Author Archives: Amanda Allen

Sony is Closing US PlayStation Store

Sony announced on Wednesday that it will shut down its flagship store in San Francisco. This news comes after the company announced that it will cut 16,000 jobs, and after a projected loss of $2.7 billion. The slow economy is hitting everywhere, I guess. People have less money to spend on video games and electronics,…

Microsoft conceals “bad” words

Microsoft has gained the rights to technology that will censor speech. A censoring filter, available in real-time or batch mode, processes an input audio stream that contains speech, then changes “undesired words or phrases” to make them unintelligible. The software behemoth was awarded the patent on the 14th of October. I guess the technology is…

Apple iPhone Censors South Park App

Apple has prevented the creators of South Park from selling an iPhone app based on the long-running cartoon series. The show announced that back in October, it had submitted the app to Apple for approval, and after repeated attempts, it had been rejected. The reason? The content was “potentially offensive.” Offensive, nooooo, not South Park!…

Skype and Nokia Come Together

These two companies will unite, integrating Skype technology into Nokia mobile phones. It will be part of the address book of the Nokia N97, letting the user see when their Skype contacts are online, and send and receive instant messages. Users will also be able to make free Skype-to-Skype calls, and very low-cost calls to…

Google Mobile for Windows Smartphones

Windows Mobile phone owners no longer have to open a web browser when they want to initiate a Google search, with the release of a Google Mobile app for those phones. Based on Microsoft’s mobile platform, the application (totally free!) installs a plugin from which users can use some of Google’s mobile apps. With an…

Universal Cell Phone Charger

With Apple rolling out new products (including a rumored iPhone Nano) every six months, and their absence from the recent announcement concerning the development of a charger that will work with any phone, will the universal charger be successful? I believe so. Even with Apple’s refusal to alter the design of its popular iPhone to…

Google Street View Lawsuit is Dismissed

The ruling was issued Wednesday in Pennsylvania district court, and it states that Google’s Street View mapping service is not an invasion of privacy. The judge also denied a request for an injunction to stop Google from publishing Street View images. The suit was filed last year by Christine and Aaron Boring, who became offended…