10 March 2010, 5:16 pm by: Christian Zibreg
Hold on that credit card, Apple’s Mac Pro desktop might receive a major brain transplant as early as this coming Tuesday. According to ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, an unnamed tipster alleged that Apple’s pro desktop is up for a big hardw...
10 March 2010, 2:54 pm by: Brian Osborne
Are you an avid biker? Well, more than likely you’ve been one of the folks clamoring for the ability to use Google Maps to create a route for a recreational ride or even your daily commute. Google Maps currently provides a driving, walking or p...
10 March 2010, 2:36 pm by: Brian Osborne
Verizon Wireless has announced that it has secured a new four-year agreement to become the official wireless service sponsor of the NFL. The title was previously held by competitor Sprint Nextel. The deal, which begins next month, includes NFL Mobile...
10 March 2010, 2:11 pm by: Brian Osborne
Sorry Google Buzz and Facebook. It seems the idea for mobile social-networking was already patented by another company. In fact, it was Wireless Ink Corp. who was issued the patent in October of last year.
Wireless Ink operates a service called Winks...
10 March 2010, 2:08 pm by: Meghan Watt
Rock Band 3 will be crashing a stage near you this holiday season, Viacom CEO and President Philippe Dauman announced Wednesday during the Credit Suisse 2010 Global Media and Communications Convergence Conference.
10 March 2010, 1:53 pm by: Meghan Watt
Final Fantasy XIII has shipped 5 million copies worldwide, Square Enix announced in a press release Wednesday. Of those 5 million, 3 million units were shipped outside of Japan. Keep in mind, however, that this staggering number does not reflect th...
10 March 2010, 1:41 pm by: Brian Osborne
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook may soon be reaching a partnership which would allow Facebook users to sell tickets to events they create through the social network. The company which would provide this service would be Eventbrite which offers...
10 March 2010, 1:20 pm by: Christian Zibreg
9to5Mac’s editor and a Computerworld blogger Seth Weintraub reported Wednesday that the fourth beta of the iPhone 3.2 software development kit (SDK) could support a pair of brand new multitouch gestures that might be enabled on mobile devices power...
10 March 2010, 1:05 pm by: Sal Cangeloso
As posted about yesterday, the DiskStation Manager 2.3 firmware is now available for Synology devices. This photo gallery runs through the backend interface, focusing on what’s new and improved for version 2.3. It will also give users a look at...
10 March 2010, 12:27 pm by: Christian Zibreg
An ad war between HP and Apple is looming on the horizon, just in time for the iPad’s April 3 US debut. Forget about Verizon’s nasty ad attacks on Apple and AT&T, the computer giant Hewlett-Packard has taken aim at Apple and its iPad. HP’s...
10 March 2010, 12:14 pm by: Meghan Watt
Already getting tired of Final Fantasy XIII? Didn't think so. Still, you may be interested to see some juicy tidbits about the upcoming online role-playing Final Fantasy XIV.
10 March 2010, 11:56 am by: Christian Zibreg
Shopping for fresh food and branded groceries needn’t be such a hassle. If you own the iPhone and live in the New York City area, the free FreshDirect app will have you covered.
This nifty little program lets you order over 20,000 food items direct...
10 March 2010, 11:29 am by: John Brownlee
TiVo might have posted a ten million dollar loss last quarter as their customers fled to other (better, less expensive) services, but that’s not to say that TiVo’s dead.
Not at all: in fact, HP just announced a new product for their Medi...
10 March 2010, 11:18 am by: Matthew Humphries
Linux.com is now a destination for Linux fans wanting to buy t-shirts, mugs, hats, or stickers, to help support their favorite operating system. The new merchandise store has been launched by The Linux Foundation, with profits being fed back into the...
10 March 2010, 11:02 am by: John Brownlee
Pentax’s latest medium-format DSLR is an absolute monster. Called the 645D, it packs 40 Megapixel onto its thirty three millimeter by forty four millimeter sensor.
Got that? Forty megapixels. That’s completely ridiculous, even for a DSLR...
10 March 2010, 10:37 am by: Brian Osborne
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that Google is not happy to just provide search on your computer or mobile phone. Now it seems to be dipping its toes in the water when it comes to providing search for your television. According to the WSJ artic...
10 March 2010, 10:32 am by: John Brownlee
Here at Geek, we often look at the wires snaking out of our gadgets and umbilically stretching between ports and sockets with sad incredulity. What the heck are we still doing bothering with wires? Sure, wireless electricity technology isn’t re...
10 March 2010, 10:29 am by: John Brownlee
WiFi is pretty neat, but it can’t cover every square inch of your house. My Berlin apartment, for example, apparently has lead lined walls or something because whatever is going on, my Time Capsule might as well be a thousand miles away as far...
10 March 2010, 10:25 am by: Christian Zibreg
This last minute addition has increased the combined value of the $20 MacHeist nanoBundle 2 to nearly $350. If you’ll be taking action, know that the offer expires in a few hours.
As Geek reported, those wonderful folks behind the annual MacHei...
10 March 2010, 10:12 am by: Christian Zibreg
Conventional wisdom has taught us that affordable 2.5-inch portable drives usually fall short in terms of capacity but OWC’s new 1TB model changes this notion.
Mac and PC tech company Other World Computing has announced the OWC Mercury Elite-AL...