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You’ll be hearing a lot more about NFC—near field communication—this year, as more and more cell phone manufacturers add NFC chips to their handsets. It’s basically a way to use your phone at a tap-to-pay credit card machine used by various retail stores. You may already have tap-to-pay built into one or more of your [...]
Gone are the days when spreading the word about a new band meant handing out homemade CDs. With the growing importance of social media marketing in the music world, bln.kr wants to help emerging and amateur bands share their tracks and manage their social media profiles.
Many people might say that Legoland is just for kids, but there’s often awesome exhibits that people of all ages can enjoy. The new Star Wars feature, opening on March 31 in Legoland California, is something that your whole family can peruse. Featuring animated scenes from the movies and the Clone Wars series, the exhibit [...]
In the year 2511 on one of Saturn’s moons, a man with serious girlfriend issues dismembers a race of alien monsters called Necromorphs. Dead Space 2–already positioned to be one of the goriest major releases in 2011–is a refined follow-up to 2008′s rough but promising survival horror game.
Verizon COO Lowell McAdam told the Wall Street Journal that the Verizon iPhone will be available with a $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan.
Microsoft’s popular note-taking software, OneNote, is now available as an iPhone app. You can use it to create notes and to-do lists while on the go and it’ll automatically synchronize your data online, where it can then be pulled into the OneNote application on your computer.
Sure, you brag to your friends that you are the best in the world at certain games, but are you really the one on top? In Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, the judges behind the records-keeping entity have verified the best gamers out there and are now presenting them to you in book form. [...]
If you’re in the market to purchase a 2011 Ford Edge, don’t be surprised if you get some classes thrown in as well. Ford is offering lessons on how to use the MyFord Touch, the in-car voice command system, for those less tech-savvy individuals who may not know how to tell their car what to do. [...]
I’m surely not the only one who remembers the bitter aftertaste of January, 2009, when Christopher Nolan’s bleak, brilliant The Dark Knight was snubbed an Oscar nomination. One of the most popular and critically lauded films of the year, all but ignored on nomination morning, there was something of an open revolt online: How could [...]
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and Techland’s Hive [...]
