It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Lady Gaga Born This Way album: 99 cents at Amazon (today only)
Looks like Amazon just picked a fight with every other digital music store on the web. This Lady Gaga lady is going to be a big star someday!
Her new album Born This Way features her head superimposed on a …
A new study published by Ad Age takes a look at the various ways new technologies—in particular, e-readers and tablets—influence the lives of the affluent, concluding that at the end of the day, additive technologies make life more complicated than not.
Assuming that “affluent” means households earning annual median incomes of …
Congratulations! You’re the owner of one of those new iPad things. You may have even heard of them here on Techland.
Now if you happen to work in an ultra productive, never-not-working office like we do at TIME Magazine, it’d probably be in your career’s best interest to get a leg up on your coworkers wherever you can.
“But how?” …
Twitter is coming to London, despite the super-injunction row it got pulled into last week.
The company’s deal-maker Tony Wang has already moved across the Atlantic with his family, and is starting work on building a new London-based team to look after Twitter’s business in the U.K. and Europe.
The injunction row, centered on a …
The U.K. media is atwitter this weekend over a controversy about press gag-orders known as “super-injunctions” that have recently been disobeyed on Twitter. It’s an unlikely combination of celebrities, sex, social media, and press freedoms that has exploded into a scandal that led Twitter this week to break its U.K. traffic record …
The end of the world has happened before, and might be happening again in a couple of months, at least in comics. It’s no big deal.
The persistent rumor, which seems to grow louder daily, is that DC Comics is rebooting all of its superhero titles as of September, following some sort of earthshaking event in Flashpoint #5 the final …
Jake Gyllenhaal doesn’t want you looking at him in his underwear.
Actually, that’s not necessarily true. What he doesn’t want is you looking at pictures of him in his underwear that he claims are actually just his head Photoshopped onto someone else’s body… and he’s willing to take legal action to make you stop.
Lawyers for the …
With its lawsuit against LimeWire successfully settled, the Recording Industry Association of America has set its legal sights on another foe in the world of internet filesharing, filing against Box.net, a six-year-old company offering cloud storage to users.
Officially, according to an RIAA spokesperson, it’s not a lawsuit just yet; …
Silly Amazon, “App Store” isn’t a generic term, and besides, you’re no App Store—so said Apple in a filing yesterday to a California federal court. Apple’s squaring off with Amazon over the latter’s use of the phrase “Appstore” (one word, no spaces) on its Android apps page.
In fact Cupertino sued the mega e-tailer …
It’s no secret that the internet’s been the great leveler across many sectors, with no category leading the charge as fervently as the music industry. What’s believed to have resulted is a less “hit-driven” music economy, and one that allows smaller independent artists to shine in a light they previously haven’t had access to.
A new …
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: We end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Douglas Wolk, Evan Narcisse and Graeme McMillan talk about the first issues of Rocketeer Adventures and Gates of Gotham.
DOUGLAS: Rocketeer Adventures #1 is a strange thing to see–a tribute to a fantastic artist that’s …
This post originally appeared on Technologizer.
In the past, I’ve said some nasty things about the WordPress iPad app. For the tasks I needed to do here and on other blogs — add and resize images, format text and link like crazy — the app’s barebones approach was simply inadequate. The app was also pretty buggy.
WordPress …
