About.me is about to make it even easier to tell people all about you. The site – purchased by AOL at the end of last year – already offers users the ability to make free personalized profile pages with introductions and links to your content and social networking profiles around the Internet.
But according to TechCrunch, it’s about …
For Angry Birds aficionados, there’s some good and some bad news.
The good: You’ll soon have a new opportunity to fling our feathered friends at piles of smirking pigs courtesy a new edition of the game dubbed “Angry Birds Magic.”
And the bad: It’s only available for Nokia’s C7 Smartphone, which employs near field …
Have you seen these new 3D city maps from Nokia’s Ovi Maps service? They’re pretty amazing.
20 global cities have been recreated in astonishing photorealistic 3D. These are not satellite images, nor are they traditional maps. They’re something different.
Nokia didn’t do all the work in-house. They bought the technology from Swedish …
Another start-up’s decided to attempt a streaming television service, convinced that it’s found the way around all the legal red tape snarling previous attempts. Here’s the catch: It’s not a cable company.
The distinction may seem minor, but Bamboom thinks it’s important. The New York-based company, currently in “technical beta” …
Are Michigan State Police breaking the law and illegally obtaining private information from cellphones? Apparently, it’ll cost somewhere around $500,000 to find out.
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they’ve pulled over …
Oh look, another study pitting Apple against Android like digital pugilists boxing for market share. The verdict this time? iOS has “twice the reach of Android.”
That’s according to comScore, which claims in its breaking study that Apple’s iOS devices (comprising iPhones, iPad, and iPad Touches) total some 37.9 million devices among …
Wal-Mart is about to get very social indeed. The retail giant has reportedly paid $300 million for Kosmix, the company behind real-time Twitter filter site TweetBeat, medical search engine RightHealth and topic-specific engine Kosmix. The company, founded by Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman in 2005, will be folded into Wal-Mart’s …
HBO fans have reason to celebrate with the premium cable company’s announcement of HBO Go, available on tablets and mobile devices early next month. Good news to be sure, but there’s also a downside: like the desktop version, to access it, you have to be subscribed to the network.
On the other hand, you’ll have instant access to old …
Google continues to roll out high-profile investments in renewable energy, announcing today that it’s putting $100 million into a wind farm in Oregon. Shepherds Flat, which is expected to take up around 30 square miles in Arlington, OR, will be the largest wind farm in the world, supplying electricity to around 235,000 homes via Southern …
Netflix may have ignored advice to start selling movies in the past – perhaps because of a rumored agreement with WalMart that prohibits such a move – but that doesn’t mean the company won’t push you in the direction of others who’ll sell you the goods.
The Hacking Netflix blog noticed that a small “Buy Now” link appears on Netflix’s …
Not content with playing home to gazillions of your family barbecue photos or a megatrillion updates about cats, Facebook is branching out and taking on yet another aspect of social networking: old-fashioned voice calls.
The hitherto humble little Facebook chat window, which lurks unobtrusively at the bottom of your Facebook wall, now …
Each month we’ll hand test a selection of unique accessories, peripherals and other items of tech merriment to see if they’re worth your time.
Here’s the roundup for April.
Kensington PowerLift Back-Up Battery, Dock and Stand for iPhone
It’s not like iPhone accessories are exactly in short supply nowadays, but Kensington has …
