Feeling guilty for sneaking in those few minutes of checking status updates or tweets at your work desk? Don’t. It’s Friday and, according to new research, you aren’t alone in your social media longings.
After analyzing more than 200 of its clients’ Facebook pages over two weeks, Buddy Media found that social media engagement …
Sony CEO Jack Tretton just bared his claws in a catty new interview with Fortune magazine. In the interview, Tretton had some particularly harsh words for Nintendo’s new ‘3d-without-glasses’ 3DS, calling it of all things a “babysitting tool.”
Here’s the quote:
Our view of the ‘Game Boy experience’ is that it’s a great babysitting
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The nominees for this year’s Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards–effectively the comics business’s Oscar’s–were announced Thursday night. (The actual award winners will be announced at this July’s Comic-Con International in San Diego.) Half the point of making a short-list of award nominees, of course, is to get people to argue about …
A great incentive to buy lots of Verizon Wireless phones is about to go away.
Verizon confirmed to Boy Genius Report that after April 17, the carrier will discontinue its one-year contract option for all phones. Customers will have to either get two-year contracts or pay full price for phones in exchange for month-to-month …
It’s official: No longer will YouTube be the place you pore over pop videos resurrected from your wild-eyed youth, or scan viral videos of hilarious/adorable animals doing things that may or may not be hilarious or adorable. As of today, the site’s going real time, adding a new page focused on live streams:
Today we’re announcing the
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Porn problems around the home or office? I hear that. I. Hear. That.
If you’ve got a sneaking suspicion that a particular computer’s hard drive may be buckling under the weight of thousands of porno-visual images (it’s called—”porno-visual”—right?), then the $100 USB Porn Stick is all you need to see what you’re most afraid (and …
If you use Pandora’s Android app, beware: Pandora’s channeling your personal info to third party advertisers, including your birthdate, gender, Android ID, and GPS information.
Evidence for this first appeared in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, which reported that the company was one of many smartphone app manufacturers …
Yelp, the popular user-generated ratings site for local businesses, just added “sex clubs” to its growing list of categories. Pretty odd, right? Well, not so much. We tracked down a few of the even odder items reviewed on Yelp, including puzzlers such as a highly-esteemed sperm bank, an evening spent in jail, and (for one Texas town) a …
The world’s computers crunch through 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data every year.
That’s 9.57 zettabytes. One zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power, or a million million gigabytes.
And if you still can’t get your head around that kind of number (I know I can’t), let’s convert it into average-sized books.
In book form, our …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,500)
For the impoverished elite …
Minecraft‘s been one of the biggest success stories ever in the video game medium. The sprawling browser-based game’s mostly the work of one man, indie developer Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, with more than 6 million people registered. It’s become wildly popular over the last year, so much so that Paypal froze Persson’s account on suspicions …
The ongoing fight between Time Warner Cable and Viacom over whether the former has the right to include Viacom channels on their iPad app is getting more serious…and more litigious. TWC has filed a request that a New York District Court rule its existing carriage agreement with Viacom allows it to stream Viacom’s channels on the …
