Video is becoming more and more important to U.S. Internet users, with the use of video-sharing sites like YouTube and Vimeo up 5% compared with last year, according to a new study.
The study, from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life project, revealed that video-sharing site usage has risen to 71% of online Americans …
Pulled out your e-wallet and deposited $30 in Apple’s coffers for a digital copy of OS X Lion? Patiently (or not so patiently) sucked all 4GB down and rolled through the upgrade process with all your applications more or less intact and functional? Figured out that a lot of the changes you don’t like (say, auto-disappearing scrollbars, …
Of all the questions you might conjure for Apple’s coolheaded retail store employees, here’s one you (and they) probably haven’t considered: What does it take to get booted from an Apple Store?
Walking in with a dog? Ordering a pizza and having it delivered to the second floor? Taking your (very tall) wife on a “romantic” date? …
According to a letter to shareholders released yesterday, Netflix is finally going to launch an app to integrate itself with Facebook…in Latin America and Canada. Why is the U.S. missing out? That would be because of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
The VPPA – passed in 1988, following an alt-weekly’s publishing of Supreme Court …
Ready for something like Mozilla’s Firefox on your mobile phone? Okay, you can already get that if you’re an Android user. So how about something like Firefox running in its own Mozilla-crafted mobile operating space?
Heads up Apple and Google, it sounds like the company that wrapped a fox around a globe (and a browser around much of …
Retail giant Walmart is putting its recent purchase of VUDU to work with the full integration of the service’s on-demand movie and TV show offerings on the Walmart.com website.
Aside from offering a 99-cent “Movie of the Day,” the service seems similar to on-demand offerings from the likes of Amazon and others. New-release rentals go …
If you like to read your feeds through Flipboard, don’t be too surprised if you start seeing advertisements over the next few months; the social reader has signed a deal with magazine heavyweight Conde Nast that will see ads appear on content from that particular publisher, starting with American Express now and Lexus ads beginning in …
Why stuff your website with search-optimized keywords when you can buy fake social media buzz instead?
A site called Plusem.com (hat tip to The Atlantic) is riding the wave of interest in Google+ and selling bundles of +1s — Google’s answer to Facebook’s “Like” button — to attention-starved websites. The site has no qualms about the …
Gamers have grown accustomed to waiting for the other shoe to drop when a grisly crime–especially one involving guns or murder–happens. Sooner or later, some media outlet somewhere is going to try to find a link between video games and the horror that one person visits upon another.
Usually, dubious connections are made via …
It looks like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they’ve been forced to comply with Apple’s controversial App Store rules. What’s more, Google’s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely.
Onward, tangled web! Recall the controversy in February, …
Remember Zuck’s “awesome” announcement that had lots of us expecting Facebook to announce their official iPad app? If you don’t, that’s okay: The Skype integration was seen by lots of people as decidedly ho-hum.
In case you haven’t heard yet (with a hat tip to MG Siegler at TechCrunch), the sleek new iPad app was found in a line of …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
$100 off any tablet: Prices vary at Staples
Whoa-ho-hold it. Here’s a wheel of a deal on tablets from Staples—$100 off any model sold in stores, to be precise. And by “any” we’re not talking the iPad, which Staples doesn’t sell; we’re not talking the HP TouchPad; and we’re …
