In case you hadn’t noticed, this whole online music thing is heating up. First Amazon rolled out its Cloud Player, then Google Music came along, and now Apple is expected to announce its own online music service—the big money’s on something called “iCloud” that’ll be unveiled on June 6th.
The difference between Apple’s offering and …
It’s like a special singularity just for the internet: Facebook and Netflix are apparently in talks to integrate content and, presumably, take over the world as we know it.
Netflix was just one of multiple online companies, also including music streaming service Spotify, mentioned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg as being in discussions …
I have a guilty pleasure. It’s called Lamebook. It spotlights the hilariously human nature of Facebook users—the good, the bad, and plenty of ugly.
For some reason, I can’t get enough. It’s a perfect system, too. With half a billion people (and growing) all gathering at the same place, Lamebook won’t run out of material for …
Remember Paul Ceglia? The wood pellet salesman from upstate New York claiming a 50 percent stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s slice of Facebook? A few months ago, Mr. Ceglia submitted purported evidence in the form of an e-mail exchange between himself and Zuck which, if legitimate, would appear to support his claim, perhaps entitling him to …
Attention, humanity: We seem to be suffering from an acute case of stupidity.
There’s a viral misconception making its way through our Twitter accounts and Facebook profiles and injecting itself into our brains. And it’s leading those infected to believe these social sites are looking out for us.
Yesterday, we wondered if Twitter …
A new McCann study surveyed a group of 7,000 young individuals ages 16 to 30 across several countries to gauge their interests in different categories (friends, celebrity culture, etc. etc.) to see what actually motivates them to, you know, do things.
One of the more interesting tidbits–if you couldn’t tell from the extra grabby …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Evan Narcisse, Douglas Wolk and Graeme McMillan talk about the Strange Adventures one-shot and Kirby Genesis #0.
EVAN: They should have never put a Paul Pope cover on Strange Adventures #1. Not because it creates …
Well this is interesting. Not long after rolling out its own Android app store, Amazon has just done something similar for Mac software downloads.
You may have heard of another company called “Apple” that opened its own Mac App Store earlier this year. The idea was a simple one: Parlay the success of its mobile app store into a …
Apparently, there’s a science to naming your mobile app if you want it to be a hit. Dutch analytics company Distimo has taken a look at the keywords that tend to appear in a lot of successful apps in the Apple, BlackBerry and Android app stores, as well as the Nokia Ovi Store and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace.
The top 25 have some you …
Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link from the address …
Forget the Moon, we’re going to an asteroid, and this time, we’re bringing a piece of the rock back.
So sayeth NASA, who just announced they’ve approved a robo-spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx (that weirdly translates as “fertility king,” in case you’re wondering) to swing by near-Earth asteroid 1999 RQ36 and scrape a few bits …
As rumored, Google has officially announced its new mobile payment system. The platform is called “Google Wallet” and is a joint venture between Google, MasterCard, Sprint and security company First Data.
The system is currently available on just a single phone—the Nexus S 4G from Sprint—and works with MasterCard’s “PayPass” …
