Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 22 – Feb. 28: Oscar primer edition
March 7, 2010 – 7:54 pm | No Comment

[Image via The Stub ] If you’ve been avidly following the Hollywood scuttlebutt this past week, you’ve probably heard of an event which is unfolding at this very moment: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards. We know how badly you guys want to be able to talk about the Oscars whilst chatting over your place of business’ water cooler, coffee pot or rodeo clown make-up station, so we’re here to help you understand the Awards ceremony in terms you’ll find easily understandable: The Oscars are the Spike TV Video Game Awards, but for movies. The similarities between the two events really are pretty striking — the awkward presentation by the cast of the Jersey Shore and Mike Tyson will surely be paralleled by the Oscars’ pairing of Young Starlet A and Lecherous Old Comedian B. While the VGAs have scantily-clad, off-season Victoria’s Secret models hand out their awards, the Oscars assign that task to off-season actors , who spend a majority of their on-stage time wondering whether or not this will be the closest they’ll ever come to holding…

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Goodbye, CrunchGear.
March 12, 2010 – 3:13 pm | No Comment
Goodbye, CrunchGear. Hello John Biggs - I would like to be the CrunchGear intern. At 28 years of age I’d probably be the oldest, creepiest intern that CrunchGear has ever hired. That being said, I don’t look a day past 26. I should also tell you that I’m taller than most people so I would be good at seeing over smaller, scrawnier geeks at trade shows. Although since I’m so old, I’d probably get tired at around noon. Those words began the e-mail I sent on May 31st, 2007, ...
Milestone gets Android 2.1 in Bulgaria
March 12, 2010 – 3:13 pm | No Comment
Milestone gets Android 2.1 in Bulgaria There has been a lot of indicators that Motorola Milestone would be running Android 2.1, and we have learned that Bulgaria will be the first to get it. Bulgaria’s leading carrier, Vivacom, will be selling the Motorola Milestones with Android 2.1 on March 20th. Many have speculated that Bulgaria is only the beginning, and it will be only a matter of time before Android 2.1 gets a bigger European rollout. I suppose we shall see. Source Related Post...
iPad fever: What didja get?
March 12, 2010 – 11:33 am | No Comment
iPad fever: What didja get? With iPad preorders finally available, at least for USians, I was relieved to place my order for an 16 GB iPad, due to be delivered on or after April 3rd. Along with a bluetooth keyboard (which I've been meaning to pick up for some time now), a case, and taxes, the whole kit & kaboodle came to about $650 for me. I declined AppleCare for the moment, and am now feeling a little conflicted. At $99 ...
57% of workers use their smartphones in the bathroom. Also, 57% of workers are nasty.
March 11, 2010 – 11:13 pm | No Comment
57% of workers use their smartphones in the bathroom. Also, 57% of workers are nasty. Are you mysophobic? Oh, you don’t know what “mysophobic” is? It’s a fancy way of saying “germaphobe”, which, according to scientists or linguists or some other group of academics, isn’t actually a word. Go figure. Now, I ask again: Are you mysophobic? No? Well, you might be after reading this. Because it’s naaasty . CareerBuilders did a survey of 5,200 mobile workers (that is, people who primarily work on the road), and found that their cell phone habits are generally dangerous, a bit rude, and pretty friggin’ ...
Huawei SmaKit S7 Android tablet
March 11, 2010 – 2:20 pm | No Comment
Huawei SmaKit S7 Android tablet Huawei had a lot of new displays at Mobile Phone Congress a while ago, and this particular SmaKit S7 Android tablet was on display at CeBit. I heard that the S7 was on display non-functioning, but you can watch the video here and see it function in its glory here. it has a 7-inch screen with 800 x 400 pixel resolution, 720p playback, 3G connectivity, HDMI out, and two USB 2.0 ports. It will run Android 1.6, and will be available in the summer for an undisclosed price. ...
OpenGL 4.0 catches up with DirectX11
March 11, 2010 – 10:47 am | No Comment
OpenGL 4.0 catches up with DirectX11 With OpenGL 4.0, non-Windows platforms will finally have access to all the features of DirectX 11 (DX11) hardware. Tessellation is now available (it's the star feature of DX11) for game programmers, but there's also an integration of general purpose computing that is better than in DirectX 11. General purpose computing lets developer use the massive computing capabilities of GPUs for tasks that are not graphic (physics is a good example). DX11 has Direct Compute, ...
Casio’s ultra-tough G’zOne Brigade going on sale tomorrow?
March 10, 2010 – 1:13 pm | No Comment
Casio’s ultra-tough G’zOne Brigade going on sale tomorrow? WAAAAY back in November, Casio and Verizon showed off the G’zOne Brigade, an ultra-durable clamshell phone with a surprise QWERTY keyboard packed inside. “Push to talk!” they said. “It’s weatherproof!” they said. And then the radio went silent; nearly four months later, not so much as a release date had been mentioned. Well, it looks like the release might sneak up on us, with a shelf date as early as tomorrow. We just got a flurry of tips indicating as much, all of which came in within ...
Bravo to Epic Games for porting Unreal Engine 3 to the iPhone
March 10, 2010 – 1:13 pm | No Comment
Bravo to Epic Games for porting Unreal Engine 3 to the iPhone Don’t get mad at me— I wanted to go to GDC, but The Man said no. So now we’re relying on CNET to bring us word of Epic Games’ efforts to bring the Unreal Engine to the iPhone . You may not have even played Unreal for several years, but plenty of big games are based on the engine. Mass Effect and BioShock are based on versions of the engine, as is EA’s upcoming Medal of Honor . Just think: playing Unreal on your iPhone. It’s almost… ...
Netsee UNC-890 netbook
March 10, 2010 – 4:55 am | No Comment
Netsee UNC-890 netbook The South Korean market is going to have a slim netbook known as the Netsee UNC-890. The UNC-890 has an 8.9 inch widescreen LCD display with 1,024 x 600 resolution, 1GB of RAM, a 3-megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi connectivity, Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, and a 32GB SSD. It ways in at 920 grams, under an inch thin, and is available in white or red colors. We don’t have a price just yet, and, as I mentioned earlier, it will be ...
GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate Pro was built
March 9, 2010 – 3:23 pm | No Comment
GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate Pro was built The 2010 Game Developers Conference kicks off today in San Francisco, and TUAW is in attendance to check out the latest and greatest in iPhone game development. The conference boasts a whole track dedicated to iPhone gaming this year, and all week long, we'll be bringing you panels, news, and interviews straight from the conference floor. This morning, panel number one was from Stephen Detwiler and James Marr, two engineers at Ngmoco, to talk to developers about how ...