15 New Xbox Live Titles and Other Game Improvements Coming To Windows Phones

Microsoft has made 15 new title official for Xbox live on Windows Phones including Splinter Cell: Conviction, Kinectimals, Mush and Chickens Can’t Fly. On top of that they’ve unveiled the following new features: Avatar Awardables: Like achievements—but wearable. Once unlocked, these items will automatically appear in your avatar closet and can be worn on your … Read more

Kinect Voice Integration Demoed And How It Helps Windows Phones

If you have an Xbox 360 with Kinect then you’re probably loving the voice commands that are built into it (like navigating Netflix with your voice) but know there’s plenty of room to make the experience deeper. Currently there’s an Xbox dashboard and then you convert to a Kinect dashboard and need to navigate through … Read more

Happy Birthday Android Malware – A Look At What You’ve Done In A Year

My apologies – I mean happy belated birthday. It was August 9, 2010 that Kaspersky detected Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer. “The new malicious program penetrates smartphones running Android in the guise of a harmless media player application. Users are prompted to install a file of just over 13 KB with the standard Android extension .APK. Once installed on … Read more

Next Week’s Windows Phone Xbox Live Title: IonBall EX

As you know this week’s Windows Phone Xbox Live titles are Minesweeper and Sudoku, which are free and pretty vanilla actually. Not a cool version of either game but they are free and you get achievements. Also, the deal of the week is Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 for 2011. And next week? “Watch for “IonBallEX” … Read more

HTC Investing $300m in Beats – Say Wha?

News broke earlier today that HTC was making a major announcement tomorrow and AllThingsD has revealed that HTC is announcing an alliance with Beats Electronics. Those are the “Beats by Dre’ people that make some kick-ass headsets. Look, I get that HTC still needs to make a larger name for themselves as they’re still not … Read more

Facebook will cut Google+’s Legs off

While it’s definitely true that Google+ is gaining momentum it still isn’t established and Facebook has a real simple solution to end the competition. See this is a market where there is a single dominant player. There wasn’t room for MySpace and Friendster and Facebook so two were killed off. It’s just reality – we … Read more

Mango: Share Twitter Pics and Lose Anonymity; Share Videos Not So Much

While some of the features in mango are simply amazing there are still some things that need a bit of ironing. I was super excited that they worked out the photo and video sharing features in Mango but they’re not perfect yet. First off, if you share a picture in Mango to Twitter what it … Read more