Ever get a tax return that seemed a little too good to be true? Imagine how Huron, Ohio resident Denise Bossetti felt when the state promised her $200 million.
Bossetti was reportedly one of 9,700 Ohio residents to receive outrageously inflated tax returns, thanks to an incorrectly-formatted data field in Intuit’s ProSeries and …
Here’s a sign that social gaming has crossed over into the mainstream: News Corp is looking to build its own social gaming business and ride that bandwagon all the way to the bank.
Talking to an audience at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, News Corp head of digital media Jonathan Miller said that social gaming is a definite area of …
The mundane world of document editing is about to get a little more lively with discussions in Google Docs.
Although Google Docs previously allowed collaborators to comment within a document, this overhaul lets users reply to other comments and edit their own remarks, with a timestamp and profile image appearing alongside each …
Not content with partnering with Warner Bros. to stream movie rentals through the site, Facebook is continuing to build its web video offerings by teaming with Major League Baseball to offer free pre-season games live until the end of the month.
According to MLB.com’s CEO, Bob Bowman, the partnership is actually less about Facebook’s …
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Austin’s South by Southwest conference conference has a relentless emphasis on the new–new tech startups, new movies, new music. But as I explored the event’s bustling trade-show floor this week, one of the things I was happiest to come across was old. Really old.
When I saw a booth festooned with Kodak signage, I assumed that it was …
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. The Strokes’ Angles comes out next Tuesday–the troubled New York City rockers’ first new …
Yahoo is reportedly in talks to acquire Flixster, the social movie site that has grown increasingly popular since it acquired Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review aggregator that had been previously acquired by videogame-centric IGN Entertainment, which itself had been acquired by Fox Interactive Media back when . . . ah, to heck with it. …
As Japan struggles to cope with the ongoing tragedies engendered by earthquakes, tsunamis and faltering nuclear power plants, Apple has announced that it will postpone the launch of the iPad 2 in the tech-savvy country.
The tablet, which launched on Friday in the U.S., was scheduled to debut in Japan on March 25. But Apple spokeswoman …
Oh Samsung, you’re such a tease.
For a couple of weeks, you’ve been hinting at an 8.9 inch tablet, first with a press event invitation, and now with a YouTube video of some dimly-lit, stylized renderings. Just one problem: Nobody cares.
Admittedly, it was cool when you teased the original Galaxy Tab late last year. Back then, …
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Movie studios are skittish about giving their new releases to bargain rental services like Netflix and Redbox, but that’s not a concern for streaming video startup Zediva.
The service, which moves out of beta today, streams new movie releases for $2 a piece — …
eHow wants you to know that it’s not just a purveyor of churned-out SEO spam. To that end, parent company Demand Media has redesigned the eHow website to focus on quality content.
The redesign uses a bright-green color scheme instead of sickly blue, with colorful banners announcing the category of each featured article. Dare I say it, …
A 16-year old girl canceled her birthday party after more than 200,000 people accepted the invitation to attend. She’s popular.
Well, not quite. An Australian girl by the name of Jess sent out a Facebook invitation to the party located at her house. A 17-year old teenager hijacked the invite, making the whole invitation …
