Take a Ride into Space with Virgin Galactic for Just $200,000

Blast off with some more money in your wallet. Long are the days when you shelled out $20 million for a trip into space –Virgin Galactic is instead offering rides for $200,000. That’s two zeros shaved off the price. Just forget buying a home, you don’t really need protection from the elements anyways.

Qik Lets You Video Call Between iPhones and Android Phones

Coexistence is possible. The newest version of Qik lets Android video call iPhone users – and vice versa. Now let’s all hold hands and sing around the campfire.

Casio G’zOne Commando: Rugged Phone, Silly Name

Casio’s G’zOne Commando may not be the prettiest Android smartphone on the block, but it’s a rare phone that can survive a splash in a puddle or a weekend in the freezing cold.

2012 MacBook Pros to Get All New Case Design?

Apple gives us plenty to complain about, but one thing I wouldn’t is the graceful design of my 13-inch mid-2010 MacBook Pro. It aces both form and function, a rare (well, not so rare if you’re Apple) technology coup. A year on, it’s still ultra-quick, reasonably light and portable, and a joy to work on [...]

Even Once the PlayStation Network Is Back, This Thing Is Far from Over

This article has been cross-posted from our partner site, Technologizer.

Why Does Everyone Keep Saying The Web is Dead?

At a VentureBeat Mobile Summit last night, Square COO Keith Rabois declared “the website as you know it” to be “dead.”

Sony Admits Personal Info at Risk, Claims PSN Back Up In a Week

It’s been six days of hell for PS3 owners who’ve been without the use of the console’s PlayStation Network. However, with the latest update on the official Playstation blog, Sony PR rep Patrick Seybold reports that the PSN could be back up inside a week. But don’t celebrate just yet–it appears that things may be worse than [...]

Have Tablets Eroded the Popularity of Toilet Smartphone Use?

Here at Techland, we like to ask the hard questions. So when a Google survey found that 39 percent of smartphone users whip out their handsets while on the toilet, we decided to dig deeper. To push harder. To find out whether the rise of tablets has helped put the skids on toilet smartphone use. [...]

Rockstar Games’ ‘L.A. Noire’ Goes Full Frontal at Tribeca Film Festival

I didn’t think video games could shock me anymore. I also thought I had a good sense of just how lurid Rockstar Games’ upcoming detective thriller was going to be. Watching the game get played in a movie theater last night proved me wrong on both counts.

Out of Gas and Stuck in Space? NASA May Have a Solution

You’re cruising round the moon, all engines go, having the time of your life, and then you notice your fuel needle’s jittering dangerously close to “E.” Tap-tap-tap, but no, it’s not stuck, and you’re about to discover how far past “E” the needle goes. What do you do?

28% of All Ad Revenue in 2010 Was Digital

Sterling Draper Cooper Price would be dead in the water by now. Advertising Age is reporting that 28% of US ad agency revenue in 2010 came from digital services, up 19.6% from the year before.