Tag archive: age

You might want to keep an eye on your grandma, because she may be better at World of Warcraft than you. The Electronic Software Association (ESA) has released a bunch of new statistics about who is playing games and which games they're playing, and it's quite striking how fast the industry is aging. Driven by kids and teens in the 80s and 90s, the industry still seems to be driven by the same group of gamers who have been riding the… Read More

In what must be an attempt to create a robotic Soup Nazi, Kraft has teamed with Intel to make a “Next Generation Meal Planning Solution,” which is fancy speak for a self-service Kraft vending machine that scans your face and determines which delicious Kraft food products you should eat. If you're as indecisive as I am, this is probably a dream come true.

Facebook and Twitter are the big boys in the social networking space. So big, in fact, that we've probably written about them a bit too much in 2010. But hey, why stop in December? This breakdown was put together by Digital Surgeons and shows demographic statistics (and a few fun facts) for both sites. You may know that Facebook is much larger with 500 million users compared to Twitter's 106 million, but did you know that 52 percent… Read More

Even in an age of widely available Wi-Fi, ultracompact laptops, and constantly plummeting tech prices, it appears that libraries continue to be a major source of information for young Americans. A new survey by the the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that Generation Y, Americans aged 18 to 30, are actually the biggest users of libraries, despite popular conceptions of young people shirking libraries for the Internet. The… Read More

Nintendo might be garnering all sorts of attention for the success of its Wii console, but lets not forget it has another best-selling system on its hands in the form of the Nintendo DS handheld gaming system. Now, the company is hoping to expand the system's appeal to non-traditional gamers by offering a new fashion-friendly crimson-and-black edition of the Nintendo DS Lite, bundled with the latest installment of its mental… Read More

We realize that keeping an eye on today's techno-savvy kids can be difficult for many of today's over-tired, overburdened, sleep-deprived parents…so the next best thing might be to have computers keep an eye on the kids automatically, right? To that end, the popular social networking Web site MySpace is planning to offer free parental notification software in a bid to appease parents concerned that their children may be… Read More

If anything's gonna make MySpace uncool among today's youth, this might be it: according to new market research from comScore Media Metrix, leading social networking sites can attract users of very different age demographics—and over half the visitors to social networking juggernaut MySpace.com are now over 35 years of age! “While the top social networking sites are typically viewed as directly competing with one… Read More

MacSoft has announced it will begin shipping Microsoft Game Studios' and Ensemble Studio's real-time strategy game Age of Empires III for Mac OS X in September 2006. In Age of Empires III, players take on the rols of one of eight European powers colonizing (and, of course, ravaging, pillaging, and conquering) the New World. A new Home City feature enables users to “level-up” ther home city to boost their economic,… Read More

Atari has found a way to pry open a Depp-driven treasure chest, by announcing it will be distributing Playlogic'sAge of Pirates: Caribbean Tales for Windows PCs beginning in September. Catch all the keywords in that title? “Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales is an exciting title to add to our PC line-up,” said Rick Mehler, Director of Marketing, Atari, Inc. “Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales provides a deep role playing… Read More

Microsoft and Ensemble Studios have announced details for a collector's edition of the eagerly anticipated RTS title Age of Empires III. Detailing the collector's edition priced at $69.99, Microsoft and Ensemble Studios cited a tangible list of contents, ranging from a 'Making of Age of Empires III' DVD, an Age of Empires III soundtrack and a Collector's Edition Game Manual to a 210 page hardbound art… Read More

London-based The Market Age said it had at its peak a year ago 1,000 customers representing 300 banks signed up for its core “Pronet” Web-based research application service, of which “Gmail” is a primary research product. “When the news came out about Google's Gmail last week, I went to the U.S. patent and trademark authorities. I thought maybe we were in trouble. But they hadn't… Read More

Quote from the review at PyroPort: “In this day and age I would expect most of you to have a broadband connection of some flavour. Most of us here in the UK have either an ADSL modem or a cable modem but with the 'always on' aspect of broadband comes the age old problem of security, firewalls being the most common defence be it a software solution or a hardware device such as the DLink unit we have here today.”… Read More