Duke It Out in Middle-Earth Via Google's Chrome Experiment
If you haven't tried out the experience of the Google's Chrome Experiment in Middle Earth, now would be a good time to give it a look. The experiment has been ongoing, but new content has been added to correspond with the upcoming release of The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies. It's entertaining and it's free.
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Amazon Starts Shipping the Fire TV Stick
Amazon bills the Fire TV Stick as their fastest and most successful product launch ever and announced on Friday that the Fire Stick will begin shipping immediately. Preorders will come first, but you can place your order and wait in line for shipment on a first come, first served basis.
Fire TV Stick has been our most successful device launch ever. We built a ton of these, but customer demand still outpaced our supply.
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European Parliament to Call for Breakup of Google
A report from Financial Times says that the European Parliament is making preparations to draft a proposal to break up Google's search engine from other Google services. The Parliament has no official standalone power of its own, but recommends actions to the European Commission.
The matter underscores worry over Google's expansive reach and the search giant's potential to abuse its influence to hurt competitors.
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Game of Thrones Game Receives Its Debut Trailer
Telltale Games has released a short teaser trailer for the upcoming Game of Thrones rollout. The games will be episodic, following the show's TV seasons and will star many of the original cast members. Game of Thrones will be available on all popular platforms sometime later this year.
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AMD Details Carrizo Mobile APU Chips Coming in 2015
AMD announced the upcoming release of its new mobile processors, Carrizo and Carrizo-L this week. The chips will ship in quad-core and dual-core versions, supporting DDR3 and DDR4 and will be available sometime in 2015.
Carrizo will be our APU that's targeting right at the heart of performance mobile and all-in-one for 2015.
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Hackers Just Exposed Thousands of Gamer Passwords
If you have an account on the PlayStation Network, 2K Game Studios or Windows live, there is a chance your account may have been hacked and leaked to Pastebin as proof of the hack. A hacker group going by the name of DerpTrolling has claimed responsibility for the breaches. It is recommended that if you have an account with any of these networks, that you change your password ASAP.
The DerpTrolling group insists it wants to force these major gaming companies — Sony, Microsoft, and 2K — into upgrading their servers to prevent this type of hacking.
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Dish Restores CNN, Cartoon Network in Contract Extension
For all of you Dish customers who suddenly lost channels from Turner Broadcasting last month, good news is on the way. Turner came to terms with Dish Network this week to restore all of the lost channels.
Today's contract extensions don't give Dish rights to Turner channels for its forthcoming Internet-delivered television package; Turner and Dish are still negotiating those terms, and expect an agreement will be part of the next long-term deal.
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Mythbusters vs. Gorilla Glass
Gorilla Glass is touted to be toughest around. To prove how tough or break-resistant the glass actually is, The Mythbusters have taken up the challenge to test the limits of Corning's Gorilla Glass 4 in their own unique way.
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T-Mobile Unleashes $5 a Month Overseas Calling Plan
Simple Choice T-Mobile customers now have an even simpler choice in overseas calling. T-Mobile has introduced a $5 a month international unlimited calling plan for your entire account.
This offer starts today and goes through the end of the year, but once added to your account, everyone on your account with a Simple Choice plan can enjoy the benefits for as long as you keep Stateside International Talk on your account.
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Aereo Loses Battle, Cord-Cutters May Win War
The death knell has finally sounded for the little re-broadcaster company Aereo. It was always a David and Goliath story from the beginning, but in this case, Goliath won out. The trend setting company may have lost the decision to operate, but may have in the process opened up more streaming content for cord-cutters as a side benefit. Aereo filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week.
Aereo tried to come up with other legal arguments. None of them proved sufficient. In the end, Aereo decided that it wasn't worth pursuing the case any further.
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Sony Drops Steve Jobs Movie
The on-again/off-again Steve Jobs movie is now officially off-again. With a shakeup of cast members and an uncertain future, Sony has withdrawn its financial support, leaving the picture high and dry. There's still an outside chance of it making it to the big screen with other companies, namely Universal and other film studios, who are looking into picking up the project from Sony.
Despite the surprise development, Sorkin's script still has a chance of coming to life at some stage – Universal is apparently showing a strong interest in the project.
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WalMart Tightens Its Price-Matching Policy
Fool me once and all that Gomer-esque wisdom hasn't fallen on deaf ears over at the hallowed corporate halls of WalMart. Not a corporation to fall for the same exploit twice and in light of the scam WalMart fell victim to this week, the company has revised and tightened its price-matching policy.
This kind of activity is unfair to the millions of customers who count on us every day for honest value. With this in mind, we've updated our policy to clarify that we will match prices from Walmart.com and 30 major online retailers.
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Chrome 40 Beta Arrives with Revamped Bookmarks Manager, No SSL 3.0
Right on the heels of the release of the stable version of Chrome 39, Google has already pushed out Chrome Beta 40. Few details are available now, but the rollout will be staggered to beta testers over the next few weeks.
As for the SSL protocol, Google already disabled the fallback to version 3.0 in Chrome 39. In Chrome 40, the company is removing SSL 3.0 completely.
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Microsoft Patches Surface Pro 3
If you are one of the many who purchased a Surface Pro 3 and have experienced problems connecting to wireless networks, Microsoft has just the patch you are looking for. The update is now available.
Users have complained about problems with accessing wireless networks, and the update released on Wednesday should help fix any problems they've encountered.
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One of the Best Xbox One Exclusives of the Year is Free Today
For today only, Xbox Live Gold Subscribers will be able to download Sunset Overdrive for free. You only have today to grab this little goodie, so chop chop on the download.
Microsoft is also giving away a bunch of digital goodies to everyone who bought an Xbox One before November 11th.
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Far Cry 4 Video Card Performance and IQ Preview
Far Cry 4 is here, and we take an early look at how current video cards stack up in performance, and which quality settings are graphically demanding. We will also look at some image quality comparisons and talk about the state of this game at launch. Will it measure up to Far Cry 3 in terms of graphic fidelity?
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