True story: Once, while aimlessly wandering the aisles of a supermarket and wishing I was somewhere else, I caught myself looking up and to the right.
Chester Brown’s comics memoir Paying For It came out last week, and–as it was designed to do–it’s already been raising some eyebrows. Brown’s a superb cartoonist whose earlier books include the biography Louis Riel, the autobiographical I Never Liked You and The Playboy (the latter revolving around an issue of Playboy he discovered as a [...]
In case you hadn’t noticed, this whole online music thing is heating up. First Amazon rolled out its Cloud Player, then Google Music came along, and now Apple is expected to announce its own online music service—the big money’s on something called “iCloud” that’ll be unveiled on June 6th.
After taking a beating from Netflix and Redbox, going bankrupt and getting bought by the Dish Network, Blockbuster is trying to lure customers back with lower prices. Now all you’ve got to do is find a Blockbuster.
It’s been a tense, nerve-racking week in the United States and the other countries who got the PlayStation Network restored after Sony’s online service was shut down by hackers. Like anyone burned by a bad break-up, PS3 owners were tentative: “Will it stay up? Will it leave us again? How can we be sure?”
It’s like a special singularity just for the internet: Facebook and Netflix are apparently in talks to integrate content and, presumably, take over the world as we know it.
I have a guilty pleasure. It’s called Lamebook. It spotlights the hilariously human nature of Facebook users—the good, the bad, and plenty of ugly.
Remember Paul Ceglia? The wood pellet salesman from upstate New York claiming a 50 percent stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s slice of Facebook? A few months ago, Mr. Ceglia submitted purported evidence in the form of an e-mail exchange between himself and Zuck which, if legitimate, would appear to support his claim, perhaps entitling him to [...]
The PlayStation 4 exists, surprise! Bet you never saw that coming. Except it’s not called the PlayStation 4—not yet, anyway. But yes, Sony admitted it’s in the offing in one of those indirectly-traveling-from-New-York-to-L.A.-by-way-of-China references.
From launch day press coverage bonanza to dismal other-shoe-drops lawsuit, it looks like Google Wallet may have some splainin’ to do. Or at least PayPal and eBay think it does.
Nokia’s fighting back in the smartphone wars with something really special: a gold-plated handset.
