Articles by Christopher Poon.
June 25, 2009 - 05:00 AM
GamesFor boxing fans, Fight Night Round 4 is a dream come true.
May 28, 2009 - 3:49 PM
GamesIt’s clear that the developers at Raven Software, the studio responsible for the successful X-Men Legends games as well as Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, were tuned-in to what fans of the characters wanted to see.
May 25, 2009 - 12:57 PM
Blog - Tech The June 1 edition of The New Yorker is set to be a milestone of sorts, as it will be the magazine's first issue to run with a cover drawn entirely on a mobile phone.
May 11, 2009 - 1:08 PM
Blog - Tech
The HTC Dream and its successor, the HTC Magic, will both be available in Canada starting on June 2.
March 18, 2009 - 4:18 PM
TechIn the fall, the “Google Phone” was released as the T-Mobile G1 aka the HTC Dream. Google developed the smartphone’s operating system, Android.
January 6, 2009 - 5:21 PM
Blog - Tech The Onion News Network has scooped all the other news outlets again, this time by being the first to unveil Apple’s latest product, the MacBook Wheel.
December 30, 2008 - 10:38 AM
Blog - Tech Validating some speculation, Wal-Mart has begun selling the iPhone in its U.S. stores, though it appears as if the US$99 four-gigabyte iPhone will remain in the rumour department for the time being.
December 17, 2008 - 4:41 PM
Blog - Tech After years of being a part of the Macworld Conference & Expo, the annual trade show devoted to all things Mac, Apple has decided that 2009 will be its last year at the event.
December 15, 2008 - 6:21 PM
Blog - Tech After Apple’s iPod made its debut and completely shook up the MP3 player scene, there were rumours for years that Microsoft was working on its own MP3 player to compete with its rival.
December 11, 2008 - 5:15 PM
Blog - Tech I’m just as angry as anyone else that I’m unable to throw banana peels, spiked turtle shells, or bombs at other vehicles when I’m driving.
December 10, 2008 - 4:28 PM
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Games Video games are written off by many as simply being for children and teenagers, but it may surprise some that the average age of gamers is actually 35 years old.
December 10, 2008 - 4:28 PM
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Games Video games are written off by many as simply being for children and teenagers, but it may surprise some that the average age of gamers is actually 35 years old.
December 9, 2008 - 8:19 PM
Blog - Tech This past October was supposed to see the release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
December 8, 2008 - 5:59 PM
Blog - Tech AppleInsider has an interesting article up quoting an analyst that says a $99 iPhone is “inevitable”.
December 5, 2008 - 2:40 PM
Blog - Tech
We’ve been posting a lot of videos from YouTube in recent weeks. So, keeping the trend alive and well, it’s worth mentioning that the site has now added high-definition videos.
December 5, 2008 - 2:15 PM
Blog - Tech Canadians who use the Internet are more likely to have large networks of friends and family that they interact with on-line, but are less likely to spend time with people face-to-face.
December 4, 2008 - 11:08 AM
Blog - Tech As 2008 draws to a close, it marks the end of the first year that the iTunes app store was available.
December 3, 2008 - 6:29 PM
Blog - Tech It appears that the computer mouse has more than one reason to celebrate 2008.
December 3, 2008 - 6:11 PM
Blog - Tech In a previous post, we showed you an ad by Apple that was banned in the U.K. due to complaints of false advertising. In the U.S., a man has made similar claims, but instead of simply making a complaint, he’s taking Apple to court.
December 3, 2008 - 5:32 PM
Blog - Tech Continuing the lucrative trend of converting popular movie franchises into Lego video games, it looks like Harry Potter will be latest addition to a line-up that already includes Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Batman.
December 3, 2008 - 5:20 PM
Blog - Tech Researchers have successfully made people feel as if they’re in another person’s body or even just a human-shaped body, according to LiveScience.
December 3, 2008 - 5:01 PM
Blog - Tech Users frustrated and upset by Gmail’s apparent lack of sympathy for those unwilling to open an Web browser to check their e-mail can now breathe a sigh of relief.
December 3, 2008 - 09:51 AM
Blog - Tech Finnish phone-maker Nokia has introduced a serious contender for the top spot in smartphones with its new N97 model.
December 2, 2008 - 7:26 PM
Blog - Arts U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took a break from urging and condemning things to play a small piano recital for the Queen of England yesterday (December 1).
