When we stumbled across the Wikipedia page for Haptic Technology today we immediately spun off on a flurry of Google searches in a quest for more information. Result? The tentative and hopeful excitement of a child smart enough to know they only might be getting that Laser-Dragon they asked for from Santa this year.
Epic Games are soon to release their jaw-dropping entry to the iOS games market with Infinity Blade. The game is a third-person RPG (that's a Role-Playing Game for you non-gamers) powered by the Unreal 3 engine. Infinity Blade is a serious step up from more traditional phone games like Fruit Ninja or Angry Birds. It plays more like a console or computer game, but with the familiar multi-touch controls of iPhone handsets.
Selling something as an intangible as a data plan with a new mobile phone means that you've got to use the old advertising trick of reminding people of the problem (no connectivity, slow speed) and then selling the solution to that problem that your product addresses.
If you’ve been holidaying under a rock for the past couple of months you may have missed the incredibly hyped launch of Windows Phone 7. Yes, Microsoft has made a last ditch attempt at success in the smartphone market and by all reports they may very well succeed.
Whilst Australia rolls around in a semi-limbo with the National Broadband Network, University faculty members at Stanford University (near Silicon Valley) are soon to experience broadband provided by Google at 1 gigabit per second, the currently forecast speed for Australia's NBN.
Asher Moses has reviewed the Windows Phone 7 and he likes it. We'll be posting more on the Windows Phone 7 rollout, but for now you can enjoy his review. Text is incredibly sharp and crisp on Windows Phone 7 and I'm particularly impressed with how emails and documents are rendered on the platform. The menu layout is also pleasing to the eye with big bold headings that can be scrolled through by swiping horizontally.
Hundreds of cell phone plans unpacked. All the facts. No surprises.