Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
What to Expect from This Week’s Consumer Electronics Show
Link: TIME.com
You’ll be seeing plenty of CES news this week. Here’s a preview of what to expect and how to separate the wheat from the
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With Facebook’s ever-evolving profile, sometimes it seems simpler to leave your profile information untouched than update it, even if your fondness for The Amazing Race has seriously dwindled over the last few years. Still, your online identity could be in serious need of some readjustments.
As Facebook profiles are now considered a …
Here at Techland, only one television program manages to tie into so many of our geeky obsessions all at once. Superheroes, mythical creatures, action figures and barely believeable sci-fi all flop onto each other on the glorious cavalcade that is The Venture Bros. Cartoon Network’s just started airing the series from the start and …
America, the movie industry is very disappointed in you. The domestic box office total for 2010 was smaller than 2009’s, although IMAX can celebrate its most successful year to date, doubling its 2009 gross last year.
Oddly enough, despite North American grosses falling slightly from 2009’s $10.6 billion to $10.55 billion (Other …
Here’s a good reason to buy The Other Guys on iTunes: You’ll be taking part in a secret experiment.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is using the Will Ferrell movie to test whether adding additional extras unavailable on DVD or Blu-Ray versions of the release will increase sales through iTunes as part of a trial to see whether …
Best Buy has had enough of selling other people’s hard work, and has decided that its time to sell its own. The retailer has launched Best Buy On, a “multichannel network” full of original content that will both broadcast to its retail outlets and be streamed online as part of its accompanying “online magazine.”
The project has …
Happy New Year! While most of you are making resolutions and predicting what’s going to happen, Buzzfeed has uncovered this gem from 1993 about the future of technology according to AT&T. See if any of these “ideas” have become reality. The company said, “You will.” And, we did.
We’re borrowing books from thousands of miles away with …
One thing that makes Disney movies stand out from other animation features is that their universal story and plot can appeal to any one in any decade. Every child can imagine wanting to be the hero that saves the day, and ever adult can remember back to a time when they believe the world was magical. So, is it really necessary that the …
The holidays are over. They’re over. Let ’em go. We all overindulged, we all said we wouldn’t, and now we’re all resolving to get back in shape. Short of running outside in the freezing cold or taking out a second mortgage to cover a gym membership, here are 10 video games to help trim that waistline.
After a $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs and a big time Russian investment firm, Facebook ‘s value jumps to a stunning $50 billion, making the company worth more than competing companies eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.
(More on Techland: Facebook Forecast 2011: Mobile & E-Commerce)
The new investment comes at the beginning …
It’s not even an entire workday into 2011, and we’ve already gotten an excellent piece of comics news: Fantagraphics has just announced that they’ll be publishing the complete comics of Carl Barks, in something around 30 hardcover volumes, over the next 15 years. (There’s an extensive interview about it with Fantagraphics publisher Gary …
The inevitable is upon us: Angry Birds is going to be released on the Playstation Network this week marking the game’s first foray into the console world, according to the Playstation blog. With Rovio admitting to the BBC that they are developing a specific version of the title for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii to be released sometime this …