December 2, 2008 - 7:08 PM
Blog - Quickies With more Canadians shopping on-line, the mail system is likely to get pretty backed up this holiday season.
December 2, 2008 - 11:42 AM
Straight Talk
Ted Rogers, founder of Rogers Communications Inc., died at the age of 75 at his Toronto home today.
December 1, 2008 - 3:51 PM
Blog - Tech Last night (November 30), The Simpsons took a ton of jabs at Apple. In the episode, various products from “Mapple”, such as the “MyPhone” and the “‘MyPod”, are shown to be ridiculously overpriced, overhyped, and absurd.
December 1, 2008 - 3:33 PM
Blog - Tech This year marks the 40th anniversary of the public debut of the computer mouse.
December 1, 2008 - 3:03 PM
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Games Given the success of last year’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, it makes sense that another installment of the popular series has landed. On November 11, Activision released Call of Duty: World at War for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PCs.
December 1, 2008 - 3:03 PM
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Games Given the success of last year’s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, it makes sense that another installment of the popular series has landed. On November 11, Activision released Call of Duty: World at War for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PCs.
November 28, 2008 - 3:52 PM
Blog - Tech We’ve already brought you a list of the top-five best movie game tie-ins. Here’s our list of the top-five worst video-game adaptations of movies.
November 28, 2008 - 3:02 PM
Blog - Tech Mac users are now able to run the most popular BitTorrent program on their Apple operating systems.
November 28, 2008 - 2:45 PM
Blog - Tech Michael Rudder, a Canadian actor and video-game voice performer is recovering after being shot three times in this week’s Mumbai attacks.
November 28, 2008 - 2:28 PM
Blog - Tech As promised, we’ve compiled our lists of the top five best and worst video-game adaptations of movies. First, we present the five best.
November 27, 2008 - 4:06 PM
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Games It happens all the time: Hollywood announces the next big movie, and then shortly afterwards a video-game adaptation is announced.
November 27, 2008 - 4:06 PM
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Games It happens all the time: Hollywood announces the next big movie, and then shortly afterwards a video-game adaptation is announced.
November 27, 2008 - 2:41 PM
Blog - Tech An Apple iPhone commercial has been banned in the U.K. for exaggerating the speed of the phone’s capabilities.
November 27, 2008 - 10:44 AM
Blog - Tech Demonstrating the latest advancements in jet-pack technology, a stuntman for Jet Pack International has flown 1,500 feet across a canyon in Colorado.
November 27, 2008 - 10:32 AM
Blog - Tech Spectators of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade found themselves watching a formerly Internet-based prank, though many may not have even realized it.
November 27, 2008 - 05:00 AM
GamesAlthough the iPhone can’t meet every consumers' expectation, it’s proving to be a major contender in an unanticipated field: mobile gaming.
November 25, 2008 - 4:25 PM
Blog - Movies The
Watchmen film is shaping up to be a fan boy/girl’s wet dream.
November 25, 2008 - 4:03 PM
Blog - Tech Hot off the heels of the news that YouTube will stream full-length movies, comes this week’s announcement that the video-sharing site is switching to a widescreen format.
November 24, 2008 - 4:05 PM
Blog - Tech In development by Rocksteady Studios for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC, Batman: Arkham Asylum will take its influence from comic-book sources rather than previous games, which have been based on either movies or television shows.
November 24, 2008 - 3:35 PM
Blog - Tech Magpie & Friends Ltd., a company based in Germany and the U.K., will pay Twitter users to advertise clients’ goods in their feeds.
November 24, 2008 - 3:08 PM
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Games The game—available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC—is set in an alternate future where the world is ravaged by a nuclear war between China and the United States.
November 24, 2008 - 3:08 PM
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Games The game—available for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Windows PC—is set in an alternate future where the world is ravaged by a nuclear war between China and the United States.
November 21, 2008 - 3:36 PM
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Games Developed by EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the focus of the gameplay in Mirror’s Edge is parkour.
November 21, 2008 - 3:36 PM
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Games Developed by EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the focus of the gameplay in Mirror’s Edge is parkour.
November 21, 2008 - 3:04 PM
Blog - Politics Former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave a televised interview to MSNBC at a turkey farm yesterday (November 20).
November 21, 2008 - 10:47 AM
Blog - Quickies We’ve put together a comprehensive shopping guide for all bacon-related merch, so that you can give that special someone something they’ll truly appreciate.
