No one likes to be alone.
The powers behind Facebook have been monitoring our constant stream of nonsensical status updates, and they see that we hate to do things by ourselves. Does anyone care about what salad we ate for lunch? No. So why do we write about it? We’re hoping that someone is sharing the minutia of our day, even if it …
Here’s a sign that social gaming has crossed over into the mainstream: News Corp is looking to build its own social gaming business and ride that bandwagon all the way to the bank.
Talking to an audience at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit, News Corp head of digital media Jonathan Miller said that social gaming is a definite area of …
Not content with partnering with Warner Bros. to stream movie rentals through the site, Facebook is continuing to build its web video offerings by teaming with Major League Baseball to offer free pre-season games live until the end of the month.
According to MLB.com’s CEO, Bob Bowman, the partnership is actually less about Facebook’s …
Austin’s South by Southwest conference conference has a relentless emphasis on the new–new tech startups, new movies, new music. But as I explored the event’s bustling trade-show floor this week, one of the things I was happiest to come across was old. Really old.
When I saw a booth festooned with Kodak signage, I assumed that it was …
There’s a lot of music online–more than most people have time to keep up with. That’s why you’ve got us. Every week, we’ll point you toward three excellent new downloads or videos from chart-topping stars, cult favorites and unknown geniuses.
1. The Strokes’ Angles comes out next Tuesday–the troubled New York City rockers’ first new …
Say goodbye to Google Mobile, and say hello to Google Search. Google’s revamped its app, giving it a whole new look and feel. It just wouldn’t be the same if you didn’t change the name too.
The revamped iPhone app is a nice update, making ithe previous version seem clunky and old. Along with voice search, the search feature …
There’s a lot to be said for the ease of one-click checkout systems, but Amazon, Apple and PayPal may learn to regret their early adoption thanks to lawsuits brought against all three companies by a little-known Washington software company called Cordance Corp.
Cordance is claiming that the three companies, along with Victoria’s …
First Google did it, then Facebook, and now Twitter’s following suit, adding an option to permanently shore up your account’s defenses courtesy the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, commonly abbreviated HTTPS.
Normally you type ‘http’ into your URL bar to conjure a website, but if you’ve ever used a service like online banking, you …
From the International Space Station to the snowy stretches of central Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts have safely returned to earth.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying Kelly and Russians Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri touched down today (March 16), a few minutes before 0800 GMT, bringing to …
Be careful if you’re typing something on your Facebook wall today: the social network has made a tiny change to how things work.
As detailed by the Next Web, Facebook’s “Comment” button has disappeared. Now you just need to hit the Enter or Return key to post your comment. If you want a paragraph break in the comment, you have to
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This year saw the second edition of the Penny Arcade Exposition, Eastern Variant, otherwise known as PAX East. In the new Boston Convention Center venue, the 2011 fan festival saw gaming of every stripe celebrated with CCG groups playing Magic: The Gathering in the hallways, giant LAN parties for FPS and fighting game competition and …
It’s good news for streaming video enthusiasts, and even better news for Netflix: Digital video now makes up a quarter of all video watched in the home in the US, and 60% of that market belongs to Netflix. The new figures come from research firm NPD Group, and the Netflix flattery doesn’t stop there; according to NPD, Netflix topped the …
