Welcome to the Noisecast roundup for July 31, 2012. Almost all of this news will be irrelephant by next week. Unlike this song.  Final Fantasy III will be an OUYA launch title.  Square Enix enjoys re-releasing this title. In 2006, they remade it for the Nintendo DS. Now it seems that they’ll re-re-release it for [...]

I have a knack for original titles. By the way, if you didn’t tune in to the latest podcast (shame on you), then you missed the awkward,time consuming glorious return of Ron. It was good. Here’s a trailer for a movie I’d like to see, then off to the roundup!  Patent troll claims to own [...]

If you missed last night’s Live Noisecast Hangout, you missed both Vitto and Chris rag on Apple’s latest “service pack.” Well guess the jokes on them seeing as more than 3 million people decided that Apple’s OS X 10.8 is worth an Andrew Jackson for a service pack OS upgrade. Apple has officially dubbed Mountain Lion [...]

Earlier this week Anthony Berry told you all about the latest update to Netflix on Playstation 3 – Netflix Max. The idea was to help indecisive customers (like yours truly) find a movie or show to watch and MAXimize (yeah Netflix, we get it) their experience. After we posted Anthony’s review, we got some folks [...]

Make no mistake about, NFC is the future of our wallets. Windows Phone 8 is aggressively pushing their spin on it, and Google Wallet has been around long enough to be a “thing.” Our Angry Man of the Noisecast, Vitto, fancies it. Unfortunately security in the Near Field Communications wonderland isn’t all rainbows and unicorns; [...]

Everyone loves Bob Ross! PBSDigitalStudios is back with another remix of your childhood. Remember, every title is a link! Not necessarily tech, but cool anyway. Cloud Atlas, the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, is being converted into a movie by none other than the Wachowskis, of Matrix fame. The movie deals with reincarnation, and seems to [...]

Good afternoon, fellow denizens of the net. Here’s a little afternoon roundup for you. If you’d prefer a metal version of that song, try this one out. Gabe Newell speaks out on Windows 8, other topics. Everyone’s favorite gaming guru, Gaben, sat down with AllThingsD to talk about the state of gaming, as well as the future [...]

Good day, ladies and gentlemen (and our usual readers as well.) I’ve just returned from a quick vacation that involved driving through Mississippi. Glad to be home.  It appears that Skype (and owner Microsoft) have tweaked the routing for calls that use the Voice over IP (VoIP) service. Skype, the big name in voice (and [...]

Friends of The Noisecast Today’s guest post comes from Anthony Berry, avid guitar player, full-fledged grown up AND a smoking chimp (his words I assure you). You can find him on Twitter @Twanzio What do you get when you cross Siri with an overly excited dude that works at Blockbuster? Apparently, you get “Max”. Max [...]

A few years back while working for a corporation that was “Too-Big-To-Fail” there was a company perk that covered 80% of your tuition fees (up to $5000 per year) provided you met some academic requirements but mostly if it were beneficial to the company’s bottom line and you’d sign a contract to stay on for [...]