Archive for: October, 2015

Tribes Series Free to Download to Celebrate 21-Year Anniversary

If you had any plans for the weekend, you might want to put them on hold. Hi-Rez Studios, the development team behind the free-to-play game Tribes Ascend is celebrating 21 years of the Tribes series by offering the entire lineup for free. All in all, that’s a total of eight games spanning over two decades. […]

Apple Releases Its Second Android App for Beats Speaker

Apple has made available a new Android app called Beats Pill+. The app has the distinction of being Apple’s second-ever for the Android platform, following the Move to iOS app released earlier this year. Beats Pill+ is a companion app for the Beats Pill+ Bluetooth speaker. It lets Pill+ owners manage the speaker’s battery, control […]

Hulu Sets Premiere Date for Stephen King’s 11.22.63

Hulu will debut “11.22.63,” based on the time-travel novel by Stephen King about the JFK assassination, on Presidents Day, Feb. 15, 2016. J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Bridget Carpenter and Bryan Burk serve as executive producers for “11.22.63.” The nine-hour limited event series stars James Franco as a high-school history teacher who travels back in time […]

Scratch Wireless to Start Charging for Cell Calls, Texts

Scratch Wireless, a Sprint MVNO, said it can no longer afford to give services away for free and will begin charging for some features. Scratch Wireless has historically offered free WiFi calling and free messaging via cellular and WiFi. Scratch sold unlimited voice minutes on Sprint’s network for $15 per month. Moving forward, Scratch will […]

Snapseed Gains RAW Picture Editing

Google today updated its Snapseed photo editing application and gave it the ability to edit RAW images. RAW editing enables new controls for correcting exposure, color, and tone after images have been taken. For example, RAW editing includes the ability to boost shadows and recover highlights to balance out exposures. Other improvements include a tap-to-hide […]

Seagate Announces 8 TB Surveillance HDD to Meet Growing Video Surveillance Capacity Needs

Seagate unveiled its latest Surveillance HDD at the China Public Security Expo. Seagate’s new surveillance drive brings 8 TB of capacity to bear, which can store up to 800 hours of HD content captured by up to 64 different cameras simultaneously. The surveillance HDD market emerged as the HDD vendors expanded into providing specific solutions […]

Verizon to Close Some Offices, Eliminate Jobs

Verizon has informed employees that it plans to reduce the number of regional offices around the country and correspondingly reduce headcount. The company has 20 regional locations, which it plans to pare down to just six. Verizon did not say which facilities will be closed nor how many jobs will be eliminated, but it indicated […]

Latest Windows 10 Preview from Microsoft Fixes Bugs

Microsoft has released another technical preview of Windows 10 Mobile. Rather than stuff the release with new features, Microsoft said it focused on cleaning up bugs and improving performance. Chiefly, build 10581 will allow people to upgrade from earlier preview builds without first reverting to Windows Phone 8.1; testers can go straight from 10549 or […]

The Walking Dead With Have a Seventh Season on AMC

Days after airing its most talked-about episode of the current season, AMC announced it has given a seventh season to its hit zombie apocalypse series “The Walking Dead” and a sixth season to postmortem chat series “Talking Dead.” “The Walking Dead,” which is based on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics series and is showrun by Scott […]

Google May Combine Android and Chrome By 2017

Google plans to merge its Chrome operating system with Android as soon as 2017, reports the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with Google’s plans. Google has already been working to bridge the Chrome-Android gap for two years and has recently made progress. Google may show off an early build of the merged operating system […]

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