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Great news Steam is now available for iOS and Android

Joseph Ruthaford — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:45:56 +0000

For all you gamers out their Steam now has an application on their iOS device or their Android devices. Sadly however you will not be able to play games through this app but be able to purchase games and install them on your PC. It will also let you interact with your steam friends as well. Right now Steam doesn’t have any mobile games that you could actually download on your device but I am sure this is the starting point of that happening. There are still some minor issues with this app as it is really only optimized for the smaller screened devices so mainly phones or ipods. The device needs to run iOS 4 and for your Androids it can Android 2.1 or newer and can use it on 4.0.

The government shut down Megaupload

Joseph Ruthaford — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:06:47 +0000

The buzz today seems to be around the government of the US rocking the cyberlocker site megaupload. The reports are saying they not only seized its domain names but also took $50 million in assets, and got the police of New Zealand to arrest four of the sites major employees which also includes the Kim Dotcom. It seems this site megauploads earned $175 million since it was created back in 2005 which it is mainly based on copyright infringement. So with this big attack already in the works why does the government even want to try to make an act that attacks the freedoms of the internet? It looks like they have the ability to go after sites that are infringing on copyrights. Megauploads is a pretty big site and for the government being able to seize the domains and get the New Zealand police to arrest four of its employees makes me believe that SOPA’s true intentions is what we are all currently fighting for, no censorship of the internet and the freedom to speak. I want to keep a close eye on what happens here as this could make a major case for why SOPA doesn’t even need to be passed. If all of the big wigs in the government are looking to make this a act a law then let’s show them that there are already laws in place to protect copyrighted material on the internet and maybe the government needs to just do a better job of just compiling a cases on these sites that profit on infringing on copyrighted material.

SOPA supporters, yea there’s an app for that

Joseph Ruthaford — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:16:28 +0000

So for all of you Android owners out there that have been looking to see what businesses are behind SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, well there is now a way. There is an app on the Android Market that is apptly named Boycott SOPA. It works just like a regular bar code scanner app. You just take a product that has a bar code on it and scan it. Within seconds it will scan a database that will tell you if the product you are holding is made by a company behind the SOPA. It isn’t perfect though, it is said that the app itself is reliant on a user-curated list of supporters and is not publicly visible, although the app creators say the list is updated regularly. With the recent stance that Godaddy took on SOPA it is no doubt that any company that has even considered publicly lobbying for this act might want to take a step back on this one. I point to a blog I posted a week or two ago in which I talked about the comedian Louis C.K. and the awesome job he did with putting a comedy special online for 5 bucks. Cracking over a million dollars on that deal. Now the thing that draws me to this as my point is that CK asked that none steal his video and post it, he felt that the cost to view his special was reasonable. Well it seems the people listened! No it won’t stop piracy but I am sure most bought the special because it was affordable and they supported his ideal and what he wanted to do with no corporate BS. So the point of it is maybe you should just ask nicely for people not steal it and maybe you will turn a profit still. So if I was a corporation, I wouldn’t take a stance on SOPA in fear that my company will take a big hit, just ask Godaddy.

Data Volume doubles, thanks Siri!

Joseph Ruthaford — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:30:15 +0000

From sources that I have read it seems that new assistant for Apple, known as Siri is making owners use twice as much data then when they had an iPhone with no Siri. This obviously will put more of a pressure situation on Verizon Wireless which is the largest US carrier sold around 4.2 million 4th quarter phones. The interesting part is that if it is doubling your data, it would be interesting see how much money Verizon will make seeing that there is no more unlimited data packages. So it will be interesting see what data overages people will be seeing due to these types of data usage.

Motorola Droid Xyboard Tablets starting at $430

Gregg — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:02:35 +0000

Motorola’s pair of Droid Xyboard tablets has finally gone up for order on Verizon’s site this morning. The 8.2-inch version is now available with 16GB of storage for $430, or 32GB for $530 (on a two-year contract). The 10.1-incher, meanwhile, is available in three flavors: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB, for on-contract prices of $530, $630 and $730, respectively. All five Honeycomb models come with LTE functionality, and all five are available now.