A little over a week after their big presentation at E3, Microsoft is already getting rid of it's policies on used games and constant internet connectivity. If you remember they were initially requiring that the Xbox connect back to the Xbox servers at least once every 24 hours or the gaming functionality would be disabled. They were also not allowing the playing of used/rented games, so no more sharing games with family.
So I am sure that you have heard about the ressurection of MySpace, courtesy of Justin Timberlake. It has some of the old features of MySpace but some new ones as well. I logged in to poke around....
It's here, it's here!! The official trailer for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. Although the movie isn't due out to December, this should apease the masses or it will make the anticipation worst lol. Enjoy!
Not only is E3 this week, but Apple's WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) was this week and it looks like they focused on software this go round, well there is some hardware stuff but let's dive in!
E3 is this week and with it two thirds of the gaming trifecta have showed their hands. We got a look at Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's Playstation 4. Now of course each console has some pretty cool features not to mention it's own loyal base of gamers, but let's take a look at how these two gaming titans stack up against one another.
Have you ever looked up and all of your pictures were gone from Facebook, or your account is suspended on a social media site? In this day and age of what can seem like social media overload, there is now a service that caters to that "what if'".
I pretty sure we are all familiar with the red kiosks outside of grocery stores, 7-Elevens, and various other stores. You can rent movies for $1.27/day and that's not a bad deal, it's cheaper than ordering itfrom your cable provider. Redbox has teamed up with Verizon to offer their own instant streaming service, Redbox Instant.
Microsoft is finally making Outlook apart of the Windows RT (which is the Windows 8 OS that runs on the tablets). This will be bundled with the new tablets, but will be pushed to those already purchased via the Windows 8.1 update. Now this isn't the same as Outlook 2013 which is for desktops, it is designed for touch interfaces and does have reduced funtionality, but it fills that request that many Windows RT consumers have been asking for.
Is it just me or does Microsoft have a knack for leaving out the obvious things sometimes? Nevertheless it is a good improvement, no exact date has been released for when this will occur but it is expected later this year.
So this week it was discovered by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology that they have developed a charger that can hack an iPhone in less that a minute! I am an iOS device user so that's alarming thought, but I am also not a user that believes that anything is completely impenetrable to hacking, if someone developed the software, then there is another individual that can hack it, just that simple. The device was running the lastest version of iOS
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