Category: QuickHit

  • Google launches Android app, trashes competitor’s stock value

    Well it looks like the hon­ey­moon is over for port­able nav­ig­a­tion sys­tem makers — Google jumps into their pond. All the tech blogs are rav­ing today about Google’s new GPS applic­a­tion for Android based phones called Google Maps Nav­ig­a­tion. My good friend Fre­der­ic Lardinois over at Read­WriteWeb calls it the first killer app for Android 2.0:…

  • Too much stuff

    Over the next few days I’m going to test a new blog post­ing pro­cess. If you’ve been here recently you’ll have noticed that excerpts of my work at the Future Shop Techb­log are being pulled in and pos­ted as they appear on the Techb­log. Which is a cool way for me to keep my work…

  • Coming soon to a YouTube near you — Assassin’s Creed: Lineage

    Today, the developer/publisher has deb­uted the first of three Assas­sin’s Creed: Lin­eage short films on You­Tube (click here) that expand the fic­tion even fur­ther.  They reveal the char­ac­ters and events that lead up to Assas­sin’s Creed II — primar­ily involving the fath­er of the game’s prot­ag­on­ist, Ezio, dur­ing the Itali­an Renais­sance period. via content.usatoday.com I…