NBC’s iPad app just got a lot more useful with full episodes of popular shows like Community and Parks and Recreation. Both the app and the TV episodes are now free.
The selection of full episodes in NBC’s app isn’t too shabby. For primetime, scripted TV shows, the five most recent episodes are available. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon …
Google has ended a long silence about how much energy the company needs to operate, and how much power many of its popular services consume. Thanks to a new website, a pair of blog posts and a story in the New York Times, we’ve now got a treasure trove of data on the amount of energy it takes to run Google.
Here are some fun facts on …
Google has announced that it’s acquiring Zagat Survey, the dining guide known for its 30-point rating scale and snippets of quotes from restaurant customers.
“Moving forward, Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering—delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, ratings and insights, while enabling people …
Nine months after announcing the Droid Bionic at CES 2011, Motorola and Verizon Wireless have finally birthed their first dual-core, 4G LTE smartphone.
The oft-delayed Android handset goes on sale today for $300 with a two-year agreement. Specs include a 4.3-inch qHD display with 960-by-540 resolution, a 1 GHz dual-core processor, an …
Five workers who were fired for complaining to each other about their jobs on Facebook will go back to work and receive back pay, following a National Labor Relations Board ruling in their favor.
According to Inc., this was NLRB’s first social media ruling that didn’t target a specific company policy, and it was also the first social …
Put down your pitchforks, people. Contrary to some reports, Netflix is not limiting streaming video to one device at a time—at least not on purpose.
“No Netflix member is limited to less than two concurrent streams,” Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey told Techland in an e-mail. “A few Netflix members have heard differently from us, …
Once again, Google is scrambling to fix one of its services in the wake of negative publicity. This time, the bad apple is Google Places, a directory of local businesses that runs largely on user input.
As the New York Times reports, some unscrupulous businesses have been marking their competitors as permanently closed. This is fairly …
After months of rumors and speculation about Amazon’s tablet plans, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler broke some solid details.
Reportedly dubbed the new “Amazon Kindle,” this 7-inch tablet will use a heavily-modified version of Android, without any involvement from Google. The interface will be laser-focused on delivering Amazon content to the …
Tech companies have been flexing their design muscles at the IFA trade show in Berlin this week, trying to prove that Apple’s not the only one that can make ultra-thin, ultra-light laptops and tablets. Turns out that these PC makers can out-slim the iPad and the MacBook Air after all. They just needed Apple to start the fire. Here’s a …
HTC wanted no middle ground for its first Windows Phone “Mango” handsets, launching one phone with a 3.8-inch display, and another with a massive 4.7-inch display.
The HTC Radar is the smaller of the two, and packs a 1 GHz processor, a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, a VGA front-facing camera, 8 GB of storage and 512 MB of RAM.
The …
It’s no fire sale HP TouchPad, but for $199, Lenovo’s IdeaPad A1 tablet looks like a decent 7-inch slab of Android for cheap.
Just keep in mind that the IdeaPad A1 is far from the cutting edge of technology. Inside, there’s a 1 GHz processor (all the rage in 2010), 8 GB of storage, a 3-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing
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Samsung’s taking a couple more swings at sub-iPad tablet sizes with the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab 7.7. Finding success with these smaller sizes hasn’t been easy for tablet makers, but there’s a chance Samsung could finally get it right this time.
Let’s start with the Galaxy Note, a phone-tablet hybrid with a 5.3-inch …