Yahoo Shuts Down More Services
Yahoo is getting back into the status of an industry leader and in one area they already have a market cornered: shutting down services. When Marissa Mayer came on board, she promised to streamline the operation and she certainly has made good on her promise. Five more products and services will get the axe on April 30th. As of June 3rd, all old versions of Yahoo Mail will no longer be available, so prepare to make the switch to the new Yahoo Mail.
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Bethesda Announces The Evil Within
Bethesda announced that Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has created a new survivor-horror game for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and the new next-gen consoles. The Evil Within is set to be released sometime in 2014. Bethesda has a trailer out to pique your interest for some good old fashioned blood and gore. Check it out.
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Apple Hangs Onto Your Siri Data for Two Years
You've been telling SIRI all of your darkest secrets for a while now, but where does all that data go and how long do they keep it? Well Apple has finally spilled the beans on how long your commands and chats are held and what becomes of them.
Transcripts "of what you say to Siri could reveal sensitive things about you, your family, or business," she told Wired. "Siri works for Apple, so make a note to yourself to really think before you speak."
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Microsoft Offering Free Xbox Live Gold This Weekend
It's been a while since Microsoft has made the Xbox Live Gold available to non-Gold Membership gamers, but this weekend you can take advantage of the perks free. Play all weekend and into Monday afternoon.
Only Xbox Live users in the US, Latin America, Japan, and Canada, so it seems those located in Europe and the UK are out of luck this time around.
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Amazon Shows Off Its First 'TV' Shows
Amazon produced 14 pilot episodes and wants your opinion on them to decide the fate of each. The pilots are all free, so amble on over to Amazon's video section and give them a watch while they are still available before going behind the Prime subscription service wall.
The shows will eventually be available only for Amazon Prime members, just like other videos in its on-demand subscription service. But anyone can watch the pilots, and anyone can vote.
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Xbox 360 Remains the Undisputed Console Champ
For about the millionth month in a row, the Microsoft Xbox was the game console King of the hill. The overall total unit sales and total sales are down from a year ago, but you have to keep in mind there will be a new sheriff in town soon when the Xbox 720 debuts later this year.
Microsoft's press release stated that it sold 261,000 units of the Xbox 360 in March 2013 in the U.S, with a total of $402 million spent on Xbox 360 hardware, software and accessories.
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FAA Approves Boeing 787 Battery Design Changes
It will not be too much longer before the grounded Boing 787 is back in the air. Just this week, the FAA has approved the new battery designs and protocols to get the passenger liners back flying.
Before the planes can fly, they must be fitted with a "containment and venting" system for both lithium-ion batteries on the 787, the FAA said. That includes a stainless-steel enclosure to prevent heat, fumes or fire from spreading if a battery overheats in flight. Batteries and battery chargers must also be replaced with different components, the FAA said.
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One Fifth of U.S. Consumers Want an iWatch, Sight Unseen
Is that the sound of bleating iSheep I hear? A survey conducted on 1700 North Americans found that one out of five consumers would want to buy an Apple iWatch, sight unseen based solely on Apple's reputation. I have an iBridge I would like to sell you.
One in five may not sound like many, but if one were foolish enough to believe that prerelease product surveys accurately predict product demand, it would mean that 63 million Americans would buy one. Or at least be tempted to.
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Watch This Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Live Short
Far Cry 3:Blood Dragon:The Cyber War is a curious mix of live action, animation and old time campiness, this short film is well worth a look. Check it out.
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Canonical Stops Offering Ubuntu on Disc
The times are changing and Canonical is changing with them. In this particular case it means the end to low cost Ubuntu on CD. CD and DVD players are beginning to disappear from computer builds more frequently now and Canonical has responded to that signal from its users. Canonical ended their ShipIt service back in 2011 when you could order the latest version on a CD for free. Times, they are a-changing.
Canonical wouldn't be doing this if demand for the discs was still there and made it economically viable. But I think we have all moved on and a download is much faster nowadays.
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Razer to Honor Giant Advertisement Snafu
This is something you don't see very often and it shows that Razer is a class act in the computer hardware industry. Due to an advertising error, the company listed products at 90% off and as the Internet works, everybody jumped on the bandwagon. Kudos to Razer for honoring their ad.
Errors of this magnitude are rare, but not unheard of, and companies aren't legally obligated to fill the orders. But Razer has surprised everyone by deciding to fulfill most of the orders made with the erroneous code.
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SimCity Getting First Major Update on Monday
Expect more outages on the SimCity Servers on Monday, but this time it's for a good cause. Maxis announced that the first major update to version 2.0 will begin on Monday afternoon, shutting down the servers for an a few hours beginning at 4pm Eastern time.
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Reddit Hit with Massive DDoS Attack
Reddit suffered a sustained DDoS attack on Friday beginning in the morning and continuing on into the late afternoon. Some functions were disabled to mitigate the attack, but the site has now recovered and is functioning and operational at this writing.
Confirming that the attack was indeed malicious – meaning not a result of an influx of organic traffic to the site from those who had come to peruse the many high-profile threads discussing the suspects in the Boston bombings case.
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Microsoft Brings in $20.49 Billion for Q1
Microsoft reports that the first quarter of 2013 was up over $3 Billion over the same period in 2012. The reported revenue was up all across the board with Windows Division up 23% over last year.
"The bold bets we made on cloud services are paying off as people increasingly choose Microsoft services including Office 365, Windows Azure, Xbox LIVE, and Skype," said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft. "While there is still work to do, we are optimistic that the bets we've made on Windows devices position us well for the long-term."
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Corsair Obsidian Series 900D Super Tower Case Review
Corsair is finally pulling back the review embargo sheets on its new "Super Tower" 900D PC case. Details and pictures have been leaking out for months, but now we finally get to see if all the hype is justified. If you are wondering what a "super tower" is, well let's just say there will be a lot of desks that the 900D will not fit under.
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