In case you haven’t heard, Barnes & Noble’s flagship Nook Color recently got a great big overhaul with an Android-powered OS update. The results were so impressive, in fact, that Technologizer’s Harry McCracken went so far to christen the Nook as “something that the Motorola Xoom and BlackBerry PlayBook aren’t: an iPad alternative with a …
The Wall Street Journal appears to be the first major news outlet to get their own Wikileaks-style portal up and running. They’re calling it The SafeHouse, a haven where tippers can submit various forms of documentation anonymously.
The site states they’re looking for “newsworthy contracts, correspondence, emails, financial records or …
Though Sony’s been under lots of heat for continually flubbing their still-not-working PlayStation Network, I have to say: this new trailer for SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy SEALs — especially in light of all the SEALS-related newsmaking this week — is pretty compelling.
Watch it down below and note some of the (I’m sure) carefully selected …
Well this is kind of awkward. In an interview published on Forbes’ blog yesterday, Eric Ackerson, a senior product marketing and brand manager at Acer, said that “the death of netbooks is overstated,” in regard to the proliferation of tablets like the iPad. His reasoning is simple: tablets are expensive, netbooks are not.
The article …
Yesterday Sony told a U.S. House of Representatives Committee that the culprits behind the PlayStation Network outages were none other than hacker collective Anonymous, the group responsible for the takedowns of websites like Visa.com and Westboro Baptist Church late last year. But the puzzling saga took another sharp turn this morning …
Being a super genius sure is hard. You have all these great theorems about how gravity works and whatnot without the proper means to prove if they’re viable or bunk. In Einstein’s case, it wasn’t until recently — 56 years after his death — that technology finally caught up to the inner machinations of his astounding …
Pandora’s been more or less the savior for anyone stuck in a cubicle all day since the streaming music service launched back in 2005. But today in a press release, the online radio company announced that they’re adding some welcomed variation to the listening fold: 10,000 or so new comedy clips of your favorite funny men and …
Cool kids take note. Photo and video sharing service Photobucket is making a move into trendier territory with the release of their new Snapbucket app, available for download on Androids as of today (the iPhone version will be available soon).
Contrary to their other app, Snapbucket allows users to apply vignettes and other artful …
Back in the day, whoever had the biggest, most awe-inspiring Super Soaker was automatically crowned King of the Block. One of those summers, I was lucky enough to wield said proverbial conch in the form of a high-powered water rifle that I used to blast other kids in the face.
Needless to say, 2010 was a really good year for …
A look back at a few of the more notable public relations (PR) mishandlings in recent memory.
The Poincare conjecture was a seemingly unsolvable theorem that was first proposed in 1904. Dealing with a branch of spatial mathematics called topology, the theorem sought to prove that any shape without a hole can be formed into a sphere. Sounds simple enough, right? Tell that to the math world, which, for over a century, struggled to …
Though Research and Motion saw its shares slide as it struggles to compete against Android and iOS, the company announced two new additions to the BlackBerry family this morning, with a fancy new OS update to boot.
The BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 both sport full VGA (640×480) capacitive touchscreens in addition to the full on QWERTY …
