Archive for November, 2010

The iPad Gets Its First All-Digital Magazine Today

Nov 30 by James Mowery | add comment

Virgin’s Project magazine is set to revolutionize the way we think about content consumption on the iPad with the world’s first all-digital magazine for the iPad. Or, in other words, this is something that should have happened awhile ago. Project magazine, which is a project by Virgin and Richard more »

U.S. Government Considers Killing Cell Phones While Driving

Nov 30 by James Mowery | 10 comments

Stupidity aside, the U.S. government has long been looking for ways to reduce the amount of accidents on the road. The latest of which has been to ban texting while driving. Many states are pushing for this to become law, and some have been successful. But now there is an even more extreme idea being more »

Has Google Already Purchased Groupon?

Nov 30 by James Mowery | add comment

There is a lot of chitter chatter going on throughout the tech industry about a big potential acquisition of Groupon by Google, but the biggest question yet is whether or not Google has already purchased the site. Some reports have already been released that have stated that Google has already more »

Kinect Doesn't Have A Controller, But It Does Have Potential

Nov 30 by James Mowery | add comment

While skepticism remains high about how much success Kinect can achieve, Microsoft is proud to shove that skepticism in people’s faces. The company announced that they have sold over 2.5 million units of Kinect, with the potential of 5 million units shipped by year’s end becoming a possibility. more »

Five Ways to Fix Games For Windows Live

Nov 30 by Navneet Alang | 1 comment

For some time now, serious digital gaming on the PC has been dominated by one brand alone: Steam. And so it should be. No-one else has offered a more straightforward, integrated, transparent approach to gaming. Steam has made PC gaming infinitely better, and it’s conceivable that without Valve’s efforts, more »

Microsoft Wants You To Just Shut Up And Touch It

Nov 29 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

This is intense. Are you seated? Of course you’re seated, that’s a stupid question – who stands around in their laundry room reading tech news? Anyway, if, in the unlikely event you are not seated, you would like to be, please take this opportunity, because I’m about to let fly with some totally rad more »

Woz Tells Us How Apple Got Its Name

Nov 29 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

And now you know. more »

Celebs Kick The Bucket Online for AIDS

Nov 29 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

No one ever accused Alicia Keys of f***ing around when it comes to philanthropy, and if you ever felt like you wanted to, she’s about to prove you seven shades of wrong. The singer, along with a host of other celebrities, are about to pull the plug on their online selves for charity. Lady Gaga, Justin more »

Javascript Object Fuels Rumor of Video With Skype on Facebook

Nov 28 by Angela West | add comment

While Tal Ater was working on his Green Any Site Facebook application, he stumbled across a javascript object called Video Chat. This object had properties that were referential to Skype’s video chat features, pointing to potential video integration between the two sites in the future. While the application wasn’t there every more »

Boyfriend Uses Girlfriend's Favorite Website to Propose To Her

Nov 27 by Angela West | 20 comments

Scott’s girlfriend, Leslie, was a power user of the popular Mom community site CafeMom. Scott sought to enlist their help in crafting his proposal to her through their popular Achievement Awards program. He sent Cafe Mom the following e-mail to initiate the proceedings: “I have a dilemma, and I was hoping more »

What is Part of the iOS 4.2 Update?

Nov 27 by John Siano | 2 comments

Here’s a short list of what you can expect in the new iOS update for iPads, iPod Touches, and iPods if you are planning on downloading and installing it this weekend. Multitasking and Folders on iPad This shouldn’t be too surprising, as we knew it would come. Airprint Airprint enables you to print more »

iPad 2 to Feature Retina Display, FaceTime, and... USB?

Nov 26 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Citing an unconfirmed report in a Chinese newspaper, Digitimes has had the stone guff to whisper into our supple ears a list of five possible features the iPad 2 may or may not possess. The list is shakey at best, but sensible, and includes thinner glass, for mobility, a Retina display, video chat (meaning more »

Twitter - Even Hotter Than Munchable Chili Oil!

Nov 25 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

A new survey conducted by Japanese ad agency Dentsu has revealed the ‘hit recognized products’ in Japan for 2010. And hoo boy, what a list it is. Smartphones, of course, have more or less been grouped into one category as they would dominate the entire list of separate. Twitter has come in at second place, narrowly more »

Apple: Radio Stations Are Like Farts

Nov 25 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Apple has now banned all single-station radio apps from iOS, stating that, according to Jim Barcus, “single station apps are the same as a fart app and represent spam in the iTunes store.” Many of us would tend to agree. But who the hell is Jim Barcus? He’s the president of DJB Radio Apps, a company that builds – surprise more »