The Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition (OVGE) debuted in Tulsa in 2003 and it’s set coming again to that city on June 16.
The event, as always, will center on vintage video games, classic computers, standup arcade consoles from the golden age of arcades and even a pinball machine or two. Jesse Hardesty started the OVGE after noticing there were plenty of classic game expos on the East and West coasts and in Las Vegas, but few such gatherings in the southwest. Rather than waiting for someone to start an event dedicated …

Buried amongst all the talk of the new Apple iPad this week was news of the release of iOS 5.1.
What is significant about the new Apple operating system? Owners of the iPhone 4S who are AT&T customers and downloaded the update may have noticed the “3G” icon on their phones had been replaced with a “4G” icon. That’s right — the new update sure appears to turn the iPhone 4S into one that’s cruising the ultra-fast, next generation 4G data network.
There are a couple of questions surrounding the update — …

Not so very long ago, free programs came in roughly two varieties — buggy garbage and crippled applications that “teased” users by showing them what they could do if they purchased full versions.
Things have changed for the better over the years and it’s very possible to grab a full-featured office suite, an image editor, an audio editor and a PDF writer that can hold their own against commercial products out there. We’ll take a look at those programs in this article and point out up front that they all have …

At a time when stories about the decline of traditional media are common, an online publication is expanding after operating for a little over three years.
That publication, For Smith-based The City Wire, was originally established by Tom Kirkham as a social networking site of sorts where area residents could post opinions, mingle and discuss events of the day. The direction of the site changed when Michael Tilley, business editor for both the Southwest Times Record in Fort Smith and the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, was laid off by Stephens …

Tragedy struck here at FirstArkansasNews.
Well, we weren’t exactly hit with a tragedy, but something extremely annoying happened. That’s right — our email server was hit with enough spam to choke a horse. Just imagine wading through about 250 emails a day to get to the 20 or 30 that are worthwhile. As one might imagine, that sad state of affairs renders an email account just about useless.
We got in touch with David Hudson, the owner of Little Rock’s Hudson Creative Services (HudsonCS), and asked for help. HudsonCS, of course, is …

Adgitize — an Internet based advertising service — set up in 2008 so that advertisers could purchase space on blogs, is calling it quits.
On Monday (Dec. 27), Adgitize President Ken Brown sent out an email to bloggers and advertisers stating that the site will effectively stop showing ads through its network on Jan. 1. Brown sited economic difficulty as the primary reason his company is shutting its doors.
“I regret to inform you that we are closing Adgitize,” he said in the email. “We have enjoyed working with you over the …

Back in November, the so-called “tablet wars” heated up when Amazon released it’s $200 Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble released its $250 Nook Tablet.
While the two were compared to the Apple iPad at length here and there, the two devices are really competing against each other and against other budget-priced Android tablets. The Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, after all, boast similar hardware specs in that they both have dual core, 1 GHz CPUs and 7″ 1,024 x 600 displays that display 169 pixels per inch. Amazon.com and Barnes …

My, but the people over at Canonical — the group responsible for the Ubuntu Linux distribution — don’t mind a bit of controversy, do they?
For those who are late to the party, Ubuntu’s decision to promote and solely support the Unity desktop has been met with everything from joy to hostility among users. In Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), people who upgraded to that distro were met with the Unity desktop by default but could go back to the more familiar Gnome desktop by selecting “Ubuntu Classic” at the login screen. …

If you name your company iPadAlternative.com, you’d better bring a quality product to the table.
What’s the company out to prove? That its tablet PCs – most of which are powered by Google’s Android operating system — offer more bang for the buck than just about anything on the market. How much do the tablets cost? They are available from $89 to $479. Even the most expensive tablet sold by iPadAlternative.com is $20 less than the $499 list price for the entry level model of the industry leading Apple iPad 2. …

We at First Arkansas News are pleased as punch to announce that our Lum and Abner comic strip has been picked up by The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs.
The Sentinel-Record has agreed to run 10 Lum and Abner strips and then determine if there is enough interest among readers to keep the series rolling for longer than that. We do hope the series remains in the Sentinel-Record as the significance of that city to the old time radio franchise is clear enough — Chet Lauck and Tuffy Goff started their program …