A couple of days ago, Samsung wowed the tech world by managing to keep a secret and unveiled the first official Windows Phone 8 device – beating Microsoft’s hardware partner, Nokia, to the punch. Now it looks like Nokia’s handset may have been outed a week before their big announcement in New York City. The [...]

Earlier today, Samsung managed to do what is completely unheard of in the mobile phone industry, keep a secret and wow a crowd at a trade show. In a world where we know what next year’s iPhone is going to look like, component by component, Samsung not only managed to not only keep something from [...]

Let’s be honest, the US auto market is typically the bigger the better but every now and again there comes a compact car that at least makes us consider what it would be like trading a V6 to something a bit smaller. The recently announced Fiat 500 Turbo may very well be one of those [...]

It’s pretty widely known that the impact from the decision in last week’s Apple vs. Samsung ruling would create lots of uncertainty from current owners of Android devices. Now a report from MarketWatch has confirmed that current owners of Samsung smartphones are looking to leave the manufacturer and are putting up their devices for resale. [...]

Big news coming out of Seoul this morning; our friends over at Android Police have reported that Samsung has announced their new 5.8-inch Galaxy Player. It’s a behemoth of PMP that looks like Galaxy S III and seems to require cargo pants for storage. Not much is known about the Galaxy Player 5.8 (we really got to [...]

The social value of Instagram far exceeds it’s $1B asking price that they got from Facebook some months back. It managed to beat Flickr in the game it created – an easily shareable service for your images. Unlike Flickr however, there simply is no way to search, catalog, or easily license any of the estimated [...]

I’ve got mosquito bites all over and I’m not really enjoying it. Keep that in mind while I grump my way through the news.  After 25 years, Microsoft gets a new Logo. Sure, it’s not “Metro” but it looks like it. ಠ_ಠ 25 years after birth, Microsoft has decided that it needs a new logo. According [...]

I’ll start ya off with a cartoon that involves learning and math and stuff.  Unity will be supported – and support – Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. Yessir, the Unity game engine will work on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. This is awesome because WP8 has taken kernel cues from Windows 8 [...]

I enjoy doing helpdesk stuff most of the time. Not all of the time, though.  Amazon unveils Glacier, super cheap data archive service. This isn’t your average cloud service, but rather a service focused on rarely-accessed data. It comes as cheap as a penny per Gigabyte per month. The idea is to bundle your files [...]

Hey, it’s a roundup! Big deal, move along.  Samsung/Apple Jurors to fill out pre-made forms to clarify judgement. This is a novel idea, but still very strange. Samsung and Apple are supposed to agree on a single form (agree? Yeah, ok, that’s worked well so far) to give to jurors at the end of the [...]