This is weird, but let’s just go with it. Mobile site PPCGeeks.com apparently received a leaked Verizon roadmap showing Microsoft’s ill-fated Kin phones returning from the dead in Q4 of this year.
Engadget claims to have been “able to independently confirm” the news, but reports that the Kin phones will be dumbed down to the point …
Today’s Google Doodle either celebrates Veterans Day or grossly offends America – it depends on who you ask.
This morning, Twitter and Facebook were humming with comments surrounding the appearance of a crescent shape peeking out from behind the American flag. Part of the logo’s “e,” the so-called crescent moon is one half of the …
Facebook has summoned members of the media to San Francisco next Monday for a “special event.” The invitation is totally devoid of useful information except for a speech bubble icon with a vague resemblance of an e-mail message inside of it—the very same icon set that’s currently used in Facebook’s “Messages” section.
People have …
While many Amazon customers have been angered by a downloadable e-book claiming to be a pro-pedophilia guide, the online webstore is saying it is their right to sell the product, adding it would be censorship not to allow the product in their Kindle downloadable database.
In a statement to AOL’s TechCrunch, the company wrote, “Amazon …
Ice Cube’s “Now I Gotta Wet’Cha,” the country song “Hony Tonk Badonkadonk” and the trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World don’t have a lot in common, but there’s one uniting thread among the trio: All three use the meaningless sing-song phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong.” Now, if Nintendo gets its way, this innocuous practice might come …
So what does Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-control camera really do as it’s capturing your movements? One enterprising individual turned to the magic of night vision optics to find out.
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The result looks like an eerie blanket of stars from far away, and a mono-colored Lite Brite …
Available today, Smule’s $2.99 Magic Fiddle iPad app turns Apple’s $499 tablet into a $501.99 digital fiddle of sorts.
The app teaches you to play the fiddle using a rolling line of notes that cross over a virtual set of strings, similar to how games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero work. You can play along to a built-in library of …
The social media giant has started testing a “mentions” function on the News Feed of select Facebook user accounts, meaning when you and your friend decide to write about the same thing, Facebook will conveniently pair your posts together within your News Feed. The new feature will also add the public profile of the “thing” you and your …
We first heard rumblings of this “Peel” case back in July, and Sprint has now made it official. Quite simply, it’s a protective case for a 2nd or 3rd generation iPod Touch that connects to Sprint’s 3G network and converts the data into a Wi-Fi signal to be used by the iPod Touch itself.
It’ll be available November 14th for $80 and …
Without his myriad of Web followers, there might not be another Conan show on air.
As word of Conan’s expulsion from his short-term gig as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show hit the Internet, fans held vigil via social media as Team Coco marched to the metaphorical courthouse steps of NBC by way of Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. The …
Starting Thursday, Verizon will be taking orders for the Samsung Continuum. It’s a $200 Android phone based on Samsung’s line of Galaxy S handsets.
The Continuum breaks the mold by featuring two LCD screens: a 3.4-inch main screen sits above a 1.8-inch “dedicated ticker display that streams customized information in real time,” …
As rumored about a month ago, Google has now officially unveiled Instant Previews, a feature that grabs full page snapshots of the web sites returned in your search results. You can try it out now by going to Google.com/InstantPreviews or wait until it’s automatically rolled out.
Each search result will have a little magnifying glass …
