Though Modern Warfare 2 is rife with instantly accessible, beloved characters with fascinating names, we all know that one stands out as the franchise’s most memorable protagonist: Ghost. You know, Ghost! He’s got that skull mask, and there was that one scene where that guy’s about to shoot you, and then Ghost shoots him [...]

It’s one thing for ARM to develop a potent GPU meant to add impressive 3D capabilities to devices that were previously forced to run the likes of “Snake,” but it’s another thing entirely to see a platform and semiconductor company come forward and take it one step closer to the mainstream. ST-Ericsson has done [...]

In just one week, ViewSonic has gone from a glint of a 3G phone maker to having two models prominently on display. We’ve already seen VPC08 Windows XP phone, and now up to bat is the V901, found in the pages of Microsoft China’s official site. The Windows Mobile 6.5, apparently TouchWiz-skinned device has [...]

webOS 1.3.1 was always destined to come alongside the launch of the Pixi, but it’s surprised us by showing its face a day early. No app catalog bombshells here, but there are a slew of more minor fixes and updates that should make users experience a great deal smoother. Is this the update that [...]

Windows Mobile lost 28 percent of its smartphone market share between last year’s third quarter and this year’s third quarter, according to market researcher Gartner.
Figures released Thursday by Gartner show that Microsoft’s mobile OS had 11 percent of the global smartphone market in Q3 2008. A year later, it had 7.9 percent. Meanwhile, the [...]

Yes it can. The reportedly Android-based RAmos W7 MID does run the Android OS. This device is a g00d 4.8-inch 800 × 480 touchscreen PMP with WiFi. It runs on a Rockchip processor and supports 1080p videos. You cannot actually play these 1080p videos on the 4.8-inch screen but there is HDMI out.

I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war, discuss the differences and then, all of a sudden, at about 39 minutes in, the [...]

Well, well. Apple’s won its copyright infringement claim against would-be Mac cloner Psystar in California. Anyone surprised? As we’ve been saying all along, the key argument wasn’t the OS X EULA or Psystar’s failed monopoly claims, but pure, simple copyright infringement, since Psystar was illegally copying, modifying, and distributing Apple’s code. Psystar was also [...]