When President Barack Obama asked Twitter to join him for a virtual town hall meeting by tweeting him questions using the hashtag #AskObama, it’s possible he was expecting a few people to join him. What he got was an impressive 169,395 tweets, and enough new followers that he broke the 9 million barrier for the first time.
Of the …
If you own an Apple iOS product and you’ve not downloaded around 75 apps, you’re really not pulling your weight. Apple has announced that it has pushed out its 15 billionth app since launching the app store in June 2008, just a month after announcing 14 billion downloads at its Worldwide Developer’s Conference.
With more than 200 …
The iX104C5 tablet from Xplore Technologies is built for extreme conditions, but how does it fare against life in suburbia?
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Amazon just upped the ante in the cloud music wars (oh yes, that’s a thing now) by announcing some enticing new offers and features for its Cloud Drive service.
Cloud Drive, you’ll remember, is Amazon’s version of iTunes. You pay your fee and get to keep all your music on Amazon’s servers. Listening to stuff is as easy as clicking a …
We’re a week gone from the Supreme Court’s historic ruling on Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, which declared that video games should enjoy the same protections as other forms of art. Like the ruling in the 1952 Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson case did for film, the Brown decision moves video games from being categorized as …
Days of wild speculation as to what “awesome” really is can finally be laid to rest.
Today Mark Zuckerberg, coated in a hurried layer of sweat (and excitement!), announced from the company’s Palo Alto headquarters that Facebook would be implementing a newly designed chat interface that allows for group chatting, and partnering with …
Facebook is holding a press event at its headquarters in Palo Alto on Wednesday, July 6th. It’s invite-only, but I’m among the invited, and I’m inviting you to attend our live coverage, starting at 1pm ET. I’ll blog the news as we learn it, right here and at technologizer.com/facebookevent.
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Did you ever think you’d see the day? Spotify is coming to the U.S. I should have quotes around that last sentence, because those are Spotify’s exact words per its U.S. launch page.
Spotify distances itself from competing streaming music services by offering a free plan that allows users to stream any of its millions of music …
Could the final launch of a space shuttle be derailed by rain and thunderstorms? It’s looking like it.
We’re heading into the space shuttle program’s final lap, the last NASA-based launch of a shuttle in history via the Kennedy Space Center this Friday, so it’s somehow poetic that the weather—a frequent cause of prior shuttle launch …
Foursquare continues to roll out new tweaks to improve its interface, making this latest addition—a new notification system that “goes beyond the check-in”—available to Android and web users first. The service is available today.
Which is, weirdly, a bit contrary to the New York-based company’s typical behavior; in the past it’s …
The voyeurs of social media would have you believe that people want to connect with other people on an instinctive level, that humans are purely social animals. And who can prove them wrong? Mark Zuckerberg and his peer wunderkind have built the framework to our digital connections and we’re lured in again and again. We fill them with …
You work, right? And are you on the Facebook? Seems everyone’s on the Facebook. That thing’s probably going to “make it” in the tech world.
Your superiors may not appreciate you spending company time on Facebook, preferring instead that you buckle down and churn through those spreadsheets. But what if you’ve already churned through …
