Amazon Exploring NFC Payments System

You too, Amazon?

NFC has been a bit of a rumor-mill buzzword as of late. It seems like each of the major players in the smartphone OS market is working on an NFC solution. Gradually, reports of Google, Apple and Microsoft’s plans to incorporate NFC technology into their respective OSes hit the web last month. However, makers of cell phone OSes aren’t the only ones interested in NFC, and when you look beyond that market, it’s obvious who else would be.

Windows 8 to Get Time Machine-like History Vault

Windows 8 could make backups easy.

Keeping a backup of your data is a hugely important rule to almost all sorts of computing. While cloud computing through something like Chrome OS helps take care of that for casual applications, until everything is cloud-based users will need to take care of things for themselves.

According to winrumors, a new feature that might make it into Windows 8 is something that will potentially be called History Vault. The new feature will supposedly make use of the Shadow Copies that Windows makes when files are modified.

TWC Pulls Channels From iPad App Lineup

Time Warner was forced to pull networks owned by Fox Cable, Viacom and Discovery from its iPad lineup.

For consumers who had both an Apple iPad and a subscription to Time Warner Cable's TV service, the launch of the TWCable TV App seemed like a gift from heaven. Although the actual channel lineup was limited, TWC customers could watch a number of their favorite TV shows anywhere in the house. It became an immediate hit, crashing TWC servers and forcing the company to throttle back its channel offerings until it could handle the high demand on a hardware level.

Xbox 360 Gets Upgraded DVD Spec for 1GB More

Almost the full DVD!

When looking on paper, one of the big advantages of the PlayStation 3 over the Xbox 360 is the Blu-ray drive. Not only can it play Blu-ray movies, but it can hold much more data than the plain DVD-9 – except that the Xbox 360's disc capacity isn't even at the same level as a DVD-9.

Dell and HP Poke Fun At Apple, iPad

Just this week alone, Dell is slamming the iPad while HP is criticizing Apple itself.

What better way to promote your own product than to publicly bash the competitor? Both Dell and HP have reportedly resorted to these tactics, taking major jabs at Apple and its iPad line this week while speaking fondly of their own tablet offerings.