Archive for the 'General Gaming' Category

Cops adopt SMS tip lines to help fight crime, find out where the party is

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones

Apparently, law enforcement is seriously stepping into the 21st century. According to a report, police dep artments in Boston, Cincinnati and over 100 other communities have begun using a text message tip-line in the hopes that cellphone-savvy youngsters will alert them if they see a crime being committed, […]

Voice search comes to Google Maps for BlackBerry devices

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones

If you were concerned that you didn’t look crazy enough screaming into your phone at business associates, family members, and the guy who does your landscaping, Google has added a feature to Maps for RIM devices which should confirm that yes: you’re a total maniac. Available right now for a handful of BlackBerry […]

MSI Titan 700 mini-PC gets reviewed

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops

We weren’t exactly hot on MSI’s Titan 700 mini-PC when it first hit back in May, and now that TrustedReviews has had a chance to look one over, it looks like our initial impression wasn’t that far off the mark. Although the diminutive case was stylish in an industrial way, the fit and […]

Ovei home theater pod: not for claustrophobic, poor people

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

As with quite a few things unveiled at CEDIA Expos, the Ovei is also aimed squarely at folks with wallets so fat they can hardly contain themselves. This home cinema pod made its most recent debut at the CEDIA UK show, where the creators explained that users could slip into the air-conditioned […]

AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 images leaked, rumored for August release

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming

Is this the Radeon card destined to leapfrog NVIDIA’s performance leading GTX 200 series? We’ll know in August (or soon thereafter), that’s the rumored release date for AMD’s Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics card. As the X2 name implies, the card packs a pair of RV770-based GPUs and should be ready to sample […]