Whether you’ve played the first Left 4 Dead or not, here’s a trio of videos guaranteed to satisfy your curiosity about Left 4 Dead 2.
We begin with the first video, where our hero Criken tests the waters. The new special infected make their debut off-screen, but you can already hear the telltale sounds they make:
The second video is more revealing, at least in terms of gameplay mechanics. Criken intentionally(?) puts himself in bad situations, and shows us how to deal with the new Charger and zombies enjoying bullet-proof protection. He even reveals his “single favorite weapon in all the Left …read more

In the late 1960s, computers we’re only for “business owners”, and representing the entire business world only required one American, one European, and one Asian.
Oh and yes, computers were pricey toys with no obvious business application, so IBM had to advertise the System/3—which practically required it’s own room by taking up “only 68 square feet”—through a 60s paced short film.
Key benefits? System/3’s punch cards, representing data innovation: “approximately 1/3 the size of conventional cards, they store 20%… more information.” Not to mention disk-based storage.
Note how everything, from the card reader to the printer, is integrated.

Yesterday saw the debut of the Office 2010 “teaser trailer”. Obviously, no Office 2010 movie’s scheduled; Microsoft was obviously trying a new way to promote its own product:
Opinions over the video online seem divided. Some wonder what the heck Microsoft was thinking, while others find the tongue-in-cheek presentation funny. Supporters have accused critics of not liking the Office 2010 trailer because it’s a Microsoft project.
Personally, I’m inclined to think that’s true. A lot of people have panned the movie for failing at humor, but some critics actually go out of their way to accuse Microsoft of wasting money. So why …read more

So was a video of the unannounced Nokia E72 really broadcast on YouTube accidentally? In any case, the video (now off that site but available through Dailymotion) reveals that the E72 will feature the same tablet form factor as its predecessor the Nokia E71. Right down to the QWEERTY thumboard and four application keys situated below the display.
Some other revelations: A 5 megapixel camera, availability in black, gray and gold colors, and a nifty touch-scrolling mechanism. According to Brighthand, the E72’s workflow demo in the video reveals that the phone will run on Symbian S60, version 3.2.
Based on what I …read more

Open source software was just the beginning, as we’re now seeing the slow but steady growth of open source hardware as well.
The newest development in this field is now accepting pre-orders — the Open Graphics Project’s OGD-1, a totally open source FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) development platform.
It’s actually not a graphics card yet, but that’s one of the many possible things it could be morphed into, and that’s all part of the plan.
The OGP itself has as their stated mission the creation of a graphics card that has entirely open hardware specs, and can be run …read more