Mobile gaming has taken off in recent years, getting more and more sophisticated. Games that used to be the exclusive domain of the console and desktop platforms have made their way onto mobiles, and the graphics get richer and more beautiful every year. For the adventure and role-playing gaming crowd, sometimes they ask for something [...]
Now that “cloud” computing is here, everybody is heaving a sigh of relief that they don’t have to buy, download, or install as much software. We’ll always need some, but isn’t it becoming a nice bonus that you can offload a lot of tasks to the platform of the Internet itself, and use them just [...]
“The web as a platform”. That’s the mantra you’ve been hearing a lot about, applied to cloud computing. The idea behind cloud computing is basically to take all the computer that you have in front of you and condense it down to an operating system running a web browser, with everything else coming through the [...]
For our American friends across the ditch, as well as various other parts of the world, Halloween is coming up. So what better time to examine the spooky remains of former technology greats, whose limbs are still twitching when we thought we’d shotgunned them to the ground? Here’s a list of technologies that we could [...]
The progress of technology development has taught us one thing: evolution is ruthless. Thousands of devices, software systems, consoles, and gadgets have come and gone, only a few of them see any kind of mass adoption. And sometimes when they see mass adoption, they go extinct anyway. Not necessarily because they went out of style, [...]
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A fun, satirical practice you’ve probably heard of is the Darwin Awards. These are handed out every year to individuals who have picked a spectacularly dumb way to eliminate themselves from the gene pool. In other words, people who did themselves in through their own lack of brainpower. But we’ve noticed that you could [...]
Samsung has defined the market for ultra-mobile PCs, with it’s kinship with Microsoft’s Origami project, which is not at all to be confused with the art of paper-folding. Other mobile computer makers might make them smaller or shinier, but Samsung was first to market and shows the most innovation. And this case is one of [...]
Hi, my name is Nicholas Rayner and the guys at Gadget Access have given me a chance to guest blog about my experiences with the HP 2730p Elitebook Tablet PC. I’ve now had the HP 2730p for nearly 2 months now and have had a good chance to experiment with it by upgrading the hardware, [...]
The big buzz in mobile phones this year can be summed up in two words: “iPhone killer”. Who’s going to come up with one? Well, if HTC didn’t just fulfill the prophecy, it won’t be for lack of trying. Here’s one area where they’re ahead already: video calling. That’s right, a video camera phone, albeit [...]
