Archive for January, 2010
Toshiba TG02 lives, drops by the FCC
Before the Nexus One and the HD2, there was the Toshiba TG01, sprinting along with a 1GHz Snapdragon in its belly and a 4.1-inch front end
HEI$T gets away from Codemasters’ lineup
Remember HEI$T? No? It was a bank robbery game set in 1969, being developed for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 by Codemasters. Remember it now? Okay, now forget about it.
“After a much extended development period,” a Codemasters rep told CVG,
Green Man Gaming exec explains how digital trade-ins work
Ever since Green Man Gaming announced its plans for digital trade-ins last week, we’ve been scratching our heads and spinning the ol’ think meat trying to understand how it’s gonna work.
LGJ: Wait, it’s not a derivative?
I noticed an interesting point brought up in the comments to the last LGJ: that the new NBA Jam was certainly a derivative work, so even if the trademark issue weren’t a problem, the holder of the copyright to the original game could certainly bring suit for copyright infringement. Given that no one seems to […]
Michael Dell pulls Mini 5 Android tablet from his parka, offers to put one in yours in ‘a couple of months’ (video)
Hot on the heels of us thinking maybe the Dell Streak / Mini 5 was possibly due for a name change to the “M01M,” a roving heckler from TechCrunch managed to catch the man himself, Michael Dell, on the street and get a quick demonstration of the thing — which he with no uncertain terms […]
AMD and Intel’s six-core CPU plans revealed by mobo makers
 You have to love DigiTimes and those loquacious sources it seems to keep finding. The latest word from the Taiwanese grapevine suggests that both Intel and AMD will be bringing out six-core CPUs to the consumer market by the middle of this year. We’re using the term “consumer” rather loosely here as Intel’s first Gulftown […]
Giroux Daguerreotype is world’s first mass-produced camera, about to become the most expensive one too
If you thought that shooters like Olympus’ E-P1 or Leica’s M8 had old school aesthetics, think again.
Ford earned $2.7B profit in 2009, predicts repeat in 2010
Ford Motor Company has reported a fourth quarter profit for 2009 that helped the Dearborn, MI-based automaker end the last fiscal year in the black, its first yearly profit in about four years. While Ford’s 2009 Q4 income was $868 million versus a loss of $5.9 billion the year prior, the effect on the year […]
iPad won’t handle GSM voice calls — or will it?
Like the camera references, this could just be another case of vestigial SDK weirdness — but for whatever reason, devs have noticed (and we’ve been able to reproduce) a “Touch to return to call” bar in the iPad emulator just like you’d expect to find on an iPhone during a traditional GSM call.
Report: 2011 BMW X6 getting single turbo N55, eight-speed automatic
2009 BMW X6 – Click above for high-res image gallery
BMW has officially announced changes for its 2011 BMW X6, and the big news is that the German automaker will swap out its twin-turbo N54 inline-six in this sport utility for the new twin-scroll single turbo N55 mill,
