles Quake III with aplomb We’ve seen Quake II run on HTML5 with pretty decent results, as well as Quake III being played on a Motorola Droid before, but how about id Software’s Quake III making its way on the Google Nexus One sans keyboard alongside a much faster processor? It seems that gaming quality is pretty...

WiGig Alliance Announces Its Early Specifications, Confirming 7Gbps Speeds You might remember the WiGig Alliance that we brought to your attention a while back, and now it has published early specifications for the WiGig format, offering 7Gbps network speeds, which is a good many times faster than the current 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. The good news is that it will be backwards...

11.6-inch QT GINI116 ION 2 Notebook Do you like those 11.6-inch notebooks, but always complain that they don’t have enough graphics grunt? Well, the QT GINI116 from China might be able to offer you something, as it sports NVIDIA ION 2 graphics in that tiny package. The isn’t any pricing information or if there will be any...