Hope you started saving your paychecks early, Black Friday is just around the corner.
The slow trickle of ad releases began today, with some major retailers even advertising pre-Black Friday deals as a countdown to the biggest shopping season of year. We’ve got our eyes peeled for the best tech savings for your …
Today we celebrate the life of our dearly departed Sony Walkman, with the announcement that Sony will be ceasing production on the tape player version. (CD and Mini Disc versions will still be made.)
The Walkman was really the only way to carry portable music back in the day. Not only could you tape your music off the radio and …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on his company’s fourth quarter earnings call last night. It was a rare appearance but Jobs said, “I just couldn’t help dropping by for our first $20 billion quarter.” He also couldn’t help taking a few shots at the competition—specifically RIM, (makers of the BlackBerry handsets) and Google’s Android …
With the wave of recent sexting scandals making headlines, parents have become concerned that their text-happy children might be getting into some adult behavior with repercussions they don’t understand. Apple thinks they might have the solution to this new age problem.
The US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent that Apple …
You know those times where a magazine article just doesn’t hold enough information, but you don’t exactly want to read a book on the subject? Amazon is attempting to solve that problem with Kindle Singles, lengthy selections (which to them means twice as long as a New Yorker article, yet shorter than a full book – think 30 to 90 pages) …
News broke yesterday that Qualcomm would be shuttering its FLO TV service and the company has just relased a statement that says direct to consume sales of hardware have been halted and that service will continue into next spring. If you subscribe to FLO TV services through your mobile phone carrier, it seems your service will not be …
Digg founder Kevin Rose might not regret his choices, but he is definitely recognizing them.
Rose admitted at TCDisrupt that he hated his five month foray as company CEO. From what he said, it seems that he’s definitely not a Michael Scott.
“I think of myself as a PM [product manager] and creative director, so it was hard being a …
This is kind of inside baseball, but it’s a big deal in the tech blogging world: TechCrunch has just been acquired by AOL.
Financial details of the deal are unknown, but the acquisition specifies that “TechCrunch and its associated properties and conferences will join the AOL Technology Network while retaining their editorial …
Adding insult to injury, Netflix has announced a deal with NBC Universal that we’re sure has the folks at Blockbuster weeping like a 2-year-old who just lost its binky.
Starting next week, Netflix subscribers can stream just about everything and anything from NBC, USA Network and Syfy, including Battlestar Galactica. Oh, and you …
Speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference today, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg told investors that Verizon has no plans to carry the iPhone in the near future and that Verizon may roll out tiered data pricing in the coming months.
“We don’t feel like we have an iPhone deficit. We would love to carry it when we get there, but …
The fine people of Denmark are getting a closer look at their cobblestone-paved streets. Google Street View Bike (well, technically tricycle) has come to the country to track bike paths and small spaces that a car can’t get to.
So far the tricycle has logged 300 kilometers in the Danish countryside including a trip to the Round Tower, …
The hubbub between T-Mobile and EZ Texting has made its way to federal court in New York. On Wednesday, Washington-based T-Mobile told a federal judge that it has the right to screen text messages before sending them over the network to subscribers.
Earlier this week, T-Mobile began blocking text messages sent from EZ Texting to …
