Two Can Play at That Game: Samsung Now Suing Apple

Earlier this week, we caught wind that Apple was suing its buddy Samsung, with accusations that the icon designs that Samsung’s been using for its line of Galaxy-branded smartphones and tablets represent “blatant copying” of the icons Apple uses for the iPhone and iPad.

Breaking News: Mac and PC Users Like Different Things, Says Survey

Yes, of course they do, or at least according to a massive survey conducted by a new suggestion website called Hunch.com.

Five Easter iPhone Apps That Are Actually Pretty Cool

Yep, Martha Stewart spiked our Easter-app fever with her Egg Dyeing 101. But the iTunes store was a fertile ground of arty holiday-themed apps, and we found some other pretty cool contenders. Whether you’re a devout egghead, an occasional Peeps-ter — or prefer to celebrate your own Easter-time holiday of “West”er — these five fun apps deserve consideration in [...]

Why Apple Collects Location Data from Your iPhone

At this point, unless you’ve been living under a digital rock, everyone knows that Apple is collecting data from your iPhone. But why are they doing it?

AT&T Files T-Mobile Merger Documentation with the FCC

It’s begun, whoop-dee-doo. Yesterday, AT&T submitted its paperwork to the FCC for approval. That merger, you know the one that conglomerates AT&T and T-Mobile as a giant telecom monopoly, has finally kicked off.

PlayStation Network Outage a Disaster for Sony

Just like that, Sony’s PlayStation Network is down, and hard. Know how I know? Because I just tried to watch an episode of Friday Night Lights over dinner with my wife and couldn’t. My PS3 kept flashing a “you must first sign into the PlayStation Network to sign into Netflix” popup. I tried signing into [...]

The Comic Book Club: Dark Horse Presents and Hate Annual

This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about the first issue of the relaunched Dark Horse Presents anthology and Peter Bagge’s Hate Annual #9.

Lady Gaga Partners with Zynga For… GagaVille?

Let’s play a game. On one hand you have Lady Gaga: living-breathing performance artist, best-selling singer, and wearer of designer dresses made of tenderized meat. On the other, Zynga: creators of mass appeal time-sucks like FarmVille, FrontierVille, and a game I should really be a lot better at, Words With Friends. What do these two drastically [...]

Nintendo: Wii Successor Will Arrive ‘When We Announce It’

Every console manufacturer has a successor in mind–it goes without saying. Well, unless you’re the games media, you’ve cornered Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto, you’re pestering him like the paparazzi, and he spits out something like this.

Sorry, Netflix: DishOnline Signs HBO, Cinemax Streaming Content

DishOnline, Dish Network’s subscriber-only streaming video service, may not have the success or scale of Netflix’s Watch Instantly, but it does have something that the VoD giant doesn’t: Exclusive HBO and Cinemax programming.

Verizon Fights Back with Strong iPhone Sales

In the first major market scuffle over iPhone sales, which wireless giant takes this round: AT&T or Verizon?