Archive for July, 2009

Spy Shots: Chinese-market Buick GL8 successor spotted testing

2011 Buick GL8 - Click above for gallery of spy shots

General Motors is apparently well into the development of the next-gen Buick GL8 MPV for the Chinese market, as this series of spy photos clearly shows.


China Mobile’s 7-inch Android slate gets rendered

We’ve nothing much to go on outside of a few good renders and a smattering of machine translated paragraphs,


Acer’s Aspire Predator gaming rig gets even faster, stays just as orange

Just a few weeks too late for a Transformers 2 tie-in, Acer has announced a new revision of its Aspire G desktop, a.k.a. Predator.


AAXA ups the ante with SVGA P2 pico projector

While it’s probably safe to say that the rush of pico projectors has slowed to a trickle, that’s not stopping a few of the early entrants from dishing out new and improved models as the second wave builds.


Frankfurt Preview: Audi to show electric concept, possibly battery-powered R8?

With less than two months to go before the start of the Frankfurt Motor Show, the rumor mill is heating up fast. As with other recent shows, electric and alternative drive vehicles are expected to play a big part in Germany. Audi is just one of the automakers that may show off at least a […]


REPORT: Penske to complete Saturn deal by September

Penske Automotive Group may have reached a tentative deal go acquire the Saturn brand from General Motors back in June,


Kitchen Sink Collection offers 1.2 gigabytes of portable Windows apps

 

Portable application suites are extremely popular downloads. The granddaddy of them all - John T. Haller’s Portable Apps - just cleaned up at OSCON and passed the 100 million download mark. It’s not the only suite around, though. I covered it and three others in a previous post, but hadn’t yet heard of Kitchen Sink […]


Senior staff leave ‘The Agency’ to start new studio; SOE claims game unaffected

The Agency has lost some top agents as several members of Sony Online Entertainment’s Seattle studio have left to form Detonator Games. The losses include art director Corey Dangel, studio director Matt Wilson and producer John Smith — the latter two were founding members of the development house.


Yakuza 3 localization looking unlikely

Try not to think too much about the Yakuza 4 that was just announced to an eager Japanese audience. It doesn’t look like Yakuza 3 is going to make it outside of Japan, and that doesn’t bode well for its sequel, either.


Cowon teases keychain-esque iAudio E2 DAP

Typically, it’s iriver who does the teasing, but you won’t catch us griping about Cowon pulling a similar trick with its elusive new iAudio E2.