Apple and Google’s smartphone rivalry doesn’t mean iPhone and Android users can’t video chat. Qik’s new iPhone app provides another way to do it.
Qik Video Connect for iPhone, fourth-generation iPod Touch and iPad 2 is available from the App Store now for $3. It includes video editing for conversations, live visual effects, HD video …
More details are emerging about YouTube’s celebrity channels, including just how much the company is looking to pay for the premium content. Spoiler: It’s probably more than you’d expect.
Advertising Age is reporting that sources put the figure around $4,000 per minute for the premium content, with overall deals said to be between $2 …
The iPad has already changed the magazine, newspaper and comic book industries, so what print industries are left…? Oh, yeah; catalogs. Luckily, now there’s an app for that.
Cooliris is launching Decks, an app that will allow uses to build their own personalized catalogs from favorite brands, with each brand automatically updating …
You’re wrapping up dinner at your favorite restaurant, but how do you reply to the maître d’ who hands you the bill and asks “paper, plastic, or semiconductor”?
With your phone, of course, and that’s just what Google’s hoping you’ll do when its new mobile payment service goes live sometime during the next four months, according to …
By the time I have children, they’ll be born with an internet chip in the head, constantly surfing the web. Looks like that future isn’t too far off: according to a report released, 80 percent of kids under the age of five use the internet weekly.
Non-profit organizations Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop conducted …
You know you want to watch live TV on your iPad, because what else are you going to watch live on your iPad, right?
Well now you can, courtesy an app from Time Warner Cable Inc. — full disclosure, Time Warner Cable was divested from our parent company, Time Warner, in 2009 — that’ll allow your totable Apple slate with its glossy …
Everywhere you turn this week at South By Southwest Interactive, there is the feeling of a countdown underway – the countdown to a new way of gaming, a new way of sharing things with your social network, a new way of shopping. No one quite knows how we’ll get there, or what shape it will take, but after sitting through three days of …
Like going to the movies but hate going alone? A new iPhone app hopes to provide a way to solve that without the need for having something as messy as a social life. Filmaster, a recent startup has launched a new app that it’s describing as “Foursquare for film,” that allows movie fans to check-in at screenings and keep up to date with …
Add Facebook to the list of sites you go to in order to find a good deal. The social network announced that it will be launching an online deal service that will cater to their over 500 million users.
“We will test a new feature for our Deals product that allows people to buy deals on Facebook and share them with their friends. …
So you stood in line (or waited for the delivery person), and now you’ve got your iPad 2, and you’ve heard how good comics look on it. Still, you want to take a look at some good stuff before you start running up a hefty Apple Store bill. Here are five awesome comics that won’t cost you a cent.
1. The Walking Dead #1
The Robert …
Today is pi day! So says piday.org, founded by Dan Hellerich back in 2001, for the simple reason that 3/14 is the closest anyone’s going to get to 3.14159265.
The point of pi day? To celebrate pi, of course. That means reading about pi-related mathematical strangenesses, buying pi-related merchandise, and of course, eating pie.
Or …
I think we should all take a moment to consider the passing of Web 2.0, and the dream of a democratized internet.
What’s that? You didn’t realize we were done with that whole thing just yet? Well, clearly you’ve not talked to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong recently. He’s seen the future of the internet, you see, and he’s ready to tell you all …