Tag: EXPIRE-IMAGES:2010-7-22

It won't help the Pittsburgh Pirates win any baseball games, but, in an effort to quiet one critic, the team fired a pierogi. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Andrew Kurtz, who dons a pierogi costume and races other Eastern European dumplings around PNC Park during Pirates home games, was fired last week by Pirates brass for a disparaging comment he made about the team on his Facebook ...

Listen close. What's that sound? It's the collective squeal of millions of nerds around the world. This generation's 'Dungeons & Dragons' will finally make its way to the big screen, and, for at least one day, keyboards won't clack and monitors will go black. Variety reports that Sam Raimi will direct the live-action film version of 'World of Warcraft.' Raimi, who also directed 'The Evil ...

Keyboards Options Smartphone keyboards are kind of like your Senior Prom: Touching is good, but getting touched back is even better. You could do one-handed 'Dance Dance Revolution' on your iPhone all day and never know without using your eyes if you're actually pressing keys or not. Some folks don't mind such a one-sided relationship. A recent patent application filed by Apple hints at the ...

Better E-mail and Corporate Integration With the release of it's 3.0 operating system, the iPhone made some inroads toward being taken seriously as an enterprise device. But, its continued lack of offline access to e-mail should be a red flag for business users (not to mention anyone who wants to read and respond their e-mail in the middle of a flight or while on the subway). And, the fact ...

Tethering Much like MMS, the ability to use your iPhone as a laptop modem was announced as part of the 3.0 software update -- it just wasn't actually included in it (for American iPhones, anyway). Unlike MMS, however, AT&T isn't even venturing a guess as to when tethering might be available. What's more, AT&T PR folks won't confirm if tethering is going to be allowed on all iPhone ...