The 10.1-inch Asus Eee Transformer tablet will be making its way to the U.S. soon, and if recently uncovered accidental product listings on both BestBuy.com and Newegg.com turn out to be legit—both sites have since taken the listings down—the Android tablet’s starting price will be $400.
Asus is perhaps best known as the company …
I know it’s April Fools, and that claiming half the sun just disappeared sounds a little ridiculous, but we’re not kidding: Half the sun just disappeared. Really!
It happened Tuesday, during a partial eclipse (caused by us–you know, the Earth) and a NASA satellite in high orbit managed to snap it in action. That’s the shot up top, …
In honor of April Fool’s Day, here’s a sampling of seven of the funniest comics out there. They may not (or may) be the deepest or most beautiful in other ways–they’re just the ones that have made me laugh hardest.
Mister O. The great and unbelievably prolific French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim has written and/or drawn something on …
Unscrupulous Android users are the target of a new malware app, which aims to humiliate software pirates by sending text messages to all their contacts.
The app is called Android.Walkinwat, and was reported by security firm Symantec. But unlike the two malware apps that appeared in the Android Market last month, this one is only …
Microsoft said all along that their Kinect motion-sensing camera would open up new gameplay possibilities. Turns out it’s opened the unlikeliest possibility of all: a StarCraft game for the Xbox 360.
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Blizzard kept fans waiting about a decade for StarCraft II, which …
If there’s anyone who loves April Fools’ Day, it’s Google. The company has had a tradition of pulling pranks on their users whether it’s the first of April or not. From changing their name to honor a city in Kansas to playing with the font on our search results to introducing a free email account with a storage capacity of 1GB per user …
Tax prep? There’s an app for that. Several, actually.
The folks at Intuit recently gave me a demo of their TurboTax apps: SnapTax for iPhone and Android lets you take a photo of your W2 form and fills in all the necessary blanks automatically, while TurboTax for iPad features everything you’d find with the web-based version of …
Slow day for game news? Skyrim to the rescue! Bethesda just deployed six new screen grabs (hint: they’re pretty grand) from their upcoming roleplaying saga. Why not have a look?
We’ve got the one where you’re stuck in a cave, the one where you’re gawking at cloud-draped mountains, another where you’re two-stepping with knives, and of …
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.
Re-Cycle Cardboard Bike
Oh sure, the fact that you ride a bike to work means you’re
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Android-compatible PlayStation One games have finally arrived, as promised, but the only Android device currently capable of running them is Sony’s Xperia Play–a slide-screen phone with a PlayStation-style gamepad that’s not yet available.
Poke around the Android Market and you might expect to find PS One oldies like Cool Boarders 2, …
Off the top of my head, I can’t tell you many people hit up Facebook daily, but a freakishly high number of people visit the site on their phones everyday. In fact, Facebook says over 250 million people visit the site monthly on their cellphones.
Just a little over a year ago, the mobile site only had 100 million users. Since then, …
Blogger has just lifted the lid on some cool new features that will be finding their way into the hosting blogging service soon.
Top of the list is a selection of new views that you can apply to any Blogger blog, irrespective of which template you use for it.
The views are called Flipcard, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot and Timeslide. …
