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Ubisoft Xbox One Launch Titles Announced

Yesterday Ubisoft UK (@ubisoftuk) took to twitter to announce it’s launch titles for the XboxOne. The tweet was simple, it read… We are please to let you know our #XboxOne launch titles are: Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Watch Dogs, Just Dance 2014 and Fighter Within. — Ubisoft UK (@UbisoftUK) September 4, 2013 After seeing this…

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Where’s All My Chromecast Apps?

There was a lot of buzz surrounding the release of Google’s $35 streaming stick the Chromecast.  At launch it worked with apps like YouTube, Netflix, and Google music (on Android).  The user experience with this apps was generally pretty good and received positive reviews.  Personally, I can attest to the fact that the YouTube integration…

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Canadian Family lives like it’s 1986…

This week I read about a family from Guelph, Ontario who have abandoned all technology and turned the clock back to 1986… at least in their house. Blair McMillan and his girlfriend Morgan Patey decided they’d strip their family of everything post 1986 – except for in their day jobs of course. Blair said that…

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Introducing Android 4.4 Kit Kat

Google has announced that the newest version of Android is not in fact named Key Lime Pie, but instead has been named Kit Kat.  Google has long named their Android builds after sweets and candies, but this it the first time an Android build has been named after a name brand candy. At first, I…

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Nintendo announces Nintendo 2DS & Wii U Price Cut

With Nintendo struggling to find a solid market for the Wii U but also finding their hand-held device (Nintendo 3DS) a hit, it’s no wonder why the company announced some changes together. Yesterday Nintendo officially announced that effective September 20th the Wii U deluxe set will be reduced from $349.99 to $299.99 – they’ll also…

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Rent Your Favorite Arcade Game

This has to fall in one of the categories of something I would love to try one day.  If you’re out in California there is a new delivery service called All You Can Arcade that will deliver a new arcade game to your house once a month for $75.  Subscribers to the service can keep…

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Skype will come installed with Windows 8.1

In 2011 Skype made headlines by announcing that its popular service had been purched by Microsoft and ever since the company has been increasing it’s drive to get it on Windows machines everywhere. Although offering a level of confusion to some users, Microsoft even created a totally seperate Windows 8 Skype app, even though the desktop edition…

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Firefox continues to play catch-up with Firefox 23

There was a time when techies everywhere laughed if someone said they weren’t using Firefox – that time is long gone. For years Google Chrome has continued to grow and receive the praise Mozilla once had. Chrome has made security a priority even incorporating a pretty much seamless, automatic update system to ensure that the…

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So it’s not Android that’s the problem, it’s my keyboard…

While overall I have enjoyed my Nexus 7 tablet I will admit that I often find myself cursing at the terrible auto correct that comes with the device. It seems as if typical “fat finger errors” often aren’t corrected forcing myself to slow down when inputing text. I finally reached the end of my rope…

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Next version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note to debut September 4

Samsung has sent invitation to the press for an announcement on September 4, 2013. The subject? “Note the date”. That seems to obviously imply that the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will likely be announced. If the speculation is true, this will be 3/3 Notes announced at the annual IFA trade show in Berlin. For those…

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