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As the economy here in America creeps back into gear, the online gaming industry is reaping the benefits. According to a new survey, video game addicts who aren’t already turning their attention to the tube (or even a subset of those who are) are looking to low-cost online games to pass the time.Industry tracker ComScore found that around 87 million US Internet users visited online video game sites in May, which is a 22% increase from the same month last year. We’d heard that the economy was forcing more users

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Phone manufacturers seem to be in a bit of a race to match the success of Apple’s App Store. Now, LG is joining the race and plans to launch its own store for mobile phone applications tomorrow. In a statement, LG said the LG Application Store will provide 1,400 applications for Windows Mobile phones including 100 free programs. The store will support 15 languages. Initially, the store will be available in Asia-Pacific countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. LG plans to make the store available

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Packard Bell never has been a major name in the gaming PC arena, but the company is refusing to sit idly by while companies such as Alienware, IBuyPower, Maingear, etc. pump out gaming machine after gaming machine. This week, the outfit has introduced the latest in its small but growing line of gamer-centric rigs, the ixtreme.The highly customizable rig can be equipped with Intel’s Core i7 or Core 2 Quad, and if you’re not much on supporting the giant that is Intel, you can opt for AMD’s Phenom II X4. Further

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Face it. A USB flash drive can be a really great way to carry around data you need to get your hands on when you’re away from your computer or network.Problem is, you’re not gonna put anything too sensitive on it for fear of losing it.Which brings you back to square one, getting access to important files on the go.Check this out: IronKey S200 has pretty high federal security validation: “FIPS 140-2, Level 3 Validation.” Oh, FIPS 140-2? Why didn’t you say so sooner? FIPS stands for Federal Information Processing

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 In a development that’s almost too silly to be true, a New York City teenage girl evidently fell down an open manhole as she walked down the street, distracted because she was…texting. MyFOX NY reports Alexa Longueira was strolling down a Staten Island sidewalk and was fiddling with her phone, preparing to send a text, when she disappeared down an open sewer access duct. Longueira is said to have suffered mild cuts and bruises, but she should be just fine. Workers told the girl’s mother they left the

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Don’t be fooled by the Nikon Coolpix L100’s DSLR-like looks. Although the L100 looks like a serious camera that could compete with the functions of a DSLR, it’s really a relatively simple point-and-shoot with a wide angle 15x zoom lens as well as image stabilization, a 3-inch LCD, and a high speed burst shooting mode of 13fps that surpasses that of many cameras. The L100 is part of Nikon’s Life series of digital cameras that are known for their simple and easy to use functions. As Nikon describes it, the Life

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It may not be the first portable HD Radio player announced (that honor would arguably go to Microsoft’s not-yet-available Zune HD), but it certainly is the first portable HD Radio player that you can purchase. Starting today, gym rats and portable music lovers alike can finally get their taste of HD Radio on the go with the Insignia NS-HD01. On sale exclusively at Best Buy, the “first ever portable HD Radio” gives users the ability to hear crystal clear, supercharged FM radio for free, and there’s even a full-color

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Technophiles like ourselves who are also frugal have, in the past, purchased upgrade editions of Windows, and been able to do a clean, fresh install either by entering a prior valid license key or inserting a CD for the older software at install time. That went away with Vista, which required a hacky workaround, but now Microsoft is completely shutting down even that methodology, for Windows 7. Why the big deal about a being able to do a clean, fresh install with an Upgrade edition? If you install an upgrade

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For anyone who has paid close attention to the movie market this year, you’ll know that 3D is being shoved down our throats faster that we can decide whether or not we even like the taste. While 3D has been around for decades now, only recently has Hollywood (and in turn, everyone else) decided that 3D is the next big money maker. Most major motion animation studios have decided that all future films will be made in 3D, and even NVIDIA has decided it prudent to openly support the format. All that being true,

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Rumors are flying on the the Internet that the Windows 7 RTM build has been compiled, and that the build number is “7600.16384.090710-1945,” which would indicate that it was compiled on July 10th at 7:45 PM. In fact, the site Has Windows 7 RTMed? has put up the message: Yes! Unfortunately, messages are mixed. While many sites are saying that’s the correct build, some sites are saying “hold on a second.” TechBlog, for example, said: A Microsoft spokesman told me this afternoon that no, a final build has not been