Usually high school kids have to write more than 140 characters to get a college scholarship. Now, thanks to KFC, students who attach the hashtag #KFCScholar to a tweet could end up scoring $20,000 for their college …
Apps & Web
Apple Picks ‘Best’ iPhone and iPad Games of 2011: Who Got Snubbed?
Should we trust Apple to pick the best iPhone and iPad games of 2011? Would you trust Sony to pick the best games on the PlayStation Network? Valve to rank its favorites on Steam? Microsoft to name its favorites on Xbox …
Use Amazon’s Price Check App and Save $15 This Saturday
How’s this for a brazen move to steal business away from brick-and-mortar stores? Under normal circumstances, a shopper using Amazon’s Price Check app in a physical store can instantaneously check to see if Amazon sells the same merchandise for a better price. This Saturday, however, when a consumer uses the app, Amazon will undercut …
Screenshots: Take a Gander at the New Twitter Design
Rolling out over the next few weeks, Twitter’s new design aims to simplify things a bit with four prominent tabs—Home, Connect, Discover and Me. The new look and feel will be consistent across Twitter’s standard website, mobile …
iPhone App Turns Notifications into Quick-Launch Shortcuts
Last week, we showed you how to add quick-launch shortcuts to the iPhone home screen. Now, an app called App Switcher adds similar capabilities to the Notification Center in iOS.
App Switcher costs $1 and is kind of a pain to …
Cult of Jobs: Bronze Statue of Apple Founder to Be Erected in Budapest
First it was a school in Bulgaria naming a school after him. Now, a man in Hungary is commissioning a seven-foot bronze statue of Steve Jobs to be erected in a Budapest technology park.
Sculptor Erno Toth is basing his work on …
Mario and Zelda Creator Shigeru Miyamoto Says He’ll Retire, Except Not Really
The creator of Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox and F-Zero is retiring early, only 59 years old–or wait, maybe he isn’t. Don’t believe everything you read.
It turns out Nintendo bigwig and game design luminary Shigeru …
One Last Shot at a $99 HP Tablet
The HP TouchPad: If you blinked, you may have missed it. The tablet launched on July 1 and was killed off on August 18. TouchPad, we hardly knew ye.
In no time at all, HP dropped the TouchPad’s starting price—originally …
Instagram Says It’s Working On Android App
As an Android user, I’m generally pleased with the selection of apps available on Android Market, which just hit its 10 billionth download recently. Yet I can’t help but look on with envy as iPhone users flaunt the one app I …
Angry Birds Takes Aim at High Fashion
Consider it the latest crossover between high fashion and brand awareness. After all, there’s little other excuse for Teija Vesterbacka, the wife of Rovio CMO Peter Vesterbacka, to attend a black tie event held at the Finnish …
Create Your Own Absurd Smartphone with the Android Name Generator
Have you heard about the brand-new HTC Amaze Optimus XT 3D? How about the LG Desire Incredible Plus Z Prime? The Sony Ericsson Devour Touch Pro?
Of course you haven’t, because they’re not real phones and those names are …
High-Tech Contact Lenses Could Pave the Way for Terminator-Style Electronic Displays
Researchers at the University of Washington might have just paved the way for advanced augmented reality. They fit rabbits with the first-ever electronic contact lenses, which, according to New Scientist, were able to display a …