Bad news for AT&T customers who don’t like two-year commitments: the carrier is raising prices for early upgrades, one-year contracts and contract-free smartphones.
Buying an Android phone or Windows Phone 7 handset without a contract is now $50 more expensive. For one-year commitments, AT&T is raising prices by $150. For feature …
Apple can pat itself as well as the iPad on the back for helping pull its iOS family into first place and ahead of Android for overall web use, according to SEO firm ROI365.
Analyzing data from four million unique visitors and multiple websites, ROI365 found that while Android users enjoy a slight “web visits” lead over Apple’s …
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Windows 7 Professional Upgrade: $30 for students at Microsoft
What can cost upwards of $200 in a retail store can be had for $30 if you’re a student. And by "student," that means you have a .edu e-mail address. Maybe you’re a teacher or have an alumni e-mail address that ends in
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The one good thing that comes from being a sequel is the new story avenues that get opened up. In Infamous, gamers got to play the origin story of Cole McGrath, a bike messenger who got electrical powers in an explosion that ruined his hometown of Empire City. So, what you won’t be doing in the Sucker Punch dev studio’s Infamous 2 is …
A new trailer for the forthcoming Green Lantern movie debuted at this past weekend’s WonderCon, and it’s packed with Easter eggs for fans of the comics. Here’s a quick guide to the characters we see briefly.
0:18: The tall, skinny guy with red skin and black hair is Sinestro, created by John Broome and Gil Kane in Green Lantern #7 …
Does Apple’s iPad 2 “get out of the way” when you type an email, pluck guitar strings, or try to sign your name by tracing your fingertip across its glass surface? Apple hopes you think so, because that’s what a montage of app shots, a soothing voiceover, and some plaintive plucked piano chords seem to be selling.
Apple’s new iPad 2 …
“Wow! See who viewed your twitter with Profile Spy.”
Do NOT click the link attached to that message, should you see it sashaying across your Twitter feed today (or ever). A similar ruse made its way across Facebook last summer.
If you click the message in Twitter and give it access to your Twitter account, revoke its access here: …
Zynga has managed to capture the attention of 72 million active users, who obsessively play their simple, mindless games every day. Whether you want to be a farmer, mafia don or city planner, these games tap into a fantasy life that most users could never dream of leading. For five minutes a day, Zynga users sneak time from their home …
Email marketing provider Epsilon recently revealed that “a subset of Epsilon clients’ customer data” has been exposed.
As “the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider” with a roster of more than 2,500 big-name clients, the subset of data includes “email addresses and/or customer names,” as the original press release …
Is Apple planning some sort of social photo sharing application in the next version of iOS?
The team at 9to5 Mac have uncovered evidence of something new called Photo Stream.
Does the name sound familiar? It might well do, if you’ve been using a Mac for a while. Years ago, Apple created a system called Photocast, built into its …
If you live on the web, things might have just gotten more interesting. Some more screenshots of Windows 8 just leaked online, and it looks like Microsoft is seriously thinking about baking file syncing and web sharing straight in the new operating system.
We got a tantalizing look at Windows 8 last week, but tech blog I Started …
Just in case you thought Presidential campaigns weren’t nearly long enough, Barack Obama has done the thoughtful and chosen today to launch his bid for re-election on Facebook.
Why on Facebook? Well, which politician wouldn’t want to post a two-line announcement and get nearly three and a half thousand responses within an hour? (The …
