It’s not exactly a secret any more who dies in this week’s issue of Fantastic Four (although if you haven’t been exposed to any media at all today and are waltzing into a comic book store wondering what’s going to happen, don’t scroll down). It’s also not the first time one of Marvel Comics’ flagship superhero team has apparently bitten …
Facebook Makes It Easier For Your Friends To Work For Advertisers
Your Facebook friends are going to start trying to sell you things. The social media giant is rolling out a new format called “Sponsored Stories” that it describes as “a way for marketers to sponsor activities that happen throughout the News Feed,” allowing statuses to be turned into four different types of featured stories for …
Need A Job? ‘Biggest Hiring Year In Company History’ At Google
Time to dust off that resume, huh? If you’ve been out of work for a while, Google has just announced that 2011 will be its “biggest hiring year in company history.” Back in 2007 it added 6,000 new employees, so the company’s apparently planning to hire at least that many this year.
According to Google’s blog post:
“We’re looking
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Netflix Eyeing Warner Bros., HBO As Content Partners
For Netflix instant streaming customers, good news: Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos said that the company will make a big push to try and buy HBO’s pay TV output deal with Warner Bros. before it expires in 2014. It’s not that they’re against the premium cable channel: He added that the company also has plans to try and woo …
New “L.A. Noire” Trailer Outs Release Date
It’s no longer a mystery as to when you’ll be able to play the hard-boiled detective game from Rockstar Games. The latest trailer for L.A. Noire reveals that the game will be out on May 17th. The clip also hints that several of the game’s murders may be the work of one serial killer. Along with the voiceover from the crazed murderer, the …
Apple Prepping Pay-By-Phone Chip For New iPhone This Year?
You’ll be hearing a lot more about NFC—near field communication—this year, as more and more cell phone manufacturers add NFC chips to their handsets. It’s basically a way to use your phone at a tap-to-pay credit card machine used by various retail stores. You may already have tap-to-pay built into one or more of your debit or credit …
bln.kr Helps Bands Track Their Tracks
Gone are the days when spreading the word about a new band meant handing out homemade CDs. With the growing importance of social media marketing in the music world, bln.kr wants to help emerging and amateur bands share their tracks and manage their social media profiles.
Think of bln.kr as the musical cousin of link shortener bit.ly …
A Lego Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars To Be Featured in Legoland
Many people might say that Legoland is just for kids, but there’s often awesome exhibits that people of all ages can enjoy. The new Star Wars feature, opening on March 31 in Legoland California, is something that your whole family can peruse. Featuring animated scenes from the movies and the Clone Wars series, the exhibit took eight …
Airlocks and Body Parts: “Dead Space 2” Review
Dead Space 2
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Visceral Games
Systems it’s available on: PS3/Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Mature
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
In the year 2511 on one of Saturn’s moons, a man with serious girlfriend issues dismembers a race of alien monsters called Necromorphs. Dead Space 2–already positioned to …
Verizon To Only Offer $30 Unlimited Data Plan For iPhone
Verizon COO Lowell McAdam told the Wall Street Journal that the Verizon iPhone will be available with a $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan.
“I’m not going to shoot myself in the foot,” said McAdam.
In early June of last year, AT&T dropped its $30-per-month unlimited 3G data plan in favor of a $25-per-month plan capped at two …
App Of The Week: Microsoft OneNote For iPhone
Microsoft’s popular note-taking software, OneNote, is now available as an iPhone app. You can use it to create notes and to-do lists while on the go and it’ll automatically synchronize your data online, where it can then be pulled into the OneNote application on your computer.
Likewise, the notes you’ve created on your computer can be …
Meet Five of the Best Gamers in the World
Sure, you brag to your friends that you are the best in the world at certain games, but are you really the one on top? In Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, the judges behind the records-keeping entity have verified the best gamers out there and are now presenting them to you in book form. Here’s a little peek into some of the …