Over the last few years, many device makers have been flirting with the idea of rolling out flexible displays on its handheld devices, but no other company has been most outspoken about it than Samsung. At the Consumer Electronic Show, the company showed off its new generation of bendable displays, which have a huge potential for changing the traditional form factor of smartphones.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II may have been the biggest selling title since, well, Modern Warfare III, but Activision hasn't gotten to the top of the gaming tree by resting on its laurels. As such, the publisher will be releasing a DLC pack at the end of this month for those rocking Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, and as you can probably gather, it features numerous new maps, modes and weapons in order to maintain the seemingly infallible captivation gamers have with the rampant CoD series.
For the last few months, gamers and tech enthusiasts alike have been eagerly expecting announcements from both Microsoft and Sony regarding their next-generation consoles. Following months of speculation and some hints at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, an analyst is predicting the price and hardware specifications of both the next-generation Xbox and the PlayStation 4.
There used to be a time when people considered a 20GB hard drive to be more than what they’d ever be able to fill up. Nowadays, depending on the type of usage that you have, a 250GB ones seems so little and insufficient. Then, the storage media in themselves have evolved a lot, both in terms of technology and form factor. Pen drives with up to 250 gigs of storage are not uncommon, high-capacity SD cards are mainstream, and lately, even SSD drives have come down to a level where almost everyone can afford them in their machines, taking advantage of the much-faster read/write speeds to the fullest.
The standalone Facebook Messenger app has proved to be an extremely worthwhile addition to the company's ever growing range of mobile apps. Although it has already achieved enviable success through download and user adoption rates, it seems that Facebook is intending to build on the Messenger platform by announcing a native iPad version of the app, a first official glimpse of which could potentially be seen during their planned event tomorrow.
The Galaxy S III handset may be the current darling of the Android world, with more than 190,000 units a day flying off the shelves. But it seems that the South Korean company's current flagship device is just one part of a range of devices that have proved to be extremely successful for the company in the last 30 months. The company has announced that the accumulative sales of their Galaxy S range of devices has now surpassed 100 million units sold.
There are certain changes in Windows 8 that are far better than any other previous Windows version. With any operating system, or any other device that stores your personal data, the most important thing that users are concerned about is data security. You need to protect data from malware, external attacks, hard drive crashes, corruption and what not. While there are a lot of tools out there that help you achieve all that, nothing beats the usefulness and importance of taking backups of all the important files that you have.
Remember that persistent rumor regarding the potential existence of a Facebook phone that just won't go away but doesn't actually seem to have any merit? Well it would seem that the speculation has risen once again around a Facebook smart devices of sorts thanks to an event being held by the company and the overheard murmurings of words like "mobile" and "this is going to be a big deal". In the past all we have heard are rumors without much substance behind them, but it seems that a number of different sources are expecting Facebook to show off a mobile device this coming Tuesday, in one form or another.
A few months back, Microsoft announced the Surface, an ultra-mobile laptop/tablet hybrid running Windows, taking advantage of Windows 8 and Windows RT’s new touch-screen user-interface. Since then, many have been hoping for a Surface smartphone: while no announcements have been made, several artists have created concepts depicting what they expect a Surface Phone to look like.
The App Store is home to tons of apps in the Photo & Video category that allow us to take simple pictures or videos and edit them into something that is way beyond our own skill set. FrameBlast takes a step back from the traditional editing type apps to allow users to tell a story using their own home-made videos directly from the palm of their hand on the iPhone or iPod touch. The idea of the app is novel, quite unique but actually very, very simple - think, shoot, create and then share the wonderful outcome with the world.
