April 2009

Non-AT&T iPhone not likely until a 4G roll-out.

April 27, 2009

A lot of people dislike AT&T. Granted, that number pales in comparison to the number of people who like AT&T, even if that relationship is entirely due to the iPhone’s embrace. It’s not as though most iPhone users love AT&T’s network, though, as AT&T has oft-been criticized for poor coverage areas and higher prices than [...]

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Casual vs. hardcore defined by convenience of play?

April 17, 2009

Casual versus hardcore gaming is a relatively new discussion among gamers, ousting such classic favorites as “Which platform is better?” That’s because as games grow in complexity, and as game libraries continue to expand, the options available to gamers climb accordingly. As humans, we’re inextricably drawn to differentiating ourselves from one another, and what better [...]

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Dispute the value, not the price.

April 16, 2009

A recent Gizmodo post caught our eye, in which Adam Frucci attempts to draw comparisons between the current generation consoles by price. Asserts Frucci, “the prices of all three consoles are incredibly close, and you can obviously fiddle with these configurations to change them.” And fiddle with Fucci’s ridiculous numbers we can, and should, because [...]

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Open wi-fi: an ethical and legal quandary.

April 15, 2009

When questioning the legal implications of open wi-fi network usage, Computer Technology Review (CTR) posted a fair summary of the issue last month. CTR noted that relevant laws in this area aren’t really that relevant at all, since they predate wi-fi usage and were established instead to combat blackhats from gaining unauthorized access to computer [...]

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Comment moderation is a sin.

April 14, 2009

For most web-surfers, one’s inbox is the focal point for spam, but let’s be honest: the internet itself is one giant hodge-podge of spam. The very ease of setting up accounts at most every portal and site out there makes for both convenience and interconnectivity, though it just as easily creates a spawning pool for [...]

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The case against OnLive.

April 8, 2009

It’s foolish to deny that the cloud will dominate PC use in the future; dumb terminals made sense when raw computing power was unnecessary, and we’ll come full-circle as soon as broadband is ubiquitous. For nearly all applications, all an end-user needs is a browser with an internet connection; there’s an easy case to be [...]

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