June 21, 2012
Limbo is a side-scrolling platformer that's a distant cousin to the Mario Brother titles where your controls are merely "go left", "go right", "jump" and occasionally "pull or push something". Beyond that, there are few comparisons to be made to the arcade-style Mario series. Where Nintendo brings you a ... more
June 11, 2012
It may not be as exciting as brand new portables or a fresh operating system, but the stalwart Mac Pro got a little attention today in the form of a little speed bump. Those who were hoping for a revolutionary, supercharged Mac Pro update are out of luck; however, ... more
If anyone's been trying to tell you that the iPad's tenure at the top of the tablet charts is coming to an end, you may want to clear your throat and politely ask them to do better research: According to eMarketer, the United States of America is going to ... more
June 8, 2012
It seems like a no-brainer to hackers, modders and tweakers that the "open" mobile system, Android, would be the best choice with which to create their frankenstein, but, surprisingly, the iPhone is a whole lot friendlier to off-label twiddling. This might come as a surprise (even to iPhone fans), ... more
Prepaid iPhones are popping up all over. You'd think it'd be simple.
We've already mentioned how Cricket is starting the ball rolling with prepaid iPhones that could end up saving a lot of money in the long run for customers, and now Virgin is jumping in as well: On ... more
June 7, 2012
Last week we brought you a story about the Electronic Foundations Frontier (EFF) and how they've declared iOS to be a "Crystal Prison": Beautiful, but restrictive. They went on to declare that they want a mobile computer user's "Bill of Rights". Overall, we made counterpoints about where they went ... more
You may have wondered once or twice in your life how far back Steve Jobs and Apple started putting the pieces together for the iPhone and the iOS file system, and the answer is: At least seven years, if not more. It probably doesn't strike anyone as out of ... more
If you thought Apple was going to just sit back and let Samsung have a good old time with the new Galaxy S3 phone release, you may want to think again: The little fruit company from Cupertino is trying to stop the new Android phone from coming into the ... more
June 6, 2012
With the proliferation of mobile devices that can connect us to any Internet or cellular resource in the world, we may be seeing a degeneration of our ability to manage real, actual relationships. Like, with people and stuff.
Sherry Turkle, a teacher at MIT who has studied human-computer relationships for ... more
Google and Oracle have been fighting over certain patent disputes for a while, and when Oracle came out the loser, Google lawyer Kent Walker cynically — but perhaps not incorrectly — told Ars Technica, "People are treating patents like lottery tickets."
In a six-week trial, Oracle went after Google for some ... more
Ice Cream Sandwich, Android's newest and most acclaimed operating system, has a surprisingly low level of adoption among users: Over seven months, a mere 7.1 percent of Android phones actually run it. It's still something of a leap, however, considering that on April 1 it lived on a scant ... more
June 5, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy S3 is here in a few days and, boy oh boy, does it ever want to eat the iPhone's lunch. Perhaps one of the least touted yet most interesting and effective methods it will employ to do this is one of Apple's standard tricks: Unify the ... more
